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  Yannis Kyriakides
Composer

Born in Limassol, Cyprus in 1969. Emigrated to England with his family in 1975. He studied musicology at York University and then at the Hague Conservatory in the Netherlands with Louis Andriessen. At this time he also worked on three projects with the independent electronic music composer and director Dick Raijmaakers. He currently lives and works in Amsterdam as a composer and electronic musician.
Kyriakides works with ensembles such as ASKO, the Marten Altena Ensemble, and Icebreaker as well as with theater and dance companies, including Hollandia and Leine & Roebana. His own group, CIRCADIAN, performs regularly in Europe, and he is an active member of the electronic music scene as a specialist in live processing and an improviser. In 2005, escamotage at the Forum Neues Musiktheater.