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Nikos Laaris

Nikolaos Laaris studied piano at the Athens Conservatory, the Royal College of Music (MMus), and has been awarded a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Manhattan School of Music (DMA), where he served as a professor; he also taught at the Columbia University and the University of Macedonia. He is the recipient of the Ballantine’s Gold Seal sponsorship, as well as of the RCM and MSM, the Alexander Onassis, J.F. Costopoulos and Lilian Voudouri Foundations scholarships.
He has performed in Europe (South Bank Centre – London, Gärtnerplatz Τheater – Munich) and the USA (Carnegie Hall – Νew York), and has been featured as a soloist with Armonia Atenea Orchestra and the State Orchestras of Athens and Thessaloniki. In his London debut he was singled out by Stephen Pettit of the Times as “a fine artist, incapable of making an ugly sound”; for his collaboration with the Munich Ballet Theater in Goldberg Variationen, Dance Europe magazine hailed him as “the star of the evening”.
He presents programs of all eras: Baroque: Rameau – Les Indes Galantes, Classical: Haydn – The Seven Last Words, with the late Pulitzer-Prize winner photographer Yiannis Behrakis (Athens Concert Hall), Romantic – Wagner & Liszt tributes, and Modern: John Cage: the keyboards (Onassis Cultural Center), Leonard Bernstein: an anniversary (ACH), Sir John Tavener: Prayer of the Heart (Greek National Opera – Alternative Stage). He has premiered in Greece works by Haydn, Satie, Copland, Bernstein, Cage, Tavener, Boulez, Kurtag, and Tsontakis.
He recently premiered the hour-long solo cycle Twenty Gratitudes for the teachings of Jesus by George Tsontakis, a commission supported by the G. & V. Karelias Foundation. In his future projects is the Greek premiere of Moises Kaufman’s theatrical play 33 Variations, in his own translation, directed by George Petrou.
He also studied conducting at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (BMus), and has collaborated extensively with Armonia Atenea. He has conducted Philip Glass’ opera In the Penal Colony (OCC, NYC), musicals such as Bernstein’s West Side Story, Porter’s Kiss me Kate and Sakellaridis’ operetta The Godson (ACH), and new works: Kipourgos’ Aristophanes’ Peace (National Theater), and Papadimitriou’s St Francis; recently he conducted Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, and George Tsontakis’ The Air of Greece I (GNO – AS).

Georgios Cherouvim

Georgios Cherouvim is an Athens based artist, working with computer animation and code. He experiments with algorithms, new technologies, and installation in pursuit of new aesthetics and visual languages. He often programs custom tools and instruments, which he uses to produce his work, and enjoys shifting between the roles of the developer and the artist.

Georgios’ work has been featured in festivals and venues around the world, including Siggraph, Ars Electronica, South by Southwest, the International Symposium on Electronic Art, Art Futura, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Athens International Film Festival, and the Greek National Opera. Georgios is a member of Onassis ONX and has been an artist-in-residence at the Watermill Center In Long Island and Culture Hub in New York City.

He graduated with highest honors and an award from the National Center for Computer Animation in the United Kingdom. Since 2005, he has worked as a creative and technical director in visual effects for feature films, TV, and Virtual Reality. Georgios was an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City for five years. He served as a mentor at NEW INC of the New Museum in New York City, and as a jury member for the ÉCU film festival in Paris and the Irish Film & Television Academy in Dublin.
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Demitri Delinikolas

Dimitris Delinikolas is a film and digital media director and producer. His film work is characterised by the combination of live action with special effects and animation. He has been working as a commercials director since 2010 having won awards for his commercial films. He has directed campaigns for Unilever, Nestle, Honda, Kia, Piraeus Bank, Eurobank, 3E, Cosmote, Plaisio, Government of Greece, Benaki Museum, Nike, Opap, Avin and more.
His short films “Flight at the Museum”(2011), “Distance Between”(2005), “Impressions” (2001), “Drive in Alone”(2008), have been screened and awarded at festivals such as Clermont Ferrand, Bristol Encounters, Seoul Youth Film Festival, Drama Short Film festival and E-magiciens. At the same time, he has made various short documentaries, his production about the inventor Dimitris Korres for Vice Greece was awarded as the second best film of the platform for 2017. He is currently working on his first documentary feature which he has been filming for 9 years following the life and career of the first world champion professional female boxer from Greece, Christina “ Medusa” Linardatou. Since 2016 he has designed and produced virtual and augmented reality projects. His VR project “Art of Living | Odyssey” was exhibited in Valletta Design Cluster in Malta in 2022. His PhD film and multimedia project “Metacities” was exhibited in Blender Art Gallery in Athens in January 2024.
Since 2019 he has been teaching post-production, cinematography and animation at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in the school of Cinema and Digital Arts. He studied animation and did a first master’s degree in film directing in England. He then completed a second master’s degree at the Athens School of Fine Arts in digital art forms. In 2021 he completed his PhD at the Kapodistrian University of Athens studying the topics of transmedia storytelling and participatory film production. He has founded the company “emptyfilm” focusing on producing cinema, new media and transmedia narratives.
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Giorgos Georgiou

Born and raised in Athens, Greece, I have studied my craft at the Stavrakos Film School, where I graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Scenography & Costume Design.

Since 1987, I have had the privilege of working with most of the distinguished professionals of the arts and film industry within Greece and worldwide as a production/set and costume designer for film, television and theatre.

Throughout the years, I have cooperated as a creative art director, in more than 1000 commercial TV spots and events, with all major production companies in Greece (Movielab, Stefi, Le Spot, Cinegram, Sentral, Modiano, TNT, Kino, X-rated, Publica, Top Cut, Max, FOS, Stars).

Also as a creative art director I have worked on numerous events, exhibitions, interiors and installation designs. For example, from 2003 until 2005, I designed all Christmas Festivities for the Municipality of Athens, which became very successful projects and became a source of pride for me to have created a wonderful holiday experience for millions of people to enjoy during the winter months was something I will look back on fondly.
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Phormigx

Phormigx is a classical music production company, active worldwide since 1992 and organized more than one thousand symphonic concerts, opera productions, ballet performances, chamber music concerts and recitals, in all five continents.
We have worked with leading orchestras, ensembles and artists, in venues like Berliner Philharmonie, Wiener Musikverein and of course Herodus Atticus Theatre and Athens Concert Hall.

Recording projects had been released for companies like RCA, Naxos and Naïve. Phormigx inaugurated and organizes the Nafplion Festival for twenty five years now as well as Music in Rhodes Festival for seventeen.
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EmptyFilm

Emptyfilm is a collective for new media, films, animation, extended reality, blockchain, Web3 and innovative ways of collaboration. A production entity that specializes in tailor made creative ensembles.
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