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
- ↑ Giorgos Kyriakakis, Biography Greek Composers Union