Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri was born in Ptolemais, Greece. Her work includes compositions for instruments and sound objects-sculptures that she creates herself and in collaboration with artist Pe Lang. Papalexandri's work focuses on the production and reception of sound by questioning and transforming the role and function of the instrument as a sound-generator (object as instrument and instrument as object) as as well as the type of sound production and behaviour of the performer. Selected performances and exhibitions of Papalexandri's works include Tokyo Yebis International Festival for Art & Alternatives Visions, San Francisco Art Institute, de Signel, November Music Festival, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Das Weekend Transmediale, Centre d Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Kunsthaus L6 Freiburg, Dialogue Festival, impuls, COMA Gallery, Ultrashall Festival, Wien Modern Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, ISCM-World New Music Days,Festival of City BBC in performances by Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Mosaik, Ensemble SurPlus, Quartet New Generation, Orkest de Volharding, London Improvisers Orchestra among others.

In 2008 she received her Ph.D in composition from the University of California, San Diego where she worked with Chaya Czernowin, Rand Steiger and Steven Schick. Papalexandri holds degrees in music and composition from the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien and the University of London, Goldsmiths College where she studied with Roger Redgate. Numerous awards and grants such as the Dan David Prize in contemporary music, impuls award, Berliner Kompositions stipendien 2011, Stipendienpries der Darmstadter Ferienkurse, Kurt Weil Fellowship, the EMS residency, Stockholm and the Robert Erickson Scholarship. In 2011-2012 she will be a fellow at the Academy Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart.

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