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Eleni Karaindrou (Greek: Ελένη Καραΐνδρου, born 25 November 1941) is a Greek composer. She is best known for scoring the films of the Greek director Theo Angelopoulos.[1][2]

Eleni Karaindrou
Born (1941-11-25) 25 November 1941 (age 80)
Teichio, Phocis, Greece
OccupationComposer
Years active1967 – present

Biography


Karaindrou moved with her family to Athens when she was eight years old, and she studied piano and theory at the Hellenikon Odeion (Hellenic Conservatory). She also attended history and archaeology classes at the university. During the time of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 she lived in Paris, where she studied ethnomusicology and orchestration, and improvised with jazz musicians. Then she began to compose popular songs.

In 1974 she returned to Athens where she established a laboratory for traditional instruments and broadcast a series on ethnomusicology on Radio 3 of the Greek national broadcasting company. In 1976 she started collaborating with ECM Records. This was a period of high productivity for her, during which she worked extensively on music for the theater and the cinema.[3] Karaindrou has stated that her own personal style emerged in working on soundtracks and that the relationship between images and movements created a new space for her to express emotions.

Her first soundtrack album was released in 1979 for the movie Periplanissi by Christoforos Christofis. In 1982 she won an award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and was noticed by Theo Angelopoulos, who was serving as president of the jury. Karaindrou collaborated with the Greek director on his last eight films, from 1984 to 2008.

Karaindrou is very prolific. By 2008 she had composed music for 18 full-length movies, 35 theatrical productions and 11 TV series and television movies.[4] Among the screen directors she has worked with are Chris Marker, Jules Dassin, and Margarethe von Trotta. In 1992 she received the Premio Fellini award. Recently, her compositions "Elegy for Rosa" and "Refugee's Theme" were featured prominently in the 2015 blockbuster film Mad Max: Fury Road.

In November 9, 2012, her compositions were part of the concert “Music and songs for the films of Theo Angelopoulos”, co-organized by the 53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival and the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra in the context of the tribute hosted by the Festival to the greek filmmaker.[5]

In 2021 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Ghent Festival's World Soundtrack Awards.


Discography



References


  1. JDD, Le. "L'Athénienne Eleni Karaindrou met sa musique en scène au Théâtre de la Colline". lejdd.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  2. Fernández-Santos, Elsa (2014-10-22). ""As canções tristes não me deixam triste... Me deixam eufórico"". EL PAÍS (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  3. Tucker, Michael (2019-11-15). "Border crossings: 50 years of ECM Records /1". Jazz Journal. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  4. "Klasyczna | wykonawca kompozytor Eleni Karaindrou". Archived from the original on 2016-03-23. Retrieved 2012-11-27.
  5. Systems, EPAFOS IT (10 November 2012). "53rd TIFF: Eleni Karaindrou and the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra Concert". www.filmfestival.gr. Retrieved 2020-07-07.



На других языках

[de] Eleni Karaindrou

Eleni Karaindrou (griechisch Ελένη Καραΐνδρου; * 25. November 1941[1][2] in Tichio Doridas, heute Teil der Gemeinde Efpali, Fokida, Mittelgriechenland) ist eine griechische Komponistin.
- [en] Eleni Karaindrou

[ru] Караиндру, Элени

Эле́ни Караи́ндру (греч. Ελένη Καραΐνδρου, 25 ноября 1941, Фокида) — греческий композитор.


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