Lefteris Papadimitriou
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He was born in VolosVolos
Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 326 km north of Athens and 215 km south of Thessaloniki...
, Greece and lives in Athens
Athens
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. He studied composition with Iannis Ioannidis and has written many compositions for live instruments and electronic media.
He is a graduate and candidate doctor in the department of musicology of the University of Athens.
He plays live electronic music with a laptop as his instrument. A live work, entitled “Jollywood”, was based entirely on midi sounds.
He is interested in applying electronic techniques to acoustic music and in the exploration of acoustic musical expressiveness in the medium of electronic music.
In 2006, he won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award
Gaudeamus International Composers Award
The Gaudeamus International Composers Award is a European award issued by the Music Center the Netherlands...
with his work for piano and orchestra, titled “Black and White”.