MICHAIL TRAVLOS composer
An award wining composer Michail Travlos was born on 7th of July 1950 in Piraeus, Greece. He started his musical studies at Athens National Conservatory in 1970 with Michalis Vourtsis. In 1975 he was accepted to the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, where he studied composition with Isang Yun and orchestration with Witold Szalonek. He obtained his diploma in Music Composition in 1980. He lives in Pireaus as an independent composer and professor of theory and composition. He taught at the Hellenic Conservatory (1980-1982), the Contemporary Conservatory (1987-1996) and at the "Nikos Skalkotas" Conservatory (1982-2014) where he was also artistic director (1989-2014). From 2015 he teaches music theory and composition at his RESIDENTIAL STUDIO in Piraeus and at the Conservatory of Modern Art in Anavissos, Greece. He currently divides his time between his family home Piraeus and Kwidzyn.
1st Prize: International Composers' Competition, in Stuttgart, for his string quartet Metathesis (1979). Prince Pierre of Monaco Music Composition Award (Prince Pierre Foundation), for his orchestral work Πρίσμα (Prisma) (1981). Prize: Competition of Hellenic Ministry of Culture, for his orchestral work Πρίσμα (Prisma) (1982). Prize: Competition of the Municipality of Athens, for his ballet Adventures of Ulysses (1991).
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