CRYSTALLA SERGHIOU
Magnum Opus 2023 Composer
Crystalla Serghiou is a Cypriot composer, songwriter, and conductor currently based in the UK. Crystalla’s compositional approach explores the blending of different genres, including contemporary and pop music styles, vocal techniques, and her training as a singer. Since leaving Cyprus, Crystalla has fully indulged herself in the UK’s music scene, with her music being performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Riot Ensemble, and Red Note Ensemble, and showcased at Spitalfields Music Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival; recently, her score for short film ‘Monster’ was nominated for Best Composition at the British Short Film Awards. Crystalla studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Royal Academy of Music; she is a National Youth Choir Young Composer 2024-25, a London Philharmonic Orchestra Young Composer 2023-24, and a Magnum Opus composer with Britten Sinfonia, who recently premiered her concerto ‘The Stepford Wife’ with jazz vocalist Emma Smith in London.
