Nefeli Stamatogiannopoulou
Nefeli Stamatogiannopoulou is a composer, performance artist and improviser based in Athens.
As a composer she has written more than 50 works including compositions for many performances/theater and films, as she has also worked as a director in several projects.
She plays double bass, electric bass, electronics, piano and she is also exploring the limits of the voice.
In her last music and stage compositions, the artist, focuses on a personal system of notation and creation, which explore the relationship between music composition, movement and the dramaturgy of sound.
She has been awarded for her work as a composer/musician as well as a sound editor.
She has performed on many concert, festival and theatrical halls.
She studied at the department of Composition, with specialisation on the Performing Arts. She also studied at the graduate department “Composition for Cinema, Theater and Performing Arts”, of the Ionian University, participated for many years in masterclasses/seminars focused on physical theater, voice and composition under the supervision of the Grotowski Institute (PLN), the Song of the Goat Theater (PLN) , L.I.S.P.A. (DE), the Kristin Linklater Voice Centre(UK).
She is also the composer and founder of, among others, the research artistic group Ov Off (Quintet ’84, The Glass Between, αϊζο-the bird-e.t.c),the music group Spooky Redrum, as well as the founder of Ov Off Studio.
She is exploring – rhythm, voice- and composition as an instructor and a solo artist.
She is a PhD candidate at the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University. She teaches seminar courses & workshops in Greece and abroad, as well as at the Ionian University as a guest lecturer.
photo by Karol Jarek