Manos Charalabopoulos
Manos Charalabopoulos is a Greek-British composer and pianist. His compositions have been performed in the UK, Greece, France, Germany and Brazil, by acclaimed musicians and ensembles including Joanna Gutowska, Accroche Note, Hezarfen Ensemble and Bristol Ensemble. As a pianist, he has performed in venues including St Martin-in-the-Fields, Megaron Moussikis, Bath Pump Rooms, and the British Ambassador’s Residence in Paris, and has won several prizes in piano and composition competitions, such as the RPS Composition Prize, Ivan Juritz Prize, EPTA UK Piano Competition and Evangelia Tjiarri International Piano Competition. His latest album, Espelho Duplo—Double Mirror, features solo piano music by Brazilian composer André Luiz Machado. In 2020, Manos received a PhD in Composition from King’s College London.
Address: Manchester, United Kingdom
Address: Manchester, United Kingdom
less
InterestsView All (9)
Uploads
Papers by Manos Charalabopoulos
Commissioned by Royal Philharmonic Society and Presteigne Festival 2018 (Alan Horne Memorial Fund).
Premiered by Joanna Gutowska at St Mary's Church, Kinnerton (Presteigne Festival). Further performances at the Barber Institute (Birmingham) and Holywell Music Room (Oxford).
Not long before a song is presented, it disintegrates. It deconstructed fragments leads to its re-emergence; it is never recovered in its original form, but new kinds of lyricism come to the fore.
Thesis Chapters by Manos Charalabopoulos
Six short piano pieces explore the idea of instrumental recitation through a set of Spanish and Portuguese-language love poems:
i. Bajo el naranjo (Lorca)
ii. Matilde (Neruda)
iii. Por una mirada (Becquer)
iv. O amor, quando se revela (Pessoa)
v. ¡Cantan! (Jimenez)
vi. Ainda que mal (Drummond de Andrade)
Books by Manos Charalabopoulos
The premiere of Poemas de amor was given by the composer on 21 Feb- ruary 2019 at the UFG Cultural !eatre in Goiânia, Brazil.
Premiere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDh8G_UV_SM
ISMN 979-0-9002443-1-4
Commissioned by Royal Philharmonic Society and Presteigne Festival 2018 (Alan Horne Memorial Fund).
Premiered by Joanna Gutowska at St Mary's Church, Kinnerton (Presteigne Festival). Further performances at the Barber Institute (Birmingham) and Holywell Music Room (Oxford).
Not long before a song is presented, it disintegrates. It deconstructed fragments leads to its re-emergence; it is never recovered in its original form, but new kinds of lyricism come to the fore.
Six short piano pieces explore the idea of instrumental recitation through a set of Spanish and Portuguese-language love poems:
i. Bajo el naranjo (Lorca)
ii. Matilde (Neruda)
iii. Por una mirada (Becquer)
iv. O amor, quando se revela (Pessoa)
v. ¡Cantan! (Jimenez)
vi. Ainda que mal (Drummond de Andrade)
The premiere of Poemas de amor was given by the composer on 21 Feb- ruary 2019 at the UFG Cultural !eatre in Goiânia, Brazil.
Premiere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDh8G_UV_SM
ISMN 979-0-9002443-1-4