SPYROS SYRMOS

Composer

About

Spyros Syrmos is an award – winning Composer based in Athens. His work include orchestral and chamber music, opera, film music, ballet, sound art installations and traditional music arrangements from south Italy.

Spyros was born in Athens.

He studied guitar with Kostas Grigoreas at the National Conservatory of Athens and with John Mills and Eleftheria Kotzia at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where he gained the PGdip in performance.

He also had Lute lessons with Nikos Panagiotidis in Athens and Mathew Nisbet in Wales as a second study.

He continued studies in composition with Ioannis Metallinos in Athens and Peter Reynolds at the contemporary music departement of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, where he gained the PGdip in Composition.

He is a (CMO) member

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Operatic Novices make their mark

George Hall

The Guardian

OPERA – “The Blank Canvas”

“He won the “Flourish Opera competition 2013”.

The “Off West End Award” winning 90min opera “The Blank Canvas” with a libretto by Fay Wrixon is his debut Opera.

Premiered at the King’s Head Theatre in London in 31st August 2014.

Produced by OperaUpClose and directed by Lucy Bradley.

Read a 4 star review by “The Guardian”

FILM MUSIC – “Bright”

In 2021 he completed the score for the film “Bright” directed by Samuel R. Gibson and produced by Electradome Pictures in the US.

London Shorts Film Festival Nominee “Best Short Drama“

Bright will release November, 11th 2021 exclusively at Louisville’s International Festival of Film

For more info visit : Bright IMDb IMDbPro Samuel R. Gibson IMDb IMDbPro Spyros Syrmos IMDb IMDbPro

“Evocative and unsettling” The Guardian

ARRANGEMENTS

TRADITIONAL MUSIC FROM SOUTH ITALY

“ANTIDOTUM TARANTULAE”

After many years of studying the music of South Italy, under the motivation and supervision of his close friend Vangelis Haramis (Sociologist/musician/Universtita di Salerno) he has arranged a large number of traditional songs and music, giving them a “nowadays” perspective as well as he has composed several pieces inspired by this music. The group ANTIDOTUM TARANTULAE of which Spyros was a principal member, had performed often at festivals and music theaters in Greece.

Reviews – Interviews – Links

LIST OF WORKS

Solo

3 Inventions (for piano solo)

Chamber music

A Brawny Tree (for reed quintet)

Fast Forward (for string quartet)

Habanera (for clarinet quartet)

Habanera (for piano trio)

Tres La Lune… (for piano, violoncello and flute)

The Adventure of an Exhibit (for double bass, bassoon and violoncello)

K.P.I.S.N. (for two violins and violoncello)

Milonga para un Amante Uruguayo (for piano and flute)

Mid Winter’s Summerdream (for violonello and piano)

Honoris Causa (for violoncello and piano)

Persistent Galiard (for violoncello and harpsichord)

Soneto de separacao (for voice and piano) Poetry by Vinicius de Moraes

Βάο, Γάο, Δάο (for voice and piano) Poetry by Napoleon Lapathiotis

Trilce (for voice and guitar) Poetry by Cesar Vallejo

Chamber orchestra

Night Flight – In the Time Zone

Large orchestra

The Road from Colonus

Opera

The Blank Canvas (libretto by Fay Wrixon)

Film music

Bright (directed by Samuel R. Gibson)

Ballet

Ballet Camouflage (for violoncello solo and electronics)

Sound Art

Waving Trees (electroacoustic)

Beyond Everything (electroacoustic)

Literature Podcast

3 Διηγήματα (3 short stories, text by Vania Syrmou)

Arrangements

Antidotum Tarantulae – Sed Nove (traditional music from south Italy)

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“Every so often you uncover a gem like this
which may actually play a part in securing opera’ s future”

Fringe opera

RELEASES

ALBUM RELEASES

SINGLE RELEASES

Contact

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Margarita Giannopoulou (Legal agent)
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Athens – Greece