Andreas Levisianos

Andreas Levisianos is a composer, conductor, and musicologist from Samos Island, Greece. Having a background in classical music and focusing on contemporary practices he is interested in the interrelation of analysis, synthesis, and performance through a conceptual and systemic approach. He has composed music for various combinations of instruments, electronic and acoustic, and collaborated with choreographers, directors, and visual artists in a variety of intermedia projects.

He has participated in several internationally acclaimed festivals such as Art Night in London, Tethering in Los Angeles, Tectonics in Athens, Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Morphologies of Invisible Agents in London and more. He has performed music from different periods of western music history and from various styles. He has served as a music director and conductor of the ‘Open Day’ festival in Athens, Greece as well as festivals such as Noon to Midnight organized by the L.A. Philharmonic in the Walt Disney Hall, the ‘Jani Christou portrait Concert’ at REDCAT in Los Angeles, in the ‘Stockhausen festival’ at the California Institute of the Arts, in Pulitzer Prize finalist opera ‘Invisible Cities’ as an assistant conductor, in the Hear Now Festival and the Jacaranda Concert Series.

He is the artistic director and co-founder of the online performance platform aejaa and works with Universal Music Group on music information analysis. He holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Performance – Composition from the California Institute of the Arts, a Double Master’s degree in Composition and Conducting from the University of Oklahoma, a Bachelor’s degree in Musicology from the University of Athens, Greece, and a Piano Diploma from the National Conservatory of Greece.

PROJECT

Andreas together with Dimitra Kandia and Marilena Katranidou curate and present the original site-specific music theatre performance “Thalassa Quarry” at the homonymous quarry. The topography of the “Thalassa” Quarry becomes music and stage score, exploring the physical and symbolic characteristics of marble. The performance is a landscape composition: it composes the sounds of marble as a natural material in the quarry, the sounds of marble when sculpted by craftsmen, the interpretation of its sound and symbolic features by acoustic instruments, voices, and narrative speech, and the sounds of the bio-soundscape. Andreas is behind the original music composition and conduction for the performance. Through participatory workshops, the local community of the island will have the opportunity to attend the individual – organisational and creative – levels of preparation of the performance, including vocal, rhythmic and stage preparation workshops.