Alexis Porfiriadis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. Between 1997 and 2002 he studied composition with Gerd Kühr at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria, receiving a diploma in composition with distinction. In 2003 he completed a postgraduate degree program in composition with Beat Furrer. He has also attended composition classes with Erich Urbanner, Mathias Spahlinger, Helmut Lachenmann, George Aperghis, Manos Tsangaris, Enno Pope, Michalis Lapidakis. He has been awarded several scholarships, among them the Scholarship for Special Academic Achievements of the Austrian Ministry of Science and Culture, the Scholarship of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, the Music Award of the City of Graz, the State Scholarship for Composition of the Republic of Austria. He has also been awarded the Molinari Quartet's International Composition Competition's Third Prize. His works have been performed in Austria, Greece, Croatia, Poland, Germany, Canada and Belgium.
Since 2005 he has worked as an ad-hoc special instructor in the Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University, teaching Improvisation. In 2007 he founded the improvisation and performance group 6daEXIt with music department students, and in 2008 he began collaborating with Danae Stefanou and Natassa Mare Moumtzidou in a weekly session of free improvisation trio sessions, presented as open access rehearsals at the A.U.TH. department of music studies.
Alexis Porfiriadis is a member of the composers group “Die Andere Saite†in Graz and the Greek Composers Union in Athens. He works in Vienna with the Italian artist Aldo Giannotti making new-media works (video, installations, happenings) and in Graz with the Austrian painter Manfred Url.
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"S-Lieder" for Voice and string trio, Graz 08
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Improvisation concert 29-06-07
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improvisation group 6 da exit
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Impro Part I from ntsmare on Vimeo .
