Nicolas Tzortzis
Born in Athens in May 1978, Nicolas Tzortzis has been living in Paris since 2002. He studied instrumental and electronic composition with Philippe Leroux at the CRD de Blanc Mesnil and at the University of Montreal (earning his PhD in April 2013), musical theater composition with Georges Aperghis at the Hochschule der Kunste in Bern and computer-aided composition at the University of Paris 8 under the direction of Horacio Vaggione and José Manuel Lopez-Lopez.
His music has been performed in France, Greece, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Great Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, the US, Canada, Argentina, Peru, Japan, South Korea and Australia, and has been selected and awarded in competitions worldwide (US, Japan, South Korea, Germany, France, Austria, Greece, Italy, Great Britain, and Argentina).