Lost Voices of Byzantium

About Spyridon Antonopoulos
Spyridon Antonopoulos is a chanter, scholar, and founder of the vocal ensemble Psaltikon. He obtained his PhD in Musicology from City, University of London, where he was Honorary Research Fellow from 2016-2019. He has performed a wide variety of musical genres in venues worldwide and has spoken at dozens of international academic conferences. Spyridon was musical director of UCLA/USC’s research project Soundscapes of Byzantium as well as a researcher and performer on Cappella Romana’s Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia; both projects featured Spiro’s original transcriptions of medieval chants. Spiro has performed in venues across North America and Europe including Stanford’s Bing Hall, the Metropolitan Museum, BBC Radio 3, London’s Royal Festival Hall, the Cockpit Theater of London, Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht, Getty Villa, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the BSO, and Jordan Hall. A graduate of Brown University and the New England Conservatory, Spiro obtained his diploma in Byzantine chant from the School of Byzantine Music of the Metropolis of Neapolis (Thessaloniki).