Welcome
My name is Wilma-Irini Giannacidis and I was born in 2007 in Bonn/Germany. I have German/Dutch and Greek roots through my parents.
At the age of 6 I started painting analog and digital, writing fantasy stories, making music and composing on the harp, piano, synthesizer and for different types of orchestras like wind and symphony orchestras. You can listen to some of these compositions on my YouTube channel TheEpicLifeOfWilms.
Scores
I first started composing on the harp at the age of 6, later on the piano and Yamaha synthesizer. Over the years I have learned several major composition programs such as Sibelius Ultimate, DORICO, Cubase and WAVEFORM. My composition styles range from jazz on the harp, contemporary music, electronic music, improvisation, new age, classical to film composition, all with and without vocals. I have also written scores for wind and symphony orchestras.
I took part in Jugend musiziert for the first time in 2017 and 2020 with my own composition and won 1st prize in the “Harp Solo” category. I wrote my first orchestral composition “The Fairytale of Fireflies” when I was 9 years old. You can find the orchestration in my Youtube channel under Videos. The premiere was in Cologne in 2017 under the direction of Ms. Ulla Grümmer, lecturer at the Rheinische Musikschule Köln and the “Hochschule für Musik und Tanz” Cologne. I was a student at the Rheinische Musicschool in Cologne for many years in composition and in the composition workshop with Mr. Thomas Taxus Beck, head of the composition department in Cologne. This allowed me to perform my compositions several times at the departmental concert “To do”, at the contemporary youth festival “Zett Emm”, as well as at various district concerts and regional concerts in Bonn and Cologne.
Many of my compositions have not yet been published. Among them are also large audio orchestrations and scores for symphony orchestra.
Performances & Orchestra
I started learning the troubadour harp, hook harp and concert harp with harpist Konstanze Jarzcyk at the Beethoven Music School in Bonn at the age of 5 and continued my lessons with harpist Marie-Claire Junke at the music school in Bad Honnef after a coronavirus break at the age of 14. I won 1st prize twice in the “Jugend Musiziert” competition in the “Harp Solo” category. At the age of 9, I played my concert harp for one and a half years in the KIO, the Cologne Improvisation Orchestra, at the Cologne University of Music and Dance under the tutelage of Angelika Sheridan. I have also performed with the Bonn-Frechen Harp Ensemble.
At the age of 7 I learned piano with the pianist Markus Krebel, later with the film composer Damian Berens, the well-known jazz musician Markus Schinkel and finally with the renowned pianist Susanne Kessel.
I learned to play the synthesizer/master keyboard on my own.
One of my compositions, which I wrote for a large symphony orchestra, “TO INFINITY AND BEYOND” was performed by Dr. Walther Pelzer, Chairman of DLR e.V., on 24.8.2023 at an international space evening of DLR Deutsche Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. Bonn/Germany at the KAMEHA Grand Hotel Bonn in front of an international audience from government, ministry, industry and space travel.
Musicians
I have been able to create projects with a few well-known musicians, e.g. with the WDR Funkhausorchester soprano Jana-Marie Gropp.
She sang to my composition: “The Temple of Eclipse”. A narration to a fantasy story. A magical voice! The recording took place in Solingen in the studio of the renowned electric guitarist, Borna Matosic.
With the Bonn harpist Marie-Claire Junke, a former tenor, Igor Berdyshev, I was able to realize my composition “My Younger Self”. The recording took place in the Hansahaus Studio Bonn, where ABBA had already recorded a single. Furthermore, I had the honor to make music together with a violist from Prague, Mr. Evgeny Klenov, and to record my composition “THE SWORD OF PHOENIX” in the Green & Blue Recording Studios Bonn. The musicians can be heard with me on YouTube.
Art
In my analog and digital painting I have developed several styles, from realism, cosmic art, comic and naive painting. I combine several drawing materials and digital techniques. I often compose electronic music to complete the feeling of the painting.
As commissioned work, I designed the game pad for the children’s board game “Hamsterdam”. I am also always happy to accept commissions. I have designed a collection that will be available for purchase on my product page in the coming months. But that remains a secret!
Press & Media
Mrs.
Wilma-Irini Giannacidis
Ahrweg 11
53347 Alfter
Germany
Tel: +49 (0)1752552300
For business inquiries e-mail: w.giannacidis@gmail.com
