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Ioannis Papaspyrou – Curiculum Vitae​

                                 

Websites

 

http://www.ioannispapaspyrou.com

 

http://www.ioannismusiclessons.com

 

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ioannis-papaspyrou/4b/a65/541

https://www.facebook.com/jpapaspyrou

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https://www.facebook.com/Ioannis-Papaspyrou-Performer-1632122473691781/?ref=ts&fref=ts

https://www.facebook.com/Ioannis-Papaspyrou-Music-Educator-Music-Lessons-Atlanta-618691191517715/?ref=ts&fref=ts

http://www.reverbnation.com/ioannispapaspyrou

https://soundcloud.com/ioannis-papaspyrou

https://soundcloud.com/i-papaspyrou-arranger

http://www.societyofcomposers.org/members/IoannisPapaspyrou/

http://www.acmusic.org/compose/members/ioannis-papaspyrou

https://twitter.com/IPapaspyrou

http://ioannispapaspyrou.blogspot.com/

https://independent.academia.edu/IoannisPapaspyrou

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Education

 

  • MA in Music Composition – Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013.

  • BM in Music Composition – Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2011.

  • Diploma in Byzantine Music – “Odio Mousiko Collegio” Conservatory, Thessaloniki city, Greece, 2007.

  • Diploma in Music Composition - “Odio Mousiko Collegio” Conservatory, Thessaloniki city, Greece, 2005.

  • Certificate in Fugue – “Neo Odio Thessalonikis” Conservatory, Thessaloniki city, Greece, 1994.

  • Certificate in Counterpoint – “Neo Odio Thessalonikis” Conservatory, Thessaloniki city, Greece, 1992.

  • Certificate in Arranging for Wind Band - “Synchrono Odio Thessalonikis” Conservatory, Thessaloniki city, Greece, 1992

  • Jazz Music Studies – “Synchrono Odio Thessalonikis” Conservatory, Thessaloniki city, Greece, 1992.

  • Certificate in Harmony- “Synchrono Odio Thessalonikis” Conservatory, Thessaloniki city, Greece, 1990.

  • 18th High School of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki city, Greece, 1988.

 

 

Creative Activity - Compositions

 

  • Élégie Mysteriose (in progress)

[alto saxophone & tuba quintet]

 

  • Children’s Mourning Statues of Clay (in progress)

[trombone quartet]

 

  • Thrace Yoke (in progress)

[brass octet]

 

  • Horizon (in progress)

[wind band]

 

  • Gardens and Storms (in progress)

[string quartet]

 

  • Valse Excentrique (2024)

[two euphoniums & tuba]

 

  • Dance of Meditation (2023)

[brass quintet (3 trumpets in Bb)]

 

  • Summer Flower VI (2023)

[tuba quartet]

 

  • Summer Flower V (2024)

[tuba]

 

  • Summer Flower IV (2023)

[tuba]

 

  • Macedonian Fire (2023)

[brass decet]

 

  • Idiotic Fanfare (2023)

[trombone quartet]

 

  • Great Announcment – Important Decision (2023)

[brass quintet]

 

  • Epirotic Outburst (in progress)

[woodwind quartet]

 

  • The Balcony with the Summertime Cool Breeze (2022)

[flute quintet]

 

  • Sweet Sunset of Sevilla (2022)

[four flutes]

 

  • Sprinkles of our Youth (2022)

[woodwind quintet]

 

  • Gardens with Thorns (2022)

[violin, clarinet in A & tenor trombone]

 

  • Something Pleasant with Dance (2022)

[brass quintet (three trumpets in Bb)]

 

  • Nostalgic Vesper (2022)

[tuba]

 

  • Greek Rebel (in progress)

[wind band]

 

  • Summer Flower III (2022)

[tuba]

 

  • Summer Flower II (2022)

[tuba]

 

  • Summer Flower I (2022)

[tuba]

 

  • Sweet Summer Breeze of July (2020)

[flute quartet]

 

  • Lament for a Leaving Sunset (2020)

[woodwind quartet]

 

  • Thessaloniki Delight (2020)

[woodwind octet]

 

  • Voices of Wisdom (2020)

[four Bb trumpets]

 

  • Folk Reverie (2020)

[wind band]

 

  • Thessaloniki Delight (2020)

[woodwind octet]

 

  • Little Pictures for Solo Instruments II (2020) (in progress)

[various instruments]

 

  • Old Ladies Singing (2020)

[four oboes]

 

  • Pretty Bird (2020)

