Yiorgo Moutsiaras ( el, Γιώργος Μουτσιάρας; born 1976) is a
Greek orchestral conductor living in
Delft
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since October 2005. He is conducting the ''Filharmonisch Orkest ’s-Hertogenbosch'' -an orchestra in
's-Hertogenbosch
s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a city and municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 157,486. It is the capital of the province of North Brabant and its fourth largest by population. The city is south of th ...
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the Netherlands
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Life
Moutsiaras was born in
Volos, Greece as son of Kostas Moutsiaras and Virginia Barouta-
Moutsiara. He visited schools in Greece successfully and studied
piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...
and theory of music from 1983 until 1999. During serving his military service in the
Greek Air Force he was a member of the
114th's and
111th Combat Wing's military orchestras.
;Diplomas
* ''Academy for Music and Dance of
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...
(CODARTS)'' in March 2003, orchestral conducting
* ''Conservatory of
Maastricht
Maastricht ( , , ; li, Mestreech ; french: Maestricht ; es, Mastrique ) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg. Maastricht is located on both sides of the ...
(Hogeschool Zuyd)'' in June 2004, orchestral conducting
* ''Lemmens Institute (Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst)'' in
Leuven
Leuven (, ) or Louvain (, , ; german: link=no, Löwen ) is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. The municipality itself comprises the historic ...
in September 2006 in orchestral conducting
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Detmold
Detmold () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of . It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947. Today it is the administrative center of ...
Summer Academy’s classes'' in September 2004, with
Kurt Masur
Kurt Masur (18 July 1927 – 19 December 2015) was a German conductor. Called "one of the last old-style maestros", he directed many of the principal orchestras of his era. He had a long career as the Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Or ...
Works
Yiorgo Moutsiaras is rumored to be currently in a project of rearranging, exclusive for classic orchestra, Greek traditional music (rembetika) like Tsitsanis, since 2009.
Discography
References
External links
WebsiteFilharmonisch Orkest 's-Hertogenbosch website
1976 births
Living people
Dutch conductors (music)
Dutch male conductors (music)
Greek conductors (music)
Greek emigrants to the Netherlands
Musicians from Volos
21st-century conductors (music)
21st-century male musicians
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