Andys Skordis

Andys Skordis (born in Nicosia, 24 August 1983) is a Cypriot composer. Andys has been involved with music from a young age. Andys grew up by playing electric guitar and composing songs for his bands "OffTone Thieves" and "Spirits" in Cyprus. Later on he served his mandatory military service in the military band of Cyprus as a Euphonium player. He left Cyprus when he was 20 to study Jazz Guitar performance and later on he switched to Composition and Film Scoring, studying with Vuk Kulenovic and Tibor Pusztai. Andys graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2007 and later on he moved to Amsterdam for postgraduate studies in Composition with Richard Ayres and Wim Hendrickx and Karnatic Music with Rafael Reina. Andys got his master's in Composition in 2011 and he also finished the 4-year Karnatic Music programme in 2012. He has also studied Javanese Gamelan in Amsterdam with Elsje Plantema, and in 2013 he moved to Bali for a year to study Balinese Gamelan at ISI Denpasar.

Andys music has been awarded with the BUMA Toonzetters prize 2012 (one of the highest compositional prizes in The Netherlands), the 1st and 2nd prize in competitions held by Cyprus symphony orchestra, and has been shortlisted for the Gaudeamus Prize 2012 and The Ereprijs 2011. He has also received support from the FondsPodium Kunsten (NL), Kunstenaars & Co (NL), Darmasiswa (IN), A.G. Leventis Foundation (CY) and Nikolas Economou Foundation CY). Besides composing, Andys is the cofounder of the collective "Brain Marsturbation" performing in The Netherlands and Cyprus. Andys lives in Den Haag at the moment where he composes music.

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