News

March 2013

Evis wins the 2013 Look and Listen Composition Competition with Ηχοπραξία - Echopraxia for string sextet. Momenta Quartet will subsequently give the work's US premiere on Sunday, May 19, 2013 at Pratt Manhattan Gallery in NYC. 


February 2013

Evis travels to Frankfurt to participate at three days of workshops with Ensemble Modern as part of the 2013 International Composition Seminar. Selected from a pool of over one hundred applicants, he will compose a new fifteen-minute work for large ensemble to be premiered in late 2013 during cresc... Biennale für Moderne Musik. 

January 2013

Evis signs a publishing contract with University of York Music Press. All future works as well as a selection of previous work will be published by UYMP.  Selected composer by an International Jury for the 2014 ISCM Festival in Poland. 

December 2012

Mercury Quartet performs Μετήορον – Metioron at the 8th MERIDIAN International Festival "Cardinal Points" at The Cantacuzino Palace in Bucharest, Romania on 7 December. 

November 2012

Het Collectief performs Μετήορον – Metioron at De Link in Het Cenakel in Tilburg, The Netherlands on 20 November.  Mercury Quartet performs Μετήορον – Metioron at The King's Place, London, UK on 26 November. Broadcast of Metioron by Radio France. 

October 2012

Quartetto Prometeo performs Lux Chirsti at the San Fedele Auditorium in Milan, Italy on 15 October, the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble performs Μετήορον – Metioron at the PASYDY Auditorium in Nicosia, Cyprus on 21 October, and Het Collectief perform Μετήορον – Metioron at the ISCM World New Music Days 2012 in Ghent, Belgium on 30 October. 

September 2012

It's time for the Pharos Arts Foundation's 4th International Contemporary Music Festival!  Ghost Shadows and Rhymes received its Cyprus premieres by Ensemble Aleph and KAIROS Quartett respectively and Quartetto Prometeo gave the world premiere of Lux Christi.

August 2012

Evis travels to Germany to begin a DAAD research stay in Cologne where he will begin composing a piece for Bassoon and Piano that will serve as the set piece for the 62 Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD München in 2013.

July 2012  

Rhymes for String Quartet was premiered at the Hepner Foundation Summer School in Edenkoben, Germany and performed at the International Music Institute Darmstadt by the Arditti Quartet.


© Evis Sammoutis 2012