[1] During her studies in Berlin, Konstantia Gourzi completed masterclasses with composers such as Péter Eötvös, Hans Werner Henze, Wolfgang Rihm, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Walter Zimmermann; and with conductors like Michael Gielen, Carlo Maria Giulini, Bernard Haitink, Giuseppe Sinopoli and Günter Wand.
In 2008, she received the Prize of the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation for her work as a conductor and composer, and for her innovative performance concepts.
[3] As a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich, she founded the ensemble oktopus für musik der moderne[6] in 2002, which she still conducts today.
with the Pinakothek der Moderne, the gallery camera artis, the Künstlerhaus München, the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding, and the Munich Biennale.
They also collaborated with the Franz Marc Museum and the Bayerische Akademie der schönen Künste, and there are ongoing projects with diverse music institutions and festivals.
The ensemble designed the concert series "Neue griechische Musik in München" (New Greek Music in Munich), and performed many times on radio.
She has received important commissions from the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, the Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Ensemble Musica Nova Israel, the State Orchestra Athens, the Festspiele Europäische Wochen Passau, the Kasseler Tage für Neue Musik, the Ex Novo Ensemble in Venice, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Bavarian State Opera Munich, the Archbishopric of Munich and Freising, the Patrimonio Nacional Spain, the Bavarian State Ministry, the Lucerne Festival,[10] the ARD International Music Competition, the BBC, the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.
Under commission from the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Gourzi transformed Haydn's Philemon and Baucis into an innovative play by means of her own compositions.
[14] At the ION Festival in Nuremberg, the work Paharión, the Red Angel in the Garden of Las Huelgas was premiered in June 2018 as a concert in motion.
[2] Her work as a conductor and her compositions are documented in detail, through radio recordings, television broadcasts and live streams (Arte, ZDF, WDR, SR, RBB, SWR and BR).
Her extensive discography includes recordings of her compositions and of her conducted works, for example published by ECM, NEOS, NAXOS, and SONY-Classical.