
Kharálampos Goyós
Born in Athens in 1977. He studied music theory with composers Philippos Tsalahouris and Dimitris Lionis. He is a graduate of the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens, where his teachers included, among others, important composers and music theorists such as Panagiotis Adam, Theodore Antoniou, George Fitsioris, Kostas Klavvas, Dimitris Sykias and George Zervos.
As a composer and conductor, he has collaborated with many institutions (Greek National Opera, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Athens and Thessaloniki Concert Halls, National Theatre of Greece, Greek Art Theatre “Karolos Koun”, Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, Onassis Stegi, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, BIOS, Neos Kosmos Theatre, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, Orchestra of Colours, Hellenic Ensemble of Contemporary Music, dissonArt ensemble, ARTéfacts ensemble, CHÓRES female choral ensemble, Documenta, Art Athina, Neuköllner Oper Berlin etc.) and distinguished figures in music, theatre, literature and art.
He has written the operas Little Red Riding Hood and the (Good) Wolf (Polytechno Theatre, Athens, 1998), Damage, an Opera in Seven Meals (Athens Festival, 2008) and A Body (GNO Experimental Stage, 2007), the populist oratorio New Greece (The Making-Of) (Dimitria Festival, Thessaloniki & 4th Athens Biennale AGORA, 2013) and other works, mostly in the genre of music theatre. His opera Little Red Riding Hood and the (Good) Wolf was released on CD by the Orchestra of Colours under the direction of Vassilis Christopoulos and his populist oratorio New Greece (The Making-Of) was digitally released on the FYTINI label. His music has won awards in Greece, the UK and the Czech Republic.
His incidental music for Sophocles’ Antigone (National Theatre of Greece, 2016) was awarded Best Music in the Cyprus Theatre Awards. The controversial political opera in paraphrase trilogy Yasou Aida! (Neuköllner Oper, Thessaloniki Concert Hall & Athens Festival, 2012), AirRossini (Neuköllner Oper, 2013) and Twilight of the Debts (GNO Alternative Stage, 2017), written in collaboration with Alexandros Efklidis and Dimitris Dimopoulos, caused vivid interest and conflicting reactions in the Greek and international press. He led the first contemporary revivals of Jani Christou’s incidental music for Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound as well as Theophrastos Sakellaridis’ operettas The Daughter of the Storm and Sataneries, the scores of which he edited for the Hellenic Music Centre.
He is a co-founder of the independent Athens music theatre company “The Beggars’ Operas”, with which he has appeared in Greece and abroad. Since 2011, he has been a regular pre-concert speaker for the Athens State Orchestra and, since 2020, an Artistic Associate of Dramaturgy and Publications for the GNO Alternative Stage. He formerly taught at the Music Theatre Workshop of the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Patras, and currently teaches at the Athens Conservatoire and the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece