Dimitri Voudouris biography

	Biography

	Dimitri Voudouris


1961	Born in Athens Greece

1966	Parents immigrated to South Africa

1967-1970	Attended Yeoville Boys Primary School in Johannesburg

1971-1974	Attended Selbourne Primary School in Vereeniging

1974-1976	Lessons in Piano and Violin

1974- today	Listening to seriously to 20th century, Avant Garde , New Jazz, Traditional,Sacred,ethnic
	Environmental , Electro-acoustic Music from all over the world and has 5000 rare recordings on CD and vinyl


1975-1979	Attended general Smuts High School in Vereeniging

1986	Obtained a Bachelor of Pharmacy Degree at the University
	of the Witwatersrand and has been practicing as a pharmacist since

1987-1989	Studied Socio-Cultural Anthropology , Science of Religion
	Philosophy at the University of South Africa [UNISA]

1991-1994	Obtained a Diploma in Wine from the Cape Wine Academy

1994-1997	Self study in contemporary music composition in both acoustic instrumentation and electronic
	sound media.He has developed his composing techniques in the field of behavioural psychology,
	environmental acoustics,mathematics and bio-physics.

1995	Entered the field of Clinical Pharmacy

1998	Unoxhaka for solo piano

2000-2001	Impilo

2002	Sizobonana, Palmos,NPFAI.1

2003	Work on Praxis completed. In the same year was assistant curator of the Electronic Music Gallery a project
	of NMSA at music at the Grahamstown festival that commemorated the 75th Birthday of Karlheinz Stockhausen

2004	Lexicophony.1 premier and lecture at Digital Arts Wits University
	Master class on NPFAI.3+WM an electro-acoustic composition coordinated by South African marimbist
	M ax De Vries at the New Music Indaba Grayhamstown . On 3 July in the Imagining Africa Project excerpts
	from Sizobonana and Impilo interspersed the music of Kevin Volans , Stanley Glasser, Stefan Grove , Michael Blake
	Bongani Ndondana,Martin Scherzinger,Peter Klatzow and Percival Kirby.
	Elected as board member of NMSA and director of electronic music


2005	Praxis was chosen NMSA to represent South Africa at the ISCM 2005 Coatia
	Pioneered,directed and curated UNYAZI the first electronic music festival and symposium in Africa
	that took place at Wits University 1-4 September.
	Completed Multimedia Theatre composition L22P08M02 which was premiered 3 September at UNYAZI
	L22P08M02 Scenes 1+3 were selected to be performed at ICMC 2005 in Barcelona Spain
	Impilo was performed at XV BIENNALE SZTUKI DLA DZIECKAKULTUROWE KONTEKSTY BAŚNI POLAND


2006	NPFAI.1 was selected for the digital Jukebox at ICMC 2006 Tulane University New Orleans.
	Appointed lecturer in electronic music composition at the University of the Witwatersrand and assisted music
	students with the site specific project Interpreting Johannesburg a multi media installation that involved
	digital arts,physical theatre,music and architecture students in the building 9 Wolmarans str.
	Short compositions for urban geographer Ismail Farouk's short film JHB626GP that was chosen to
	the city of Johannesburg at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2006
	G esticular [2,4,8,10,11] five electroacoustic realizations for the contemporary dance Taxidermie
	[P rojet-Insitu] Martin Chaput and Martial Chazallon [France] choreograhers that involved 3 Mozambican dancers -
	Panaibra Gabriel [assistant choreographer and dancer], Janete Mulapha,Domingos Bie, Cyril Givor-lighting technician
	[Fr ance] and Berry Bickle - Plastician [Zimbabwe] world premier at Teatro Scala - Maputo 19-20 October and
	23-24 October Wits Theatre Johannesburg
	Pogal productions [USA] releases CD with NPFAI.1,Palmos,NPFAI.3,Praxis in December


2007	Resigned as board member and director of electronic music from NMSA
	February and M arch Taxidermie performances in Marseilles and Lyon France
	April Gesticular [Cena 1-11] for contemporary dance theatre completed
	3 May,NPFAI.3+WM live performance in Duseldorf Germany
	19 June Lexicophony.1 to be performed at ACMC07
	For Dimitri Voudouris created/performed by Andy Spicer at Exhibition galleries Brighton Museum
	L22P08M02 Scene1 selected by 34e Concours Internationaux de Musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustiques Bourges 2007
	June completion of work ISILOKAZANE for piano
	September and D ecember completion of composition and animation for work ANAMNHΣΙΣ
	November Gesticular Cena 6 was used by Berry Bickle in a work of hers at CCFM Maputo Mozambique


2008	February radio Papesse, webradio and audio archive of the
	Palazzo delle Papesse Contemporary Art Centre in Siena plays NPFAI.1