Giorgos Zervos

Giorgos Zervos was born in Cairo, Egypt, and moved to Athens in 1961. He studied Advanced Theory and Piano at the Hellenic Odeon and at the Orpheion and composition with Giannis Ioannidis. In 1981, he traveled to Paris for postgraduate studies at the Université Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he studied Musicology and the Aesthetics of Music with Michel Guiomar and Daniel Charles and composition with Iannis Xenakis. In 1982, he was awarded his postgraduate Diploma of Advanced Studies, having written his dissertation on “Mathematical processes in the work of Bartók and Xenakis”. In 1995, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis on “The crisis of the subject in the work of the composers of the Second Viennese school: Schönberg, Berg, Webern” at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

He has written articles and lectured on 20th -century music and taken part in a number of conferences. In 2001, two books of his were published by K. Papagrigoriou-Ch. Nakas, entitled respectively: Schönberg, Berg, Webern: “The crisis in music through the crisis in the subject and forms and Nikos Skalkottas and the early 20th -century European musical tradition”.

Works of his have been performed in Greece and abroad (Italy, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Austria, France and the US) and recorded by Greek State Radio, while he has been commissioned to compose music by “inter alia” the Third Programme of the Greek State Radio, the Goethe Institut and the Athens Megaron Concert Hall Organization. His compositions are published by K. Papagrigoriou-Ch. Nakas and works of his have been issued on CD by various record companies: Warner (“Eros and Psyche”, 1999), Agora (“Study for string quartet”, 2000), and IRIDA (“Five variations for flute and piano”, 2008).