Viki Steiri

Viki Steiri is a cellist, composer and pianist and is active in Greece and in the UK. She received a cello diploma from the Attiko Conservatory under the teacher Marina Kislitsina (Distinction). She is also a graduate of the Department of Music Studies of the Athens University, and has completed her studies in piano, harmony, counterpoint and fugue. After completing her studies in Athens, she did two Masters degrees at Goldsmiths, University of London, on contemporary musicology and composition (Distinction). From 2005 to 2021 she lived and worked in London as a freelance musician specializing in contemporary, improv and experimental music; she also worked as an educator, teaching at institutions such as the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and in London state schools.

With the experimental music group Ectopia they have performed in festivals and venues for innovative arts in the UK, Europe and the US, including the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA, London), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin); New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York),  Le Guess Who? festival (Utrecht); Institute of Contemporary Art (Copenhagen); Wysing Festival residency and LP release (Cambridge), and others.

She often collaborates with visual artists and has written music for installations, performance and film. She is also interested in the traditional music of Greece, Turkey and the Middle East and since 2021, when she returned to Greece, she plays in the +bAnda orchestra of traditional instruments of Kostas Tsarouchis.

She is a qualified teacher both in the UK (QTS) and Greece and has attended educational training seminars from the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) and a nine-month course in Intercultural Education (University of the Aegean).  Since returning to Athens she works as a freelance musician as well as music teacher at El Sistema Greece and at Byron College (British International School).