outHEAR New Music Week
Artistic Committee
Christos Lenoutsos, founder
Christos Lenoutsos was born in Larissa and began his musical studies at the Municipal Conservatory of Larissa, where he studied piano under the guidance of Ariadne Kalliazi and advanced music theory with Giannis Tsanakas. He continued his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria, in the soloist piano department with Doris Wolf-Blumauer and Elza Kolodin, where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees. Elza Kolodin had a profound influence on shaping his pianistic development.
He has received numerous awards and scholarships from the Gina Bachauer Foundation, the Onassis Foundation and the Austrian Ministry of Education and Culture. A significant milestone in his artistic career was his award by the Academy of Athens with the “Eleni Mykoniou” prize.
He has collaborated and studied with renowned pianists such as Lazar Bermann, Katerina Polyzoidou-Sourvali, Lev Vlassenko, Rudolf Kehrer, Bernard Ringeisen, Patrick Cohen, and Malkom Bilson.
Christos Lenoutsos has performed in numerous recitals and chamber music concerts in Greece and abroad, and has collaborated as a soloist with orchestras from Romania, Serbia and Greece. He is also a member of the unique piano ensemble Piandaemonium, which consists of six pianos and twelve pianists.
In addition to his artistic activities, Christos Lenoutsos has taught piano for more than ten years at the Department of Music Science and Art at the University of Macedonia. Today, he is the Artistic Director of the Municipal Conservatory of Larissa, while also maintaining a piano class. Many of his students have been distinguished and awarded in competitions both in Greece and abroad, with most of their diplomas awarded with honors.
He is the founder and artistic director of the “Musikotropo Festival” and the International Festival of Contemporary Composition “outHEAR New Music Week.” Lastly, he is a PhD candidate at the Department of Music Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Dimitri Papageorgiou, artistic co-director
Papageorgiou’s music presents a continuous negotiation of the distinction between the self and the other and the fluidity of their relationship (where does the similarity ends between two different entities and where does the difference start?). The core of his work revolves around specific themes: time, identity/similarity/difference, repetition, memory, and order — the fragility of order in the creative process. Papageorgiou perceives the concept of memory - the way we consider the past - not as faithful reconstitution driven by nostalgia, but from the point of view of its creative dimension, that is, as a constantly updated reconstruction of the past from the point of view of the present and through a process of constant reformulation: the workings of memory as a compositional metaphor. All musical ideas are imperfect and vulnerable, ephemeral and distorted. They are constantly in a state of flux and under constant revision.
His works have been aired several times by the in Germany, Austria, Greece, and several U.S. Radio Stations. He has appeared in festivals, conferences, and concerts in almost
40 different cities in Europe, U.S.A. and Asia and in countries such as Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, Finland, Russia, Greece, Cyprus, Serbia, Croatia, Iran, Turkey, Armenia, Hong Kong, and several States of the U.S.A. (NY, IL, CA, FL, MI, IA, OH, GA, etc). He has worked together with ensembles such as Klangforum Vienna, Oerknal, Interface, Zeitfluss, Airborne Extended, Il Suono Giallo, dissonart, Etcetera, UMS & JIP, Trio IAMA, duo Goliardi, trio Artresonanz, Thessaloniki State Orchestra, Athens Radio Symphony Orchestra, etc. He has received commissions by several institutions — such as the Delian Academy with the support of Siemens Music Foundation, Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics of the University of Music and Drama at Graz, Austrian National Radio (ÖRF) and Literature Forum Graz, Kultur Zentrum bei den Minoriten Graz, SCI/ASCAP (U.S.A.), Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Il Suono Contemporary Music Week, Yarava Music Group (Tehran, Iran) — and performers and ensembles — such as Dimitri Polisoidis (violist of the ensemble Klangforum, Austria), Ensemble Interface (Germany), Zeitfluss Ensemble (Austria), UMS & JIP (Switzerland), Trio IAMA (Greece), Ensemble Etcetera (USA), duo Goliardi (Greece), etc.
He has served as guest composer at the University of Iowa School of Music, the University of Nevada at Reno, the University of Music, Drama and Media at Hanover, Bilgi University of Istanbul, and the University of Tehran. He is a faculty member at the Delian Academy for New Music, an international summer academy for composers and sound artists, which is curated under the auspices of Georges Aperghis and is located on the island of Mykonos, Greece.
Currently an associate professor of composition, he was appointed at the Department of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloni in 2007. He majored in composition with Hermann Markus Pres sl and Andrej Dobrowolski at the University of Music and Drama at Graz, Austria. From 1998-2002 he held a Presidential Fellowship of the University of Iowa, U.S.A., for a Ph.D. in composition with Donald Martin Jenni, Jeremy Dale Roberts, and David Karl Gompper.
Orestis Toufektsis, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
Orestis Toufektsis (Austria/Greece) was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. From 1986 he studied piano, harmony and counterpoint at the conservatory, and at the same time geodesy at the Technical University in Thessaloniki. From 1993 he studied composition with Gerd Kühr at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Graz.
He is the winner of many awards and acknowledgments (for instance, the City of Klagenfurt Prize for Composition in 1995 and the Advancement Award for Music from the City of Graz in 2007). He is one of the founders of the artresonanz ensemble. Since 2007 he has been the president of the composers’ association "die andere saite".
He had works commissioned by ORF-Musikprotokoll 2012, State of Styria, Cultural Centre of Minoriten (Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz), by the ensembles artresonanz and zeitfluss as well as the City of Thessaloniki Symphony Orchestra. His compositions were performed in Vienna, Graz, Klagenfurt, Linz, London, Bremen, Zagreb, Athens and Thessaloniki, as well as Austrian, German and Greek radio stations.
In the season 2007/2008 Toufektsis was a guest-composer at the Institute for Electronic Music of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz („Compositional aspects of self-similar structures“), in 2010 he took part in the project „Algorithmic composition in the context of New Music“, and 2011-2014 an international research project Point/Patterns of Intuition (IEM of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz).
Since October 1999 he teaches Music Theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
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