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Yannis Kyriakides

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From 1974 Yannis Kyriakides (Cyprus, 1969) grew up in Great Britain. He moved to the Netherlands in 1992 to study with Dick Raaijmakers and Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. A central question in Kyriakides’ work is the meaning of music, which he explores by questioning the role of the listener, confronting sound with other media like language and images, and operating outside of the classical concert in its traditional form.

Kyriakides teaches at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He leads record label Unsounds together with guitarist Andy Moor and visual artist Isabelle Vigier. He is also a co-founder and member of the MAZE ensemble.

Training

York University: musicology

Royal Conservatory of The Hague: composition


Discografie (selection)

a conSPIracy cantata (2001)

The Thing Like Us (2004)

the buffer zone (2005)

wordless (2006)

Antichamber (2010)

Rebetika, with Andy Moor (2010)

Resorts & Ruins (2013)

A Life is a Billion Heartbeats, with Andy Moor (2014)

Lunch Music (2016)

Subvoice (2017)

Amiandos (2022)


Awards

2000 Gaudeamus Prijs for a conSPIracy cantata

2007 Featured composer at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

2010 Dutch Toonzetters Award for paramyth

2011 Qwartz Electronic Music Award for the Antichamber CD

2011 Willem Pijper Award for dreams of the blind

2011 Featured Composer at November Music

2014 International Rostrum of Composers Prize for words and song without words

Upcoming events

  1. free

    Dutch Composers Day

    Anne-Maartje Lemereis, Yannis Kyriakides, Asko|Schönberg
    08:30 hours |music |Amsterdam Centraal Station IJ-Boulevard

  2. Mutability

    Yannis Kyriakides, Asko|Schönberg, Darien Brito, Theun Mosk, Innovation:Lab
    Tickets
    From 15:30 hours |music |Muziekgebouw - Grote zaal |
    AI / durational / poetic

Past events

  1. 2017

    Lunchconcert: (70 years) HF from A to Z

    muzikanten en muziektheatermakers Koninklijk Conservatorium en T.I.M.E.
    music |Leidseplein

  2. 2016

    Fifty for the Future

    Kronos Quartet
    music |Muziekgebouw - Grote zaal

  3. Lunchtime concert: Vice Verses

    Yannis Kyriakides, studenten van het Koninklijk Conservatorium
    music |Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Passage

  4. 2013

    The Bell and The Glass & Shuffle & Screen Play

    Christian Marclay, MAZE
    multidisciplinary |Eye Film Instituut Nederland

  5. 2012

    Popcorn

    Zwerm & Mr. Probe
    music |BIMHUIS