About
Composer.
Researcher.
Educator.
A compositional practice centred on transformative borrowing, recontextualisation, and the creative renewal of inherited materials.
Stavros Choplaros
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.
Current focus
Borrowing as a compositional method
Sources act as structural catalysts: transformed, layered, erased, or recontextualised to generate new musical identities.
Education and teaching
King’s College London
PhD in Music Composition
California State University, Long Beach
MM in Composition · Fulbright support
University teaching
Composition, theory, harmony, counterpoint, orchestration, and related music courses.
Stavros Choplaros - Composer • Researcher • Educator 