Xenia Konstantinidou was born in Kazakhstan and grew up in Athens. She is a composer of contemporary acoustic music, pianist, and musicologist whose work bridges composition, performance, and musicological research. She completed her doctoral studies at the Department of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki under the supervision of Professor Costas Tsougras, having previously graduated from the same department with a BMus and Integrated MMus degree in 2014. She studied Harmony with Ioannis Toufexis, Counterpoint with Ioannis Baroutas, and Fugue with Giorgos Sakallieros. In 2023, she was awarded a Diploma in Composition with First-Class Honours by unanimous decision, together with the First Prize in the composition class of Dimitris Oikonomou. As a pianist, she holds a Diploma in Piano from the class of Eleni Konstantinidou and has further developed her practice through studies in jazz piano with Grigoris Simadopoulos.
As a pianist, she has actively attended numerous piano masterclasses (Orsolya Szabó, Gerasimos Hoidas, Giorgos Hatzinikos, Milcho Leviev, etc.) and has given the world premieres of works by the composers Apostolos Darla and Vasilis Hatzimakris. She has given concerts with various chamber music ensembles at different venues in Thessaloniki, Athens and Drama (Vafopouleio Cultural Centre, Block 33, Danish Institut, Attica Conservatoire, the Musicians’ Horizons Conservatoire, the Nikopolis Conservatoire, the Drama Municipal Conservatoire, etc.).
Her compositional work has won awards in various competitions, such as the 8th Dimitris Dragatakis Composition Competition (2nd prize, 2018), the 1st Theodoros Antonios Composition Competition (2nd prize, 2020) and the Greek National Opera and the Union of Greek Composers’ Lyric Song Composition Competition on the theme “1821, The Greek Revolution and Poetry Set to Music” (2nd prize, 2021). Her piano miniature I Told You, Mum’ was selected by the Friends of Music Association to mark its 70th anniversary (2022). Following an invitation from the computational musicology group at the Department of Musicology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, led by Dr. Emilio Kampouropoulos, she composed a string quartet (2019) to evaluate the Chameleon computational system for melodic harmonisation, which was performed by the string quartet of the Barcelona National Orchestra (2021). Her works have been performed by the contemporary Greek music ensemble of the Greek Composers’ Union (Athens Concert Hall and Thessaloniki Concert Hall), as well as by students from the Department of Music Studies at the University of Ioannina (Dione Hall).
As a musicologist, she has attended and presented at various conferences organised by the Hellenic Musicological Society. Two of her papers have been published in the proceedings of the 12th and 14th Interdepartmental Musicology Conferences of the Hellenic Musicological Society. Furthermore, she was a member of the editorial team for the music programmes of the Thessaloniki Municipal Symphony Orchestra (2018).
She has taught as a piano teacher and as an accompanist to opera singers at various conservatoires in Thessaloniki (2014–2020). For three years, she was the conductor of the “Panagia Kremasti” Pontic children’s choir of the Municipality of Evosmos-Kordelio (2017–2020). From 2020 to 2025, she worked as a music teacher in primary education (Arcadia, Thessaloniki and Pieria).
