Stylianos Dimou

Stylianos Dimou is a Greek composer specializing in acoustic, electroacoustic, and acousmatic music. He is a tenured Associate Professor of Composition at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen, and previously taught at Hong Kong Baptist University and the University of Peloponnese. He studied composition at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (BMus, MMus) with Christos Samaras, earned an MA from Eastman School of Music under Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Robert Morris, and David Liptak, and completed the IRCAM Cursus program in Paris. He received his doctorate from Columbia University as a Dean’s Fellow, studying with George Lewis, Fred Lerdahl, Georg Friedrich Haas, and Brad Garton. His work explores sonic hybridity, spatial immersion, and interactive sound systems, integrating live electronics, digital signal processing, and microtonality.

Dimou has been supported by Fulbright, Onassis, Niarchos, Ernst Mach, SWR Experimentalstudio, and Ulysses Network/IRCAM. He won the Luigi Nono Prize, 1st Prize at Amici della Musica di Cagliari, the Weimarer Frühjahrstage Audience Prize, and was a finalist for Roche Young Commissions at Lucerne Festival Academy, judged by Pierre Boulez. His research bridges composition, and technology, expanding contemporary music’s boundaries through innovative artistic and technological frameworks, emphasizing acoustic and electroacoustic complexity, and advanced sound spatialization in contemporary creativity.