[flute, oboe & clarinet in Bb]

 

  • Celebration (2019)

[brass quintet]

 

  • Ethnic Jazz Sonata (2019)

[piano]

 

  • Melancholic Serenade after Panegyri; Enjoying Summer's Midnight Breeze (2019)

[wind band] (rearranged)

 

  • Little Pictures for Solo Instruments B (2018)

[various instruments]

 

  • Little Pictures for Solo Instruments A (2018)

[various instruments]

 

  • Saxophone Quartet Nr. 1 (2017)

 

  • 2028 (film by Jorge Mendes) (2017)

(film score) [flute, clarinet in Bb, violin, vcello, percussion & piano]

Premiere: Access Contemporary Music Ensemble, Chicago, 4/2017

 

  • Serenata Pequena de una Nostalgia (in progress)

[four oboes]

 

  • Little Pictures for Solo Instruments I (2019)

[various instruments]

 

  • Elegy (2016)

[tenor & baritone saxophones]

 

  • Byzantine Flavor (2016)

[four horns]

 

  • Games we Played (film by Brett Rogstad) (2016)

(film score) [flute, clarinet in Bb, violin, vcello, percussion & piano]

Premiere: Access Contemporary Music Ensemble, Chicago, 4/2017

 

  • Despondency (in progress)

[solo tenor saxophone]

 

  • Hermitage (in progress)

[solo piano]

 

  • Psiphidoto B (2015)

[woodwind quintet]

 

  • Eight Little Sketches for Woodwind Quartet (2015)

 

  • A Single Fountain in Three Hills (2015)

[flute, tenor saxophone & trombone]

 

  • Melancholic Serenade after Panegyri; Enjoying Summer's Midnight Breeze (2014)

[woodwind quintet]

 

  • Joy over Darkness (2013)

[wind band]

 

  • Say it in Jazz and Distort It! (2013)

[xylophone, vibraphone & marimba]

 

  • Asceticon Troparion (2013)

[euphonium & electric guitar]

Premiere: Paul Dickinson, John Scherer, Atlanta, Kopleff Recital Hall, 4/10/2013

 

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  • ​Eight Little Sketches for Piano (2013)

[solo piano]

Premiere: Zhong Huang, Atlanta, Kopleff Recital Hall, 4/10/2013

 

  • Baby Crying in a Greek Village (2013)

[soprano & alto saxophones]

Premiere: Will West, William Hollifield: Atlanta, Kopleff Recital Hall, 4/10/2013

 

  • Macedonian Syrinx (2013)

[piccolo, flute]

Premiere: Catherine Reich, Philippe Delage; Atlanta, Kopleff Recital Hall, 4/10/2013

 

  • Serviko Agitato (2012)

[two Bb clarinets & Bb bass clarinet]

Premiere: Andrew Brin, William Hollifield, Madisyn Taylor Willis, Atlanta, Kopleff Recital Hall, 4/10/2013

 

  • Spanish Agigma (2012) (in progress)

[string quartet]

 

  • Psiphidoto A (2011)

[woodwind quintet]

 

  • Eight Little Sketches for Cello (2011) (in progress)

 

  • Warrior (2011)

[string quartet]

Premiere

 

  • A Visit to a Festival (2011)

[brass quintet]

 

  • Ethnic Rondo con Variaciones (2010)

[solo soprano saxophone]

Premiere: Scott Draffin; Kopleff Recital Hall, Atlanta, 2/9/2011

Other performances: Will West; Kopleff Recital Hall, Atlanta, 10/12/2012

 

  • Romantic Waltz (2009)

[solo piano]

 

  • Salonica (2010) (in progress)

[violoncellos quartet]

 

  • Pathos (2010)

[string quartet]

Premiere: Joseph Cho, Emiliano Nieto-Montiel, Cecilia Trode, Nicholas Heaton; Kopleff Recital Hall, Atlanta, 2/9/2011

 

  • Dance Request (2010)

[trpt I, II, trb & tba]

Premiere: Hadrian Mendoza, D.J. Creech, Marcus Cooper, Josh Taylor; Kopleff Recital Hall, Atlanta, 2/9/2011

 

 

  • Greek Summertime (2010)

[vibraphone, marimba & piano]

 

  • Eight Little Sketches for Viola (2010)

[solo viola]

Premiere: Tania Clements; Kopleff Recital Hall, Atlanta 2/9/2011

 

  • Free Spirit (2010)

[solo violin]

Premiere: Joseph Cho; Kopleff Recital Hall, Atlanta, 2/9/2011

 

  • Epitaphios (2010)

[tenor saxophone/cello]

Premiere: Taylor Glanton, Nicholas Heaton; Kopleff Recital Hall, Atlanta 11/19/10.

