Christos Anagnostou Daly

British-Greek composer Christos Anagnostou Daly grew up in London, where he developed a love of music from an early age, studying cello while teaching himself piano and guitar. After achieving Grade 8 cello at the age of 12, he was awarded a music scholarship to study at Westminster School. Immersed in a vibrant musical environment and taught by composers Edmund Jolliffe and Sinan Carter Savaşkan, he discovered a passion for storytelling through writing music alongside his study and performance of the classical repertoire. At 15, he wrote a symphonic movement, which went on to be performed across multiple venues in Austria and Germany. At 17, he wrote his first choral work - a lament - which was performed in Westminster Abbey. He then formed the indie band “Black Peppercorns” that lasted through university, during which time he played regular charity gigs alongside his MEng mechanical engineering degree at Imperial College London. In his final year before graduation, he took Imperial’s music technology course that introduced him to the world of production and sound design. This experience helped shape his creative voice and, coupled with his compositional background, drove him to explore the meeting point between the symphonic tradition and contemporary sound.

Now 27, Christos releases his debut EP. Recorded and produced in Athens, “Solace and the Wave” is the culmination of years of artistic development, drawing on themes of history, mythology and the natural world. It brings together a collection of original works from intimate solo pieces such as “Mensura Silentii” to atmospheric electronic soundscapes and sweeping orchestral works such as “Hyperborean Suite”. Central to the EP is a fascination with the emotional depth of orchestral music and its ability to illuminate stories of humanity, resilience and hope. As a multi-instrumentalist, he performed many of the parts himself, including cello, piano, and guitar. The EP also features performances by flautist Alexandros Arkadopoulos and violinist Dionisis Vervitsiotis, with sound engineering by Elias Koutsoulieris. Christos’s music draws inspiration from many genres, but he is particularly influenced by the English pastoral tradition of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the elegant orchestral architecture of Alexandre Desplat, the rich harmonic language of Thomas Newman, and Ludwig Göransson’s fusion of symphonic and electronic sound. Today, he pursues a career in film, television and interactive media.