kristin sofroniou

PIANO | RESEARCH | EDUCATION | INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS

Kristin Sofroniou is a Swedish-Cypriot pianist, researcher, educator, and cultural manager currently based in Athens, Greece. Her work is distinguished by innovative explorations of piano repertoire, where she integrates improvisation, re-composition, interdisciplinary collaborations, and diverse musical genres. A central focus of her practice is the concept of musical borrowing - exploring how existing musical material is transformed, reinterpreted, and recontextualized across different styles, traditions and settings.

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SEASONS

SEASONS or "abrupt endings in different weather" SEASONS or "abrupt endings in different weather" is an experimentation, a musical diary of journeys, thoughts, processes during a year-long exploration of a new artistic and personal identity, the world around me, the societies we live in and nature.

Central part in all episodes is technology - in most means, dysfunctional, old technologies including old phones, old audio recorders, old perceptions of audio design.

Central role in most episodes are plants, animals, water and background humans observing their frustration and their capacity of surviving with plastic food.

Central part in all episodes is classical music repertoire and the fixation for perfection by using mostly recordings with mistakes that I keep in a folder with the label "recordings with mistakes".

SEASONS or (2024)

SUMMER or trills for augusti

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AUTUMN or food for winter (2019)

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WINTER or summer snow (2024)

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SPRING or "it will not work, if it's not real" (2024)

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PRACTICE AS RESEARCH // musical borrowing

The following projects formed part of my PhD research, which focused on the theoretical and practical exploration of musical borrowing as a field, particularly in contemporary piano works composed after the 1960s that use pre-existing material in diverse ways. The PhD thesis, with the title 'Recycling Music-Recycling Performance: Exploring the uses of existing music in piano works of Rochberg, Goehr and Sharman' (2016, Trinity Laban Conservatoire London), aimed to explore different ways of approaching, interpreting, and curating the performance of works of musical borrowing from the performer's perspective.

How can performers use the broader understanding of the function of pre-existing material in new works within their performances?

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