Panagiotis Kokoras

Panayiotis Kokoras is the sort of artist I admire even when I struggle to follow him. A Greek composer and computer-music innovator from Ptolemaida, he treats timbre itself as the architecture of a piece, and his idea of holophony, where every single sound contributes equally to the whole, is genuinely thrilling to me. A York-trained mind crowned with a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, he builds entire worlds from texture rather than melody. It is uncompromising, demanding music, and I deeply respect the kind of restless explorer who pushes the art form somewhere new.

Name (English)

Panagiotis Kokoras

Name (Japanese)

パナヨティス・ココラス

Reading

ぱなよてぃす・ここらす

Born

April 23, 1974 (age 52)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Tiger

Origin

Ptolemaida, Kozani Regional Unit, Greece

Occupation

composer

University

University of York

Awards & achievements

• 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%83%8A%E3%83%A8%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9

Tags

• Kozani Regional Unit
• composer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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