Angelica Cathariou

Angelica Cathariou is an opera singer and Assistant Professor at the Department of Music Science and Art of the University of Macedonia. An Onassis Scholar, she holds a PhD from the Music Department of the University of York (UK).

In 2012 she received the international award Orphée d’Or from the Académie Internationale du Disque Lyrique (Paris), and in 2010 the Special Music Award from the Euro American Women’s Council. She has worked with opera houses in Italy, with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Carnegie Hall (New York), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Opéra Comique (Paris), Cité de la Musique (Paris), Greek National Opera, Onassis Stegi, Athens Concert Hall, as well as with international festivals of Athens, Marseille, Budapest, Ferrara, Cádiz, Roque d’Anthéron, singing a wide-ranging repertory of operatic and symphonic works. She has collaborated with important orchestras (for instance, Strasburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Mahler Chamber Orchestra) and with such music directors as Claudio Abbado, Steuart Bedford, Jan Latham-Koenig, Miltos Logiadis, Myron Michailidis, Michel Plasson, Alberto Zedda, and Pierre-André Valade.

Her book “L’Atelier Moderne: An Exploration of the Collaborative Process between Performer and Composer in Vocal Music Theatre of the 21st Century” has been published by NOVA Publishers, New York. Her recordings with BIS, Naive, Naxos, Melism, and Lorelt include world premieres of works by Nikos Skalkottas, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Michalis Adamis, Mikis Theodorakis, Silvina Milstein, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Jani Christou, and Iannis Xenakis, among others, “The Love Sorcerer” by Manuel de Falla as well as the music of Alexandre Desplat for the film “11'09"01 New York September 11”.