Stavros Choplaros – Composer

Stavros Choplaros is a Cypriot composer and educator whose music explores transformative borrowing and recontextualisation through a polystylistic language that reshapes classical, traditional, and contemporary materials. He holds a PhD in Music Composition from King’s College London and an MM in Composition from California State University, Long Beach, completed with Fulbright support, and has taught university-level music courses. His works have been performed internationally, and he also composes for interdisciplinary contexts including theatre, dance, installation, and film. His postdoctoral research project, Reimagining Cypriot Musical Borrowing: Fresh Approaches to Tradition in 21st-Century Composition, received internal funding from the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT/TEPAK) through the 2025 «ΜΕΤΑΔΙΔΑΚΤΩΡ» Programme. Most recently, he was commissioned by the Pharos Contemporary Music Festival to create a new work for Ensemble Klang Systematiek.