Georges Aperghis
Georges Aperghis is a Greek composer working primarily in the field of experimental music theater but has also composed a large amount of non-programmatic chamber music. He lives in France and was married to actress Édith Scob until 2019 when she died.
Aperghis studied with Iannis Xenakis and founded the music and theater company ATEM . He was a "composer in residence" in Strasbourg, France.
In 2011 he was the first recipient of the Mauricio Kagel Music Prize. Aperghis is honored with the 2015 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Contemporary Music for his reinvention of music theater, using sound, gesture, space and technology and involving performers in the compositional process.Selected works
- Il gigante Golia for voice and orchestra
- Histoire de loups, opera
- Récitations for solo voice
- Le Corps à Corps for solo percussion
- En un tournemain for viola solo
- Cinq Couplets for voice and bass clarinet
- Triangle carré for string quartet and three percussionists
- Simulacre, series of four pieces for voice and small chamber groupings
- Sextuor: L'Origine des espèces, opera for five female voices and 'cello
- Crosswind for viola and saxophone quartet
- Volte-face for viola solo
- Machinations musical spectacle for four female voices and computer
- Die Hamletmaschine-oratorio for choir and orchestra with soloists
- Le petit chaperon rouge for chamber ensemble
- Rasch for violin and viola
- Avis de tempête, opera with chamber ensemble and electronics
- Trio Funambule, for saxophone, piano and percussion
Listening
- featuring Récitations for solo voice 1977-1978
