Albums
Georges Aperghis musica viva vol. 28 - Concerto pour accordéon / Six Études
NEOS 11728 June 2017 Georges Aperghis, Bernhard Lang, Philippe Manoury, Enno Poppe, Alberto Posadas, Walter Zimmermann Donaueschinger Musiktage 2013
NEOS 11411-14 October 2014 Georges Aperghis, Salvatore Sciarrino, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Gérard Grisey Works for Viola Solo
NEOS 10920 April 2010 Isabel Mundry, Enno Poppe, Brice Pauset, Ben Johnston, Arnulf Herrmann, Saed Haddad, Eduardo Moguillansky, Georges Aperghis, Bernhard Gander, Dror Feiler, Brian Ferneyhough Donaueschinger Musiktage 2008
NEOS 10944 November 2009 Georges Aperghis Works for piano
NEOS 10912 July 2009
Georges Aperghis was born in Athens in 1945 to an architect father and artist mother. He is largely self-taught: his interests were divided equally between painting (he was already exhibiting paintings at the age of 12) and music, which he explored for himself on the radio and in private piano lessons. In 1963 he moved to Paris, where he abandoned painting for music and began to study composition. His earliest pieces are dominated by serial techniques and the innovations of Iannis Xenakis. After making a special study of the works of John Cage and Mauricio Kagel he began to turn to music theatre. He produced his first stage piece, La tragique histoire du nécromancien Hieronimo et de son miroir for two female voices, lute and cello, in 1971. In 1976 he founded the multi-media theatre group ‘Atelier Théâtre Et Musique’ (ATEM) in the Parisian suburb of Bagnolet. Its performances are inspired by everyday life; social events are transported into a poetic, often absurd and satirical world; and plots only assume final shape in rehearsal after input from the musicians and actors. Aperghis has written many other stage pieces, compositions for solo instruments and voices, chamber music and orchestral works.
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