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Lina Zachari
Athens, Greece

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Βorn in 1999 in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
She studied Composition at the Athens Conservatoire from where she graduated with a Diploma in Composition with Honors - First Prize & distinction in memory of Dimitris Dragatakis.
She holds a degree in piano and advanced theory.
In 2023 she won the first prize in two international competitions with the orchestral work Libyan Sea.
Among the various works, the "operOtic" monodrama Charlotte, staged at the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera (2024), directed by Rinio Kyriazi and with Ioanna Forti in the title role, stands out.
She has collaborated with organisations such as the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera, the Centre for Contemporary Music Research, the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece, the Drama School of the Athens Conservatoire, the Lyric Theatre of Crete, the Chamber Music Festival of Chania, the Association of Friends of Music, the Festival of Crete, the vocal ensemble Chórεs, the Heraklion Piano Festival, the Third Program of Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation etc.
She has participated in workshops, among which stand out the Workshop for Young Composers (2021, GNO Alternative Stage) with the Greek-American composer George Tsontakis where she was selected among the six active participants and the Pilot Workshop of Contemporary Music of the Athens State Orchestra (2024, Anargyreios Korgialenios School of Spetses) with composer Yannis Kyriakides where she was selected among the ten participating composers.
As far as piano is concerned, she has studied at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London where she was admitted after successful examinations, and at Boston University and New England Conservatory in Boston.
She studies conducting with conductor Loukas Karytinos. She has also studied Music Analysis with composer Kharalampos Goyos, whose assistant she is.
She is a founding member of the musical theatre group Arte Libera, aiming to produce and promote original musical-theatrical productions of contemporary aesthetics away from dogmatism.

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