About Effy

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Effy Efthymiou

Awards and Competitions

• Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts award for the research and development of new multidisciplinary work, 'Parting' (2013-14).

• Hinrichsen Foundation award for the composition and performance of a new piece for viola, 'I am walking here' (2018).

• Hinrichsen Foundation award for the research and development of new multidisciplinary work, 'Rituals to Mould her with' (2016-17).

• RVW Trust award for the research and development of new multidisciplinary work, 'Rituals to Mould her with' (2016-17).

• PRS Women Make Music award to compose a work for the acclaimed recorder quintet Consortium 5 (2013).

• Winner of the Chappell Composition Prize (2013).

• Winner of the Royal Greenwich International String Quartet Composition Competition (2011).

• Wellcome Trust award for the creation and production of new multidisciplinary stage work, 'Reminiscence' (2008).

• Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts award for the development phase of 'Reminiscence' (2007).

• National Lottery 'Big Boost' award for the creation and production of Hip Hop ballet, 'Wherever I Hang' (2007).

Education Awards

• London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) / AHRC Scholarship for Compositon Phd. at King's College London

• Leverhulme Trust Scholarship to study Composition (MMus) at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

• TCM Trust Scholarship to study Composition (MMus) at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

Publication

• 'Two Reflections' for classical guitar and violin, published by Edition HH (2009).

Composition commissions

Multimedia works:

• 'Rituals to Mould her With' (a multimedia collaboration with harpsichordist Jane Chapman, Chantry Dance Company and actress Esme Patey Ford). In development; London premiere at Kings Place on 5th February 2017.

• 'Parting' (a multidisciplinary stage work for 13 musicians, 2 actors, dancer and 2 filmmakers, in collaboration with a psychologist from the Institute of Psychiatry). Commissioned by Kings Place and premiered on 16th March 2014; previews at National Maritime Museum and Blackheath Halls (2012).

• 'Fragments of Sun' (a multidisciplinary opera, with dance and live video projection). Commissioned by and performed at the Tete a Tete Opera Festival, Riverside Studios, 11th and 12th August 2012.

• 'Reminiscence' (a multidisciplinary stage work). Performed at Jacksons Lane Theatre, 9 - 20th September 2008.

• 'Wherever I Hang: a Hip Hop Ballet' (a multimedia work for string quartet and Hip Hop dancers). Performed at Arcola Theatre, 14th and 15th September 2007.

Concert works:

• 'Exhale' (for pipa and piano) commissioned by New Sound China UK. Premiere at Bridgewater Hall (25th September 2015).

• 'Deep Lakes' (for brass quartet), commissioned by Meridian Brass. Premiered at the Sonic Coast Festival, 25th October 2014.

• 'Pulser' (for recorder quintet), commissioned by PRS Women Make Music and Consortium 5. Premiered at the Wilding Festival, St George’s Bloomsbury, 16th June 2013, with subsequent performances nationwide.

• 'States of Ice: Hail' (for solo classical guitar), commissioned by the International Guitar Foundation. Performed at Kings Place, 27th October 2012; The Sage Gateshead, 20th and 21st October 2012; and Bath Assembly Rooms, 24th and 25th July 2012, with subsequent performances at UK music festivals and regional chamber concerts.

• 'Cajoniking' (for percussion quartet), commissioned by Kettle’s Yard for acclaimed percussion group, Ensemble Bash. Premiered by Ensemble Bash on 6th May 2012 at Kettle’s Yard.

• 'Grosse Attack' (for string quartet), premiered at Lauderdale House by the Jubilee Quartet on 23rd March 2012.

• 'Foraging' (for string quartet), premiered at the National Maritime Museum by the Wu Quartet on 30th April 2011. Winner of the Royal Greenwich International String Quartet Composition Competition.

• 'Electronomikos' (for harpsichord and electronics), premiered at Handel House Museum by acclaimed Harpsichordist, Jane Chapman on 4th June 2011.

• 'Phrenetikos' (for organ), premiered at Westminster Abbey on 30th May 2010 with a subsequent performance by acclaimed organist William Whitehead at St. Michael’s Church on 25th February 2011.

Music for Theatre and Film:

• 'The Fourth Dimension' (2012). Film premiered at the BFI London Film Festival on 10th October 2012.