Georgia Spiropoulos

Composer

Photo: Irini Zevgoli

Georgia Spiropoulos (Athens 1965) has composed works for musical and vocal ensembles, electroacoustic and mixed music, music theatre and audio-visual installations.

She studied Composition and Electro-acoustic music in Paris with Philippe Leroux, Form Analysis with Michaël Lévinas, and Composition and Music Technology at IRCAN. She also studied at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS).

In 2017–18, she taught Composition at McGill University in Montreal as a Distinguished Visiting Professor, in which position she was also in charge of the Digital Composition Studio.

She has received commissions from numerous organizations (French Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Culture of Baden-Württemberg, IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, French State Radio, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Marseille European Capital of Culture 2013, Sacem, Muse En Circuit, the Onassis Stegi, and her works have been performed by a number of ensembles, choirs and soloists (including the Ensemble Intercontemporain, L'Itinéraire, 2E2M, Ars Nova, Sillages, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Nikel, dissonArt, Accentus, and Cris de Paris).