Dinos Constantinides ( el, Ντίνος Κωνσταντινίδης; 10 May 1929 – 20 July 2021) was a Greek-American composer of contemporary

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. Constantinides was born in

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, Greece. He studied violin and music theory at the Greek Conservatory in Athens, then violin at the Juilliard School in New York. He received a master's degree in music from Indiana University and a doctoral degree in composition from

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. He played violin in the State Orchestra in Athens for 10 years. Since 1967 Constantinides has taught at Louisiana State University, and received a Boyd Professorship of Composition there in 1986. He also directed the University's New Music Festival and the Louisiana Sinfonietta. He has received first prizes in the 1981

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International Chamber Competition, the 1985 First Midwest Chamber Opera Conference, and the 1997 Delius composition Contest Grand Prize. He died at the age of 92 on 20 July 2021.

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