Dr. Phivos-Angelos Kollias’ work integrates emerging technologies and sonic narratives to examine the interplay between the human experience and its digital counterparts. Through diverse interactive mediums— such as classical instruments paired with interactive electronics, virtual reality music installations and video games—each project reinvents active listener engagement. The audience's role becomes central, the driving force behind each work. Listeners are encouraged to interact, whether through deliberate actions or heightened perception. Kollias’ projects focus on themes such as AI's role in manipulation, multi-sensory interchange, and multidisciplinary collaborations. His aesthetic preferences are grounded on the fusion of electroacoustic music and classical orchestration, informed by interdisciplinary theories of Complexity, examining the interaction between sound and other senses or the challenges of technology. Kollias has a PhD in electroacoustic music from the University of Paris VIII. He has studied classical music in Cambridge, London and Paris with the support of four prestigious foundations (Onassis Foundation, Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Leventis Foundation and Greek Composers Union) and currently lives in Berlin. He studied composition with influential composers Horacio Vaggione, Jean-Luc Hervé and Yan Maresz. He has taken master classes from leading figures such as Helmut Lachenmann, Georges Aperghis, Beat Furrer, Tristan Murail, Unsuk Chin and Agostino Di Scipio. He has received nine awards and nine nominations in international competitions, including the Excellence in Sound Design Award at the Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories Competition, Toronto, and one of the Musicworks Electronic Music Competition prizes. The group projects he has participated in have won twelve awards and distinctions, including the Apple TV Game of the Year award and the Gamescom Indie Award and listed twice in Forbes' top lists. His projects have been commissioned by various international institutions like ZKM (Karlsruhe), German Music Council, Musikfonds (Berlin), Dell Computers (USA), Transmediale (Berlin), Boston University (USA), Aubagne International Film Festival (Aubagne, France), Musiques d'un siècle (France), Ensemble Ipse (USA), Athens Concert Hall (Greece), Greek Composers Union (Greece). His recent project “AI Reconstructing Realities” went viral, contributing to the dialogue on AI authorship, authenticity, and identity. The project remixes popular music videos using generative AI algorithms, sparking a heated debate. This innovative work was featured in articles across several magazines, including Louder, Belgian Radio-television of the French Community, MetalSucks, A Journal Of Musical Things, and The Pit. His works have been performed by international ensembles and musicians in more than twenty countries around the world in more than seventy concerts.

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Dr. Phivos-Angelos Kollias’ work integrates emerging technologies and sonic narratives to examine the interplay between the human experience and its digital counterparts. Through diverse interactive mediums— such as classical instruments paired with interactive electronics, virtual reality music installations and video games—each project reinvents active listener engagement. The audience's role becomes central, the driving force behind each work. Listeners are encouraged to interact, whether through deliberate actions or heightened perception. Kollias’ projects focus on themes such as AI's role in manipulation, multi-sensory interchange, and multidisciplinary collaborations. His aesthetic preferences are grounded on the fusion of electroacoustic music and classical orchestration, informed by interdisciplinary theories of Complexity, examining the interaction between sound and other senses or the challenges of technology. Kollias has a PhD in electroacoustic music from the University of Paris VIII. He has studied classical music in Cambridge, London and Paris with the support of four prestigious foundations (Onassis Foundation, Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Leventis Foundation and Greek Composers Union) and currently lives in Berlin. He studied composition with influential composers Horacio Vaggione, Jean-Luc Hervé and Yan Maresz. He has taken master classes from leading figures such as Helmut Lachenmann, Georges Aperghis, Beat Furrer, Tristan Murail, Unsuk Chin and Agostino Di Scipio. He has received nine awards and nine nominations in international competitions, including the Excellence in Sound Design Award at the Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories Competition, Toronto, and one of the Musicworks Electronic Music Competition prizes. The group projects he has participated in have won twelve awards and distinctions, including the Apple TV Game of the Year award and the Gamescom Indie Award and listed twice in Forbes' top lists. His projects have been commissioned by various international institutions like ZKM (Karlsruhe), German Music Council, Musikfonds (Berlin), Dell Computers (USA), Transmediale (Berlin), Boston University (USA), Aubagne International Film Festival (Aubagne, France), Musiques d'un siècle (France), Ensemble Ipse (USA), Athens Concert Hall (Greece), Greek Composers Union (Greece). His recent project “AI Reconstructing Realities” went viral, contributing to the dialogue on AI authorship, authenticity, and identity. The project remixes popular music videos using generative AI algorithms, sparking a heated debate. This innovative work was featured in articles across several magazines, including Louder, Belgian Radio-television of the French Community, MetalSucks, A Journal Of Musical Things, and The Pit. His works have been performed by international ensembles and musicians in more than twenty countries around the world in more than seventy concerts.

