KONTOU, Athanasia

Athanasia Kontou is a composer and pianist from Greece, currently based in Vienna, Austria. Athanasia’s work concerns autoethnography and personal emotional vulnerability in the compositional process. She is a 2023 Ivor Novello Award nominee for her monodrama ‘Antigone: pure in her crime’, and was the 2019 winner of the Rushworth Composition Prize with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; she was been commissioned by and worked with ensembles such as Psappha, Ensemble 10/10, ensemble recherche, Trio Estatico, BBC Singers, and Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, among others. Having studied at the Royal Northern College of Music with Adam Gorb, David Horne, and Laura Bowler, she is now pursuing her doctorate at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (mdw) in Vienna, supervised by Clara Iannotta and Johannes Krenz.