Kyriaki Kountouri was born in Paphos, Cyprus in 1997. She studied Orchestral Conducting with professor Miltos Logiadis at the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University graduating at the top of her class and since 2021 she is a PhD candidate at the same university. She also holds a diploma with honors in Piano Performance (class of Christina Panteli, “Toniko Odeio”, Athens).
She has conducted orchestras such as the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra (ongoing collaboration since 2023), the Athens City Symphony Orchestra (“The Apaches of Athens”, Olympia Music Theatre, Dec. 2023, assistant conductor to K. Michailidis), the Symphony Orchestra of the Philharmonic Society of Corfu (assistant conductor to A. Baltas, 2021-2022), the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra(“Zypriotisches Galakonzert”, Musikverein, Nov. 2022, assistant conductor to Y. Kountouris), the Thessaloniki City Symphony Orchestra (“The Melody of AELIA”, Thessaloniki Concert Hall), the Sistema Europe
Youth Orchestra (SEYO 2024, Italy) et al.
Since 2022 she is a collaborator of the Greek National Opera Educational & Social Activities participating in educational programmes such as “Opera Interactively Into Schools 2022/23” (tour in high schools all over Greece), “3rd Bell Opera 2023/24” and “3rd Bell Opera 2024/25” (for primary schools in Attica”, “Silence, the King is listening” (tour in primary schools in Northern Greece). As of September 2023 she is the conductor of the El Sistema Greece Youth Orchestra.
