Epa Fassianos

Website: https://www.epafassianos.com
Contact: epasoundcloud@gmail.com

Epa Fassianos is a Greek Composer of Electroacoustic and Ambient Music. He was born in Athens in 1982. He has attended both the University of York (MA in Music Technology) under the supervision of Professor Andy Hunt and the University of Sussex (MA in Composition for Media and Film and MPhil in Musical Composition) under the supervision of Professor Ed Hughes. His BA in Greece was in Informatics and Computer Technology. He has also obtained his Piano Diploma in 2003 with Professor Dimitris Toufexis. In parallel, he has obtained the Diplomas in Harmony, Counterpoint and Fugue respectively.

He holds a PhD Degree in Acousmatic Music Composition. He obtained his PhD from the University of Manchester (NOVARS Research Centre), under the supervision of Professor David Berezan. His area of interest was: Creating works of Acousmatic Music based on aspects of Greek Culture (Religion, Traditional Greek Instruments, Mythology).

SELECTED PERFORMANCES IN ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVALS – PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES AND ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FORUMS:

1. ICMC 2021 – International Computer Music Conference – Santiago (2021)
2. MISE-EN MUSIC FESTIVAL – New York (2020)
3. NYCEMF – New York (2020)
4. MUSLAB – Lisbon (2020)
5. Frontwave New Music Festival – West Palm Beach (2020)
6. Musiques & Recherches: An Acousmatic Spatialized Concert – Brussels (2020)
7. TAMA Music Festival – Meisei University – Tokyo (2020)
8. Days of Electroacoustic Music – Athens (2019)
9. Leeds Festival “Echochroma XVIII” – Leeds (2019)
10. IFEM 2019 BRATISLAVA: INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC – «Winner Takes All...» Festival – Bratislava (2019)
11. ICMC 2019 / NYCEMF 2019 – New York (2019)
12. SONIC ARTS FORUM – University of Huddersfield – Huddersfield (2019)
13. DIFFRAZIONI FIRENZE MULTIMEDIA FESTIVAL 2019 – Le Murate PAC (Progetti Arte Contemporanea) – Firenze (2019)
14. DIALOGUES FESTIVAL 2019 – The University of Edinburgh – Edinburgh (2019)
15. The Concert of Laureats of the Electroacoustic Music Competition: MUSICA NOVA 2018 – Divadlo Inspirace – Prague (2018)
16. WOCMAT 2018 Conference: Electroacoustic Music Concert – National Chiao Tung University – Taiwan (2018)
17. ECOS URBANOS 2018 – Escuela Superior de Música – Mexico City (2018)
18. Bushwick Open Studio Festival of New Electroacoustic Works – New York (2018)
19. EASTN – DC 2018: European Art – Science – Technology Network for Digital Creativity – University of Manchester – Manchester (2018)
20. MANTIS Sonification Festival and Symposium 2018 – University of Manchester – Manchester (2018)
21. Matera Intermedia Festival 2017 – Conservatory "Duni" – Matera (2017)
22. Music and Space Study Day – Royal Music Association – Manchester (2017)
23. Electroacoustic Music Composers Forum – University of Manchester – Manchester (2017)
24. MANTIS Festival Series – University of Manchester – Manchester (2015 – 2018)
25. NOVARS Research Centre MATINÉE Series – University of Manchester – Manchester (2014)
26. Sines & Squares Festival – University of Manchester – Manchester (2014)

Epa Fassianos's work "Chromatocosmos" (2015) has been awarded the First Prize in Category A in MUSICA NOVA 2018 Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Prague, Czech Republic, as well as the Third Prize in MUSICWORKS 2018 Electroacoustic Music Competition in Toronto, Canada.

In 2019, Epa Fassianos's work "ElectroSantouri" (2017) was accepted in ICMC (International Computer Music Conference 2019) – NYCEMF (New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival 2019), New York City, United States of America. Moreover, the same work received an Honorary Mention in ARS ELECTRONICA FORUM WALLIS Swiss Contemporary Music Festival 2019 (Leuk, Switzerland).

In 2019, he became a member of the Hellenic Association of Electroacoustic Music Composers (ESSIM), Greece.

In 2020, he became a member of ICMA, United States, as well as a member of JSSA, Japan.

Epa Fassianos’s tracks

• MULTIVERSE III by Epa Fassianos
• MULTIVERSE IV by Epa Fassianos
• MULTIVERSE V by Epa Fassianos
• MULTIVERSE I by Epa Fassianos
• MULTIVERSE II by Epa Fassianos
• Salvation I by Epa Fassianos
• Salvation by Epa Fassianos
• Wormhole by Epa Fassianos
• Internal Cosmos by Epa Fassianos
• Extraterrestrial II - Antiphonum by Epa Fassianos