Nefeli Stamatogiannopoulou| Composer, Performer, Artist

BIO

Nefeli Stamatogiannopoulou is a composer, researcher, performance/sound artist and improviser based in Athens.

As a composer she has written more than 50 works  including compositions for many performances/theater and  films, as she has also worked as a director in several projects. 

She plays with several groups and has been touring around the world since she was 18 years old. She plays double bass, electric bass, electronics, piano and she is also exploring the limits of the voice. In her last music and stage compositions, the artist, focuses on a personal system of notation and creation, which explore the relationship between music composition, movement and the dramaturgy of sound.

She has been awarded for her work as a composer/musician as well as a sound editor.

She has performed on many concert, festival and theatrical halls. She has presented her work and collaborations at the  Tittanium Gallery, the Short Film Festival in Drama, the Aeschylean Festival in Eleusina, Eleusis European Capital of Culture, the Performing Arts festival in Limnos, the Theater of N. Kosmos, Kast Theater Istanbul, the Athens Concert Hall ‘Megaron’, the Institute Grotowski in Wroclaw,  Odin Teatret Denmark , Athens Epidaurus Festival, National Theater of Greece-Experimental Stage, Art&Science Festival Berlin, Awareness Festival, Nostros Festival 2018, Prague International Music Video Awards, Platforms Project’18, Berlin Art Week,  Nez International Film Festival, Garage21 Performing Arts Center,  Beton 7, An Club,Gagarin 205,  Fuzz Club, Ov Off Studio and more..

On her artistic journey she had the opportunity to play & collaborate  with great people, among her permanent collaborations, such as Karl Wilhelm Krbavac,  Paul Rogers,  Savvina Giannatou, Andreas Mniestris, Pascal Niggenkemper , Patricia Oliver, Stefano Giust, Guiseppe Doronzo, Sheila Jordan and many more artists . 

 Her music studies started at an early age.  After she  acquired a certificate from the Royal School of Music with honors, she began her studies at the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University. She studied at the department of Composition, with specialisation on the Performing Arts, of the Ionian University. She also studied at the graduate department “Composition for Cinema, Theater and Performing Arts”, of the Ionian University,  participated for many years in masterclasses/seminars focused on physical theater, voice and composition under the supervision of the Grotowski Institute (PLN), the Song of the Goat Theater (PLN) , L.I.S.P.A. (DE), the Kristin Linklater Voice Centre(UK).

She is also the composer and founder of, among others, the research artistic group Ov Off (Quintet ’84, The Glass Between, αϊζο-the bird-e.t.c),the music group Spooky Redrum, as well as the founder of Ov Off Studio. 

She is exploring  – rhythm, voice- and composition as an instructor and a solo performer.

She is a PhD candidate at the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University. She teaches seminar courses in Greece and abroad, as well as at the Ionian University as a guest lecturer.

Photo credit: George Terzis

PERSONAL DETAILS

MOBILE: +30 6936250571

ADDRESS: Feidippidou 22 Athens, Greece

EMAIL: nefelistamato@gmail.com

www.ovoffstudio.gr

 

 

photo by Mariana Bolano
photo by Karol Jarek

Degrees & Diplomas

  • Ph.D Candidate 

Description: Composition in Relation 

with Movement 

Supervising Tutor: D. Maragopoulos

Institution: Ionian University of Corfu

  • Degree: Master of Music

Description: Composition in Film, 

Theatre and Performing Arts

Institution: Ionian University of Corfu

  • Degree: Bachelor of Music (Honours)

Specialisation: Composition and Performing Arts

Major: Classical Composition

Institution: Ionian University of Corfu

  • Degree: Grade 7 Music Diploma

Specialisation: Music Theory

Institution: Royal School of Music

Workshops / Masterclasses

‘’Several workshops about Improvisation, composition, creation and techniques at Ov Off Studio Athens’’(2020 – ) 

‘Magdalena Project 2021 at Odin Teatret Holstebro’

‘Kristin Linklater Voice Centre in Orkney ‘’Freeing the Natural Voice Workshop’’ (2018-2020)’’

photo by Karol Jarek

“Physical Theatre Workshops” (2012 – 2015)

6 sequential intensive workshops by Studio Matejka

at Brzezinka forest. Wroclaw, Athens.

Instructors: Matej Matejka, Daniel Han,

Magdalena Koza, Alexandra Kazazou, Zuzi Kakalikova

Cecile Da Costa, Guillaumark Froidevaux

Institution: Grotowski Institute

“Workshop Village” (2015)

  • Title: “Acting Techniques Workshop

intensive Masterclass”

Instructor: Grzegorz Bral

– Title: “Musicality of the Body”

Instructor: Rafal Habel – Julianna Bloodgood

Institution: Song of he Goat Theatre, Poland

“Physical Theatre Workshop” (2015)

–  Title: “Chorus Duet Solo”

Institution: Grotowski Institute, 

Song of the Goat Theatre,Eilissos.

“Summer Music Academy”

     (2006-2010, 2014-2015)

  •  Title: Jazz Department (Bass) 

Instructors: Ronan Guilfoyle, Marc Abrams

–   Title: Music Composition Department

Instructors: Nigel Osborne, Phil Cashian, 

Keneth Hesketh, Marco Stroppa and more.

Institution: Ionian University of Corfu

“Butoh Seminar” (2013)

–  Title: “Body Semiotics”

Instructor: Valentin Tszin

Organisation: Katerina Drakopoulou

“Physical Theatre Research” (2013)

–  Title: “The 7 principles of a performer”

Instructor: Marili Mastrantoni

Institution: Booze Cooperativa

“Singing Seminar” (2013)

–  Title: “Classical and Modern Song Seminar”

Instructor: Marialena Politi

Institution: Ash in Art

“Music Theatre Course” (2012)

  •  Title: “Professional Musical 

Theatre Performance”

Instructor: Sia Koskina, Chuck Foster, Wendy Gibbins,

Froso Dimopoulou, Mirka Kresteniti.

Organisation: Sia Koskina

“7th LISPA’s Summer School” (2013)

  •  Title: “Playfulness”
  •  Title: “The Neutral Mask”
  •  Title: “The Moving Body”
  •  Title: “Collaborated Devised Theatre and Performance”

Instructor: Thomas Prattki

Institution: London International School of Performing Arts

“Musical and Acting Course” (2011 – 2012)

–  Title: “Musical and Acting”

Instructor: Vasia Vougioukli, Antony Armani

Institution: Theatre of Changes