Biography

George Andoniadis was born in Montreal and grew up in the Chicago area where he began playing and composing music.  He studied at Northwestern University and the Manhattan School of Music.  Mr. Andoniadis has composed numerous theater scores and much vocal music, both solo and choral, and has received world premiere performances from the Gregg Smith Singers, the Bowdoin College Chamber Choir, the University of Southern Maine Chamber Singers, the Choral Art Society of Portland, Maine, the Manhattan Choral Ensemble, and the Hobart and William Smith Colleges Cantori.  His music has also been featured on concerts of the Ohio University Chamber Singers and the Lancaster Chorale. 

Mr. Andoniadis is a member of ASCAP and Chorus America and has been a grant recipient from Meet the Composer, Inc., and was a winner of the Composition Competition of the Festival of Contemporary Choral Music in America sponsored by Bowdoin College.  His work has been included in the Bates College New American Music Festival and has also been featured on Maine Public Radio.  His choral setting of Shakespeare's Sonnet 56 received its world premiere by the South Bend Chamber Singers, and Hymn to St. Xenia, based on a Greek text, was commissioned by the Metropolitan Greek Chorale and premiered by that group in New York.  Mr. Andoniadis composed and performed music for a new theater piece, Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool, at the Here Arts Center in NYC, and his choral work, Psalm 142, was commissioned and premiered by the Choral Art Society of Portland, Maine.  He has composed music for a film logo and scored a series of short films called Hyperactive: Radical Sports, both for CineMuse, Inc. in NYC and completed two scores for the Portland Stage Company productions of Proof and Women and the Sea.  He has composed a new musical called Home, written with librettist and lyricist Sofia L. Geier, and conducted a Concert/Reading of the show directed by Ms. Geier at the Blue Heron Arts Center in NYC.  Mr. Andoniadis has been privileged to receive two commissions from the Manhattan Choral Ensemble as part of their New Music for New York program for which he serves as Artistic Advisor.  The first of these works is entitled Birds, set to a poem by Hallie Geier and the second is a setting of God’s World by Edna St. Vincent Millay.  Both were performed at Earl Hall, Columbia University in NYC.  He has received a commission from the Hobart and William Smith Colleges Cantori for Journey by Edna St. Vincent Millay and has completed his first opera entitled Lincoln A Poetic Opera which was premiered October 3, 2009 in NYC.  Mr. Andoniadis has a new opera in progress and has recently completed another commission for the Manhattan Choral Ensemble of a work in tribute to the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.