Marios Joannou Elia - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Education

Marios Joannou Elia studied composition with Adriana Hölszky at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Mozarteum, Salzburg

Salzburg

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Further composition studies led him to Klaus Huber

Klaus Huber

Klaus Huber is a Swiss composer.Huber was born in Bern, Switzerland. One of the leading figures of his generation in Europe, he has written extensively for chamber ensembles, choirs, soloists and the orchestra as well as the theater...

at the University of Music in Basel

Basel

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. He has gone on to interact with artists like Bogusław Schaeffer and Michael Finnissy

Michael Finnissy

Michael Finnissy is an English composer and pianist. His music is characterised by the range of extremes often found in his work; opposing binary structures are found commonly, often seen as juxtaposing textures, register and tempi...

as well as Georges Aperghis

Georges Aperghis

Georges Aperghis is a Greek composer working primarily in the field of experimental music theater but has also composed a large amount of non-programmatic chamber music...

, Helmut Lachenmann

Helmut Lachenmann

Helmut Lachenmann is a German composer associated with musique concrète instrumentale.-Life and works:...

and Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...

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He also studied musicology

Musicology

Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...

at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Southampton

University of Southampton

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Career

From 2003 to 2006 he was artistic and scientific researcher in the composition department at Mozarteum.

Elia is the artistic director of the Multimedia-Event "autosymphonic" in Mannheim (2010-11).

Marios Joannou Elia's compositional work comprises pieces from a wide range of genres and instrumentation from musical based plays to opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

/music theatre
and multimedia

Multimedia

Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...

, instrumental and vocal works also with the inclusion of electronic media

Electronic media

Electronic media are media that use electronics or electromechanical energy for the end-user to access the content. This is in contrast to static media , which today are most often created electronically, but don't require electronics to be accessed by the end-user in the printed form...

and an expansion of the musical material through unusual acoustic and visual elements.

His stage works have been produced by the Staatsoper Hannover

Staatsoper Hannover

Staatsoper Hannover is an opera house and opera company in Hanover. It is one of the leading opera companies in Germany.During the course of its season from September to June, Staatsoper Hannover mounts productions of a variety of operas from the standard operatic repertoire as well as 20th century...

, the Staatsoper Stuttgart

Staatsoper Stuttgart

The Staatsoper Stuttgart is a German opera company based in Stuttgart, Germany.-History:The Stuttgart Staatsoper forms part of the Stuttgart State Theatre , which is a a three-branch-theatre complex and represents the largest theatre of its kind in Europe...

, the Macedonian National Opera and Ballet, the Theatre Rampe Stuttgart etc.

International orchestras and Ensembles like the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart, German Radio Philharmonic Saarbruecken-Kaiserslautern, Stuttgart State Orchestra, Sinfonietta of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Ensemble Modern, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Austrian Ensemble for Contemporary Music, Children's Choir of the Stuttgart State Opera, Netherlands Accordion Orchestra etc. have premiered his music.

Concert Halls and Festivals such as the Berlin Philharmonic and Warsaw Philharmonic, the Festpielhaus Hellerau in Dresden, the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh, the Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ Amsterdam, the Millenáris Theatrum Budapest or the Ars Electronica Linz have presented Elia's Music.

Die Jagd

Elia composed several operas and musical theater works. His last opera, "The Hunt", commissioned by the Staatsoper Stuttgart is composed for four singers, three actors, hunting chorus, two choruses, 20 recorded voices,
instrumental ensemble into two groups, car sextet and electronics (2008). The work was premiered by the Stuttgart State Opera, in coproduction with the Theater Rampe Stuttgart.

Autosymphonic

For the 125th Birthday of the automobile, Elia composed the open-air multimedia symphony "autosymphonic", commissioned by the city of Mannheim.
The one-hour-long symphony is scored for 265 musicians: for symphony orchestra, 81 cars and 120 percussionists, choir, children's choir, pop band, vocal ensemble, percussion octet, live electronics and a 360-degree sound system.
There were 17 conductors involved in the performance.
The premiere took place at the central square of Mannheim, Friedrichsplatz, and attracted an audience of 20,000 people [10]. Horst Hamann created the visual staging of the symphony.

After a ten-month 'car-casting', Elia created the world's first car orchestra. The 81 cars of all eras and types were played by 120 pupils as 'instruments'.

Event Culture

The work of Marios Joannou Elia comprises compositions of different genres and instrumentations for the opera as well as for concert halls and goes up to visionary projects and concepts for complex and large-scale cultural events.
A number of his works have been specifically designed for special occasions and celebrations, like the choral work "Aquanauts" (premiered in the Gardens of the Salzburg Mirabell Palace, 2007)
or the media opera "The Journey of G. Mastorna" (premiered in the Airport Salzburg during the "Mozart Year 2006") .

Pop Music

Elia composed the fourth part part of "autosymphonic" for symphony orchestra, choir, percussion quintet and the singers and rappers of the German pop band Söhne Mannheims and Xavier Naidoo.
The title of the song is called "The Dream" [aka "The Automobile" or "500 horses"].

Awards

The Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture in Vienna

Vienna

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honoured him with a special Grant Award as the best student at Mozarteum during the academic year 2001/02.
Furthermore, he was honored with the Academic Excellence Award from the Chancellor of Mozarteum. He also received numerous awards from such institutions as the A.G. Leventis Foundation Paris

Paris

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, the European Centre for the Arts Hellerau in Dresden

Dresden

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, the Hinrichsen Foundation London

London

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, the Academy of Arts Berlin

Berlin

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, the Federal Chancellery of the Republic of Austria, the Allianz

Allianz

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Cultural Foundation Munich

Munich

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, the Art-Foundation Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg

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, the Otto-Mauer-Fonds in Vienna, the Academy Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and the Republic of Cyprus.

The premiere of "With a Pair of Scissors and Thousand Threads" by the Cambridge University New Music Society (2002) was among the first international successes he achieved.
Another early success was the performance of "Antidoron" (Holy Bread) for electronically amplified string quartet: First Prize at the Lutosławski Award international composition competition in Warsaw

Warsaw

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(2004). The premiere followed in the Warsaw Philharmonic with the Rubinstein Quartet.

Subsequently Elia was awarded a number of international composition prizes: First Prize at the Edison Denisov

Edison Denisov

Edison Vasilievich Denisov was a Russian composer of so called "Underground" — "Anti-Collectivist", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division in the Soviet music.-Biography:...

competition in Moscow

Moscow

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, First Prize and PWM Edition's Special Prize at the Kazimierz Serocki

Kazimierz Serocki

Kazimierz Serocki was a Polish composer and one of the founders of the Warsaw Autumn contemporary music festival.-Life:...

competition in Warsaw, First Prize "Recherche" awarded by the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Klangspuren Festival Schwaz Tyrol and the Ensemble Recherche Freiburg, the Patronize Award of the BMW

BMW

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Musica Viva and the Bavarian Radio in Munich, the HofKlang First Prize of the Society for Arts and Critics Leipzig etc.

In 2007 he was awarded the Theodor-Koerner-Fonds Composition Prize and lauded by the Austrian Federal President in Vienna. In 2009 he was awarded the Achievement Award by the Minister of Culture in Cyprus.
In 2010 he was voted "Artist of the Year" in Cyprus and elected President of the "New Works" Music Festival in Southampton.

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