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Konstantia Gourzi is among the leading promoters of contemporary music. As prize-winner of the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation she stands in a line with Pierre Boulez and György Ligeti. A composer and conductor, she is the founder and leader of the ensemble oktopus for modern music and of the international network opus21musikplus for the promotion and performance of music with theatre, dance and the visual arts. oktopus is one of the ensembles of the Munich Hochschule for Music and Theatre, where Konstantia Gourzi has served as a professor since 2002, guiding musicians of the future towards new artistic ways of thinking and forms of interpretation. Her work as a successful pioneer in new music is witnessed by her many broadcasts and television appearances.