Eleni Karaindrou

Eleni Karaindrou is a Greek composer, born in Teichio, a mountain village in central Greece. She studied piano and theory in Athens and, after the military junta forced her to leave Greece in 1967, ethnomusicology in Paris. She is known for her long partnership with the director Theo Angelopoulos, whose films she scored from 1984 to 2008, and for the recordings of her film and stage music issued by ECM. Karaindrou's music for Christoforos Christofis's Periplanissi (1979) marked a turning point in her film work.