Chaire Supersonic
Exhibiting, Mounting and Inhabiting Sound - a Beaux-Arts de Paris/IRCAM collaboration
ManiFeste 2021
sound: Sofia Avramidou, Oren Boneh
video: Aliha Thalien, Sarah Konté

CAVES (2021)

Géranomachie (2021)
pour grand ensemble et électronique
Commande de l'Ensemble Intercontemporain et de l'Ircam-Centre Pompidou

3 December 2021, Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie de Paris 

Direction: Léo Margue
Rim: Carlo Laurenzi

Géranomachie (2021)

Matteo Cesari (flute)

Tremplin de la création - Philharmonie de Paris 12/03/2022


“Le comte est donc si vain et si peu raisonnable ! Ose-t-il croire encor son crime pardonnable ?’”
Pierre Corneille, Le Cid.
Cette phrase de Don Fernand qui ouvre la scène VI de l’acte II tisse la trame de cette œuvre pour flûte solo.
Reprenant le principe du vers alexandrin, l’interprète développe divers modèles répétitifs et récursifs qui interrompent inopinément sa forme constante.
Ces modèles, caractérisés par une rythmicité idiomatique, renforcent une structure mécanique qui se rétrécit progressivement.
Toute la pièce serpente autour de cette idée maîtresse et le geste instrumental est progressivement lié à la parole humaine.

Scène VI (2014 / revised version 2022)

Géranomachie Acoustique(2022)
for 15 musicians
Commissioned by the Lemanic Modern Ensemble
Conductor: Pierre Bleuse
Premiere on September 27 2022 at the  Franz Liszt concert hall, Geneva

Live recording: Jérôme Vavasseur

Géranomachie Acoustique(2022)

Remembering Clouds(2021)
for soprano, viola da gamba and electric guitar

Ictus Ensemble - Darker than black

Theresa Dlouhy (soprano)
Eva Reiter (Viola da gamba) 
Tom Pauwels (Electric guitar)

Creation on September 3 2022, at the Festival de Royaumont - Académie Voix Nouvelles.

Text by Laure Gauthier
English translation by Christopher Alexander Gellert

Remembering Clouds (2022)

What can that be but my apple-tree?

I  "Dear father, do with me what you will. I am your child." 
II  "Are you a spirit or a human?" 
III "Who messes with the letters?" 
IV "Here all dwell free" 
V "Our merciful god has caused my hands to grow up"

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Création mondiale - Alla breve, sur France Musique 

Ensemble 2e2m:
Amaryllis Billet, Dorothée Nodé-Langlois, Hélène Desaint, Sarah Givelet

Sound team: Stephane Foulon, Inès de Bruyn, Vincent Villetard

What can that be but my apple-tree? (2023)

A hug to die
(for 8 musicians)

Inspired by the play "The Pillowman", of the contemporary playwright Martin McDonagh.

Ensemble Intercontemporain
Dylan Corlay direction
Megaron - Athens Concert Hall

A hug to die (2023)

For Chamber Ensemble (horn in F, trumpet in Bb, trombone, percussion, violin, viola,
violoncello and contrabass)
Duration: ca. 8 min.
First performance: Tsai Performance Center, Boston, February 2013

Avaton (2012)

For 12 instruments

Ensemble Novecento
Conductor: Carlo Rizzari

REM (2015)

For 12 instruments
Ensemble Novecento
Conductor Carlo Rizzari

CHRONOFONIA (2016)

for solo cello
performance: Michele Marco Rossi
Premiered at the ''Biennale di Venezia''

la lègende ''St Martin'' (2017)

The Last Water Cycle (2019)

For fixed sounds

Βased on the poem ''La cité dolente'' of Laure Gauthier
(Chatelet-Voltaire, 2015, translation La cità dolente, Gabriela Serrone, Macabor, 2018)

IL CANTO TERZO (2020)

excerpts of the chamber opera ''Rodi rodi, morsicchia! La casina chi rosicchia?'' 
(based on the fairy tale Hänsel and Gretel)

Composition: Sofia Avramidou
Libretto: Cecilia d'Amico

Biennale di Venezia, October 2018

''Rodi rodi, morsicchia! La casina chi rosicchia?'' - excerpts (2018)

Keep digging the hare hole
for cello and electronics

(Cello-Séverin Ballon)

Grande salle -Centre Pompidou

Keep digging the hare hole (2020)

METALLAGES
(For flute, clarinet, horn in F, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass)

Ensemble MUSIKFABRIK
Conductor Mariano Chiacchiarini
Concert de l'Académie Voix Nouvelles au Festival de Royaumont 2020

METALLAGES (2020)

Born in Thessaloniki (Greece) in 1988, Sofia Avramidou graduated from the composition department of Aristotle University (Bachelor's and Master's degrees, 2009-2014) and from the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome (specialized Master's degree, 2014-2016), receiving the highest distinction in the class of Professor Ivan Fedele, as well as an excellence scholarship from the "Alexandros Onassis Foundation”.
In Paris, in 2020, she graduated from IRCAM's "Cursus de composition et d'informatique musicale".
She has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Goffredo Petrassi Prize from the Quirinal Palace in Rome (2016), 1st prize at the IX "Francisco Escudero" International Accordion Composition Competition (2016) in Spain, and 1st prize at the 6th "Dimitris Dragatakis" Composition Competition (2014), organized by the Greek Composers' Union. She participated in numerous composition courses and seminars, with Beat Furrer, Philippe Manoury, Georges Aperghis, Francesco Filidei, Yan Maresz, Jean-Luc Hervé, Franck Bedrossian, Dmitri Kurljandski...
Sofia Avramidou also collaborates with director Evangelia Kranioti, for the film "Obscuro Barroco", which received the Teddy Award at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival. That same year, she was selected by the Venice Biennale to compose the chamber opera "Rodi rodi, morsicchia! La casina chi rosicchia?" performed at the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale.
She has been commissioned by ensembles and institutions such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Philharmonie de Paris, Ircam, Venice Biennale, Musikfabrik, Ictus, Lemanic Modern Ensemble, 2e2m, Radio-France, Festival Ensemble(s), Festival de Prades, Festival Nouveaux Horizons, Orchestre National de Jazz, ECHO, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Auditorium Orchestre National de Lyon....
Her compositions have been performed at the Philharmonie of Paris, the Musikverein (Vienna), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Bozar (Brussels), the Barbican (London), the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), the Philharmonie of Cologne, the Venice Biennale, the Auditori (Barcelona), the Festspielhaus (Baden-Baden), the Philharmonie of Luxembourg, the Auditorium of Lyon, the Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome), the Teatro La Fenice (Venice), the Boston University, the Megaron (Athens)...
Alongside composition, Sofia Avramidou studies Byzantine music, Hymnology, Oud and Ney instrument, as well as traditional Greek singing.
As a singer, she collaborates with various ensembles and orchestras, such as the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, the Thessaloniki Municipal Orchestra, the Raanana Symphony Orchestra (Israel)...

 In 2018, she arranged traditional songs for voice and clarinet and recorded the album "Binôme" in Greece.
Her works are published by Éditions Lacroch' and BabelScores.

Sofia Avramidou-composer

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