PROJECTS
List of Selected Works
2023 If You See Something That Doesn't Look Right, game for music ensemble and audience (work in progress). Presented as part of a workshop at the Academy of Music - University of Zagreb and Middlesex University.
2023 Busy Minds, Restless Hands, sound installation presented at Middlesex University as part of the London Dementia Action Week, in collaboration with the Music Cognition & Communication Lab.
2022 - 2023 SIGNS, for music ensemble (work in progress)
2021 - 2022 Click to the Dark Side, We Have Cookies, live installation for music ensemble, smartphones and a regulator, presented in Corfu (GR) in August 2022.
2020 En Route: The Balkan Route, brass trio. En Route is a composition for brass trio, consisting of seven 1-3 minute sections (1. First Border, 2. Population Exchanges, 3. Peninsular States, 4. Three Different Ones, 5. Lands of Menacing Looks, 6. Walls in our Minds, 7. Can I call it Home?). It was inspired by the 'Balkan Route' walked through by populations seeking refuge in Europe during the last few years as a result of war or general political unrest in the Middle East. The 'Balkan Route' was steeped in war and refugee stories through the decades, as it was also the main way for European refugees seeking asylum in
Syria and the Middle East region during WWII. Thus, performers can decide beforehand if they would prefer to start from section one and move towards section seven or take the opposite direction, starting from section seven moving up to section one. 'En Route' develops around a lullaby-like melody used as a symbol for traditions travelling away from home, and a block of descending chords identified as ''Border'', used throughout the composition as a tool of unsettlement. (Composed for Aeris Brass Trio)
2019 - 2020 In Defence, sound walk and mixed-media piece for solo trombone on experiencing architecture and artificial environments in our daily routine as residents of a city and the role of memory in this process. (Composed for Andreas-Roland Theodorou and Ergon Ensemble)
2019 Building regulations, mixed-media piece on restrictions created by communal spaces' architecture. (Part II: The 'Auge' Project)
2019 We should burn this!, created for and performed by Plus Minus Ensemble. This is an interactive work for ensemble and audience, on censorship. You can find the instructions for the audience here.
A Brief Reflection on the Performance
2018 - 2019 Building regulations, mixed-media piece on restrictions created by communal spaces' architecture. (Part I: The 'Lessig' Project, Performed by Caitlin Rowley)
2017 Pillars of Wisdom, for flute and prepared piano. Flute: Sofia Alifieraki, piano: Maria Maltezou
2016 You are here., performance piece. Collaboration with Despina Stournara for the Royal Holloway Drama Department Festival 2016. This piece was based on our common experience of living in London as newcomers.
2016 Gemini, performance piece. Collaboration with the physical theatre artist and actress Joanna Fragkouli. This piece, based on Gilbert Simondon's book Two Lessons on Animal and Man, was created for and performed at the Royal Holloway Drama Department Festival 2016.
2016 SOLD, five minute solo performance piece on human trafficking. This piece was created in a workshop as an installation with 'found' items and was developed later in a five-minute performance piece.
2016 The Merchant of Venice, music for a theatre performance
2015 Controlled by... , performance piece on daily life and activities restricted by western society norms. Controlled by ... is a performance that reflects the modern man, a member of the urban society. It comments on everyday habits of an individual, that have resulted in the lack of freedom, actually through self-constraint. It is the lack of independence that comes from someone's attachment on goods, emotions, social surroundings or even the situations he is facing daily. Things and habits, he knows that do not contribute to his happiness, but which also he cannot be separated of. The original idea of the performance comes from a poem and a song on fear in conjunction with the non-free thinking and lifestyle. The poem "Be silent, do not speak" by the Turkish poet Aziz Nesin (1915-1995) and the song "Gusurum" by Nikolas Asimos (1949-1988) referred both to fear of action, fear for the real life, and the internal oppression imposed by this fear. This piece, including a composition for an ensemble and electronics, as background music, was part of my undergraduate final portfolio.
2015 The Two-Drop Tale, stop motion video based on a short story by Katerina Nianiou. Stop-motion animation video: Maria Maltezou, Thanasis Maltezos, artwork and music: Maria Maltezou.
2014 Five Flute Miniatures, flute: Sofia Alifieraki.
2012 String Quartet, performed by Kreutzer Quartet at University of York. The piece is an exploration of extended techniques for string instruments through a series of short pieces.
2011 Tha rthei kairos, background music for a poem by Katerina Gogou. You can find information on Katerina Gogou and her poetry here.