Epaminondas Macriyannis, Biography:
I was born in Crete in the year 1977. I studied anthropology and music at various public and private institutions—none worth mentioning—next to countless teachers, most of whom I deem insignificant and unworthy of remembrance—a whole army of failed intellects and artists, insecure and envious, who turned to education without ever bothering to study pedagogy so they could earn a dignified living. I had, however, the pleasure of being a pupil of the poet and harpsichordist Margarita Dalmati.
Prophetically, even in my early youth, as I first began to compose music, I regarded myself as an accomplished composer—entirely insignificant, yet already holding a place of some importance in the history of music. This paradox occasioned a certain unease during my adolescence, until I chanced upon other composers in similar condition, and we kept each other occasional company.
Until another composer—a dead one—informed me that we had gone bankrupt, and that I ought to rush to attend the closing ceremony of European civilization—a formality to be witnessed in a role other than that of the artist.
Still, I very much desired to write something for the occasion; thus I traversed the history of European music in great haste, so as to present to the European public my LECTURES SYMPHONIQUES in due time, in the year 2004.
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