- Marios Joannou Elia
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Marios Joannou Elia Born June 19, 1978 Origin Pafos, Cyprus Genres Contemporary & Pop Music, Multimedia, Event Culture Occupations Composer, Artistic Director Years active 2001–present Website mjelia.com Marios Joannou Elia is a Greek Cypriot composer[1] born 19 June 1978 in Pafos.
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Education
Marios Joannou Elia studied composition with Adriana Hölszky at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Mozarteum, Salzburg. Further composition studies led him to Klaus Huber at the University of Music in Basel. He has gone on to interact with artists like Bogusław Schaeffer and Michael Finnissy as well as Georges Aperghis, Helmut Lachenmann and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He also studied musicology[2] at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Southampton[3].
Career
From 2003 to 2006 he was artistic and scientific researcher in the composition department at Mozarteum.
Elia is the artistic director of the Multimedia-Event "autosymphonic"[4] in Mannheim (2010-11).
Marios Joannou Elia's compositional work comprises pieces from a wide range of genres and instrumentation from musical based plays to opera/music theatre and multimedia, instrumental and vocal works also with the inclusion of electronic media and an expansion of the musical material through unusual acoustic and visual elements.
His stage works have been produced by the Staatsoper Hannover, the Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Macedonian National Opera and Ballet, the Theatre Rampe Stuttgart etc.
International orchestras and Ensembles like the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart, German Radio Philharmonic Saarbruecken-Kaiserslautern, Stuttgart State Orchestra, Sinfonietta of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Ensemble Modern, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Austrian Ensemble for Contemporary Music, Children's Choir of the Stuttgart State Opera, Netherlands Accordion Orchestra etc. have premiered his music.
Concert Halls and Festivals such as the Berlin Philharmonic and Warsaw Philharmonic, the Festpielhaus Hellerau in Dresden, the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh, the Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ Amsterdam, the Millenáris Theatrum Budapest or the Ars Electronica Linz have presented Elia's Music.
Die Jagd
Elia composed several operas and musical theater works. His last opera, "The Hunt", commissioned by the Staatsoper Stuttgart is composed for four singers, three actors, hunting chorus, two choruses, 20 recorded voices, instrumental ensemble into two groups, car sextet and electronics (2008). The work was premiered by the Stuttgart State Opera, in coproduction with the Theater Rampe Stuttgart.
Autosymphonic
For the 125th Birthday of the automobile, Elia composed the open-air multimedia symphony "autosymphonic", commissioned by the city of Mannheim. The one-hour-long symphony is scored for 265 musicians: for symphony orchestra, 81 cars and 120 percussionists, choir, children's choir, pop band, vocal ensemble, percussion octet, live electronics and a 360-degree sound system. There were 17 conductors involved in the performance. The premiere took place at the central square of Mannheim, Friedrichsplatz, and attracted an audience of 20,000 people [10]. Horst Hamann created the visual staging of the symphony.
After a ten-month 'car-casting', Elia created the world's first car orchestra. The 81 cars of all eras and types were played by 120 pupils as 'instruments'.
Event Culture
The work of Marios Joannou Elia comprises compositions of different genres and instrumentations for the opera as well as for concert halls and goes up to visionary projects and concepts for complex and large-scale cultural events. A number of his works have been specifically designed for special occasions and celebrations, like the choral work "Aquanauts" (premiered in the Gardens of the Salzburg Mirabell Palace, 2007) or the media opera "The Journey of G. Mastorna" (premiered in the Airport Salzburg during the "Mozart Year 2006") .
Pop Music
Elia composed the fourth part part of "autosymphonic" for symphony orchestra, choir, percussion quintet and the singers and rappers of the German pop band Söhne Mannheims and Xavier Naidoo. The title of the song is called "The Dream" [aka "The Automobile" or "500 horses"].
Awards
Marios Joannou Elia, Mannheim 2011
The Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture in Vienna honoured him with a special Grant Award as the best student at Mozarteum during the academic year 2001/02. Furthermore, he was honored with the Academic Excellence Award from the Chancellor of Mozarteum. He also received numerous awards from such institutions as the A.G. Leventis Foundation Paris, the European Centre for the Arts Hellerau in Dresden, the Hinrichsen Foundation London, the Academy of Arts Berlin, the Federal Chancellery of the Republic of Austria, the Allianz Cultural Foundation Munich, the Art-Foundation Baden-Württemberg, the Otto-Mauer-Fonds in Vienna, the Academy Schloss Solitude[5] in Stuttgart and the Republic of Cyprus.
