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Panayiotis Kokoras / About This Artist

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Hometown: Thessaloniki, GR

Label: Indie

Website: www.panayiotiskokoras.com

Genre: Classical

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Biography:

Greek composer Panayiotis Kokoras boasts an impressive list of achievements. His works include the critically acclaimed Paranormal and Holophony, which gained several awards. He is vice president of Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association and teaches at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has a deep interest in sound morphology and its chronotopological precision.

Press:

“…the composer limits himself to a single idea, which he develops into a superb composition… ”
The Gaudeamus 2003 jury on Holophony - Gaudeamus Newsletter

“…You are free to revel in the surgically precise seizures of Fischer, but you’re just as much invited to smile about Joshua Goldman’s vocal tricks or shed a tear in the touching middle part of Kokoras’ “Anechoic Pulse”…”
Tobias Fischer - Tokafi.com CD Feature issue July 2007 (Münster / Germany)

“… Now we're talking, PANAYIOTIS' track focuses on the 'chronotopological'. This is surely the language of postgraduates, who like nothing better than to fire adjectives at nouns. It's a study of processed acoustic guitar and the last minute is a pretty wonderful firestorm of electroacoustics….”
Mark McLaren - Furthernoise.org issue March 2006 (Bristol / UK)

“…Kokoras' evocative Feedback emphasizes changes in dynamics…”
Yukiko Kishinami - Daily Yomiuri for Composium and the Takemitsu Composition Award 2002 (Tokyo / J