We need not destroy the past.
It is gone.
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Georgia Spiropoulos (Athens - Greece, 1965) studied classic and
jazz piano, harmony, counterpoint and fugue in Athens. During 10
years she worked as performer, arranger and subscriber of Greek
aural/oral-tradition music.
In 1996 she moved to Paris to study composition, electro-acoustic
& computer music with
Philippe Leroux
and form analysis with
Michael Lévinas.
She also worked with
George Crumb
and Günter Kahowez in France, Austria and Greece.
The year 2000-01 she is one for the 10 selected composers (among 400)
to participate to the IRCAM's Composition and Musical Computing Annual
Course and works with
Jonathan Harvey,
Tristan Murail,
Brian Ferneyhough,
Marco Stroppa, Philippe Hurel and Ivan Fedele. She holds an a M.A. from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) directed by Marc Chemillier.
She collaborates with many ensembles (Ensemble Intercontemporain,
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, 2E2M, L'Itineraire,
Ensemble Aventure, Octopus Ensemble, Prism saxophone quartet, Habanera
saxophone quartet, Accentus Choir, Les Cris de Paris Choir, Le
Jeune Choeur de Paris Choir), soloists (Claude Delangle, Vincent
David, Erwan Fagant, Valérie Joly, Katerina Xirou, Athanassios
Zervas) and conductors (Laurence Equilbey, David Milnes, Pierre
Roulier, Mark Foster, Guillaume Bourgogne, Geoffroy Jourdain, Nicolas Krüger).
She has received commissions from IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, the
Ensemble Intercontemporain, the French Ministry of Culture, the
Baden-Wurttemberg Ministry of Culture & the GegenWelten Festival
of Heidelberg, Radio France, Sacem, La Muse En Circuit, the
Itineraire Ensemble, the Accentus Choir, Le Jeune Choeur de Paris
Choir, the Habanera Saxophone Quartet, the Cries De Paris Choir,
and the saxophone player Claude Delangle.
Her works are performed internationally, in France, USA, Germany,
Austria, Japan, Greece and Poland at IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, Cite
de la Musique, Louvre Auditorum, Duo Dijon, Symphony Space (New
York), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco),
Ooizumi-gakuen Yumeria Center (Tokyo), Shizuoka Concert Hall
(Shizuoka), Hiroshimashi Nishikumin Bunka Center (Hiroshima),
Radial System V (Berlin), Elisabeth-Schneider-Stiftung
(Freiburg), Kulturhaus Karlstorbahnhof (Heidelberg), Hessisches
Staats Theater (Wiesbaden), Alte Schmiede (Vienna), Music
Akademie of Krakow, CNSM de Paris, Forum Culturel de
Blanc-Mesnil, Goethe Institut of Athens, Ionio University
(Corfu).
Georgia Spiropoulos is the winner of the VILLA MEDICIS
Hors-les-Murs Award 2002 of the AFAA & the French Ministry of
Foreign Affairs; she worked as a composer-in-residence in the USA
(New York, Boston & Cambridge, 2004) on the interactive
interfaces for the conductor's gesture capture.
On 2004 she has participated at IRCAM reading panel 2004 for the
Composition & Computer Music Programs (cursus, stage).
On 2008-2009 she worked at IRCAM as a composer-in-research
with the project "Mask: Voice transformations and computer tools for
live performance".
She was recently appointed composer-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris).
Georgia Spiropoulos worked as music & sound supervisor for
"Charisma X - Iannis Xenakis",
a documentary film directed by Efi Xirou & produced by Greek Film Center, Greek TV1 & Media Europe.
She gave lectures about her work at Columbia University (NYC), University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB),
IRCAM, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, SMC, Alte Schmiede-Vienna.
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