Crystalla Serghiou

Crystalla Serghiou is a multi-genre, ‘popsical’ composer, conductor, music-director and performer (piano/voice) writing in pop and classical styles and anything in between.

Since leaving Cyprus, she has fully connected with the UK’s music scene, primarily composing, and often doubling as performer/conductor, for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Youth Choir, the Florence International Choral Competition, Brixton Chamber Orchestra, Edinburgh Fringe, and the Cheltenham, Dartington and Spitalfields music festivals.

Her compositional voice has been recognised in film as well, with a nomination for Best Score for the short film Monster at the British Short Film Awards 2021. As an educator, she has been Composition Mentor for the Britten Sinfonia’s New Sounds project launched in schools across Cambridgeshire, a Music Director for a youth theatre company called RARE Productions, Choral Director at the Parish of Herne Hill and most recently was appointed a Tutor in Musicianship and Composition at the Royal Academy of Music’s Junior Academy, as well as a peripatetic piano tutor for Peterborough Keys Academic Trust.

Her pieces Little Ol’ Lady Who? and Kyrie Eleison were included in NMC’s Young Composers 6 album, featuring new works by emerging names from the National Youth Choir’s young composers’ scheme.

Recent premieres include The Stepford Wife: A Concerto for Jazz-Scat Singer premiered by the Britten Sinfonia and vocalist Emma Smith, and an evocation of her Cyprus homeland, SALT, written for the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Crystalla was Assistant Musical Director for RENT: The Musical, Musical Director for Jack and the Beanstalk at the Capitol in Horsham and music supervisor and conductor for Sonique at the Royal Festival Hall.