Born in Athens in 1978, Nicolas
studied guitar with Evangelos Assimakopoulos and harmony, counterpoint and
fugue with Yiannis Ioannidis, as well as composition under Theodore Antoniou.
He moved to Paris in 2002 where he
pursued his studies in composition with Michel Merlet at the École Normale de
Musique. He is currently finishing his Master's degree in computer-aided
composition at the university of Paris-8 under the direction of Horacio
Vaggione and José Manuel Lopez-Lopez, and is taking composition classes with
Philippe Leroux at the CRD of Blanc-Mesnil. Furthermore, since September 2007
he has been studying musical theatre composition with Georges Aperghis at the Hochschule
der Kunste, in Bern, Switzerland.
He has taken part in
composition master classes with, Brian Ferneyhough, François Paris and
Karlheinz Stockhausen, as well as computer music seminars at the IRCAM.
His music has been
performed in France, Greece, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Italy, Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, Great Britain, the USA, Canada, Peru, South Korea, and has been
selected and awarded in competitions worldwide (Greece, Italy, USA, South
Korea, France, Austria).
Starting Semptember
2009, he will be attending the IRCAM Cursus 1 on computer music.
