Savvas Karantzias

Savvas Karantzias (Greek: Σάββας Καραντζιάς; born 19 March 1981) is a Greek composer, conservatory director, and co-founder of the Festival European Polyphony. Biography Karantzias was born in Rhodes, Greece. He received his first influences alongside his mother, Anthoula Misodoulaki, a piano teacher and founder of the A. Corelli Conservatory. He began his studies in classical guitar with teacher Paraskevi Malamati at the A. Corelli Conservatory in 1995; from 1991 to 1996, he attended vocal lessons at the A. Corelli Conservatory in the class of Nikolaos Petrides, participating in various musical events throughout Greece. Karantzias, in his early years as a composer, drew inspiration from and experimented with the works and styles of Arvo Pärt and Giya Kancheli. He made extensive use of minimalist techniques as well, but never became attached to any particular method. He studied composition with Nikos Harizanos and he started to become known outside Greece in 2018 when he presented the work “Theophanes the Greek” in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople upon the invitation of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. Later, in 2019, Karantzias co-founded the “E