The premiere of "With a Pair of Scissors and Thousand Threads" by the Cambridge University New Music Society (2002) was among the first international successes he achieved. Another early success was the performance of "Antidoron" (Holy Bread) for electronically amplified string quartet: First Prize at the Lutosławski Award international composition competition in Warsaw (2004). The premiere followed in the Warsaw Philharmonic with the Rubinstein Quartet.
Subsequently Elia was awarded a number of international composition prizes: First Prize at the Edison Denisov competition in Moscow, First Prize and PWM Edition's Special Prize at the Kazimierz Serocki competition in Warsaw, First Prize "Recherche" awarded by the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Klangspuren Festival Schwaz Tyrol and the Ensemble Recherche Freiburg, the Patronize Award of the BMW Musica Viva and the Bavarian Radio in Munich, the HofKlang First Prize of the Society for Arts and Critics Leipzig etc.
In 2007 he was awarded the Theodor-Koerner-Fonds Composition Prize and lauded by the Austrian Federal President in Vienna. In 2009 he was awarded the Achievement Award by the Minister of Culture in Cyprus. In 2010 he was voted "Artist of the Year" in Cyprus and elected President of the "New Works" Music Festival in Southampton.
Weblinks
- Car Symphony in Mannheim, Deutsche Welle
- Uraufführung der "Autosymphonic" begeistert Tausende. Der Sound von 300 Musikern, 500 Technikern und 81 Autos, SWR Fernsehen - Landesschau
- Autosymphonic 1, SWR Fernsehen - Landesschau KulTour
- Autosymphonic in Mannheim, Rhein-Neckar Fernsehen
- autosymphonic - Das Event des Jahres, M:CON Mannheim
- autosymphonic - SWR Sinfonieorchester und Chor, Location TV
- Atemberaubende "autosymphonic", Nachrichtenportal RheinNeckar Fernsehen
- "autosymphonic" Komponist steht Rede und Antwort, Nachrichtenportal RheinNeckar Fernsehen
- Humans and Machines: An Interview with Composer Marios Joannou Elia at the Royal Festival Hall in London
- Interview mit Marios Joannou Elia, Music Information Centre Austria
- To Widen the Spectrum of Possibilities: An Interview with Marios Joannou Elia, Zeitschichten American Web Music Magazine
- Große Aufmerksamkeit im Ausland, Mannheimer Morgen
- Ferrari als Geige, Traktor als Tuba, Salzburger Nachrichten
- Motoren als Melodien, Hupen als Trompeten, DRadio Kultur
- Automobilsommer Baden-Württemberg 2011: Autosymphonic, IHK Darmstadt
- Autos mit Klangtalent gesucht! GCB German Convention Bureau
- On Eve of Frankfurt Auto Show, German Orchestra Builds a Tuner Special, New York Times
- Es ist der Flügelschlag der neuesten Zeit, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung
- Ein "Bürger-Event" mit höchstem Anspruch, Mannheimer Morgen
- Melodie der Motoren, Spiegel Online
- Wischblätter und Motoren ertönen zur Symphonie, Focus Online
References
- ^ "Vor 125 Jahren wurde in Mannheim das Auto erfunden" (in German). Boulevard Baden. 10 January 2011. http://www.boulevard-baden.de/ueberregionales/panorama/2011/01/10/vor-125-jahren-wurde-in-mannheim-das-auto-erfunden-304737. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
- ^ . http://www.mdw.ac.at/upload/phd/Elia-Marios-Joannou.pdf.
- ^ . http://www.southampton.ac.uk/hpgr/news_and_events/2008/elia.shtml.
- ^ . http://https://www.autosymphonic.de/en/backstage-2.
- ^ . http://www.akademie-solitude.de/211_fellows_current.php?lang_choose=1&lastpage=140_institution_jurors.php&cur=0&idnum=1093&dbsearch=&linkurl=.
Categories:- Greek composers
- Cypriot composers
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Mozarteum University of Salzburg alumni
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