Cyprus-born Andreas Tsiartas is a graduate of the Hochschule für Musik ‘Carl Maria von Weber’ in Dresden, Germany, where he had studied composition with Manos Tsangaris and Jörg Herchet (Diplom Komponist). He completed his PhD studies in Music by composition at the University of York, UK under the supervision of Thomas Simaku, with full scholarship from the prestigious A. S. Onassis Foundation and the A. G. Leventis Foundation (2017-2021). He has enriched his training at important festivals, seminars, and courses, including the International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt and Academy Quatuor Diotima in L’ Abbaye de Noirlac, and distinguished composers such as Beat Furrer, Rebecca Saunders, Brian Ferneyhough, Peter Eötvös, Matthias Pintscher, and Joshua Fineberg.

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Tsiartas’ works have been performed / commissioned by such renowned ensembles and soloists as Dresdner Philharmonie, Ensemble intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Rohan de Saram, Sarah Aristidou, Musiques Nouvelles, Studio for New Music Ensemble Moscow, Johanna Vargas, Ergon Ensemble, amongst many others.

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Having devised a new compositional approach, the Sound Ritual, Andreas Tsiartas explores the effects of sound in hypothetical acoustic sacred spaces (aural architecture), and in correlation with memory and oblivion, time and perpetuity. He delves into these notions through the application of new composite harmonic/ pitch structures based on the maqam music system of the Near East music traditions, as well as through the experimentation with new forms based on theoretical physics, natural philosophy, cosmology, and shamanism. 

 

A significant selection of Tsiartas’ compositions is published by BabelScores. He is the first Cypriot composer to be selected for publication on the platform. In 2019, Tsiartas was a First Prize winner at the DYCE (Discovering Young Composers of Europe) competition, for his work Pnoé for chamber ensemble, which was performed in Oslo’s Sentralen by the Cikada Ensemble under the direction of Christian Eggen. Subsequently, his work Ìérkos, commissioned by DYCE, received its world premiere at Espacio Turina in Sevilla, Spain by Taller Sonoro, with ensuing performances by the Divertimento Ensemble under the direction of Sandro Gorli in Milan, the Cikada Ensemble in Norway, and Ensemble U: in Estonia. The work was released on CD in 2021 by the Stradivarius label.

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 In October 2023, his work Lamento Turco was featured in Sarah Aristidou’s album, Enigma, released by Alpha Classics, and recently awarded with the German Record Critics’ Prize. In April 2024, his name was featured in Maurizio Colasanti’s book 101 compositori contemporanei che non potete non conoscere (101 contemporary composers you should know), published by Giacovelli editions, Italy.

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Andreas Tsiartas is currently working as a scientific collaborator at the Department of Arts of the European University Cyprus, and he has directed a number of composition seminars and workshops for leading academic institutions, such as the University of Nicosia, and the Open University in Crete, Greece.