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Andys Skordis (born in Nicosia, 24 August 1983) is a Cypriot composer. Andys has been involved with music from a young age. Andys grew up by playing electric guitar and composing songs for his bands "OffTone Thieves" and "Spirits" in Cyprus. He left Cyprus when he was 20 to study Jazz Guitar performance and later on he switched to Composition and Film Scoring, studying with Vuk Kulenovic and Tibor Pusztai. Andys graduated with Magna Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music in 2007 and later on he moved to Amsterdam for postgraduate studies in Composition with Richard Ayres and Wim Hendrickx and Karnatic Music with Rafael Reina. Andys got his master's in Composition in 2011 with Zeer Goed, and he also finished the 5-year Karnatic Music programme in 2012. He has also studied Javanese Gamelan in Amsterdam with Elsje Plantema, and in 2013 he moved to Bali for a year to study Balinese Gamelan at ISI Denpasar. Andys music has been awarded with the BUMA Toonzetters prize 2012 (one of the highest compositional prizes in The Netherlands), the 1st and 2nd prize in competitions held by Cyprus symphony orchestra, and has been shortlisted for the Berliner Oper Preis 2015, Gaudeamus Prize 2012 and The Ereprijs 2011. He has also received support from the FondsPodium Kunsten (NL), Kunstenaars & Co (NL), Darmasiswa (IN), Listhus (IS), A.G. Leventis Foundation (CY) and Nikolas Economou Foundation CY). Besides composing, Andys is the cofounder of the collective "Brain Marsturbation" performing in The Netherlands and Cyprus, as well as a Gamelan player with "Narwastu", and percussionist with "Payazen". Andys lives in Den Haag at the moment where he composes music. ==External links== *(Composer's own website ) *(Music Information Center Cyprus ) *(Toonzetters Prize 2012 ) *(Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2012 ) *(Composers 21 ) *(Bellasartes Mexico ) *(Interview ) *(Interview ) *() *() 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andys Skordis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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