ABOUT GEORGIA
Georgia Koumará, born in Thessaloniki in 1991 studied Composition (M.Mus.) in Thessaloniki (A.U.TH) and Cologne (HfMT) with Johannes Schöllhorn, Michael Beil and Michalis Lapidakis.
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Master classes with a.o. G. Aperghis, F. Bedrossian, Ph. Manoury, A. Posadas, O. Neuwirth, W. Rihm, B. Ferneyhough, B. Furrer, R. Cendo, J.S. Chiong, M. Tsangaris, P.Kokkoras, J. Walsche, J.M. Lopez Lopez. S. Gevarsoni completed her musical education.
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Her music has been played worldwide by a. o. WDR Sinfonieorchester, ensemble Musikfabrik, Schlagquartett Köln, Ensemble Mosaik, IEMA Ensemble, hand werk Ensemble, Kollektiv3:6Koeln, ensemble Garage, Ensemble ascolta, Ensemble Inverspace, Kammermusik für Köln Ensemble, Lucerne Academy Alumni Ensemble, Leise Dröhnung, Kluster5, Ensemble S201, Ensemble consord, Ensemble Lemniscate, y-band, Ensemble Platypus, Ensemble Schallfeld, Lucerne Academy Alumni Ensemble, Ergon Ensemble, DissonArt Ensemble, Dirk Rothbrust, Ernst Surberg, Niklas Seidl, Dominik Susteck, Annegret Mayer Lindenberg, Sarah Maria Sun, on festivals such as
Acht Brücken Festival-Musik für Köln, Wittener Tage für Kammermusik, ECLAT Festival Stuttgart, Lucerne Festival, Musica Festival Strasbourg, Gaudeamus Musikwiek, Tectonics Athens, Heroines of Sound, IMPULS, Festival NOW! Essen, TCM Festival Berlin, New Talents Biennale Cologne, Bridges Festival, Konzerthaus Wien, ZKM Karlsruhe, WDR KonzertSaal.
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In her music she is interested in exploring the relationships that occur between conceptual, perceptual and actual measurable time, as it is formulated through different ontological interpretations, from the process of performance and listening. Thus, by creating, developing and combining different sonic processes, she strives to achieve continuous flux and energy and intricate multi layered textures.
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2010-2014 she was a member of the improvisation ensemble 6daExit which is based in Thessaloniki and as a performer and improviser she has collaborated with many artists based in Greece.
Since 2017 co-founder and composer of Kollektiv3:6Koeln, a collective ensemble with an unusual consistency of 6 musicians and 4 composers. Kollektiv3:6Koeln specializes in contemporary experimental music co-creations through communicative procedures. Emphasising in exploring alternative concert places and multifarious concert experience for its audience.
In 2021 she was appointed member of the „Junges Kolleg” of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.
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Her first Portrait CD will be released in 2024 by WERGO-Edition Zeitgenössische Musik.
She lives and works in Cologne.
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