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Works for Ensembles

1. String Quartet, No 0, 1969-70 Paris (training and apprenticeship work)
2. Extrapolation, for 5 amplified instruments: (Trb, El. Gtr, Vln, Vla, Vcl), 1972 Paris
3. Ba-Ka-Akh, for 6 percussion players, 1972-73 Paris
4. Taqsim, for Vcello and Piano, 1974-75 Paris
5. Eight Miniatures, for Vcello and Bassoon, 1977 Athens
6. Double Image, for Violin and Piano, 1984 Athens
7. Four pieces, for 2 Pianos (inspired by Aldous Huxley The doors of perception), 1986 Athens
8. Moments of a lonesome town, for 6 players: (Fl, Cl, Vln, Vla, Perc, Pno) 1986 Athens (Commissioned by Group "Symmolpa")
9. String Quartet, No 1, 1987 Athens (Dedicated to Marcos Sfetsas)
10. Desert flowers, for female voice and 12 instruments: (Folk Cl+Ten sax, Fl+sopr sax, Tpt, Trb, 2 Perc, Pno, Db & String quartet, 1994 Athens (Commissioned by O.M.M.A. the Athens Concert Hall Organization)
11. Soneto la rosa, poetry by Dionyssios Solomos (from his early Italian poems) for female voice, Vln, Vcl and Pno, 1994 Athens
12. Trio, for Violin, Alto sax and Piano, 1994 Athens
13. Oblivion, poetry by Lorentzos Mavilis, for female voice and 4 players: (Tpt, Vln, Vla, Pno), 1995 Athens
14. The three faces of November, for Saxophone Quartet, 1998 Athens
15. Rev bows, for 6 Violoncellos, 1999 Athens

Scores available at: K. Papagrigoriou & H. Nakas Music Publishers, 39 Panepistimiou st., 105 64 Athens, Greece Tel. +30 10 3221786 Fax +30 10 3222742

Orchestral works

1. Situations, for symphony orchestra, 1967 Paris
2. Exposition, for symphony orchestra, el. guitar and el. bass, 1968 Paris
3. Images, for string orchestra 1968, Paris
4. Osiris, for large symphony orchestra, el. guitars & percussion group 1970-71, Paris
5. Concert Music Slides, double concert for Violin, Piano and orchestra,1977 Athens (Commissioned by violonist Spiros Rantos)
6. Sounding of present and future, for Oboe, Viola, Chamber orchestra and multi media (optonally) action, 1986 Athens (Commissioned by 1st International Patras Festival) World premiere July 1986 at the old Patras Castle by

Kyriakos Sfetsas was born on September 29, 1945, in Amfilochia. He was raised in Lefkada where, at an early age, he studied music for the first time at the Philarmonic Band and the National Conservatory of the city with the late Fotis Vlachos. He continued his studies at the National Conservatory of Athens (1963-1966), where he studied the piano with Krino Kalomiri and theory of music with Michalis Vourtsis. On August 30, 1964, in Lefkada, he accompanied on the piano Maria Callas in her last performance in Greece. A few months after the 1967 dictatorship, he moved to Paris. There, on a French State scholarship (1969-1972), he pursued further studies with the composer and educator Max Deutsch (composition, analysis, orchestral conducting), while seeking the mentorship and advice of I. Xenakis, Luigi Nono and Henri Dutilleux.

The first public performance of his work (Episodes for piano solo) took place just after the uprising of May ‘68 at the "Latin America Hall" in Paris, receiving favourable reviews. After that, his music was often performed and he had his first commissions (by French Radio and TV, the Ars Nova Orchestra and the Dance Group of Vitry). After that period, several of his works are performed in renowned international contemporary music festivals (Royan, Reims, Bordeaux and Paris); at the same time, he works on a regular basis with the contemporary dance group of Vitry and the choreographer Michel Cazerta. A portion of his Paris works were published by Editions Transatlantiques, and it was in Paris in 1974 that he released for the first time one of his works on record: Four-channel electro-acoustic music for the Ballet Smog, one of the first pieces written for four-channel tape in the world. In Greece, he made his debut as a composer at the 4th Hellenic Week of Contemporary Music (Athens, 19th