Penelope Bekiari
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I'm all about nature, good food, hanging out with my beloved cat, and taking long walks with my friends, but I also do these things:
Studies
2024- who knows: PhD Student at the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema, NKUA.
2020-2023: MMus "Music Technology and Contemporary Practices ", National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. - Graduated with Distinction.
2021-2022: MMus Electroacoustic Composition and Interactive Media, University of Manchester- School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. - Graduated with Distinction.
2016: Music Production at SAE Institute (School of Audio Engineering- Athens).
2012-2018: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Philosophy, Department of Theatre Studies, (supported by State Scholarships
Foundation - Athens -Greece)
Festivals and Conferences
2024 (October-December): Artist in Residence at the Greek National Opera as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan,
funded by the European Commission – Next Generation EU.
2024 (November): 7th Conference on Acoustic Ecology Athens, Ancient Epidaurus, Resonant Echoes: Acoustic
Heritage and Cultural Memory in the Mani Peninsula
2024: Mantis Music Festival 20 years, University of Manchester, “Lalē”.
2024 (October) : Contemporary Music Festival, Athens Concert Hall, Hall: Dimitris Mitropoulos, "Rhoē".
2024 (October) : CIME/ICEM - Synopsis (selected by HELMCA) at Opéra Comédie at Montpellier.
2024 (June): “Neural Narratives: Live Sonification of Brain Data in “The Glass Menagerie” in the Spatial Audio Gathering at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK).
2024 (June):"Glass Animals" (acoustic composition) inspired by The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, project name: "Latent Space" - Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.
2024 (June): Biosensors in Immersive Music Performance: Andromeda for Flute and Biofeedback, SMCPorto.
2023 (November): Electroacoustic Music Days 2023 & 41st International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music Meeting, HELMCA.
2023 (July): MA/IN FESTIVAL in Goethe Institute Rome, selected work category [A] Andromeda.
2023 (June): Advances in Data Science & AI Conference 2023, University of Manchester, Business School. Poster and Talk - Revisiting Andromeda of Euripides with biofeedback.
2022 (November): Mantis Music Festivals- University of Manchester, selected work Synopsis’.
2022: Electroacoustic Music Days - 20th anniversary of HELMCA (Hellenic Association of Composers of Electroacoustic Music) "Opsis" - Corfu.
2022: John Rylands Library and Research Institute- University of Manchester, memorial to Delia Darbishire (selected work -acousmatic Composition)
2022: “The Knight’s Hart” has been chose as the Best Original Score at SEVIFF – Sevilla Indie Film Festival 2022, to Penelope Bekiari.
2022 (March): Mantis Music Festivals- University of Manchester.
2022: EASTN-DC Cardiff Electroacoustic Conference - Opsis.
2022: Duncan Dance Research Centre: Delphi, quadrophonic" piece, memorial to Aggelos Sikelianos
2022: Athens Conference of Sound Drama With Digital Media in Modern Theatre practice (NKUA, Department of Music Studies)
2021: Transmissions Project, University Exchange program with the support of the Onassis Foundation.
Teaching Experience:
2024-Present: Lectures in the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema, NKUA.
2023 (July): Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Department of Music Studies, Sound Ecology conference by Civil Society and Governance, (The Aristotle & Confucius Symposium) - Supervising bachelor students, composing for Sound Ecology.
2022-Present: Music Technology Lecturer in Metropolitan College (in partnership with the University of East London)
Theatre Plays :
2019-2020: Doctor Glass, Hjalmar Söderberg (Greece- Cyprus) under the aegis of the Embassy of Sweden in Athens,
2018 : Old Clown Wanted (Greece) under the aegis of Associations of Greek Culture and Development- ΕΝΕΛΠΑ.
2017 : Center for Classical Drama at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Euripides in War Phoenicians - Trojans
Languages
Ελληνικά
English
Français