Panayiotis Kokoras (1974, Greece) is an internationally award-winning composer and computer music innovator. He is Associate Professor at the Universi-ty of North Texas.
His works have been commissioned by institutes and festivals such as the Fromm Music Foundation (Harvard), IRCAM (France), MATA (New York), Gau-deamus (Netherlands), ZKM (Germany), IMEB (France), Siemens Musikstiftung (Germany) and have been performed in over 600 concerts around the world. His compositions have been selected by juries in more than 130 international calls for scores and have received 60 distinctions and prizes in international competitions, among others Franco Evangelisti Prix 2012 (Italy), Destellos Prize 2011 (Argentina), Prix Ars Electronica 2011 (Austria), Métamorphoses 2010 & 2000 (Belgium), Giga-Hertz Music Award 2009 (Germany), Bourges 2009, 2008 and 2004 (France), Gianni Bergamo 2007 (Switzerland), Pierre Schaeffer 2005 (Italy), Musica Viva 2005 and 2002 (Portugal), Gaudeamus 2004 and 2003 (Holland), Jurgenson Competition 2003 (Russia), Takemitsu Compo-sition Award 2002 (Japan). He is founding member of the Hellenic Electroa-coustic Music Composers Association (HELMCA) and from 2004 to 2012 he was board member and president. He is currently secretary of the Interactional Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (CIME/ICEM) and Conference Chair for the ICMC 2015.
Cycling for amplified flute with reverb (2009) was commissioned for the flutist Mario Caroli, as part of a project titled L’Arsenal wants you!, and premiered in Venice. The score was published by Ars Publica Musical Editions. The piece made it to the final of the 2014 Earplay Donald Aird Composers Competition and the Flute New Mu-sic Consortium Composition Competition. Its compositional procedure is based on “from sound to sound” structures and transformations of strategies of association between them.