Alexandros Spyrou
*20 June 1989
Works by Alexandros Spyrou
Biography
Alexandros Spyrou is a Greek composer, music theorist, and artistic director. His music has been performed across Europe and North America by such ensembles as Klangforum Wien, London Sinfonietta, JACK Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten, MDI Ensemble Milano, Ensemble SurPlus, Trio f : t, Longleash Trio, Ensemble Airborne Extended, Contemporary Directions Ensemble, Musica Nova Ensemble, Ensemble DissonArt, and many acclaimed soloists. He has presented his music and research in several festivals and instititions such as the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt, and the Schloss Solitude Akademie in Germany, IRCAM Forum in France, the Nordic Percussion Festival in Denmark, Composit Festival in Italy, the XVIII World Saxophone Congress in Croatia, the Ticino Musica Festival in Switzerland, the 2020 NASA Biennial Conference at Arizona State University, the Midwest Composers Symposium and the Exchange of Midwestern Collegiate Composers in the United States, the Extended Senses Symposium in the UK, the Beyond Expo, Thessaloniki International Fair, the Sacred Music Days and Piano Festival at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, the Stegi Onassis Cultural Center and the OutHear New Music Week in Greece. In 2019, his portrait concert Liquid Identities was presented at the RadioKulturhaus in Vienna, Austria and the PROGR Zentrum in Bern, Switzerland. In 2021, his VR project "Etude for Virtual Space" was showcased at Helexpo - Thessaloniki International Fair.
About the music
Alexandros Spyrou composes chamber and orchestral music, music for stage and electronic media, and often collaborates with visual artists, writers, and scientists. In his compositional work, Alexandros questions the modernistic paradigm of dialectics and dualism and proposes a liquid identity of a-centered multiplicities which are in a continuous morphallaxis, in a constant state of becoming. Liquid identity is based on a new image of musical sound which embodies the internal difference of sound in a self-existing conceptual model. In a state of liquidity all hierarchies flatten and the concept of development is rendered obsolete. The composer then writes constantly “in the middle” and compositional decisions are taken here and now. Consequently, the process of composition becomes a creative anarchic praxis without an end goal.
