Dr. Evis Sammoutis was recently awarded a highly competitive Chamber Music America Commission to compose a new woodwind quintet for District5. The commission is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the premiere of the new work will take place in fall 2017.
For more information about this commission, see:
http://www.district5quintet.org/single-post/2016/07/24/DISTRICT5-AND-EVIS-SAMMOUTIS-AWARDED-CMA-COMMISSIONING-GRANT
Performances of Dr. Sammoutis’s works in 2016 have taken place in Mexico, France, the UK, Norway, Greece, the USA, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland and Cyprus at venues such as the British Museum, Festival Archipel, the Onassis Cultural Center, Festspillene Bergen and the ISCM Festival.
Dr. Evis Sammoutis recently travelled to Cyprus where he successfully directed the 8th edition of the annual Pharos Arts Foundation International Contemporary Music Festival, for which he has served as co-founder and Artistic Director since its inception in 2009. The festival has hosted some of contemporary music’s most iconic ensembles and has commissioned over 50 new works. For more information, visit the festival’s website at: http://www.pharosartsfoundation.org/contemporarymusicfestival.htm
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20161017150048413