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Sammoutis awarded Senior Research Fellowship by the GATES International Excellence in the Humanities Programme

12 March 2025

Many belated congratulations to Evis Sammoutis on his recent (2024) appointment as Associate Professor of Composition at Eastman School of Music in the USA.  We are also delighted that Evis has been awarded a Senior Research Fellowship from the GATES International Excellence in the Humanities Programme, at Université Grenoble Alpes, France.  Eastman School of Music write that Evis will ‘spend part of 2025 in Grenoble working with faculty from various disciplines and will also be a Visiting Fellow at St. Cross College, Oxford, in May 2025.

‘Sammoutis will give lectures and presentations in France and the UK as part of his fellowship. His research project, titled “Designing sound, sculpting gesture,” involves composing two solo violin works using the UPISketch app, which he helped develop, and exploring the UPIC archives (UPIC is the historical predecessor to UPISketch) in France. These new pieces will be composed for Sammoutis’ longterm collaborator Peter Sheppard Skaerved of the Royal Academy of Music in London.’

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