Dimitri Papageorgiou

Papageorgiou’s music has and always has had a certain predilection towards various forms of similarity and structural reiteration. When viewed in this context, the recurrence of patterns with the same underlying structure is an integral part of his work. Using one or a variety of perspectives, Papageorgiou elaborates centripetally on the same structural complexes or similar structural features, establishing, maintaining, and exalting one or more states.

Throughout his career, many of his works have been shown at festivals, conferences, and concerts in many European countries including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Finland, Netherlands, Spain, Croatia, Greece, Cyprus, but also in other countries, such as Russia, Serbia, Armenia, Iran, Turkey, Argentina, South Korea, and several States in the United States (New York, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Oklahoma, Nevada, etc.). Most notably his music has been performed at Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik; Zeitströme Darmstadt; Unerhörte Musik Berlin (Germany), Klangforum Concert Series, Konzerthaus Wien; Musik Protokol, Graz; Klangspuren, Schwaz; Tage Neuer Musik, Graz; 4020.Mehr als Musik, Linz (Austria),  Avignon Festival (France), NUNC4, Chicago; Grains of Sound, San Francisco; Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival; Research on Contemporary Composition Conference, University of North Georgia; SCI National Conference 2002 (U.S.A.), TUUDEN MUSIIKIN LOKAKUU Festival (Finland); Dialog, Gare du Nord – Bahnhof für Neue Musik, Basel; Forum Wallis Contemporary Music Festival  (Switzerland), Diffrazioni Florence Multimedia Festival; Il Suono Music Week (Italy);  ME_MMIX, Festival de Música Electrónica, Mallorca (Spain), ICMC|SMC International Computer Music Conference, Athens; Onassis Stegi, Athens; Off Borders, Thessaloniki; Freiraum Festival, Thessaloniki (Greece), Pharos Arts Foundation 3rd International Contemporary Music Festival (Cyprus), Tehran International Electronic Music Festival (Iran),  28th International Review of Composers, Belgrade (Serbia), inner sOUNDscapes (Oklahoma, USA), etc. He has collaborated with ensembles such as Arditti String Quartet (UK); Klangforum Wien, Reconsil, Zeitfluss, Airborne Extended, Studio Dan, Trio ArtResonanz, Pro Arte Chor (Austria); Proxima Centauri (France); Ensemble Il Suono Giallo (Italy); Sonar quartet, Bremer Schlagzeugensemble, Interface (Germany); Construction Site (Serbia); Ensemble Et Cetera, CNM Ensemble Iowa, BGSU New Music Ensemble, Neophonia, University of Nevada New Music Ensemble (USA); Oerknal (Netherlands); UMS & JIP (Switzerland); Ensemble Assonance (Armenia); Thessaloniki National Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Athens, dissonart ensemble, Trio IAMA, duo Goliardi (Greece).

Many of his pieces have been commissioned by a number of institutions, including the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics at the Graz University of Music and Drama; the Austrian National Radio (ÖRF) and Literature Forum Graz; the project “Common Lab”, a Goethe-Institut Excellency Initiative by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki & ArtBOX; SCI/ASCAP (U.S.A.); the Kultur Zentrum bei den Minoriten Graz; the Thessaloniki Concert Hall; the Il Suono Contemporary Music Week; the Yarava Music Group and the Tehran International Electronic Music Festival (Tehran, Iran); the Delian Academy for New Music supported by the Siemens Music Foundation  — and ensembles and performers  — such as Dimitri Polisoidis (violist of the ensemble Klangforum, Austria); the Sonar quartet with the support by the Siemens Music Foundation; the Bremer Schlagzeugensemble; the Ensemble Interface (Germany), Zeitfluss Ensemble (Austria), UMS & JIP (Switzerland), Trio IAMA (Greece), the Ensemble Etcetera (USA), the duo Goliardi (Greece), etc.

His recent assignments include serving as a visiting composer at the University of Iowa School of Music and the University of Nevada at Reno in December 2016; the University of Music, Drama, and Media at Hanover in April 2017; Bilgi University at Istanbul in April 2019; In addition, he served as a faculty member in June 2017-2021 at the Delian Academy for New Music, a summer academy for composers curated under the auspices of Georges Aperghis. Since 2017 he has held composition master classes in Tehran, Iran. From 2018 to 2021 he served as an artistic advisor and a member of the scheduling committee of the Tehran International Electronic Music Festival, where he taught masterclasses in composition. In September 2023 he was the invited international composer at TARA Festival (Salta, Jujuy, Cordoba) and Atemporanea Festival Buenos Aires, Argentina.

For five years, from 2012 to 2014 he worked on two artistic research projects of the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics of the University of Music at Graz, Algorithmische Komposition in Kontext neuer Musik and Patterns of Intuition. These collaborations have led to publications at Graz, Austria: Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik, Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Graz, 2012 and  New York: Springer, 2014, respectively.

He is one of the founding members and artistic co-directors of outHEAR  New Music Week, a symposium and masterclass in composition featuring the ensemble Klangforum Wien.

Currently an associate professor of composition, he was appointed at the Department of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2007.