The Swiss-Georgian composer and performer Alexandre Kordzaia (Tbilisi, 1994), a.k.a. Kordz, takes his inspiration from all different sorts and styles of music. These broad musical interests are also apparent from the path he took for his musical training. First, he studied at the Academy of Music in Basel, where he composed electro-acoustic music and trained to be an audio engineer. After finishing his studies, he went to the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, where he studied composition with Peter Adriaansz and Yannis Kyriakides. The focus of his studies was always on naturally combining electronic and acoustic instruments.

In Georgia, Kordz has made quite a reputation for himself with his danceable live sets and extraordinary collaborations, for example with the Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra, the violist Giorgi Zagareli and rapper DRO. He is in high demand as a composer in Europe as well and has worked with Asko|Schönberg, Kluster5, Nieuw Ensemble, Junge Norddeutsche Philharmonie, the Residentie Orchestra and Dortmunder Philharmoniker, among others. For a recent collaboration with Club Guy & Roni and Slagwerk Den Haag, he wrote an entirely new composition for Swan Lake. Last year, his piece Alex, how is it going with your Cello Concertino? premiered at the Cello Biennale, which was performed by cellist Lidy Blijdorp and Asko|Schönberg.