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.
Career
Aperghis worked with Pierre Schaeffer and 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 orchestraHistoire de loups, operaRécitations for solo voiceLe Corps à Corps for solo percussion En un tournemain for viola soloCinq Couplets for voice and bass clarinetTriangle carré for string quartet and three percussionistsSimulacre, series of four pieces for voice and small chamber groupingsSextuor: L'Origine des espèces, opera for five female voices and 'celloCrosswind for viola and saxophone quartetVolte-face for viola soloMachinations musical spectacle for four female voices and computerDie Hamletmaschine-oratorio for choir and orchestra with soloistsLe petit chaperon rouge for chamber ensembleRasch for violin and violaAvis de tempête, opera with chamber ensemble and electronicsWild Romance, for soprano and chamber ensembleTrio Funambules, for saxophone, piano and percussionPersonal life
He was born in 1945 to Greek artists Irini and Achilleas Aperghis. He lives in France and was married to actress Édith Scob until 2019 when she died.Listening
- featuring Récitations for solo voice 1977-1978