Georgia Spiropoulos
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 Georgia Spiropoulos - Working at IRCAM 2010 | |
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| Born | 1965 Greece |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Website | Georgia Spiropoulos official site |
Georgia Spiropoulos (Greek: Γεωργία Σπυροπούλου) (born in Greece, 1965) is a composer.[1] She is also an arranger, instrumentalist,[1] and multimedia artist.[2]
Biography
[edit]She was born in Athens in 1965.[3][1] Studying piano, she was introduced to jazz, also studying counterpoint and fugue.[1] She initially worked as a performer, arranger, and transcriber of Greek oral-tradition music.[3] She 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 ten years.
In 1996, she moved from Athens to Paris, leaning under Philippe Leroux and discovering electroacoustic music.[1]
She earned a master in Arts and Languages from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS),[4]and in Paris has studied music composition, electro-acoustic and computer music with Philippe Leroux.[1] She studied form analysis with Michael Levinas, and composition with Jacques Charpentier. She also worked with George Crumb and Günter Kahowez in France, Austria and Greece.
In 2000, she attended the computer music course at IRCAM.[1] She was one of the ten selected composers to participate to the IRCAM's Composition and Musical Computing Annual Course and worked with Jonathan Harvey, Brian Ferneyhough, Tristan Murail, Marco Stroppa, Philippe Hurel and Ivan Fedele.
In 2008 she worked as composer-in-research with the project "Mask: Voice transformations and computer tools for live performance".[4]
Commissions and works
[edit]She received commissions from the French Ministry of Culture, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Culture,[4] Radio France, IRCAM-Centre Pompidou,[4][5] “Marseille-Provence Cultural Capital of Europe 2013”, Sacem,[4] the Onassis Foundation,[6] Haus der Kulturen der Welt,[4] La Muse en circuit and numerous ensembles.
In 2010, she produced "Les Bacchantes", a tribute to Iannis Xenakis, with the piece including lights, stage action, and electronics. It was performed by vocalist Médéric Collignon. Wrote Le Monde, "the harshness, not to say the savagery, of the vocal dimension (rattles, howls, strangled sounds or obtained by tapping on the throat) is of today's orality (Spiropoulos says he listened to certain types of rock) while electronics, of the virtual siren kind, refer to the 'ancient' civilization of the studio."[1]
In 2015, she collaborated on Roll.... n'Roll...n'Roll" with harpist Hélène Breschand.[1]
Spiropoulos's works are published by Babelscores,[7] 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.[4][8]
Performances and multimedia work
[edit]Her works are performed internationally at Centre Pompidou,[12] 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.[13] 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.[1] It involved sound, visual, staging, and lighting that she designed.[14][15]
Collaborations
[edit]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
[edit]- Distinguished Visiting Chair in Music Composition. Active Director of the Digital Composition Studio (DCS). 2017-18 [3] At McGill she taught music composition and electroacoustic music.[4]
- 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
[edit]- Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow[4] 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[4] Fellowship 2009-2011
- Villa Medicis Hors-les-Murs Award[4] 2002 AFAA & the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Composer-in-residence in the United States (NYC, Boston & Cambridge, 2003-2004).
Personal life
[edit]As of 2021, she lived in Paris.[4]
Works
[edit]Discography
[edit]- Phonotopia by Eole Records (booklet)
- Full discography
Bibliography
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Le bruitisme sensuel de Georgia Spiropoulos". Le Monde.fr (in French). 3 June 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ^ "Journal de la Création du dimanche 23 mai 2021". France Musique (in French). 25 April 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ^ a b c McGill University - Schulich School of Music - Georgia Spiropoulos, McGill University
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Georgia Spiropoulos - Biography".
- ^ "Entretien avec Georgia Spiropoulos. Sous le masque, l'électronique" (PDF). Ircam.fr (in French). 10 June 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ Stegi, Onassis.org
- ^ "Babelscores". babelscores.com (in English and French). 24 September 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ "Meet Georgia Spiropoulos". Alliancefr.be (in French). 31 October 2016. Archived from the original on 6 October 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ "Compositrices : l'égalité en acte". Editions MF (in French). 1 October 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ "Infinite Sound / Le son à l'infini" (PDF). georgiaspiropoulos.com (in English and French). Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ "Orgies et bacchanales - Triomphe de l'excès". CDMC (in French). 8 December 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ^ "Centre Pompidou - Georgia Spiropoulos". centrepompidou.fr (in English and French). 10 June 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ Brunet, Alain (18 April 2018). "Mélomanie: Quatuor Quasar, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet et Printemps nordique". La Presse (in French). Montreal. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ^ "Le piano en chantier de Georgia Spiropoulos à Manifeste". Resmusica.com (in French). 10 June 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ "Festival ManiFeste 2019. Les jeux du son et de l'image". Artpress.com (in French). 10 July 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
External links
[edit]- Georgia Spiropoulos official site
- Babelscores Editions, Paris
- Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine Archived 6 October 2021 at the Wayback Machine
- Georgia Spiropoulos @ Ircam 2019
- France Musique, Alla Breve, « Roll…n’Roll…n’Roll » de Georgia Spiropoulos
- Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Geografia Sonora
- Les 30 ans de l'Ensemble intercontemporain
- Georgia Spiropoulos "EROR (The Pianist)" (YouTube)
- Georgia Spiropoulos "The Bacchae" — "Les Bacchantes" (YouTube)
- 1965 births
- Living people
- 21st-century French composers
- French women composers
- French women music educators
- French music educators
- 20th-century French educators
- 21st-century French educators
- 20th-century French women educators
- 21st-century French women educators
- 21st-century French women musicians
- 20th-century French musicians
- 21st-century French musicians
- Greek composers
- Greek women composers
- Greek women classical composers
- 20th-century Greek educators
- 21st-century Greek educators
- Greek music educators
- Greek women music educators
- Greek women musicians
- 20th-century women composers
- 21st-century women composers
- 21st-century Greek women educators
- 21st-century Greek women musicians
- 20th-century Greek women educators
- 20th-century Greek women musicians