Βάγια Παπαγιαννοπούλου

Vagia Papagiannopoulou was born and raised in Volos, where she completed her first cycle of music studies at the music school of Katy Samartzi. In 1994 she began her academic studies at the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University, where she graduated in 1999 with a degree of A with specialization in Choir Conducting under the supervision of Professor Miranda Kaldi. In 2000, she completed her postgraduate studies at the University of York, England, with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation under the supervision of Professor Peter Seymour, where she obtained the Master of Arts in Performance Practice.

She worked for eight years at the Ionian University, both in the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum, as a music teacher in public and private education (Arsakeia schools), as a conductor of the Children’s Choir at the Municipal Conservatory of Volos and at the National Conservatory in Athens. Since 2011 she has been teaching the course of Vocal Ensemble Conducting in the Carl Orff Three-Year Program in Music and Movement Education. In 2019 she created the Adult Community Choir at the Moraitis School. Since 2020 she is a vocal ensemble leader at El Sistema Greece and since 2021 she is a music teacher at the Greek-French School Saint Joseph in Volos. Since 2022 she is the director of the community choir of the Volos Municipal Conservatory.

She has conducted more than two hundred performances including children’s operas, oratorios and liturgies, the most important of Giannis Christou “Fire Languages” at the Herodion, N. Mantzaros at Megaron the Athens Concert Hall, H. Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Municipal Theatre of Corfu, children’s operas at the Benaki Museum, the Lullaby Project at the SNFCC, Xenakis works at the National Kapodistrian University.