Dr. Phivos-Angelos Kollias is a Greek-born, UK and French-educated, Berlin-based interactive music composer-researcher.

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He has received nine awards and nine nominations in international competitions, including the Excellence in Sound Design Award at the Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories Competition, Toronto, and one of the Musicworks Electronic Music Competition prizes. The group projects he has participated in as a composer have won twelve awards and distinctions, including the Apple TV Game of the Year award and the Gamescom Indie Award, and they have been listed twice on Forbes’ top lists.

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His projects have been commissioned by various international institutions, such as ZKM (Karlsruhe), Greek National Opera (Athens), the German Music Council, Musikfonds (Berlin), Dell Computers (USA), and Transmediale (Berlin).

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He has studied classical music in Cambridge, London and Paris with the support of four prestigious foundations (Onassis Foundation, Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Leventis Foundation and Greek Composers Union) and currently lives and composes in Berlin. He studied composition with influential composers Horacio Vaggione, Jean-Luc Hervé and Yan Maresz. He has taken master classes from leading figures such as Helmut Lachenmann, Georges Aperghis, Beat Furrer, Tristan Murail, Unsuk Chin and Agostino Di Scipio.

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His works have been performed by international ensembles and musicians in more than twenty countries worldwide in more than seventy concerts. His music scores are published by the Parisian publishing house BabelScores. He has given lectures about music at international conferences such as ACM (Tokyo), Xenakis International Colloquium (London), Europe-China Cultural Forum vol.1 and 2 (Brussels and Beijing), EMS (Paris and Leicester), SMC (Berlin), etc.