Michael Adamis

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Michael Adamis was born in Piraieus, Greece, on 19.5.1929. A graduate of Theology at the University of Athens, he completed his studies in both Western (composition with Y.A. Papaioannou) and Byzantine music, and pursued advanced studies in Composition, Electroacoustic music and Byzantine music paleography at Brandeis University in Boston, MA. Renowned as a major composer of his generation, Adamis has been repeatedly commissioned by international festivals and cultural organizations and his works are widely performed and broadcasted. His choral pieces are established in the repertory of Greek choral music. Besides composition he has engaged himself in choral direction and in research in Byzantine musicology; active in projects aiming at a reconception of the rationale, the scope and the actual practice of music education, also a forerunner in the promotion of Byzantine music as a great musical culture, as well as one of the leading figures for the establishment of contemporary music creation in Greece. In his studies and his general musical endeavour he has always combined the quest of Contemporary creative music with the insight in Byzantine, two fields that have interlinked in his compositional work giving it a characteristic identity in the international avant-guarde. Adamis' personal idiom, founded in the musical culture of the Greek Tradition, has long been recognized as a new trend in Art Music. Developing a way of composing which draws from the functional quality of

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Greek Electronic Music 1

Greek Electronic Music - 1

A Selection of Electroacoustic Works 1964-1977

Greek Flute Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries

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Creelpolation Disc 2

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Creelpolation 1 (Disc 2)

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Creelpolation 2 - Single Tracks

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Greek Electronic Music

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Live in Greece - From Constantinople to California

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Creelpolation.2 (Pieces)

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Creelpolation 1

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Live in Greece: From Constantinople to California

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