Yeorjia Spiropoulos

Georgia Spiropoulos (born in Greece, 1965) is a composer. She is also an arranger, instrumentalist,

Biography She was born in Athens in 1965. "Marseille-Provence Cultural Capital of Europe 2013", Sacem, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Paris and by herself. Her music has been released by Eole Records, Subrosa, Collection QB, ArsPublica labels and Conservatoire de Paris - Cité de la Musique.

Performances and multimedia work Her works are performed internationally at Centre Pompidou, Cité de la Musique, IRCAM, Louvre Auditorium (Paris), Symphony Space (New York), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Radial System V (Berlin), Gasteig München (Munich), ZKM (Karlsruhe), AOI Concert Hall (Shizuoka), Pollack Hall, Le Gesù, Le Vivier (Montreal), Felicja Blumenthal Music Center, Hateiva Hall (Tel Aviv), Concert Hall of the Academy of Music (Krakow), Onassis Stegi, French Institut, and the Goethe Institut (Athens).

She participated at festivals such as Manifeste, Agora, Ars Musica, [enso Days Berlin, Présences - Radio France, Athens & Epidaurus Festival, In Transit - International Festival of Performing Arts - Berlin, Seamus, Extension, Musiques Libres de Besançon, Gegenwelten Festival Neue Musik, Futura, WhyNote, Aujourd'hui Musiques, Musiques de Notre Temps, Hateiva, Sinkro, ICEM, ICMC, SMC, WFAE, WOCMAT, Electroacoustic Music Days of Greece, The Electronic Arts and Music Festival of Miami, and the Boston Cyberarts Festival.

In 2018, she released "Interjections" for saxophone quartet and electroacoustic device. In 2019, Le Monde reporte she had created a multimedia performance during the financial crisis of Athens based on a tag found on a wall, called "Eror (The Pianist)." It became a program of the IRCAM festival on June 6, 2019.

Collaborations She collaborates with many ensembles, such as the Ensemble Intercontemporain, L’Itinéraire, Ensemble 2e2m, Sillages, Ars Nova, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble, Aventure, Nikel, dissonArt, Bl!ndman, Sixtrum, Smashensemble, Curious Chamber Players, Pulsar Trio, Zafraan, and Octopus.

She has collaborated with choirs (Accentus, Les Cris de Paris, Le Jeune Choeur de Paris), saxophone quartets (Prism, Habanera, Quasar), and soloists (Claude Delangle, Médéric Collignon, Hélène Breschand, Alvise Sinivia, Shigeko Hata, Geraldine Keller, Theophilos Sotiriades, Vincent David, Valérie Joly).

She has also collaborated with conductors such as Laurence Equilbey, David Milnes, Mark Foster, Pierre Roulier, Guillaume Bourgogne, Geoffroy Jourdain, and Nicolas Krüger.

Teaching Distinguished Visiting Chair in Music Composition. Active Director of the Digital Composition Studio (DCS). 2017-18 At McGill she taught music composition and electroacoustic music.

ilSUONO 2019 International Contemporary Music Academy. Instructor, composer-in-residence. 2019 Master classes and conferences : Columbia University (NYC), McGill University (Montreal), University of California Santa Barbara, University of Paris 7, University of Paris 8, University of Crete, IRCAM, ICMC and SMC International Conferences, Ars Musica Colloquium, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, Paris Conservatory CRR, Tel Aviv Conservatory, Alte Schmiede-Vienna, French Institut of Athens. Jury member: IRCAM, ICMC and SMC International Conferences, master in Arts and Languages from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). ilSuono Summer Academy.

Awards Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow 2020. Residency 2021. Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters 2013. Made by France's Minister of Culture and Communication Aurélie Filippetti. Royal Abbey of Fontevraud Fellowship 2017 Cité Internationale des Arts Fellowship 2009-2011 Villa Medicis Hors-les-Murs Award 2002 AFAA & the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Composer-in-residence in the United States (NYC, Boston & Cambridge, 2003-2004).

Personal life As of 2021, she lived in Paris.

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Discography

Phonotopia by Eole Records (booklet) Full discography