Evagoras Solias Apokidis

Evagoras Solias Apokidis (b. 1996, Athens, Greece) is a composer whose work explores the intersection of music, speech, and theatricality. He moved to Cyprus to pursue his initial music studies — including private composition studies with Tasos Stylianou — earning a Bachelor's degree in Music from the University of Nicosia. He later continued his education in Denmark, completing a Master's degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, followed by an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma.

His pieces often begin with ordinary situations that gradually become obsessive through repetition, contradiction, and self-imposed rules — until performers find themselves trapped inside the structures they've created, and familiar actions slowly turn unfamiliar.

Evagoras' music blends the absurd with the theatrical, often centering on speech and its fragmented, irrational qualities. Drawing inspiration from the directness and vulgarity of "in-your-face" theatre and the fractured logic of Samuel Beckett, his works frequently cross boundaries between music, theatre, and spoken language.

His compositions investigate speech as musical material, emphasizing absurdity, fragmentation, and theatrical presence, frequently combining spoken voice, performative gesture, and unconventional sound production — challenging listeners' perception and blurring the boundaries between music, theatre, and narrative.