Composer & Piano
Biography:
The composer and pianist was born in Crete in 1974 Minas Borboudakis studied piano and theory with Giorgos Kaloutsis in his hometown of Heraklion, then in Munich and Hamburg with Wilfried Hiller and Peter Michael Hamel (composition), Olaf Dressler and Ursula Mitrenga (piano); Master classes with George Crumb, Luciano Berio, Wolfgang Rihm, Alexander Nasedkin and Rudolf Kehrer.
Minas Borboudakis is one of the most sought-after Greek composers of his generation. He works with renowned orchestras and soloists such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Athen, the Kremerata Baltica, the Ensemble Modern and the drummer Peter Sadlo.
In 2007, Kent Nagano conducted the premiere of his new musical theater piece at the Munich Opera Festival.
The main focus of his pianistic repertoire is the interpretation of his own compositions and the music of the 20th and 21st centuries.
His work has received several awards: Günther Bialas composition prize, grant from the city of Munich, Bavarian State Prize for Music, Rodion Shchedrin Chamber Music Prize, grant from the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
The emotionally charged music, which does not conform to any dogma, is shaped by the rhythm and harmony of its Greek origins and moves in a field of tension between ancient Greek literature, philosophy and modern natural sciences.
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