Yiorgos is awarded the Cary New Music Performance Fund Award by Meet The Composer. Yiorgos will compose a new piece for clarinet and percussion for NY clarinetist extraordinaire Jean Kopperud and percussionist Tom Kolor, which will be taken on tour and recorded in 2010. Stay tuned for more details regarding upcoming performances around the US.
Click here for the official Press release.
Music for the Silver Screen, an interview with Yiorgos about Film Music and the Film Music course he taught at the University of Virginia in the Spring semester of 2009 appears on the Fall Issue of the online and print issues of the UVa magazine. Scroll to the bottom of the interview for a short clip from the score to The Flyer.
McGill University, Montreal Canada
Montreal-based Ensemble In Extensio will present the world premiere of my new trio Vertices, for alto flute, clarinet and vibraphone, commisioned by and dedicated to the ensemble. Vertices will also be performed in the Spring of 1010.
An Interview with Trevor Wishart conducted by Yiorgos appears in print in the Summer Issue.
Salem Press releases Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century, a 5-volume, 1800 page college reference dictionary of 20th century music of all genres, in which four essays by Yiorgos appear.
The New York New Music Ensemble will present the New York premiere of my Réfractions d’une trajectoire sans but, for flute, clarinet (bass clarinet), percussion, piano, violin, viola and cello, composed in 2005 and revised earlier this year. Also on the program works by John Harbison and Chou Wen-Chung.
125 Morrison Hall, (Music Department), University of California Berkeley.
Yiorgos will present some of his recent music at the composition colloquia series of the Berkeley Music Department. Wine & cheese reception will follow (free and open to the public).
Cathedral of the Ascension, Oakland CA (click for map)
The Josquin Singers will premiere Rose Evergreen; a new work for chamber chorus composed for this wonderful vocal ensemble, in a program of music from the Eastern Orthodox church and modern Greek-American composers.
Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts, San Francisco, CA (view concert info)
Percussionist Chris Froh will perform the world premiere of Cochleas in the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players concert entitled:
Struck, plucked, scraped & shaken.
Also on the program: works by Ligeti, Mark Ishii & Franck Bedrossian.
Please join Yiorgos & Franck Bedrossian for a pre-concert talk at 7.15.
An Interview with Philippe Leroux conducted by Yiorgos appears in print in the Fall Issue.
Yiorgos will be a composer fellow at the 64th Composers Conference at Wellesley College, MA.
A new work composed especially for this festival, written for chamber orchestra will be premiered at Jewett Fine Arts Center Auditorium (exact date & time TBA) by the Festival Ensemble, conducted by James Baker. Stay tuned for more details.
Main Post Chapel at the Presidio, San Francisco, California
The Worn Chamber Ensemble will premiere Rex Tritus, a new piece for flute, percussion, harp and contrabass.
Athens, Greece
The Experimental Stage of the Greek National Opera
World premiere of Chorevoume, a one-act opera, on a libretto by Klairie Lionaki.
Stage Direction by Eugenia Arsenis, Music Direction by Theodore Antoniou, Stage Design/Costumes by Nikos Politis, Lights by Lefteris Pavlopoulos. Featuring Mezzo-Soprano: Angelica Cathariou, Soprano: Mina Polychronou, Tenor: Christos Kehris, Baritone: Yannis Idomeneos.
Department of Fine Arts, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ.
Presentation of my music and Lecture: Composing Time and Space.
The Cathedral of the Ascension, 4700 Lincoln Avenue, Oakland, California
An International Christmas
Yiorgos leads the Ascension Liturgical Choir, the Prometheus Symphony, and Suzan Gundunas & Stephen Saxon, soloists in selections from Handel's Messiah, as well as a selection of Christmas classics from several cultures.
The San Francisco Conservatory Concert Hall, San Francisco, California
David Tanenbaum and his contemporary guitar ensemble will give the US premiere of Yiorgos' set of movements for 6 guitars: 6x6x6.
Hertz Hall, Berkeley, California
University Symphony, David Milnes conductor presents Bruckner's 4th Symphony, Richard Strauss' Don Juan and a new score by Yiorgos Vassilandonakis to David Green's film The Flyer, which will be performed live to a projection of the film.
Yiorgos is appointed music director of the Cathedral of the Ascension, in Oakland, CA.
Hertz Hall, Berkeley, California
Berkeley Music Department's Graduation Ceremony
Yiorgos will be officially awarded his Ph.D. There will also be one more performance of A Sort of Homecoming by the Worn Chamber Ensemble, conducted by David Milnes.
Main Post Chapel at the Presidio, San Francisco, California
All Strings Attached presented by the Worn Chamber Ensemble, David Milnes, conductor.
A Sort of Homecoming , for 6 solo strings. Also on the program, works by Henze, Andriessen and Bloland.
Hertz Hall, Berkeley, California
The Berkeley University Symphony under David Milnes premieres Thalassino, for orchestra.
Athens, Greece
The Athens Concert Hall (Megaron).
Award-winning works of Greek composers.
Performance of La Tierra on poetry of Pablo Neruda, for Soprano, Horn, Piano, Violin, Violoncello, by the Greek Contemporary Music Ensemble, Mina Polychronou, Soprano, Theodore Antoniou conducting.
Yiorgos filed his dissertation, officially completing his PhD in composition at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a certificate of completion and a lollipop as proof.
Yiorgos wins 1st Prize in the 3rd International Composition Competition of the Mediterranean Music Center. His score La Tierra was picked from 200 scores from 19 countries. The international jury included among others, composers Gilber Amy and Nigel Osborne.
