ann-kristin sofroniou

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Ann-Kristin Sofroniou (b.1983) is a Swedish/Cypriot pianist, researcher and educator that is currently based in Athens (Greece). Her work is characterized by explorations of the curation of her performances with the aim to create something new, or do something in a different way, not only through playing contemporary repertoire, but also by presenting older repertoire alongside it in an inventive way. Ann-Kristin's practice explores the relations between research, piano performance and community engagement practices by creating collaborative artistic projects and by integrating multimedia elements, digital tools and participatory community workshops within her projects.

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The experience of displacement resonates in her artistic projects, which revolve again and again around the themes of identity, migration and movement, and aim to address these issues from a musical perspective through researching musical borrowing, but also by including participatory artistic workshops within her projects with the aim to engage, support and collaborate with local communities in diverse locations. Through her projects, Ann-Kristin aims not only to create musical experiences that are constantly moving between present and past, familiar and unfamiliar environments at the same time, but also conditions in which modern societies are similarly stimulated to move between known and unknown and progress together in creating anew fairer, equal, diverse societies.