Kakavelakis, Konstantinos

Konstantinos D. Kakavelakis: (b.1960) Athens, Greece (Residence Hamburg)

Konstantinos D. Kakavelakis studied Piano, Music Theory, Byzantine Music, Composition at the Hellenic Conservatory of Athens, Greece, under the supervision of Yannis A. Papaioannou and Ida Rosenkranz Margariti. Seminars on Music Composition and Contemporary Techniques by Theodore Antoniou. In 1982 he settled in Germany in order to continue his studies in Composition, Musical Electronic Applications, and Historical Musicology with subsidiary subjects in Byzantinology, Philosophy, and Communication Research at the Conservatory of Cologne (Bojidar Dimov) and the University of Bonn under Martin Zenck, Erich Trapp, J.Simon und W. Hess. In 1990 completed his studies in the field composition, at the Robert Schumann Music Academy in Düsseldorf under Dimitri Terzakis and Guenther Becker. Kakavelakis continued intensive studies in the area of Historical Musicology, with emphasis on the German Modernism, and Philosophy of Music, at the University of Hamburg under Constantin Floros, Peter Petersen and Christos Axelos.

Participation in advanced Seminars under Iannis Xenakis in 1985 at Delphi and Luigi Nono.
Free Research studies at NMSU in USA. 1993 and 1995.
Member of Music Research Center IFM of Guerino Mazzola, affiliated with University of Zuerich, for ten years 1994-2004.
Member of GEMA.

Several of his compositions were performed in the West German Radio WDR, the Music Academy of Cologne, and the Department of Musicology at the Cologne University. The Boston Group ALEA and other orchestras in Greece performed several of his compositions in Greece.Kakavelakis works now on a research project investigating the relations between Sound Phenomena and Communication - Environmental ethics-Poetry - and the Crisis of Music. He has taught:

2002-2003 Department of Music at Ionian University. *Music Sociology and Contemporary Music
2003-2004 Department of Music at Athens Kapodistrian University. *Relations of Music and Poetry-Opera
2004-2005 Department of Music at Athens Kapodistrian University. *Relations of Music and Poetry - Opera
2005-2006 Department of Music at Athens Kapodistrian University. *Expressionismus versus Monumentalismus -Opera
2006-2007 Department of Music at Athens.Kapodistrian University. *Relations between Opera and Visual Arts
2007-2008 Free University of Athens - May 2007- 2nd Cycle-Arts - Cosmogony - Environment -Theater- Opera (Lectures)
2008-2009 Free University of Athens January - March 2008 Origins of Music -Myth - Nature - Environment (Lectures)
SU 2008 Free University of Athens 2009 5 Analytic - Lessons on Opera
2008-2009 Athens Kapodistrian University. Winter Semester: The Greek ancient world and myth in Opera.
The Opera adaptation in Greece during 19th Century. Summer Semester: Introduction in Wagner's Oeuvre & Nietzsche against Wagner - Reading and Analysis
2009-2010 Free University of Athens 10 Music Lessons - Seminars with prominent greek composers researchers and educators

President of the Greek Mozart Society. He lives between Athens and Hamburg

Director of the project "POETRY BEYOND FRONTIERS"

1.   Kinisis, Epiklisis, Arnisis.            1985 W.D.R Radio Cologne. Zyklus für Geige und Klavier. Violin and Piano-Duo
2.   Anavathmoi                                     1986 W.D.R Radio Cologne Solo Clarinet.
3.   MonoSmono                                   1987 & 1988 Cologne Jugend Ensemble. Bonn 1987 -Public Performance Cologne 1987 and 1990
4.   Hermetica                                        String Trio. Bonn 1988-89 String Trio
5.   Psalmos                                        1989 ALEA Boston. Bonn 1989 (Cond.Theodore Antoniou)
6.   Koenig Rodolin                               1990 Theatre of Crete for Chamber Orchestra and Choir.
                                                                 Study on the medieval Music of Crete. Commisioned from theatre of Crete.
7. Redes   Filmmusic. Bonn - Düsseldorf 1989-90.Cooperation with Lothar Prox. Midi Applications and Mixing. with Steinberg Atari TOS
    Technology. DMP-7 Desktop-mixing and Avalon. Sampling Editor and studio.
8. Antanaklaseis- Reflections of Clouds 10 small piano pieces: Hamburg 1992-4 UP
9. I am sorry Sir: Electronic Music with algorithmic calculations and special effects-Düsseldorf 1990.
10. Anoschomen: For Solo Violin Bonn 1989
11. Periplus des Kokytos (10 Elegies) For Flute,Vlncello, Harp and Soprano Coloratura. Dedicated to Hans Werner Henze. Athens.GR 1990.
1st Performance and Recording-Greece Kreonides Gallery with Soprano-Tzeni Drivala 1990
12. Fos ek fotos (AETHER)                Quintett, 2 Flutes Horn Harp and Vlncello Hamburg 1996 completed 2000-1st Performance 2003 Music Center of Thessaloniki. Recorded in Athens by Vangelis Katsoulis see web presentation
14. String Quartett: Hamburg 1996 - NE
15. Simbama   For Orchestra Hamburg 1994 - Commision of Greek Radio-Three part-work. NP
16. Glazunoviana For Piano, Horn and Bariton. On a poem of John Ashbery. Greek American Union 1996. (New Version 2004)
17. Midnight Prayer A trio for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet - Hamburg 1994
18. FOTOMACHIA For piano 1st WW Performance Spyros Souladakis. Oloundion Amphitheater-Elounda Bay-Crete 2002
19. Pindar Olympic and Nemean Odes Dedicated to Athens Olympics 2004.Choir and small ensemble. Fragments-1st Olympic Ode, 2nd Olympic Ode, 6th Nemean Ode - Epinician Ode of Vakchylides. 1st WW Performance 21 June 2004 Pnyka Akropolis-Greece-
Choir Friends of Modern Music. see web presentation
20.Ten Orphic Hymns: Guitar - Flute -Violin-Soprano (Language Ancient Greek) 1st WW Performance Stoa Bibliou 2004
21. Five Delphic Odes - Trio for Flute-Violin &Harp - First WW Performance Naxos Amphitheater July 2004
22. En Grèce. On a poem of Victor Hugo. For Mezzo Soprano and small ensemble- Language French - Hamburg 2000
23. Zeitgeist. - On a Poem of Friedrich Hoelderlin-Choir- Language German -Hamburg 2000
24. Sonette an Orpheus On the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke. Harfe-Flute-Soprano. Language German - Hamburg 2001 UP