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.
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
#1 dress to hide
#5 Waiting patiently for the dinosaurs to go away
#4 stairs
#3 A trajectory of birds
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
El ser humano muere solamente cuando son olvidan
In more detail the case studies of Rochberg and Goehr