A recipient of numerous artistic awards, Dimitris Minakakis received, among others, the Santa Cruz do Grau in 2006 for his “Liturgy” (Holy Synod of Greek Orthodox Diaspora and the Academy of Arts, Civilization and History of Brazil in No), an honorable mention for his chamber music work “Oi Dyo Opseis Mias Diadromis” in the 1990 Y.A. Papaioannou Composition Competition, and a distinction for his song cycle “Erotic Trilogy” on poetry by Kostas Pandelakis in the 1988 Kucyna International Composition Competition.
Also celebrated for his pedagogical work, he was awarded the G. Phylaktopoulos Chair in 1996 for “his exceptional presence in Athens College and his continuous contribution far beyond the requirements of his teaching in class”. Τhe Cultural Organization and the Conservatory of the Municipality of Agios Dimitrios honored him for his continuous and invaluable artistic contribution in the Municipality.
Dimitris Minakakis studied Byzantine music with Dimitris Bonatsos, Giwrgos Zafeiratos and Giannis Margaziotis, piano with Konstantinos Kidoniatis and Fani Matou, theory with Konstantinos Kidoniatis, Andreas Carbone, and Alekos Ainian, and composition with Yiannis Andreou Papaioannou.
[He lives and works in Athens. From his marriage to Chemistry Professor Panagiota Mouteveli he has two children: musician Stratis (born 1979), currently a Professor of Theory and Composition in New England Conservatory (Boston, USA), and biologist Georgia (1987), currently a PhD student (Erlangen, Germany). From the marriage of his son Stratis to Sanskritist Dolores Pizarro he has a granddaughter, Catalina].
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