Lina Tonia Recordings

Lina Tonia is a young award-winning composer born in Greece in 1985. Her work list includes more than 130 compositions for orchestra, ensembles, operas, chamber music and music for theatre that have been performed in Paris, Vienna, London, New York, Boston, Appleton, Moscow, Weimar, Berlin, Edinburgh, Zagreb, Takefu, Sofia, Plovdiv, Tirana, Athens and Thessaloniki.

For her works she has been awarded with prizes in several national and international composition competitions. Among others, she received the first prize at the 4th Jungerson International Composition Competition in Moscow (2007), the Baerenreiter Award at the 12th International Via Nova Composition Competition in Weimar (2010), the title of “New Young Artist of the Year” from the Union of Greek Critics for Music and Theatre in Athens (2010).

She has been awarded with the title “Composer of the Year 2020” from the Federation of American Musicians, Singers and Performing Artists (FAMSPA) at the New York World Music Awards 2020.

She has been honored by the President of Republic of Greece, Karolos Papoulias in 2005 and also by the rector of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, prof. Anastastios Manthos in 2008.

In 2012 she has been awarded by the Greek National Opera in Athens, for her chamber opera “The Expelled” (2012) and by the Vienna University and Institute Kunsthaus of Mürz, for her work “Kivos” for 12 violoncellos (2012) as well. Her solo work “Neuma” for viola has been awarded with the Sempre Piu Edition’s Prize in Paris (2014). Her chamber opera “Fear &(s) the Love” has been performed and awarded in Music Biennale of Zagreb (2015).

Her 5th string quartet “ENNEA” took a premiered by the Arditti Quartet at the Konzerthaus in Mozart Saal in Wien Modern (2015) in Vienna.

She has been invited as a guest composer and jury member at the Piano Campus International Competition and commissioned to write her piano concerto “Les Mondes Flottants” which has been performed as a compulsory piece at the final round of piano competition in Cergy Pontoise (2016).

Her orchestral piece “Squall” has been performed in Music Biennale of Zagreb by the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dian Tchobanov, and performed by pianist: Srebrenka Poljak (2017).

Her orchestral piece “Butterfly Effect” has been recorded by the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Pierre Andre Valade in Paris (2017).

She was invited by Toshio Hosokawa as a guest composer to the 29th International Takefu Music Festival. In this frame she gave a lecture about her music and  got commissions to compose two new works, the  Etude for solo trumpet and the Mare Imbrium for chamber ensemble.

She studied composition at the Department of Music in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2003 – 2008), with Professor Christos Samaras. She completed a PhD in Composition in Edinburgh University with distinction (2008 – 2012) under the supervision of the professor Nigel Osborne and Michael Edwards, having received a Greek National Scholarship by the Union of Greek Composers (2008 – 2009) and the IKY Foundation (2009 – 2011).  She continued to a master degree in composition with Michael Jarrell at the Vienna University (2012 – 2013). She worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Music Theory & Composition with a fellowship of the Research Committee of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2013 – 2014). She participated in many international composition workshops in USA, UK, Germany, France. She has been selected to participate at Manifeste Academy for young composers at IRCAM with Toshio Hosokawa, in Paris (2017). She has been awarded with the fellowship of IKY foundation to work in a second postdoctoral research in subject “Analysis of the sound of Universe. A music Analysis around the Earth, Saturn and Jupiter” at the Department of Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2019 – 2021).

She is the author of “The Theory of Music” and “101 exercises of Harmony”, which  have been published by Panas Music Editions. Her music works have been  published by Universal Editions.

She was founding member and artistic director of Meet the Art, which is artistic series of concerts and performances around Modern Art in Thessaloniki (2015 – 2016) and of the 1^st International Composition Competition Chalki 2020 as well. Since 2014 she has been a jury member at ENKOR International Music Competition.

Since 2016 she has been teaching Composition in Macedonia University in Thessaloniki, Department of Music Art and Science.

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