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Dinos Constantinides

Biography

Dinos Constantinides' works have been performed throughout the world, including premiere performances with the American Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, and the Annapolis Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. His music is recorded by Orion Master Recordings, Crest Records, Capstone Records, and Vestige Recordings, and published in the United States, Greece, and Mexico. Vienna Modern Masters of Vienna, Austria has released four CD's including his symphonic music, and the Louisiana Composers Guild has released a CD which includes his flute concerto. Two new CDs include excerpts from his opera Antigone which was premiered by the Baton Rouge Opera in March 1993.

Constantinides is the recipient of many grants, commissions, and awards, including numerous ASCAP Standard Awards, First Prizes in the 1981 Brooklyn College International Chamber Opera Competition and the 1985 First Midwest Chamber Opera Theatre Conference, as well as the 1985 American New Music Consortium Distinguished Service Award. His first opera INTIMATIONS was the recipient of two national awards for which Boris Goldovsky was an adjudicator. He has also been awarded the 1989 Governor's Lifetime Achievement Award for the State of Louisiana and the City of Baton Rouge 1992 Mayor-President's Award for Excellence in the Arts. In 1994 he was honored with a Distinguished Teacher White House Commission on Presidential Scholars.

Constantinides studied at the Greek Conservatory in Athens, Juilliard School in New York, and the Universities of Indiana, Brandeis, and Michigan State. He holds a Ph.D. in composition and has studied violin with Dorothy Delay, Ivan Galamian, and Josef Gingold.

Dinos Constantinides is presently a distinguished Boyd Professor and head of Composition at Lousiana State University School of Music, conductor of the LSU New Music Ensemble, and Music Director of the Louisiana Sinfonietta.

Selected Compositions

• Antigone
• Three Selections - for soprano or oboe and strings
• Hymn to the Human Spirit - for tenor and orchestra*
• China Quartet - for mezzo-soprano, bassoon, percussion, cello and orchestra; recorded by LSU Soloists and the Louisiana Sinfonietta, Vestige GR 9612-1
• Four Greek Songs*
• Four Songs on Poems by Sappho*
• Intimations: One Act Opera*
• Mutability for Soprano and String Quartet*
• Preludes for String Orchestra - Dreams, Earth and Heavens
• Reflections IV for soprano, flute, harp and piano* - audio clip (164K, .wav)
• Reflections VI "The Tyger" - for voice or horn in F and string orchestra

* - recorded on Vestige, "Antigone and Other Vocal Works" by Dinos Constantinides.

Further Information

For further information about Dinos Constantinides, please visit his website at magnipublications.com

• Pan Pipes 2004-2005 Annual American Composer Update
• Pan Pipes 2003-2004 Annual American Composer Update
• Pan Pipes 2002-2003 Annual American Composer Update
• Pan Pipes 2001-2002 Annual American Composer Update
• Pan Pipes 2000-2001 Annual American Composer Update
• Pan Pipes 1998-1999 Annual American Composer Update
• Pan Pipes 1997-1998 Annual American Composer Update
• Pan Pipes 1996-1997 Annual American Composer Update
• SAI's Music for Young People section
• Website at Conners Publications

Contact Information

947 Daventry Drive
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
E-mail: cconsta@bellsouth.net

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