He holds three university degrees: a Bachelor and Master of Arts from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he studied Music Composition in the class of the composer Christos Samaras (2006-2011), a Master of Music from Boston University, where he studied Music Composition in the studio of the composer Joshua Fineberg (2011-2013), and a PhD in Music Composition from New York University, where he studied music composition with Elizabeth Hoffman and continental philosophy as an inter-consortium student at the New School of Social Research (2013-2019). He has also been invited and programmed by prestigious festivals or institutions such as Darmstadt International Summer Course (20), Mixtur (2020), Sounds of Wander (2018), Avaloch Farm Music Institute (2017), Il Suono Contemporary Music Week (2016), Composit New Music Festival (2016), June in Buffalo (2016), Northwestern New Music Festival (NUNC 1) (2014), Voix Nouvelles á Fondation Royaumont (2013), Musiikin Aika Festival in Finland (2013), and Takefu International Music Festival in Japan (2013). He has also been awarded several prizes in international competitions of music composition including loadbang’s Commission Competition (2017), the 1st Prize in ALEA III Composition Competition (2015), the 1st Prize in Toru Takemitsu Award (2012) and the 1st Prize in Takefu Composition Award (2012). His music has been commissioned or performed by groups such as Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Athens State Orchestra, Orchestra of the League of Composers, JACK quartet, Mivos Quartet, Momenta Quartet, Sound Icon, Talea Ensemble, loadbang, mdi Ensemble, Yarn Wire, TAK Ensemble, Curious Chamber Players, and Wild Rumpus.
His compositional output consists of 38 works, and has a span from solo works to ensembles and orchestras. He is interested in large-scale forms, his works draw very often on drama, and he is preoccupied with research on the mechanism of acoustic instruments, on physicality, corporeality, and embodiment.
Ioannis Angelakis (1988) is a Greek composer of acoustic music.