Yannis Kyriakides

Yannis Kyriakides is a Cypriot-Dutch composer and sound artist, born in Limassol in 1969. He grew up in Britain and has lived in the Netherlands since 1992. His work spans music theatre, electroacoustic pieces and audiovisual installations, often built on the relation between words and sound, with synthesised voices, encoded information and projected text. He co-founded the Unsounds label and teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Yannis Kyriakides studied musicology at the University of York and composition with Louis Andriessen and Dick Raaijmakers in The Hague.