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Dr. Phivos-Angelos Kollias’ work integrates emerging technologies and sonic narratives to examine the interplay between the human experience and its digital counterparts. Through diverse interactive mediums— such as classical instruments paired with interactive electronics, virtual reality music installations and video games—each project reinvents active listener engagement.

The audience’s role becomes central, the driving force behind each work. Listeners are encouraged to interact, whether through deliberate actions or heightened perception. Kollias’ projects focus on themes such as AI’s role in manipulation, multi-sensory interchange, and multidisciplinary collaborations. His aesthetic preferences are grounded on the fusion of electroacoustic music and classical orchestration, informed by interdisciplinary theories of Complexity, examining the interaction between sound and other senses or the challenges of technology.

Kollias has a PhD in electroacoustic music from the University of Paris VIII. He has studied classical music in Cambridge, London and Paris with the support of four prestigious foundations (Onassis Foundation, Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Leventis Foundation and Greek Composers Union) and currently lives in Berlin. He studied composition with influential composers Horacio Vaggione, Jean-Luc Hervé and Yan Maresz. He has taken master classes from leading figures such as Helmut Lachenmann, Georges Aperghis, Beat Furrer, Tristan Murail, Unsuk Chin and Agostino Di Scipio.

He has received nine awards and nine nominations in international competitions, including the Excellence in Sound Design Award at the Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories Competition, Toronto, and one of the Musicworks Electronic Music Competition prizes. The group projects he has participated in have won twelve awards and distinctions, including the Apple TV Game of the Year award and the Gamescom Indie Award and listed twice in Forbes’ top lists.

His projects have been commissioned by various international institutions like ZKM (Karlsruhe), German Music Council, Musikfonds (Berlin), Dell Computers (USA), Transmediale (Berlin), Boston University (USA), Aubagne International Film Festival (Aubagne, France), Musiques d’un siècle (France), Ensemble Ipse (USA), Athens Concert Hall (Greece), Greek Composers Union (Greece).

His recent project “AI Reconstructing Realities” went viral, contributing to the dialogue on AI authorship, authenticity, and identity. The project remixes popular music videos using generative AI algorithms, sparking a heated debate. This innovative work was featured in articles across several magazines, including Louder, Belgian Radio-television of the French Community, MetalSucks, A Journal Of Musical Things, and The Pit.

His works have been performed by international ensembles and musicians in more than twenty countries around the world in more than seventy concerts.

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Language

English
Fluent
French
Fluent
Greek, Modern
Fluent
German
Beginner

Education

PhD at Université Paris 8
December 2, 2017
PhD in Interactive Music
Composition Degree (Diplôme d'études musicales -DEM) at Conservatoire de Boulogne, Paris
June 15, 2013
Master of Arts (MA) at Université Paris 8, France
December 5, 2007
Master in Computer Assisted Composition
Master of Arts (MA) at City University, London
August 12, 2004
Master in Instrumental Composition
Bachelor of Arts (BA) at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
June 15, 2003
Bachelor in Music

Qualifications

Award: Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest, Toronto
March 15, 2023
● Electronic Music Composition Teacher of the Year, Lessonface, USA
December 15, 2022
Award: Excellence in Sound Design - Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories Competition, Toronto
February 20, 2019
Prize in Composition: Aubagne Film Festival Competition, Aubagne, France
March 14, 2012
Award: GERMI. Music Competition, Rome
April 15, 2009
AWARD: InNova Musica Competition, Andorra
April 15, 2009
Award: Giuseppe Verdi Music Competition, Milan
March 18, 2009
Award: Contemporary Music Workshops Competition -Megaron Concert Hall, Athens
January 19, 2007
Award: Greek Festival of Chamber Music Competition, Athens
March 16, 2005

Industry Experience

Computers & Electronics, Education, Gaming, Media & Entertainment, Other

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