Giorgos Kyriakakis was born in 1967 in Crete where he took his first music lessons. He studied Composition and Analysis with Joseph Papadatos and Byzantine music with Lykourgos Angelopoulos at the "Philippos Nakas" Conservatory of Athens. He continued his studies in Composition, Music for the Media, Music of Non-European Civilizations with Dimitri Terzakis and in Electroacoustic Composition with Eckhard Roedger at the "Musikhochschule fuer Musik und Theater Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy” Leipzig. He has composed over 70 works for children's theatre, for the cinema as well as music for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, choir and orchestra. His compositions have been performed in Greece and abroad. His works have been recorded by FMrecords and ARKYS. He is a member of the “Greek Composers' Union” and the “Deutscher Komponistenverband„. Since 2006 he has been elected as Assistant Professor of Composition and Contemporary Music in the departement of Music Art and Science, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. He was until 2009 a producer of the greek broadcast (ERA2). His works are being published by Edition Gravis Verlag. He lives and works as a free composer in Berlin.

                          NEUN MAL KLEIST   

                                        "Abendblätter": 8. Oktober 2011


                                                18:00 „Zwischen Zensur und Theaterskandal“
                                                Mit: Alexander Weigel, Roland Borgards, Alexander Opitz, Horst Lebinsky, Leo Solter, Miriam Sachs


                                   19:00 Cäcilia / Bildersturm
                                        Musik: Giorgos Kyriakakis
                                        Inszenierung/Video: Miriam Sachs
                                        Dramaturgie: Steffen Neupert
                                        Mit: Angelina Kartsaki, Giorgos Kyriakakis, Steffen Neupert, Jürgen Ruoff,
                                               Miriam Sachs, Peter von Strombeck.

                                                Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Schumannstrasse 8, 10117 Berlin

                                                Tickets:  15 Euro, erm. 8 Euro, tickets@ehrlichearbeit.de 030 409 83 195 und an der Abendkasse