Kristin Sofroniou
PIANO | RESEARCH | INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS
Kristin Sofroniou is a Swedish-Cypriot pianist, researcher, educator, and cultural manager. Her work is distinguished by innovative explorations of piano repertoire, where she integrates improvisation, re-composition, interdisciplinary collaborations, and diverse musical genres. A central focus of her practice is the concept of musical borrowing - exploring how existing musical material is transformed, reinterpreted, and recontextualized across different styles, traditions and settings.
current/upcoming projects
IN-BETWEEN
upcoming album release “in-between”: An exploration between analogue and digital instruments, and between measured and suspended time.
Drawing on works by Rochberg, Bach, Couperin, and Feldman, the music unfolds with a sense of calculated freedom. From Bach’s intricate counterpoint to Couperin’s unmeasured preludes, and into Feldman’s suspended soundscapes, the album explores music at the threshold - where structure and freedom, pulse and timelessness, history and the present dissolve into and influence one another. To be released December 2025
promo video: music from J.S. Bach's 'Sarabande' from the Partita in E minor BWV830
WOMEN MOVING
Women Moving is a musical podcast series in collaboration with composer of electroacoustic music, Aida Shirazi. It revolves around music theatre, performance art, and storytelling to explore hidden and interesting stories of pioneering women in face of discrimination.
In each episode, we utilize a combination of live and pre-recorded acoustic and electronic compositions and sounds that create ambient spaces for each story to unfold and be amplified. The artistic output of this project culminates in the creation of both live interdisciplinary performances and recorded audio podcasts.
The first episode, “Lucky Star”, created at the Banff Centre as part of the Musicians in Residence programme in January 2025, introduces the story of Sally Ride - astronaut and the first American woman to go to outer space for NASA in 1983. To be released Autumn 2025
PIANOSCAPES
PIANOSCAPES sound scenes from everyday life scored with piano improvisations and classical re-compositions
---PIANOSCAPES is a living series of short videos that capture everyday moments and pair them with improvised music and re-compositions of classical music. Each piece explores the relationship between sound and image, transforming seemingly mundane scenes -- whether from urban neighbourhoods or natural landscapes-- into something reflective, evocative or unexpected. Rooted in a practice of musical borrowing as a relational and creative act, the project reimagines fragments of the classical tradition through a contemporary, participatory lens. The project highlights both the beauty in simplicity and the intricate complexity of life itself---
PIANOSCAPES / sound scenes from everyday life
PIANOSCAPES / sound scenes from everyday life
PIANOSCAPES no.4 playing with form #piano #classicalmusic
#3 stairs
PIANOSCAPES no.1 dress to hide #piano #classicalmusic
PIANOSCAPES no.2 dance as you like and die happy #piano
RECYCLING MUSIC/ RECYCLING PERFORMANCE
The following projects formed part of my PhD research, which focused on the theoretical and practical exploration of musical borrowing as a field, particularly in contemporary piano works composed after the 1960s that use pre-existing material in diverse ways. The PhD thesis, with the title 'Recycling Music-Recycling Performance: Exploring the uses of existing music in piano works of Rochberg, Goehr and Sharman' (2016, Trinity Laban Conservatoire London), aimed to explore different ways of approaching, interpreting, and curating the performance of works of musical borrowing from the performer's perspective.
How can performers use the broader understanding of the function of pre-existing material in new works within their performances?
A musical borrowing playlist
A musical borrowing playlist
Inside_Out
A short story of musical borrowing
Symmetry Disorders Reach
