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)

For Chamber Ensemble (flute, clarinet in Bb, percussion, piano, violin and violoncello)
Duration: ca. 14 min.
First performance: Vafopoulio Concert hall, Thessaloniki, May 2011

Apprivoisant Les Vagues (2011)

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 solo violoncello
Duration: ca 3 min.
Performer: Michele Marco Rossi

Chromophobia/Moment I(2014)

For clarinet in Bb, violoncello and piano
Duration: ca. 6 min.
First performance: Sala Petrassi, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, March 2014

Stimmt (2014)

For 12 instruments
Duration: ca' 6 min.
Ensemble Novecento
Conductor: Carlo Rizzari 

REM (2015)

For 12 instruments
Ensemble Novecento
Conductor Carlo Rizzari

CHRONOFONIA (2016)

Musical theatre for solo cello
Interpretation: 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)

SOFIA AVRAMIDOU (Short bio)

Sofia Avramidou is a greek composer and singer.

She graduated from the composition department of Aristotle University (Bachelor and master degree, 2009-2014) and the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome (postgraduate degree, 2014-2016), having received the highest distinction in Professor Ivan Fedele's class as well as an excellence scholarship from the Alexandros Onassis Foundation. Ιn 2019-2020.
 In 2019-2020 she followed the “Cursus de composition et informatique musical” at IRCAM, in Paris.
She has been awarded numerous prizes including the Goffredo Petrassi Prize from the Quirinal Palace in Rome, the 1st prize of the IXth International Composition Competition "Francisco Escudero" Accordion (2016) in Spain and the 1st prize of the 6th Composition Competition "Dimitris Dragatakis" (2014), from the Union of Greek Composers. She also collaborated with the director Evangelia Kranioti, for the film "Obscuro Barroco" which received the Teddy Award of the Berlin International Film Festival (2018). She was selected by the Venice Biennale to compose a chamber opera performed at the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale (2018).
She has participated in numerous composition masterclasses and courses with Beat Furrer, Philipe Manoury, Georges Aperghis, Francesco Filidei, Jean-Luc Hervé, Yan Maresz, Franck Bedrossian, Mauro Lanza, Dmitri Kurljandski among others.
She has received commissions and proposals for collaboration from various renowned ensembles such as the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Musikfabrik, Multilatérale, Ictus Ensemble, 2e2m, Ex Novo...

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