Dimitris Savva is an electroacoustic/electronic and soundscape music composer, a sound artist and designer, a live-electronics performer, a researcher, and an educator. He holds a Bachelor’s degree (with distinction) in music composition from Ionian University, a Master’s degree (with distinction) in Electroacoustic Composition from the University of Manchester, and a PhD degree with a fully funded scholarship from the University of Sheffield. His electroacoustic compositions have been featured in 86 international music festivals, including In Sonic 2017: Immersive Future (ZKM Center for Art and Media), Cube Fest 2019-Sound in Focus III (Moss Art Centre, Blacksburg), ICMC 2014 (Athens), and New York Electroacoustic Festival 2021. Several of his compositions have won prizes in competitions such as Metamorphoses 2012, 2014, 2018, Iannis Xenakis 2018, and SIME 2019. Ten of his works have been published on collective records, including Metamorphoses 2012-14-18-20, Anthology of Contemporary Music from Greece, and CIME 2020.
As a composer, Dimitris has collaborated with artists and researchers across various mediums, including contemporary dance, performing arts, video art and installation art, documentary, and VR projects. He is also a live-electronics performer, having participated in ensembles such as asabe and [DI]AFANEIS HEROES, as well as solo performances including "Watering," "Machines of Mantic Stain," and "Confusion / Irrational Collectiveness."
An educator, particularly as an adjunct lecturer, Dimitris has taught courses in Electronic/Electroacoustic Music and Sound Arts at the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of Cyprus University of Technology, and Sound and New Media at the Department of Fine Arts. Additionally, he has been invited to give seminars and workshops in electroacoustic music composition, ambisonic recording and multichannel compositional techniques, soundscape theory and composition, acoustic ecology, soundwalking, deep-listening, and in a compositional method he developed during his doctoral research, named 'dramatised-performative narrative' (indicatively at Franz Liszt-SeaM 2014 in Weimar, 11th Sonic Arts - Summer Academy and Festival (Akousmata) in 2017 and 2018 in Corfu, and Cyprus University of Technology in 2022 in Limassol).