Bio
Lucas Tsolakian is a composer, musician, visual artist, web designer and computer programmer. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil and studied music at the Conservatório Dramatic e Musical de São Paulo (Bachelor of Arts Degree), computer programming at the KEPA Institute in Athens as well as at Greenwich College in London (Diploma in Computer Programming).
Awards
He has been awarded First Prize in the Graduate Competition of the Conservatório Dramatic e Musical de São Paulo (1984), Gold Medal in the Heitor Villa-Lobos Piano Competition (1985), Medal of Honor from the Austrian Embassy in São Paulo (1994) and First Prize Sound Installations from the Omiros Educational Group (2007).
Experience
He worked as a musician at Balé da Cidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil 1984), where he took part in the performance "Mikrokosmos" choreographed by Sérgio Funari and Wilson Aguiar. In 1986 he settled in Athens and started working as a musician at the State School of Dance (where he collaborated for over 25 years), the Ralou Manou School of Dance and many other higher professional dance schools. In 1988 we collaborated with Kostas Stratoudakis and KSIME (Center for Contemporary Electronic Music Research), representing Greece at the Bologna Biennale.
In 1993 he became a member of Apurimac, the pioneering Latin music group in Greece, with whom he released the album "Mother Earth" in 1998 in collaboration with Haris Katsimihas, Pantelis Thalassinos and Dafni Panourgia. The album remained at number one in Greece for 10 days. In 2002 he founded the band Tierra Brava, together with Alejandro Diaz and other musicians of the Athens jazz scene.
His sound sculptures and installations have been presented at the Electronic Language International Festival (Sao Paulo - Brazil 2006), Pixeldance (Thessaloniki - 2006), Athens Video Art Festival (Athens 2005 - 2007) as well as in collaborations with dance theatre groups such as Rootlessroot and Proxima Dance Company. In 2008 he founded the dance theatre group Lumi Dance Company, presenting the work "Feral" at the 8th Dance Festival of the Greek Choreographers Association in collaboration with Myrto Grapsa, Katerina Liondou, Maria Fountouli, Ioanna Apostolou and Tadeu Liesenfeld.
In 2012 he founded the web design company Archetypon in São Paulo, Brazil, creating applications for RapidWeaver (Realmac Software), Stacks (Yourhead Software) and Blocs (Cazoobi Limited). His mobile apps are available on the App Store (iOS) and Google Play (Android). Since 2021, he has been working at the Higher School of Dance of the National Opera as an accompanist for technical courses and a composer in the school's choreographies.
From 2023 he is a faculty member of the Vrilissia National Conservatory, at the music technology and digital composing department.
His music is available on major streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. Videos can be found on his YouTube channel.