Constantine Caravassilis
Constantine Caravassilis was born in Toronto and raised in a musical family in Pythagorion, a culturally vibrant township on Samos Island in the Aegean Sea. His playground as a young child was the ruins of the famed Polycrates Wall and Pythagoras’s ancient theatre. At age six, a family friend presented Constantine with a gift: a baby violin and a first lesson.
Constantine went on to compose music and has grown to be credited and awarded as one of the most prolific and highly gifted emerging composers in Canada.
Winner of the 2009 Karen Kieser Prize in Canadian Music and the 2010 Harry Freedman Recording Award, Constantine was hailed as “the most important Hellenic-descent composer of his generation” (by Jazz & Tzaz), and his musicianship described as commanding a “beyond the ordinary sense of musicality.” His music is constantly charged with emotion and energy in a profoundly individual style.
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Constantine's work performed by the Penderecki String Quartet in Toronto
Constantine is currently a student of prominent Canadian composer Christos Hatzis, and is completing a DMA in music composition at the University of Toronto.