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Konstantina Polychronopoulou was born in Athens. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the artistic-scholarly doctoral program at Anton Bruckner Private University.  She holds a master’s degree in "Science of Education-Music Education" from the University of Nicosia, (MMus in Music Education). Under a full scholarship, she graduated Cum laude from the Hellenic American University with a BM in Music Theory and Composition, studying under Professor Th. Antoniou.

Konstantina has a Piano Degree of which she completed with honours and praise for Best Performance. She studied piano with professors  B. Pincetic, E. Dafeka, M. Kollarou and attended piano seminars with A. Kemenes, A. Nillson and M. Jacobs.  Furthermore, she holds Harmony and Counterpoint Diplomas with professor G. Kyriakakis. 

Her studies included piano and chamber music lessons in Sweden at the Malmo Music Academy and she has participated in piano seminars, music composition, voice, musical improvisation, vocal music therapy and music therapy since. At the same time, she has worked in theater as an actress taking acting and kinesiology lessons (Grotowski method) with professors A. Lyras, V. Laggos, and theatrical game with Y. Petsopoulos.

She is an adjunct faculty member teaching in the BM program at the Hellenic American University. She teaches piano at Ph. Nakas Conservatory since 2014. Furthermore, she is a piano and theory teacher at ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music). She teaches also music theory and history at professional dance schools since 2013.  

As a music teacher, she teaches theory and history music to dance students mainly through movement (Dancing Behind the Music) creating original short choreographies with them (ΑVDP 9 festival, 7th Conference of the Greek Society for Music Education-Thessaloniki concert Hall, Internationally Dance Day 2014 Megaron The Athens Concert Hall, Dance Days Chania 7, etc.). Also, in June 2019 she created (personal production) the musical performance LINK, a combination of music and dance based on the principles of music composition at Roes theater. 

In January 2022, her book Music and Body, a musical handbook for student dancers and performers  was published by Nasos publications.

She collaborates regularly in chamber music concerts and her musical compositions have been presented in various venues in Greece such as the Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Hellenic American Union, Archaeological Museum, Athens Conservatory Athenaeum, among others, and abroad in Germany, France, Croatia etc, by renowned ensembles (Aeolos Woodwind Quintet, String Quartet L’anima, Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music etc.). She composes music  for choreographies and video-dances by acclaimed choreographers, A. Kanellopoulou, A. Lindahl Dimitriadou, A. Stavropoulos, L. Gkolia, I. Karounis, S. Falierou, F. Apostolou, M. Manoukian, etc.,  which have been presented at festivals (Grimm Knot Festival, Music In Motion Festival, Perpignan Arts Festival, Malta International Arts Festival, 7th, 9th Athens VideoDance Project, 15thDance Festival Choreographers Greek-Cacoyannis Foundation, Off Europa Kunst Festival, 11th Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival, 7th - 10th -11th Dance Days Chania, Akropoditi Dance Festival, 13th Arc For Dance Festival, Aerowaves, 27th Kalamata Dance  Festival, Istanbul Fringe Festival, Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, etc.). 

Konstantina Polychronopoulou

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