Musicologist-music critic Constantin Carambelas-Sgourdas was born in Athens. He comes from one of the oldest Athenian families, which numbers musicians, scholars and businessmen. He is the nephew of the renowned soprano Antigone Sgourda (who recorded for EMI Classics international and sung leading roles at the Vienna State Opera and Zurich Opera) and of the late university professor Georg P. Savides.

He received his first piano lessons from his mother, Renée Sgourda, who was among the pupils of the great Rumanian pianist Dinu Lipatti. Later he took piano lessons from Maria Cottorou and Bettina Certini.

He studied Harmony, Counterpoint and Fugue at the Greek Conservatory (Hellinikon Odeon), obtaining degrees with distinctions. He studied musicology at the University of Southeastern Europe. He has attended a number of seminars and master classes in Europe and the United States of America, by renowned composers and musicians such as Pierre Boulez, Wolfgang Rihm, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Paul Badura-Skoda and Nikolai Petrov.

He has written more than three hundred reviews on concert and opera performances from around the world, in addition to programme notes (e.g for concerts given by the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ensemble Intercontemporain and other important orchestras) and CD booklet notes. Articles and rewiews of his have been published in leading Greek newspapers (e.g "Apogevmatini"), in Greek and foreign magazines, as well as in web magazines of the Internet. He has written a number of essays on the music of Béla Bartok, Charles Ives and Wilhelm Stenhammar. He often gives lectures and teaches during seminars. During the period 1999-2000 he presented a series of lectures about "The Art of Great Pianists of the Past" (National Conservatory of Greece). In October 1999 he represented Greece at the Musicological Forum in Stara Zagora (Bulgaria).

During the first half of the year 2001 he was involved in a number of important concerts and projects that took place in Athens (Herode Atticus Odeon), London (Royal Festival Hall) and Madrid, in memory of the famous Greek pianist Gina Bachauer who passed away twenty-five years ago.

In March 2002 he gave a lecture on the "Art of Gina Bachauer" at the Royal Festival Hall before the concert given in her memory by Murray Perahia and the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Matthias Bamert. He is a regular jury member of music competitions that take place in Athens, among which are the "José Carreras Piano Competition" and "CH.O.N Music Competition". He is also a frequent jury member of prestigous international piano competitons that take place in Europe (e.g "Vincenzo Bellini International Competition" and "Ibiza International Piano Competition") and the Balkans.

He is a member of the board of the "Gina Bachauer Foundation of Greece", of the " International Dimitris Mitropoulos Society", of the " Berlin Youth Orchestra" (Junge Symphoniker Berlin), of the "Piraeus Youth Symphony Orchestra" and of the "Athens José Carreras Society-Fighting against leukemia" which exists in order to help young people face leukemia.

He is also a member of the Association of Greek Critics for Drama and Music.

He owns a large collection of precious old music books, scores and manuscripts of famous composers and musicians. He is at present the music critic of the daily Greek newspapers "I apofasi" and "Eleftheros" and teaches Theory, Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue, Aesthetics of Music, and chamber music, in Greek conservatories and other music institutions.

Future engagements include master classes and lectures on Music Aesthics in Prague, Oslo, Moscow, Kiev, Ibiza and London (Trinity College and Royal College of Music).