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EVIS SAMMOUTIS (CY/UK) Evis Sammoutis is a composer who is acutely interested in timbral matters. His music is characterised by a sophisticated control of musical gestures, a precise representation of musical intentions, and a unity between the main formal elements (gesture, figure and texture). He very often incorporates elements from the traditional music of his homeland (microtones, drones and specific modes in particular) fusing these organically with more traditional western features. By developing appropriate models of musical and intellectual expression Evis Sammoutis’ works give new meaning to musical objects not by abolishing traditional techniques, but on the contrary by building on their traditional representations and integrating these into a new synthesis. EVIS SAMMOUTIS, composer and guitarist was born in Cyprus in 1979 where he had his first musical lessons, at the age of six, obtaining both the LRSM Diploma and the Performance and Teaching Diploma with distinction before moving to England in 1998 to continue his studies with Thomas Simaku (composition and orchestration) and Gilbert Biberian (guitar performance). Since then he has also studied in masterclasses and workshops with Helmut Lachenmann, Beat Furrer, Toshio Hosokawa, Georges Aperghis, George Benjamin, Brian Ferneyhough, Augusta Read Thomas, Johannes Schollhorn and Fausto Romitelli at world renowned Festivals, Seminars and Workshops, including the Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music, IRCAM’s One-Month Composition and Computer Music Programme, the Centre Acanthes, the Voix Nouvelles Composition Session at the Royaumont Foundation, the Tanglewood Festival, the Ictus International Composition Seminar and the Opera Writing Course in Aldeburgh. His studies were supported by a number of scholarships and awards such as the PRS Foundation, O.R.S, and Sir Roy Marshall Scholarships, the Nonhebel, Vinson, Thomas Beecham and Bliss Trust Awards and the Hull University Departmental Prize. Upon graduation from the University of Hull with a first class degree (BMus) in all disciplines, he recently completed successfully his PhD studies in Musical Composition at the University of York. Evis Sammoutis was subsequently awarded a prestigious Wingate Foundation Scholarship (2005 – 2007) to pursue his compositional research more independently, whilst teaching Composition and Orchestration at Nottingham University (2005 – 2007) and guitar performance at York University (2002 – 2007). Evis has also taught composition at Hull University in 2006. His works have been performed throughout Europe, America and the Far East, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (United Kingdom), Deutschlandradio, SWR2, Deutsche Welle and ARD (Germany), Rai 3 (Italy), 98.7WFMT (Chicago, U.S.A), RTP (Portugal), KBS1 (South Korea), the Dutch Radio, CyBC (Cyprus) and E.R.T (Greece). Performers include the Ensemble Modern, the Arditti String Quartet, The Kreutzer Quartet, the New York Woodwind Quintet, London Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra of Opera North, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Camerata - Friends of Music Orchestra, Ensemble Sic, BBC Singers, Ictus Ensemble, Archi, Ensemble Eleven, New Music Players and Windkraft, soloists such as Peter Sheppard Skaerved, David Alberman, Alan Thomas, Julian Warburton, Adrian Spillett, John Potter, Amy Dissanayake, Tomasz Zawierucha, Lydia Forbes, Heleen Hulst and Philippe Spinosi, and, conductors Elgar Howarth, Kasper de Roo, Christoph Poppen, Jacques Pesi, Theodore Antoniou and Laura Jackson among others. He was selected composer for the National New Composers’ Forum, the Spring Festival, the Huddersfield Young Composers workshop, the Ensemble Eleven Composer’s workshop and competition, the Athens Concert Hall Young Composer’s Workshop, the International Youth Music Forum in Kiev, Ukraine, the New Music North Festival in Canada and most recently he was awarded a three week residency at the Visby International Centre for Composers in Sweden. He has been awarded First Prizes at the XVII Andres Segovia Composition Competition and the 2005 Dundee Guitar Festival Composers Competition, Second Prizes at the 5th Triennial Concours Dutilleux and the Y.A Papaioannou Composition Competition, an honourable mention at the IMRO Composers Competitions and he was a finalist for the 2004 and 2007 Gaudeamus Composers competition. In the same year he was also shortlisted from SPNM (Society for the Promotion of New Music). He has served as the adjudicator of the Second Malaysian Guitar Competition, where he also gave masterclasses and a lecture and most recently he was a member of Jury at the XXI Certamen Internacional de Guitarra Clásica “Andrés Segovia” and the XVIII Concurso de Composición “Andrés Segovia” in Spain. His music has been featured at the Tanglewood Festival; MusicNOW the Contemporary Music Series of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Venice Biennale (Festival Commission); International Gaudeamus Music Week; 5th Seoul Performing Arts Festival in Seoul, Korea; La Saison Musicale de Royaumont (Commission for the 2nd Grand Atelier Chorégraphes-Compositeurs); Klangspuren Festival (featured composer); BachFest in Leipzig and the 2006 and 2007 ISCM Festivals in Stuttgart and Hong Kong. His work Μετάλλαξις – Metallaxis for wind quintet commissioned by the 55 Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD München was performed by all wind quintets admitted to the second round of this competition with a significant number of forthcoming performances. The same work has been released on a CD featuring the Prize Winners of the 2006 ARD Competition. www.evissammoutis.com |
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