Valia (Stavroula) Christopoulou

Βάλια (Σταυρούλα) Χριστοπούλου

University of Athens

Ph.D. in Musicology (University of Athens, 2009). She graduated from the Department of French Language and Literature and the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens and also received a piano diploma and a harmony degree from the National Conservatory of Athens, and a counterpoint degree from the Athenaeum Conservatory. She has been the curator of an exhibition on Yorgos Sicilianos in the Benaki Museum (2007). She is the author of the Catalogue of Works of Yorgos Sicilianos (Athens: Panas Music, 2011) and, also, contributed the article on Sicilianos to the Grove Music Online (2013). She has participated in scientific conferences and published articles in conference proceedings and scientific journals. She is a member of the Greek Musicological Society. Since 2009 she has participated in workshops on improvisation and experimental music (Dartington Summer School 2009, knot 2011-2012, Syros Sound Meetings 2012). In 2011, she founded the Group of Experimental Music at the Pallini Music High School which has presented numerous performances (at the Onassis Stegi, the Goethe Institute, the Athens School of Fine Arts). As a musician, she has participated in the group Open Score Project and, since 2022, she is a member of the group WHI. Research interests: Archival Research, Greek Art Music, Musical Modernism and Postmodernism, Experimental Music.

Source: University of Athens

Articles & Papers

#	Title	Author(s)	Affiliation	Publication Year	Language	Item Page
1	Yorgos Sicilianos (1920 - 2005)	Valia (Stavroula) Christopoulou		2007	Greek	View
2	Yorgos Sicilianos and the musical avant garde in Greece	Valia (Stavroula) Christopoulou	Department of Music Studies, University of Athens, Greece	2010	English	View
3	Modernism and Greek Antiquity in the Work of Yorgos Sicilianos	Valia (Stavroula) Christopoulou	University of Athens	2012		View
4	Between musical cosmopolitanism and modernized nationism: the national element in the music of Yorgos Sicilianos	Valia (Stavroula) Christopoulou	Independent scholar	2014	English	View
5	The Use of Borrowed Material, Modernism, and Postmodernism in the Work of Yorgos Sicilianos	Valia (Stavroula) Christopoulou	Department of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	2021	Greek	View

Books

#	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Publication Year	Type	Category	Language	Remarks	Book Page
1	Yorgos Sicilianos	Dimitris Agrafiotis, Theodore Antoniou, Tatsis Apostolidis, Valia Christopoulou, Giorgos Demertzis, Popi Eustratiadi, Byron Fidetzis, Gianni Ioannides, Apostolos Kostios, Giorgos Kouroupos, Katy Romanou, Yorgos Sicilianos, Michalis Stathopoulos, Nikos Synodinos, Nikos B. Tsouchlos	Benaki Museum	2007	Musicology	Edited Volume	Greek & English	Yorgos Sicilianos (1920 – 2005), pp. 13-33	View
2	Yorgos Sicilianos: life and work	Valia (Stavroula) Christopoulou	University of Athens	2009	Musicology	Thesis	Greek		View
3	Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works	Valia Christopoulou	Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas	2011	Musicology	Monograph	Greek		View
4	Yorgos Sicilianos (1920–2005): One Hundred Years Since His Birth.	Minas I. Alexiadis, Katerina Levidou, Lorenta Rammou, Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos, Iakovos Steinhauer, Valia Christopoulou	University of Athens	2021	Musicology	Edited Volume	Greek		View

Conferences & Events

#	Name	Type	Location	Year	Remarks	Event Page
1	Yorgos Sicilianos 1920-2005, the composer in the avant-garde of contemporary music	Exhibition	Benaki Museum	2007	Scientific Editor, Contributor	View
2	International Musicological Conference - Beyond the Centres : Musical avant gardes since 1950 In memoriam Yannis Andreou Papaioannou (1910 - 1989)	Conference	Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum	2010	Speaker	View
3	International Musicological Conference - The National Element in Music	Conference	Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” and Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall & University of Athens, Central Building	2013	Speaker	View
4	Yorgos Sicilianos (1920-2005): One Hundred Years Since His Birth	Conference	Online	2020	Speaker	View
5	Tribute to Yorgos Sicilianos	Commemorative	Athens Conservatoire	2022		View

Works

#	Catalogue Number	Work Title	Subtitle	Opus	Instrumentation	Work Page
1	YSC73	Etudes Compositionnelles	for Piano	32	Piano	View
2	YSC68	String Quartet No. 4		28	String Quartet (Violin I, Violin II, Viola, and Cello)	View
3	YSC46	Concerto for Orchestra		12	2222-4331, Timpani, Bass Drum, Cymbals, Triangle, Strings	View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011)
Dimitris Agrafiotis, Theodore Antoniou, Tatsis Apostolidis, Valia Christopoulou, Giorgos Demertzis, Popi Eustratiadi, Byron Fidetzis, Gianni Ioannides, Apostolos Kostios, Giorgos Kouroupos, Katy Romanou, Yorgos Sicilianos, Michalis Stathopoulos, Nikos Synodinos, and Nikos B. Tsouchlos. Yorgos Sicilianos: In the Avant-Garde of Contemporary Music [Γιώργος Σισιλιανός - Ο συνθέτης στην πρωτοπορία της σύγχρονης μουσικής]. Edited by Valentini Tselika. (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2007)
“Valia (Stavroula) Christopoulou.” University of Athens. Accessed July 1, 2024. https://en.music.uoa.gr/staff/seconded_teachers_2023_2024/valia_christopoulou/.

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