Biography
Eleni Karaindrou is a Greek composer born on 25 November 1941 in the village of Teichio in Phocis, central Greece. She studied piano and music theory at the Hellenikon Odeion in Athens and later ethnomusicology and orchestration in Paris between 1969 and 1974.
She is best known for her scores for the films of Theo Angelopoulos, beginning with Voyage to Cythera (1984) and including The Beekeeper (1986), Landscape in the Mist (1988), The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991), Ulysses' Gaze (1995), Eternity and a Day (1998), The Weeping Meadow (2004) and The Dust of Time (2008). She has also composed for directors including Margarethe von Trotta, Jules Dassin and Chris Marker, as well as for theatre and television.
