Georgia Spiropoulos

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Georgia Spiropoulos (born in Greece, 1965) is a composer, who studied piano, harmony, counterpoint and fugue in Athens. At the same time she studied jazz piano and worked as an instrumentalist and arranger of Hellenic traditional music of oral transmission for 10 years.

Since 1996 she has lived in Paris and studied composition, electro-acoustic & computer music with Philippe Leroux (Conservatoire Eric Satie), form Analysis with Michael Levinas (Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris, CNSMDP), composition with Jacques Charpentier (Conservatoire National de Paris, CNR). She also worked with George Crumb and Günter Kahowez in France, Austria and Greece.

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[edit] IRCAM composition course

In the year 2000-01 she was one of the 10 selected composers (among 400) to participate to the IRCAM's Composition and Musical Computing Annual Course and worked with Tristan Murail, Jonathan Harvey, Brian Ferneyhough, Marco Stroppa, Philippe Hurel and Ivan Fedele.

[edit] Commissions

She received commissions from IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the French Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Culture of Baden-Württemberg & GegenWelten Festival of Heidelberg, Radio France, the Sacem, the "Itineraire" ensemble, the "Nikos Skalkotas" Orchestra, the "Accentus" choir, "Le Jeune Choeur de Paris" choir, the "Ariam-Ile de France", the "Habanera" saxophone quartet, the "Cries de Paris" vocal ensemble, the "Diffraction" ensemble, and the saxophone player Claude Delangle.

[edit] Performances

Her works has been performed in France, USA, Germany, Austria, Japan and Greece, at IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, Cite de la Musique, Louvre Auditorium, Duo Dijon, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Ooizumi-gakuen Yumeria Center (Tokyo), Hiroshimashi Nishikumin Bunka Center (Hiroshima), Elisabeth-Schneider-Stiftung (Freiburg), Kulturhaus Karlstorbahnhof (Heidelberg), Hessisches Staats Theater (Wiesbaden, Alte Schmiede (Vienna), Forum Culturel de Blanc-Mesnil, CNSM de Paris, Notre Dame des Blancs-Manteaux, Tour de Crest, Goethe Institut of Athens, Ionio University.

[edit] Awards

Georgia Spiropoulos was the winner of the Villa Medicis Hors-les-Murs Award in 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. She also received the Project Room grant from the Meet-the-Composer program in New York.

In 2004 she participated in the IRCAM reading panel 2004 for the Composition & Computer Music Programs (cursus, stage).

[edit] Current work

Spiropoulos is currently working on KLAMA for mixed choir & live electronics commissioned by the chamber choir Accentus and IRCAM. (world premiere: Agora Festival, Centre Pompidou, June 2006, Paris).

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