Kyriakos Sfetsas

Kyriakos Sfetsas was born on September 29, 1945, in Amfilochia. Music critic Giorgos Leotsakos notes: “No other Greek ‘avant-garde’ composer’s return to tradition was more impressive than that of Sfetsas. Before 1977, in France, he was distinguished by a sound ‘pointillisme': a marked harmonic sensitivity, with which he organized imaginative soundcolour combinations into ‘microstructures’ spread out in an imaginary sound canvas, bringing to mind the paintings of Joan Miro, who had charmed the composer at the time."