Andreas Levisianos
Andreas Levisianos is composer and conductor 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 instruments, acoustic and electronic and collaborated with choreographers, directors and visual artists in a variety of projects.
His music has been featured in festivals including Art Night London, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Tethering in Los Angeles, Open Day in Athens, Morphologies of Invisible Agents in London. He has performed music from different periods of the western music history and from various styles, including orchestral, chamber, solo and electroacoustic. He serves as the music director and conductor of the annual Open Days Festival in Athens, Greece. Selected credits include his participation in the Noon to Midnight new music marathon by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, at the Walt Disney Hall, the Jani Christou Portrait concert presented at RedCat in Los Angeles, the Anne Le Baron Portrait Concert, the Stockhausen Festival presented at the California Institute of the Arts, the Pulitzer prize finalist Invisible Cities (assistant conductor), his participation in the Hear Now festival, the Jacaranda Concert Series. He is also working with the Universal Music Group as a Music Information Analyst.He holds a Doctor 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 and a Piano Diploma from the National Conservatory of Greece.