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Kornilios Born in Athens. From 2004 to 2010 he lived in
the Netherlands, where he studied at the Royal
Selamsis Conservatory of the Hague. A large part of his work
involves theatre music and includes many productions in
Greece and abroad. His works have been commissioned
Music and performed by ensembles and companies such
as the ASKO Ensemble, Nieuw Ensemble, Ensemble
de Ereprijs, Łódź Philharmonic Orchestra, Artéfacts
Ensemble, Athens State Orchestra, Ventus Ensemble,
Molyvos International Music Festival in Lesbos, Onassis
Stegi, Greek National Opera, MusicAeterna and more.
His opera Leonce and Lena and his installation for forty
sonic sources Agathofron, the Collector’s Atlas were
presented at the Athens Festival, in summer of 2016 and
2018 respectively. Apart from his oeuvre as a composer,
he has also worked as director of artistic programming
and educational programmes manager. From May 2014
to May 2016 he was the artistic director of the concert
cycle Trites Paralliles at Porta Theatre. In November
2015, upon an invitation from the National Theatre of
Greece, he created the Theatre Music Composition
Workshop, which he ran until June of 2020.

Alexandra K* Playwright and novelist, she also works as a contributing
writer for newspapers and magazines, as a copywriter
in advertisement, and as a scriptwriter in television and
Libretto cinema. Her first novel How Urchins Kiss (Patakis Pub.)
was published in 2017. In 2018 her work Revolutionary
Methods for Cleaning Your Swimming Pool (Patakis
Pub.), which has been translated into five languages
and has been honoured with the EURODRAM award,
was mounted on the Experimental Stage of the National
Theatre of Greece. Her last work (Milk, Blood – Nefeli
Pub.), written as a commission by the Athens Epidaurus
Festival, was performed at the Little Theatre of Ancient
Epidaurus in July 2021. She is currently collaborating
with the Greek National Opera, while continuing to write
for Vogue Greece. In autumn of 2021 she was a resident
writer at the International Writing Programme of the
University of Iowa, and in the past she has served as a
member of the Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Board.