Spiros Mazis was born in Corfu-Greece in 1957. He studied Trumpet, Piano and Theory of music at the National Conservatory in Athens, with Yiannis Avgerinos and Dimitris Dragatakis as his teachers and graduated with the diplomas of Harmony, Instrumentation, Counterpoint, Orchestration and Fugue, all pointed with “A” degree.
He continued his studies in composition with Yiannis Ioannidis and took his Diploma in 1990 with Distinction and First Prize.
He attended composition seminars with Theodore Antoniou in Greece and Marco Stroppa and Tristan Murail in Hungary, where he also attended Computers and Electronic Music seminars, with David Waxman and Andrea Szigetvari.
He has designed and presented in Zappio Megaro (Athens), the computer program “Bach Analysis”, in which Bach’s Fugues are analyzed and has specialized in composing through the computer.
Many of his works have been distinguished in composition contests, as his work “Barrier” for 15 musicians, in the competition of the “House of Fine Arts and Letters” in Athens, 1987 and his work “With the stream of the Nile” for solo piano, at the International Composition Competition of Paris Concours de Composition Prix Voya Toncich, 1987.
Works of his have been performed in Greece and abroad and have been broadcast on the radio and TV.
His material consists of sixteen or forty-eight notes with microintervals. Most of his works are based upon extramusical ideas that derive from contemporary views of Physics and Mathematics and are transported with as much fidelity as possible, to the musical structure. Since his work entitled “Nine variations on an Arithmetical sonic Geometrical plan” in 1985, he began to relate music and mathematics.
In 1992, he founded the studio of Electronic Music of the Experimental Conservatory and in 1994, a similar studio at the National Conservatory, in Athens.
Since 1995, he is the Founder and Director of the “Classic and Contemporary Music and Center of Electronic Music” Conservatory in Athens. He is a member of the Union of Greek Composers.
