Giorgos Kyriakakis

Giorgos Kyriakakis (Greek: Γιώργος Κυριακάκης) was born in 1967 in Crete where he took his first music lessons.[1] He studied Composition and Analysis with Joseph Papadatos and Byzantine music with Lykourgos Angelopoulos at the "Philippos Nakas" Conservatory of Athens. He continued his studies in Composition, Music for the Media, Music of Non-European Cultures with Dimitri Terzakis and in Electroacoustic Composition with Eckhard Roedger at the "Musikhochschule fuer Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig. He has composed works for children's theatre, for the cinema as well as music for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, choir and orchestra. His compositions have been performed in Greece and abroad. His works have been recorded by FMrecords and ARKYS. He is a member of the “Greek Composers' Union” and the “Deutscher Komponistenverband„. Since 2006 he has been elected as Assistant Professor of Composition and Contemporary Music in the département of Music Art and Science, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. He was until 2009 a producer of the Greek broadcast (ERA2). His works are being published by Edition Gravis. He lives and works as a free composer in Berlin.

Works

1. Tango per “D”, for trumpet & piano

2. Ialemos, for low brass (3 alt horns, trombone, euphonium, tuba)

3. Minimal I & II, for piano

4. Trio, for alto saxophone, piano & e-bass

5. Missing…, for orchestra

6. Chrysalis' Transformations, for brass quintet & piano

7. Tiny Suite, for trumpet, trombone & percussion/1

8. En Chordais (In strings), for string quartet

9. Chalkos Echoon (Clinging Cooper), for chamber ensemble (oboe, clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion/1, piano, cello, double bass)

10. St' animera (On the day), for saxophone quartet

11. Ainei Ι, for flute

12. Trisdiathlasis (Refraction), for clarinet, alto saxophone & bassoon

13. Lubato variationen, for mezzo & chamber ensemble (basset horn, trumpet, viola, double bass, percussion/1)

14. Proposis ’93, for low voice, violin, cello & percussion/1

15. Invisible Cities, for chamber ensemble (oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, percussion/1, harpsichord, 2 double basses)

16. Antaion, for trumpet & 4 trombones

17. Kantate über die Hoffnung (Cantata for the Hope), Text: New Testament, for mixed choir & chamber ensemble (flute, oboe, horn, trombone, violin, cello, double bass)

18. Sigana (Smoothly), for clarinet & alto saxophone

19. Prophecies, for soprano, flute, accordion & percussion/1

20. Toccata, for solo key instrument

21. The deception of the Thrush, for orchestra

22. Prologue Note or Summary, Text: G.Skarimbas, for solo voice

23. 16th Reading: Voices, Text: K.P.Kavafis, for voice quartet

24. Enalion pyr (Sea fire), for brass quintet

25. Epestrefe (Return), for oboe, clarinet, alto saxophone & bassoon

26. Oulaloum Ι, Text: G.Skarimbas, 5 plus 1 songs, for middle voice & accordion

27. Black Midnight, for flute, clarinet & alto saxophone

28. Katedioxan (Chased), for 6 low string instruments

29. Round Midnight, for solo cello

30. Ulysses at the River, Text: T.Sinopoulos, for children choir, violin, cello & piano

31. Hydata (Waters), for orchestra

32. Anagram, Text: T.S.Eliot, for mixed choir

33. Mini to Oktovrio (At the Month of October), for narrator, psaltis, baritone, children choir, Byzantine choir & chamber ensemble (flute, clarinet, saz, trumpet, tuba, percussion/2, violin, cello, double bass)

34. Oulaloum II, Text: G.Skarimbas, six songs, for low voice & e-guitar

35. Persephone, Text: K.Chatzinakis, five songs for children choir & orchestra

36. Seven Summaries, for any two melodic instruments

37. Love Vesper, for accordion & piano

38. Schema, for accordion

39. Schema II, for saxophone

40. Ode β', for string orchestra

41. Eti deomai sou (Still praying), Text: G.Skarimbas, for middle voice and key instrument

42. North-South-North, for wind orchestra

43. Oinos Tritos (Wine the 3rd), concerto for alto saxophone & string orchestra

44. Orneon Roc, for violin & guitar

45. Schema III, for trombone

46. …and so she went!, for students' chamber ensemble (flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, small percussion/1, piano)

47. Isabelle in the Garden, for recorder and accordion

48. Five Finger Exercises, Text: T.S.Eliot, for any voice and any instrument

49. Schema IV, for recorder

50. Lygisma (Bending), for bassoon & piano

51. Schema V, for violin

52. Schema VI, for clarinet

53. Missa Contemplativa, for middle voice, flute, baritone saxophone & harpsichord

54. Jose en Avlida, for violin, accordion, piano & double bass

55. Zibib, like three bagatelles, for saxophone quartet

56. Schema VII, for piccolo

57. Engomia (Laments), for children choir & brass quintet

58. Strophe one, for any instrument

59. Apokopos, Text: Bergadis, for tenor & chamber orchestra (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, tuba, string quintet)

60. Lithino (Made of Stone), three pieces for guitar

61. Helidonisma (Swallow Song), for 8 violins

62. Schema VIII, for tuba

63. Bienhereuse Emilie, six hymns for st.Emilie de Vialar, for children choir & continuo

64. Logismos (Thought), for flute & piano

65. Klotho, concerto for piano & string orchestra with percussion/1

66. Unwinable Nazar, a musical fairy tale, for narrator & saxophone quartet

67. Antigiaerma, for oboe quartet

68. Ouden menei (Nothing remains), for baritone saxophone & tape or percussion

69. Trois Satiens, for two pianos

70. Ode θ΄, for string orchestra

71. Beast West, for bass flute & accordion

72. Pillow stories, for any two instruments

73. Chronos Toutos (These Time), for saxophone quartet

74. Enois, for mezzo, bassoon, piano & percussion

75. Strophe, for string quartet

76. En los barcos, concertino for violin, piano & orchestra

77. Nollendorfstrasse variations, for any two string instruments

78. Sixth hour, for wind quintet

79. Mauricios' nichtingale, for string orchestra

80. Mitos, for clarinet, cello & piano

81. Six aegean games, for two melodic instruments

82. Gloria, for seven voices a cappella

83. Salve Regina, for seven voices a cappella

84. Semicolon, for accordion & saxophone quartet

85. Os ech' (As it is), for cretan lyre (possibly violin or viola) & accordion

86. Hydata II (Waters II), for orchestra

87. Don't forget the bells, for percussion

88. Menta, for piano

89. Trost, for flute

Stage Music

O.Paz: Rapatsinis΄ Garden (Zakynthos, 1999)

Euripides: Eleni (Athens, 2000)

W.Shakespear: The Taming of the Screw (Athens, 2001)

G.Kyriakakis: Ballet Mechanique usw (Athens, 2003)

F.Rizal, K.Engel: Batu Melingkar Api (Berlin, 2009)

K.Engel: From Distant Times and Places (Berlin, 2009)

Miriam Sachs: Hades (Berlin 2010)

Miriam Sachs: Die Gewalt der Musik (Mondepulciano/Berlin 2011)

Miriam Sachs: Odysseus.Krieg.Entzug. (Berlin 2012)

Film Music

Ballet Mechanique (1997)

A Moment In and Out of Time (2009)

References

  1. Giorgos Kyriakakis, Biography Greek Composers Union
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