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Artist
Nikos Mamagkakis
12+ albums
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Nikos Mamangakis was born in Rethimno, Crete. He attended lessons at the Greek Conservatory of Athens. He continued studying musical composition with Carl Orff and H.Gedamer in Munich and electronic music at the SIEMENS Electronic Music Studio with Joseph Anton Ridle. He received various scholarships from the Greek government, the Supreme Music Academy of Munich and the city of Berlin (Deutscher Akademischer Austauscudienst). He began his career in the late 80’s operating the early electronic means in an original and personal way. He follows an advanced musical path, based in part on elements of traditional greek heritage, but with many personal traits in regards to structuring the sound. We can definetily see this in accomplished compositions such as "Music for 4 protagonists"(1959-60) for 4 voices and 10 instruments, based on text by Kazantzakis, "Constructions" for flute and percussion (1960), "Combinations" (1961) for percussion and orchestra, "Lingual symbols" (1961-62) for soprano, bass and large orchestra, "Cassandra" for soprano and 6 instruments (1963). He also wrote a siginificant "Cycle of numbers" : Number 1 is the "Monologe" for solo cello (1962, 2nd award in A.T.I. contest), number 2 is "Competitions", a conversation between a cello and percussionist who moves according to the shape of a bow while performing on stage (1963), number 3 is "Trittus" for guitar, 2 contrabass, santouri and percussions (1966), and number 4 is "Tetractus" for string quartet whose struc