Alexandros Spyrou is a Greek composer, music theorist, 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. He composes chamber and orchestral music, music for stage and electronic media, and often collaborates with visual artists, writers, and scientists. Alexandro's music has been performed across Europe and America by such ensembles as 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 acclaimed soloists.
After undergraduate studies in composition and music theory in Greece, Alexandros studied composition with Michael Finnissy in the United Kingdom, with Beat Furrer in Austria, and with David Gompper and Josh Levine in the United States and further attended masterclasses with numerous composers.​​​ He has presented his music and research in several festivals and instititions such as the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt, the Schloss Solitude Akademie, and the Internationales Digitalkunst Festival in Germany, IRCAM Forum in France, 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 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 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, and 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. In 2019, his portrait concert Liquid Identities was presented at the ÖRF Kulturhaus in Vienna, Austria and the PROGR Zentrum für Kulturproduktion in Bern, Switzerland. His first VR music project "Etude for virtual space" was presented at the 2022 Helexpo
Thessaloniki International Fair as part of project "Metalogues: Empowering cultural XR collaborations". He is a member of BMI classical, Society of Composers (USA), Greek Composers Union (Greece), GEMA (Germany), fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), and fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK).
​​Alexandros has been a scholar of the Fulbright Foundation, 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), and has received prizes such as the Startstipendium for Music Composition (Austria), the Henry and Parker Pelzer Award for excellence in composition (USA), the Ernst Mach Award (Austria) and the Music Moves Europe Award (MME 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 in Graz (Austria), and a Ph.D in Music Composition and Theory from the University of Iowa (USA). Alexandros is the Founder and Director of the Delian Academy for New Music (Greece) and Lecturer in Composition at the University for the Creative Arts and Durham University (UK). His work is available through Universal Edition (Vienna).