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Konstantia Gourzi

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Music for Piano and Strin (2014)

Lonicera caprifolium / !? (1995)

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Konstantía Gourzí, born 31 March 1962 in Athens) is a Greek composer and conductor. She is professor of ensemble conducting and new music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.
Born in Athens, Konstantia Gourzi received her first piano lessons at the age of seven. At thirteen, she joined the conservatorium in Athens, where she studied composition and conducting as well as piano. From 1987 to 1992, she continued her studies at Hochschule der Künste Berlin. There, she founded her first ensemble attaca berlin.
During her studies in Berlin, Konstantia Gourzi completed masterclasses with composers such as Péter Eötvös, Hans Werner Henze, Wolfgang Rihm, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Walter Zimmermann; and with conductors like Michael Gielen, Carlo Maria Giulini, Bernard Haitink, Giuseppe Sinopoli and Günter Wand. An important mentor was Diether de la Motte. From 1988 to 1992, Gourzi assisted Claudio Abbado with the Berliner Philharmoniker. From 1993 to 1996, she worked closely with György Kurtág. In 1992 and 1994 she was a laureate of Deutscher Musikrat and in 1995, she won second prize at the International Competition for Conductors of Contemporary Music in Paris. Konstantia Gourzi has been awarded several international scholarships, for example from the Onassis Foundation and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. In 2008, she received the prize of the Christoph-und-Stephan-Kaske Foundation for her work as a conductor and composer, and for her innovative performance concepts.
Konstantia Gourzi has been professor of ensemble conducting and new music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich since 2002.


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