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Georgia
Spiropoulos (Athens - Greece, 1965) studied piano, harmony, counterpoint and
fugue in Athens. At the same time she studied jazz piano and worked as
performer and arranger of traditional Greek music for 10 years (CD LYRA
UCD0009, Athens 1997).
In 1996
she moved to Paris to study composition, electro-acoustic & computer music
with Philippe Leroux, form analysis with Michael Lévinas, composition with
Jacques Charpentier. 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 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, the Itineraire Ensemble, the 2E2M Ensemble & La Muse En Circuit, the
Accentus Choir, Le Jeune Choeur de Paris Choir, the Habanera Saxophone
Quartet, the Cries De Paris Choir, the "Diffraction" Ensemble, the saxophone
player Claude Delangle and the cembalist Elisabeth Chojnacka.
Her works
has been performed in France, USA, Germany, Austria, Japan, Greece and
Poland at IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, Cite de la Musique, Louvre Auditorum, Duo
Dijon, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Ooizumi-gakuen
Yumeria Center (Tokyo), Hiroshimashi Nishikumin Bunka Center (Hiroshima),
Concert Hall Shizuoka, 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, Notre Dame des Blancs-Manteaux, Forum Culturel de Blanc-Mesnil,
Tour de Crest, 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 was participated at IRCAM reading panel 2004 for the Composition &
Computer Music Programs (cursus, stage).
On 2008-10
she will work as a composer-in-research at Ircam with the project "Mask:
Voice transformations and computer tools for live performance".
Home Page
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www.georgiaspiropoulos.com
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