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Constantine Koukias

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Koukias's works range from large-scale music theatre and opera to mobile installation art events. His atmospheric compositions are characterised by mesmerising temporal, spatial and production designs, while his recent works exhibit eastern influences. His
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for Best New Opera the same year, and Tasmanian company Liminal Spaces won the Event category of Australia's Interior Design Excellence Awards for its conceptualisation of the production's design.
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Koukias has been the recipient of numerous other international commissions and awards, and his design credits include the internationally acclaimed
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of Greek ancestry based in Amsterdam, where he is known by his Greek name of Konstantin Koukias. He is the co-founder and
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was a winner of ABC radio's Gallipoli Centenary Composer Competition, receiving its national broadcast premiere in 2015.
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In addition to his own career as a composer, Koukias has mentored numerous other composers including
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had its Netherlands premiere at Splendor Amsterdam and toured to the Karavaan Festival.
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approach to the presentation of opera has resulted in hybrid productions such as
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Before The Flame Goes Out:Memorial to the Jewish Martyrs of Ioannina, Greece
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Vocal Prize in Rome in 1997, and in 2004 he was awarded a Sir Winston
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Before The Flame Goes Out:Memorial to the Jewish Martyrs of Ioannina
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Three Episodes from the Diary of Signaller Peter Ellis
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In 2018, he directed the award winning chamber opera
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for soprano and digital delay won the International
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Australian Music Centre. 18 January 2012 426:, for three solo voices, ensemble and tape 665:"The Barbarians | ArtsHub Australia" 123:to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 615:New Classical Music: Composing Australia 115:Koukias was commissioned in 1993 by the 1203: 581: 530:, for amplified flute and digital delay 1294:21st-century Australian male musicians 1284:20th-century Australian male musicians 1264:Sydney Conservatorium of Music alumni 751:from the original on 21 December 2021 288:– Composition, University of Tasmania 274:– Composition, University of Tasmania 260:– Composition, University of Tasmania 16:Tasmanian composer and opera director 7: 302:– Flute, NSW Conservatorium of Music 1244:Australian male classical composers 1274:Australian people of Greek descent 771:"Greek poet becomes a Greek opera" 537:, for soprano and video projection 494:TROPARION 2 – 'Only-begotten Son' 488:TROPARION 1 – 'O 'Gladsome Light' 80:. 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Index

Tasmanian
opera director
artistic director
IHOS Music Theatre and Opera
avant-garde
Days and Nights with Christ
To Traverse Water
Mikrovion
The Divine Kiss
Tesla – Lightning in His Hand
Sydney Opera House Trust
Sydney Opera House
Valentino Bucchi
Churchill Fellowship
Prayer Bells
Chicago Cultural Center
Museum of Old and New Art
Constantine Cavafy
Waiting for the Barbarians
MONA FOMA
Helpmann Award
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Douglas Knehans
Dark Mofo
Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Ian Cugley
Johannes Roose
Don Kay
Michael Cubbin

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