Alexandros Spyrou is a Greek composer, academic, and artistic director. In his compositional work, he questions the modernistic paradigm of dialectics and proposes a liquid identity of a-centred multiplicities, which are in a continuous morphallaxis, in a constant state of becoming. His music has been performed internationally across Europe, the Americas, and beyond, by renowned ensembles
including Klangforum Wien, London Sinfonietta, JACK Quartet, Ensemble Recherche, Neue Vocalsolisten, MDI Ensemble, Ensemble SurPlus, Trio f : t, Reactive Ensemble, Longleash Trio, ensemble mise-en, Ensemble Airborne Extended, Contemporary Directions Ensemble, Musica Nova, Colere Quartet, Vijf Quintet, Ergon Ensemble, Ensemble DissonArt, and many soloists. His body of work encompasses chamber and orchestral music, music for electronic media and stage, sound art, and interdisciplinary projects, and is published by Universal Edition in Vienna.
Alexandros completed his conservatoire and undergraduate studies in Greece, specializing in composition and music theory, and further honed his craft under the mentorship of distinguished composers, studying with Michael Finnissy in the United Kingdom, Beat Furrer in Austria, David Gompper and Josh Levine in the United States. He further attended masterclasses with leading composers such as Aperghis, Billone, Ferneyhough, Lachenmann, and Mahnkopf, enriching his artistic perspective. He has presented his music and research in several festivals and institutions such as the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt, the Schloss Solitude Akademie, and the Internationales Digitalkunst Festival in Germany, IRCAM Forum in France, Sounds of Matter at the University of Vienna in Austria, the Nordic Percussion Festival in Denmark, the Composit Festival, and the High Score Festival in Italy, the XVIII World Saxophone Congress in Croatia, the Ticino Musica Festival, and the Lugano Arte e Cultura Early Night Modern in Switzerland, the 2020 NASA Biennial Conference at Arizona State University, the Midwest Composers Symposium, the Exchange of Midwestern Collegiate Composers, and the mise-en festival in the United States, the Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education in Canada, the Festival Expresiones Contemporáneas in Mexico, the Atemporanea Festival in Argentina, the Extended Senses Symposium, and the MUSICON concert series in the United Kingdom, the Bilgi New Music Festival in Turkey, the Beyond Expo Thessaloniki International

Fair, the Sacred Music Days, the Piano Festival at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, the Stegi Onassis Cultural Center, the OutHear New Music Week, and the SKG Bridges Festival in Greece. Notable highlights include his 2019 portrait concert “Liquid Identities” presented at the ORF Kulturhaus in Vienna and the PROGR Zentrum für Kulturproduktion in Bern, and his pioneering Virtual Reality music project “Etude for Virtual Space”, showcased at the 2022 Thessaloniki International Fair. He is a member of BMI classical, Society of Composers (USA), Greek Composers Union (Greece), GEMA (Germany), Royal Musical Association (UK), and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), and the Royal Society of Arts (UK).
Alexandros’s academic and artistic work has been recognized with scholarships from institutions such as the Fulbright Foundation, the British Council, the Goethe Institut, the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece, the City Council of Ioannina, the University of Iowa, the Harry D. Triantafillu Foundation, the Stanley Foundation, the Austrian agency for international cooperation in education and research (OeAD), the International Society for Contemporary Music Bern, and he has received awards such as the Startstipendium for Music Composition (Austrian Federal Chancellery), the Henry and Parker Pelzer Award for excellence in composition (USA), the Ernst Mach Award (Austria), and the Culture Moves Europe Award for emerging European artists (EU Council). He holds diplomas in Harmony, Counterpoint and Fugue from the Conservatory of Ioannina (Greece), a Bachelor of Music from the University of Macedonia (Greece), a Master of Music from the University of Southampton (UK), a Master of Philosophy from the University of Bristol (UK), a Postgraduate Certificate in composition from the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Austria), and a PhD in Music Composition and Theory from the University of Iowa (USA). With multiple years of experience in academic and artistic leadership, Alexandros is the founder and director of the Delian Academy for New Music (Greece), and has taught and conducted research at Durham University (UK), the University for the Creative Arts (UK), the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Austria), and the University of Iowa (USA). Alexandros currently serves as Dean of the Music College at the Sharjah Performing Arts Academy (UAE).