stavros sakellariou

Stavros Sakellariou was born in 1980 in Ioannina, Greece and lived there until 2000. His involvement with music began through playing in various local bands as a singer. After having lessons in singing, piano and basic music theory he moved to England to have a more formal training. In the period from 2000 – 2003 he acquired a bachelor of music at the university of Hull. In 2004 – 2006 he continued to a masters degree level where he focused in contemporary composition and musicology. During the years 2008 -­‐ 2010, he went to Corfu, Greece at the Ionio university to attend another masters degree in the programme «arts and technolgies of sound’’. There he became interested in electroacoustic music as a composer and as an analyst. Main influences in his work is the theoritical output of well known figures, of the so called ‘music concrete’ tradition, such as Pierre Schaffer, Dennis Smalley and Trevor Wishart. Another aspect that is increasingly influences his artistic output is psychoacoustics and sound perception. Recently, his focus is on sound composition for orchestral forces and their manipulation in the digital domain. Since 2013, is a music teacher in elementary and music schools in various places around Greece.