Other performances: Taylor Glanton, Nicholas Heaton; Kopleff Recital Hall, Atlanta 2/9/2011

 

  • Gift from Epirus (2010)

[woodwind quartet]

Premiere: Rose Bishop, McKenzie Allen, Krista Fleming, Emilly Blackwell; Kopleff Recital Hall, Atlanta 9/2/10.

 

  • Greek Brass Fiesta (2010)

[Eb cl./Bb cl./Bb trpt/Bb/trpt/tenor sax/trb/tuba/perc/perc]

 

  • Loving Pass (in progress)

[fl./A cl./vla/pno]

 

  • Eight Little Sketches for Solo Bouzouki (2009)

 

  • Lier (2008)

[solo Bb clarinet]

 

  • Birthday Blues (2005)

[piano]

 

  • Pirate (2005)

[string quartet]

 

  • Ibalia (Symphonic Poem) (2005)

[double choir & orchestra]

 

  • Space Cowboy (Symphonic Poem) (2005)

[48 strings]

 

  • Boogie for Friends (2000)

(2 pianos)

Premiere: Nicole Brancato, Alaleh Ketabi; Kopleff Recital Hall, Atlanta, 11/5/10

 

 

  • Blue Lullaby for Nefeli (2003)

[a. sax/pno]

Premiere: ACM, Chicago 2010

Other performances: Caleb J. Deas, Kyung-Mi Kim; Kopleff Recital Hall, Atlanta 2012

 

  • Peace in my Soul – Harmonic Variations on a Theme (1994)

[solo piano]

Premiere: Stavros Laparidis, International Music Seminars of Vertiskos, 8/2000

 

  • Strange Age Songs (1994) (in progress)

{soprano & alto voices/piano]

 

 

Awards

 

  • “Mysterioso Agitato”: Finalist in the competition “Cosi fan tutti”, Darmsdadt, Germany. The final recital took place on the 29th of May 2011. The 12 finalist compositions were included in a CD production.

 

 

Distinctions

 

  • Georgia State University: Dean’s List:

 

Fall 2008

Spring 2009

Fall 2009

Spring 2010

Fall 2010

Spring 2011

Fall 2011

Summer 2011

 

 

Scholarships

 

  • Georgia State University – Tuition Waiver (Fall 2008 – Summer 2011)

  • Georgia State University - U.S.A. (Undergraduate Professor Assistant Scholarship) (Fall 2009 – Spring 2011)

  • Georgia State University – Professor Graduate Assistant in Composition Area (Fall 2011 – Spring 2013)

  • Georgia State University – Undergraduate Music Composition Scholarship

  • AHEPA – KRAFT Scholarship (Fall 2011 & Spring 2013)

  • AHEPA – Economy Scholarship (Fall 2012 & Spring 2013)

 

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Teaching Experience

 

  • Advanced Music theory, Byzantine music, Greek bouzouki, guitar, mandolin, ud, Greek lute, piano,

keyboards (Greece 1993 – 2008)

  • Greek bouzouki, guitar, mandolin, ukulele, ud, piano – (U.S.A. - 2008 – present)

 

 

Other Musical Experience

 

  • Bouzouki/ud/lute/piano/ keyboard performer (Greece, 1989-2008)

  • Artistic director/keyboardist/vocalist in Bouzouki Express Greek Band in Atlanta (2014 to present)

  • Keyboardist/vocalist in Alpha Omega Sound Greek Band in Atlanta GA (2008 -2016)

  • Keyboardist/vocalist in Endasi Greek Band in Atlanta GA (2008 -2023)

  • Organist/Chanter assistant at Atlanta Greek Orthodox Cathedral (2012 – 2015 & from 2021 to present)

  • Piano/guitar/mandolin/ukelele instructor at Lawrenceville-Suanee School of Music (2016 to present)

  • Piano/guitar/mandolin/ukelele instructor at Music and Arts (2021 to present)

  • Piano/guitar/mandolin/ukulele instructor at Taylor Robinson Music (2016 to present)

  • Piano/guitar/mandolin/ukulele instructor at Sarang Piano Studio (2023 to present)

 

 

Professional Affiliations

 

  • Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI)

  • ASCAP

  • Accessible Contemporary Music (ACM), Chicago

  • Composers Circle

 

Updated: 2/8/24

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