| Artist ArchiveMINAS J. ALEXIADIS
Composer
He studied piano with Marika Papaioanou and Georgios Platonas, theory and composition with Gianis Ioanidis. Having won a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (D.A.A.D), he studied composition with Guenther Becker in Dasseldorf’s Robert Schumann School of Music, graduating in 1986.
He is also a graduate of the Law School and a distinguished doctor of Musicology in the University of Athens Faculty of Music Studies. He has been composing since 1984, mostly commissions by: the Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Alte Oper Frankfurt, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Greek National Opera, the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of Colours, Athens-Cultural Capital of Europe 1985, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) (Radio Stations ERA 1, ERA 3, ERT Musical Ensembles), the Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music, the Hellenic Music Cycle, Patras Festival, Iraklion Festival (Crete), Pazardzhik Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Karlsruhe Chamber Music Ensemble, Melos Brass, Duo Contemporain (Holland), various soloists, chamber music ensembles etc.
A great part of his work has been performed in Greece, in all Scandinavian countries, in Cyprus, Germany, Holland, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Israel, Japan, Italy, Egypt, Morocco, Switzerland, Australia and the U.S.A. He has been awarded in competitions and the sum of his work has been recorded on 21 LPs and CDs in Greece, Italy, Japan and Germany and broadcasted by broadcasting corporations and television networks worldwide. His compositions include symphonies, chamber music, electronic music, operas and music theatre works, ballet music and theatre music for: “Theatro Erevnas” (Research Theatre), “Theatro tou Neou Kosmou” (New World Theatre), and “To Treno sto Rouf” (The Train at Rouf) Railway-Theatre since 1997. He has also composed music for the cinema (T. Papagianidis’s Thessaloniki – Tris Anemi, Thessaloniki – Three Winds, Marsa Makri’s Ston Tiho –Against the Wall–, for which the Drama International Short Film Festival awarded him for his music in 2003, Stegno Katharisma –Dry Cleaning– and To tameno –The Promised One–, which was nominated for the Golden Phoenix Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003.
In 1994, his opera Viva la Vida (Hurray to Life) –the first musical theatre piece ever written about Mexican painter Frida Kahlo– opened the International Festival of Frankfurt in Alte Oper Frankfurt, (the two commissioners of the work) celebrating the city’s 1200th anniversary. In 1996, a new production of the work was staged at the Greek National Opera.
In collaboration with Goethe Institute, the Greek Film Archive Foundation, the Thessaloniki Film Festival, the Kalamata International Documentary Film Festival, the Drama Short Film Festival and the Orchestra of Colours, M. I. Alexiadis has composed and improvised music for the presentation of many films (among which the full body of German silent films). He has represented, among others, the Dasseldorf Music Academy in Tel Aviv, the Greek Composers Union (in Berlin and the University of Leipzig), the Greek Broadcasting Corporation in the Composers’ Forum (Brussels), in the European North-South Organization (1991) and in the Balkan Music Forum. In 1984, he composed music for the opening ceremony of the Polytechnic School of Dasseldorf. In 2000 he represented Greece in Hanover EXPO with his ballet music; in 2003, he represented his country in the 3rd European Jazz Festival (Technopolis, Municipality of Athens). He has also contributed to world international musicological and theatrological conferences – his articles and studies have been published in musicological, theatrological and other scientific journals. In 2003 his monography was published entitled “I Istoria tou Stratioti: Morfi, Periehomeno ke analisi tis mousikis tou Igor Stravinsky (The Soldier’s Tale: Form, Content and Analysis of Igor Stravinsky’s Music) and in 2010 his treatise The magic flute of Orpheus: 10 essays on opera and musical theater.
Minas I. Alexiadis has for several years served as Art Director in a number of music institutions (he was Artistic Director of the Municipal Conservatory of Kalamata from 1992 to 1996). Since 1989 he is an elected member of the Board of Directors –now serving as Assistant Vice President– of the Greek Composers Union. Between 2002-2006, he was a member of the Board of Directors and Secretary of the Greek National Opera. Between 2000-2004, he taught in the School of Music Studies of the Aristotle University and the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. Since 2004 he is Assistant Professor in the University of Athens, Faculty of Theatre Studies, where he teaches Musical Theatre and Opera.
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