Described as ‘A Classical Star of the Future’ by BBC Introducing, ‘One of a new generation of female trailblazers’ by BBC Radio 3, and ‘One to Watch in 2022’ by The Scotsman, Electra Perivolaris is a composer and pianist from Scotland of mixed British and Greek heritage.
Following success in the BBC Young Composers' Competition in 2014, her music has been performed internationally by musicians from the Hebrides Ensemble, the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Scottish Chamber Orchestra. In May 2022 Electra’s BBC Radio 3 commission for the BBC Concert Orchestra was premiered at the Southbank Centre, London. In 2020 she was chosen to represent her generation of female composers in the ‘Seven Ages of Woman’ commission for BBC Radio 3 and the BBC Singers. In 2021 she composed a London Sinfonietta/Live Music Now/Theatre of Sound commission working collaboratively with families living with dementia to create a new opera exploring music and memory, as well as a London Symphony Orchestra Discovery commission. Electra is Ambassador for the BBC Young Composers’ Scheme and has been selected for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Composers’ Hub, London Symphony Orchestra Soundhub and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra New Stories scheme.
In 2021 Electra graduated with Distinction from the Master of Music in Composition course at the Royal Academy of Music, London, with additional piano performance studies, winning the Diploma of the Royal Academy of Music Award in Composition for an Outstanding Final Portfolio. She was awarded a 2021/2022 Royal Academy of Music Fellowship, working as a composer to lead creative projects in outreach settings with Open Academy, the RAM Community
and Participation department. In 2019 she graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with Double Honours of the First Class in Composition and Piano, winning the Patron's Fund Prize (Royal College of Music) for Composition, an Endorsement in Music Education with Distinction, and the ABRSM Macklin Bursary for Piano Performance.
