born 1970 in Salzburg from Greek parents.
In Athens studies in
piano at the Conservatory
"Athenaeum". He continued at the "Hochschule für Musik und
darstellende Kunst" in Vienna studies in orchestral conducting with
Uros Lajovic and composition with Erich Urbanner. He recieved the
diplomas "magister artium" (1995 and 1996). Courses with
Roland Seiffarth, Peter Eötvös and Karl Österreicher. He was
assistant conductor of Gunther Schuller, Rüdiger Bohn and Hans
Drewanz. He was music coach (solorepetitor) and conductor at the operas
in Görlitz (1997), Lübeck (1998-2002), Contemporary Opera of
Berlin (2002-2006) and Opera of Bern (2007/2008). In the years 2006 and
2007 he was principal conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of Volos in
Greece.
Since the season 08/09 he is engaged at
the Opera of Bielefeld as solorepetitor and kapellmeister
Also he was
lecturer at the Music Academies in Weimar and
Bremen. From winter 07
he continued to teach at
the "Hochschule für Künste Bremen".
As guest conductor he worked
with the following orchestras:
Tonkünstler Vienna, Symphonie Orchestra of Karlovy Vary (Czeque
Rep.), Philharmonic Orchestra of Györ (Hungary), Prussian Chamber
Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestras of Lübeck and Ulm. He is
currently guest conductor of all major orchestras in Greece: State
Orchestras of Athens and Thessaloniki, Radio Orchestra of Athens and
National Opera of Athens. He conducted concerts with the
Ensemble for
contemporary music of the HdK Bern, the German-Polish Ensemble of the
German Music Council, the Greek Ensemble for Contemporary Music and the
Sisifos Ensemble Berlin. As pianist soloist he played concertos of
Mozart, Beethoven, A.Scriabine, R. Strauss (Burleske). He conducted the piano
concertos of Schumann and Honegger (Concertino) by the
piano. He is also active as accompanist. Amongst his compositions are
chamber music (quintets for wood winds
and brass, music for violoncello and 7 players, string quartet [3rd
price in Dragatakis Competiton, Athens], “Erinnerung II"
for ensemble), vocal music (song cycles after poetry of Paul Celan,
Manolis Anagnostakis and Amal Al-Jubouri, and choir a-capella pieces
after poetry of Elke
Erb and Christian Filips), works for orchestra (piano concerto
[commissioned by radio athens], chamber concerto for piano and 12
players [commissioned by megaron mousikis of athens], 5 greek dances
and symphony in one mouvement) and incidental music.
He attended in 2004 the summer courses of
contemporary music in Darmsatdt. In Baden Baden he was invited in 2006
for a
stay at the "House of Brahms". Since 1996 he is member of the Greek
Composers
Union.