Manos Tsangaris as new Academy President in Berlin | EUROtoday

The Berlin Academy of Arts has elected a composer, Manos Tsangaris, as its new president. This implies that it believes that he can intervene successfully in social debates that additionally have an effect on artwork, past his affect as an artist. But is Manos Tsangaris identified to a wider public past the small realm of latest music? Has he – like his colleagues Hans Werner Henze and Wolfgang Rihm earlier than him – attracted consideration to his work that goes past the community of his personal career?