Constantine Koukias
Creative Director
Constantine Koukias is an internationally acclaimed composer, opera director, and producer based in Amsterdam since 2013. Originally from Tasmania, where he co-founded with Werner Ihlenfeld IHOS Music Theatre and Opera, he has built a distinguished career spanning over three decades, with projects presented across Europe, Australia, North America, and Asia.
Koukias’s work is distinguished by its innovative fusion of large-scale music theatre, opera, film, and installation art, often exploring themes of migration, identity, and human rights. His productions are recognized for their striking spatial and temporal designs and their integration of diverse musical traditions, including Byzantine, Latin, and Eastern influences.
Major international commissions include ICON for the 20th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House and The Barbarians, inspired by Constantine Cavafy, which was commissioned by the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA). Koukias’s avant-garde approach to opera has resulted in groundbreaking productions such as Days and Nights with Christ, To Traverse Water, MIKROVION, The Divine Kiss, Tesla – Lightning in His Hand, and Prayer Bells, which premiered in Chicago. Other notable works include Kimisis – Falling Asleep, which has toured the Netherlands and Australia, and Before The Flame Goes Out, performed at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and other major European museums.
Recent projects include the film noir opera Deep Black Sleep for MONA FOMA, the film opera Shaped by Trees (in collaboration with Biasino William Pezzimenti), and the international documentary-performance series PRIMORDIAL, exploring Ediacara fossil sites worldwide.
Koukias has received numerous prestigious awards, including the International Valentino Bucchi Vocal Prize in Rome for Incantation II for soprano and digital delay, the Sir Winston Churchill Fellowship for his contributions to music and opera, and The American Prize for his direction of Backward from Winter. He also won ABC Radio’s Gallipoli Centenary Composer Competition with Three Episodes from the Diary of Signaller Peter Ellis. His opera The Barbarians was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best New Opera. His work has also been recognized in the field of design with the Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) and the Australian Interior Design Awards for the production of The Barbarians.
Beyond his artistic achievements, Koukias is recognized as a passionate collaborator and advocate for social justice initiatives.
Ivana Bozic
Innovative Technologies Consultant
Ivana Bozic received her Master of Science at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (ETF), Belgrade in 2007. Further studies took her to the Cisco Networking Academy in cooperation with the School of Electrical Engineering.
As a Senior System Engineer and Project Manager, Ivana has been involved in projects all over Europe. For almost a decade she has worked for Kapsch Carrier Com, one of the leading telco integrators in the telecommunication market and industry. In the past years, she has been mostly involved in projects related to Machine Learning, AI prediction of life cycles of technology, new events, faults and frauds for better and easier maintenance of a private network, Chatbots & Callbots, IoT and Cybersecurity as a necessity of everyday business.
Ivana is passionate about exploring and implementing new technologies in live performance and is currently developing an integrated platform engaging micromechanics for Foundation IHOS Amsterdam’s new work Capricorn in development for 2023/4.
Ivana lives between Belgrade and Venice.