Lecture by Dimitris Andrikopoulos

CML presents a lecture by the Greek composer Dimitris Andrikopoulos on his recent works.

Monday 29 May 2023, 15:00 | Music Department, Foyer

Dimitris Andrikopoulos was born in Larisa (Greece) in 1971. He started learning music at the Municipal Conservatory of Larissa where he took his first viola and composition lessons. He completed his studies in Athens in 1992 receiving the Diploma in Viola Performance (class of Prof. G. Vatikiotis) as well as the Counterpoint Diploma (class of Prof. A. Amarantidis).

Later on he moved to the Netherlands where he continued his viola studies under the supervision of Ron Ephrat at the Utrecht Music Academy. In 1996 he was awarded the Teaching Diploma from the Utrecht Music Academy Institution while in 1998 he received the Solo Diploma from the Maastricht Music Academy under the supervision of H.Guittard.

As a viola player he continued his postgraduate studies with specialization in 20th Century Chamber Music. These studies were concluded in 2000. While still a viola student, he started taking composition lessons at Rotterdam’s Academy of Music and Dance with K. de Vries. In 2001 he completed his composition studies receiving the Composition Diploma.

Dimitris has participated in many viola as well as chamber music masterclasses with professors like L.David, A. Reshnikovsky, V. Liberman, N. Imai, Ch. A. Linale, K. Hashimoto and others.

Since 2013 he is Doctor of Composition (PhD) from the University of Birmingham, UK. Supervising professor for his doctoral research was the composer Vick Hoyland.

As a composer he has collaborated with various ensembles and orchestras such as the Athens State Orchestra, Athens Municipal Orchestra, Orchestra National de Lorraine, Nederlands Ballet Orkest, Theater Group Walpurgis, Dance Studio Arabesque, Ensemble Emanon, Mondriaan Quartet, Duo Pallas & Pallas, Drumming Percussion Group , Jazz Orchestra of Matosinhos, Asko Ensemble, ArtéFacts Ensemble among others, and performers such as Lorenda Ramou, Sergio Carolino, Margriet van Reisen, Nuno Aroso, Fernando Ramos, Lefki Karpodini, Peter Rundel, Jaques Mercier among others.

In May 2002 he won the NOG Young Composer Award (2002) for his work “Violin and Orchestra”, the COMPASS Award (Center for Composition and Associated Studies) of the University of Birmingham (2010) for his work “Metamorphoses I” and the ITEA / Harvey Phillips Award for Excellence in Composition (2012) for his work “Anathema I” for Contrabass Tuba and Bayan.

His works have been presented in Greece, the Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, France, England, Norway, Germany, the United States, Colombia, Mexico, among others, as a result of orders from various artistic organizations such as the Foundation for Contemporary Music of the Netherlands (Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst), Flanders Festival, 1st Cello Biennale / Proms of Amsterdam, Guimaraes 2012 / European Capital of Culture, Onassis Foundation House of Letters and Arts, among others. Since September 2004 he has been teaching Composition and composition related subjects at the Superior School of Music, Arts and Performance, part of the Polytechnic of Porto (ESMAE-IPP) in Portugal, where he occupied from September 2015 to September 2017 the position of the Director of the Music Department.

Since 2013 he is member of the Scientific Council of the ESMAE-IPP.

He is a member of the Research Center for the Study of Sociology and Music Aesthetics (CESEM) of the Nova Universidade in Lisbon with main research lines on Composition, Algorithmic Composition, Electroacoustic Music and lately, the creative possibilities coming out of the combination of instruments belonging to the traditional music area with contemporary idioms. From December 2021 to January 2023 he joined the Division of Arts and Humanities of the New York University Abu Dhabi as Visiting Research Scholar.