Yannis Kyriakides was born in Limassol, Cyprus and emigrated to the United Kingdom when he was five years of age. He studied music at the University of York, and later moved to the Netherlands to study composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with composers Louis Andriessen and Dick Raaijmakers.*Rob Young, The Wire, Jan 2006 - Unsound Thinker He is co-founder of the record label UNSOUNDS, and teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.
