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alexisporfiriadis@gmail.com
http://www.alexisporfiriadis.blogspot.com/
About / Bio
Alexis Porfiriadis is a composer and improviser currently based in Thessaloniki and Athens, Greece. He studied composition with Gerd Kühr (MA, 2002), and Beat Furrer (postgraduate, 2003) at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz/Austria. He has also attended composition classes with Erich Urbanner, Mathias Spahlinger, George Aperghis, Manos Tsangaris, Michalis Lapidakis, York Höller, Enno Poppe. He has been awarded several scholarships, among them the Scholarship for Special Academic Achievements of the Austrian Ministry of Science and Culture, the Scholarship of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, the Music Promotion Price of Graz (2002), the Austrian State grand for Composition (2003/04) and the Molinari Quartet's International Composition Competition's Third Prize (2004/05).
As an improviser, he has worked with a number of artists in cross-media collaborations in Greece, Austria and Serbia, and in 2007 he co-founded the large-scale, mixed-media improvisation ensemble 6daEXIt (http://6daexit.wordpress.com/). His compositions have been performed in Europe, in Canada and the U.S.A. He is currently working towards a PhD focusing on composition for improvisers, supervised by James Saunders.
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