Nefeli Stamatogiannopoulou is a composer, performer and improviser based in Athens. She has composed her own pieces and music for many performances around the world and also for some films. She plays with several groups and travels around the world since she was 18 years old.

She plays double-bass, electric bass, electronics, piano and she is also exploring the limits of the voice. She started studying music at an early age. After obtaining certificate, from the Royal School of Music with honors, she then began her studies at the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University. She studied at the department of Composition and Performing Arts of the Ionian University. She also studied at the graduate department “Composition for Cinema, Theater and Performing Arts”, of the Ionian University, participated for many years in masterclasses/seminars focused on physical theater, voice and composition under the supervision of the Grotowski Institute (PLN), the Song of the Goat Theater (PLN) , L.I.S.P.A. (DE), the Kristin Linklater Voice Centre(UK).

She is also the composer and founder of, among others, the research artistic group Ov Off (Quintet ’84, The Glass Between, αϊζο-the bird-),the music griot Spooky Redrum, as well as the founder of Ov Off Studio.

She is exploring a lot, – rhythm, voice- and composition as an instructor. She is a PhD candidate at the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University. She teaches seminar courses in Greece and abroad, as well as at the Ionian University as a guest lecturer.

Photo: Karol Jarek