About

Known credits:
16
Birthday:
1968-09-06
Place of birth:
Athens, Greece
Website:
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Minos Matsas

Overview

Minos Matsas (Athens, 6 September 1968) is a Greek composer, lyricist and producer. He is the grandson of the founder of the record company Minos EMI. One of his grandmothers was from Constantinople, the other from Thessaloniki and his grandfather, Minos, from Ioannina. He was born into a musical family with a tradition of recording alive and with a father who was at the moment of his great creation. His father, Makis, had him in the studio with him from the age of five. Minos Matsas expressed a desire to learn classical guitar from an early age and thus very soon became the center of his young singing group. He received a degree from the Athens Conservatory and the Juilliard School. When he began writing his first compositions, he did not want anyone to know about it. However, he developed into a self-sufficient composer, one of the most important of his generation. In 1994, Minos Matsas composed his first cycle of songs entitled One Thousand and One Nights Again, with lyrics by Akos Daskalopoulos. In 1995, four of his compositions were included in the multi-album album by George Dalaras, Welcome to Them. From 2000 to 2011, he lived in the United States of America. As a composer, he has dozens of films to his credit, theatrical performances, and television programs. He has collaborated, among others, with director Costas Gavras on the film The Parthenon, as well as on the performances of Aristophanes' Birds and Irene, which were staged at the ancient theater of Epidaurus. He has also won awards at the Thessaloniki Film Festival (for Eduart and Slaves in Their Chains). He also wrote the music for the film Undisputed III: Redemption (2010). In 2016, he composed the original text of Woyzeck by Georg Büchner. In 2017, the soundtrack for Yannis Sakaridis' second feature film Amerika Square, based on the multi-award-winning novella by Yannis Tsirpas, Victoria Does Not Exist.

Known for

Sound

2023 Το Βραχιόλι της Φωτιάς Sound Music 69
Fair
2021 Green Sea Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2021 Commandos and Dragons Sound Music N/A
N/A
2019 My Name is Eftyhia Sound Songs 60
Fair
2019 My Name is Eftyhia Sound Music 60
Fair
2019 Fantasia Sound Music Arranger 58
Average
2016 Amerika Square Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2012 God Loves Caviar Sound Music 58
Average
2012 God Loves Caviar Sound Sound 58
Average
2010 The Island Sound Music 73
Good
2010 The Island Sound Songs 73
Good
2010 Undisputed III: Redemption Sound Music 69
Fair
2006 Eduart Sound Music 58
Average
2000 Love Is an Elephant Sound Music 58
Average

Crew

2010 Το Νησί Crew Compositor 70
Good
2003 Parthénon Crew Compositor N/A
N/A