From 1974 Yannis Kyriakides (Cyprus, 1969) grew up in Great Britain. He moved to the Netherlands in 1992 to study with Dick Raaijmakers and Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. A central question in Kyriakides’ work is the meaning of music, which he explores by questioning the role of the listener, confronting sound with other media like language and images, and operating outside of the classical concert in its traditional form.
Kyriakides teaches at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He leads record label Unsounds together with guitarist Andy Moor and visual artist Isabelle Vigier. He is also a co-founder and member of the MAZE ensemble.
Training
York University: musicology
Royal Conservatory of The Hague: composition
Discografie (selection)
a conSPIracy cantata (2001)
The Thing Like Us (2004)
the buffer zone (2005)
wordless (2006)
Antichamber (2010)
Rebetika, with Andy Moor (2010)
Resorts & Ruins (2013)
A Life is a Billion Heartbeats, with Andy Moor (2014)
Lunch Music (2016)
Subvoice (2017)
Amiandos (2022)
Awards
2000 Gaudeamus Prijs for a conSPIracy cantata
2007 Featured composer at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
2010 Dutch Toonzetters Award for paramyth
2011 Qwartz Electronic Music Award for the Antichamber CD
2011 Willem Pijper Award for dreams of the blind
2011 Featured Composer at November Music
2014 International Rostrum of Composers Prize for words and song without words