Michail Travlos
*7 July 1950
Works by Michail Travlos
Biography
Michail Travlos An award wining composer, Michail Travlos was born on 7th of July 1950 in Piraeus, Greece. He started his musical studies at Athens National Conservatory in 1970 with Michalis Vourtsis. In 1975 he was accepted in the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, where he studied composition with Isang Yun. He obtained his diploma in Music Composition in 1980. He lives in Pireaus as an independent composer and professor of theory and composition. He taught at the Hellenic Conservatory (1980-1982), the Contemporary Conservatory (1987-1996) and at the "Nikos Skalkotas" Conservatory (1982-2014) where he was also artistic director (1989-2014). From 2015 he teaches music theory and composition at his RESIDENTIAL STUDIO in Piraeus and at the Conservatory of Modern Art in Anavissos, Greece. He currently divides his time between his family home Piraeus and Kwidzyn, Poland.
He has been granted many awards such as:
-1st Prize: International Composers’ Competition, Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI) in Belgrade, for his work Eniwetock (1979).
-1st Prize: International Composers’ Competition, in Stuttgart, for his string quartet Metathesis (1979).
-Prize: Competition of Hellenic Ministry of Culture, for his string quartet Metathesis (1979).
-Prince Pierre of Monaco Music Composition Award (Prince Pierre Foundation), for his orchestral work Πρίσμα (Prisma) (1981).
-Prize: Competition of Hellenic Ministry of Culture, for his orchestral work Πρίσμα (Prisma) (1982).
-Prize: Competition of the Municipality of Athens, for his ballet Adventures of Ulysses (1991).
-Global Music Award - Gold Triple Medal - Awards of Excellence (Composer, Flutist and Album) (2017).
-Nomination for the International Classical Music Awards - ICMA (Contemporary Music) (2018).
-The Akademia Music Awards - Music Award of Excellence (Composer, Flautist and Album) (2018).
-CLOUZINE International Music Awards Fall 2018 (Best Contemporary Album).
-Global Music Award - Gold Triple Medal - Awards of Excellence (Composer/ Composition, New release and Album) (2019).
-CLOUZINE International Music Awards Spring 2020 (Best Contemporary Album).
-Global Music Awards - NIGHT VISIONS was chosen Best of Best Top Albums 2019 (JANUARY , 2020).
-Nomination for the 18th Annual Independent Music awards (Contemporary classical), (2020).
-CLOUZINE International Music Awards Autumn 2020 (Best Contemporary Album).
-CLOUZINE International Music Awards Autumn 2020 (Best Electronic Album).
About the music
Michail Travlos has written music for large and small ensembles, for solo instruments, a chamber opera, various concertos for solo instruments as well as electronic music and music for Symphony orchestra. His works have been performed in many countries such as Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Poland, Spain, England, the Netherlands, Moldova, Ukraine etc..His works were chosen twice by Gaudeamus Foundation to be performed in the International Gaudeamus Music Week in the Netherlands, in 1978 the work Seven Happenings for 8 players (1977) and in 1984 Motivic Variations for solo cello (1983), respectively. In 1985 the International Society of Contemporary Music, ISCM included his award winning orchestral work Prisma (1979-1980) for the International Music Days. The works of Michail Travlos have been recorded extensively and appear on a dozen CDs available on the European and US labels such as Sarton, Ablaze, Lyra, Tar, Dna, El Culto/ClassXX, Phasma Music and others.
Travlos music is strongly characterised by the constant search of colour combinations through intervalic interaction and relation that follow the simple rule of Minimal - Medium - Strong Energy through out the duration of a musical piece.