Myria Ioannou is a classically trained Soprano and a Performance Maker. At the young age of fourteen she won the First prize at the Pan - Hellenic competition of Classical singing in Athens, which was organised by UNESCO. She holds a Bachelor degree in Vocal Performance from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where she studied with  Opera professors Teresa Cahill and Dr Linda Hirst. She holds a Master of Arts in Performance Making at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she studied under the guidance of Dr Anna Furse and Graeme Miller. She has performed the Operatic roles of Controller;Flight; Zerlina;Don Giovanni; Second woman;Dido and Aeneas and the Musical theatre roles of Maria from West Side Story,  the role of Maria from The Sound of Music.  She also performed repertory from George George Gershwin's Musical An American Girl in Paris. She taught roles to from Musicals such as the Wizard of Oz, Cats, The Sound of Music, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, School of Rock, Oliver!, Chorus Line, The Follies, The Greatest showman and La la land, with her students achieving “Distinction” for their final Grade 8 Musical Solo and Group Musical theatre Trinity College exams.  As a concert soloist she sung leading roles from La Bohème, Turandot, Gianni Schicchi, La Traviata, Falstaff, Rigoletto, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Cosi fan tutte, Die Zauberflöte, Giulio Cesare, Hercules (HWV 60), L'enfant prodigue, The turn of the screw and Siren Song. Ioannou has sung a wide repertory of Art songs by Schubert, Schuman, Brahms, Alban Berg, Faure, Debussy, Quilter, Britten Jonathan Dove and Hugo Wolf. She held solo recitals in London and she has been featured as a soloist in Music venues in the United Kingdom.  She has taken part in educational projects in the United Kingdom, which encouraged and inspired children to get involved with Music and she collaborated with professional musicians and young students for the composition of Soundtrack Music for the National Martime Museum. In London, Ioannou searched for new ways of combining her knowledge of the Classical singing repertoire with other performing arts by collaborating with performers, actors, dancers, directors, writers, composers and live artists. With her return to Cyprus she introduced repertory of four British composers to the Classical music audience in Nicosia by organizing two recitals for voice and piano. The first recital was of the Baroque repertory with the title “Sweeter than Roses” with music of Henry Purcell  at the Casteliotissa Medieval Hall and the second recital was of the 20th and 21st century classical repertory entitled “20th and 21st Century Art songs” with music of Joanathan Dove, Benjamin Britten and Roger Quilter at the Zampelas Art Museum. In May 2019 Myria Ioannou performed Hugo Wolf’s song settings of poems by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe at the Garage Art Space and she also performed at the opening ceremony of the European Accounting Association conference at Curium Amphitheater,  which was organized by the University of Cyprus with 1100 participants from more than 50 countries worldwide.  Myria Ioannou has worked as a singing performance educator in the United Kingdom and in Cyprus. In 2017 Ioannou was the creator and the Head of a Musical theatre department at a Music school in Nicosia, Cyprus, which gave it's first performance "9 Musicals, 44 Performers" at Latsia Municipal theater in June 2019. In September 2019, Ioannou participated as a soprano and a performer in "Χίλιες Γέννες"' by MITRA Dance theatre company at PALLAS Theatre in Nicosia, a performance of classical singing and contemporary dance. She is the owner and the Director at Creative Performers, a vocal performance school, in Nicosia, Cyprus.  This coming June Creative Performers stage the Broadway Musical "Hairspray".

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