KOUMARÁ, Georgia

Georgia Koumará is a Greek composer. She currently lives in Cologne. Her musical style plays with time (perceived, conceptual and measured), texture and energy, and her works are often quasi-theatrical in nature.

She was a student of Johannes Schöllhorn, Michalis Lapidakis, Kostas Siempis, Lenio Liatsou and Lilia Vaseiliadou.

Her 2012 work, astropedo, for voice and piano, is based on a text by Angelos Kyriou. The work explores various psychological states, some of them violent; the piano part is made percussive through the use of preparations, and the vocal part involves extensive use of extended vocal techniques.