Mariella Vitorou
Professor of French Language & Terminology, PhD in French Literature, Professor of Solo Singing, Director of the University of Crete Choir, TOP and Master NLP Practitioner
Mariella Vitorou was born in Heraklion, Crete. She holds a Diploma in Solo Singing with professor Giota Prevelaki, a Diploma in Choir Conducting with professor Athanasia Kyriakidou, a Diploma in Counterpoint with Ioannis Kalogerakis as her teacher, and a Piano Degree with Betty Gaitanou-Barzouka as her teacher.
She has also taken piano diploma lessons with Diana Nagi.
Alongside her music studies, she studied French Language and Literature, completed postgraduate studies at Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 University in Bordeaux, France, and holds a PhD in French Literature from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
She works as a professor of French Language and Terminology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Crete and has taught Classical and Modern singing at public and private conservatories in Crete. As a TOP and Master NLP Practitioner, she leads seminars on public speaking in Greece at the University of Franche-Comté in France and is a trainer French language teachers at the Centre for Applied Linguistics (CLA) at the University of Marie et Louis Pasteur in Besançon, France, since 2012.
In 2022, she created the Choir of the Schools of Rethymno of the University of Crete, which she has taken over the direction of, with performances in Rethymno and Heraklion, and has collaborated with the Municipality of Rethymno, the Municipal Choir of Heraklion, the Hellenic Mediterranean University, the EuRithy Chorus, the Municipal Choir of Rethymno, and the "Melodies" Choir from Strasbourg, France.
In 2012, he created the 12-member music group Alma libre, for which he is responsible for vocal preparation and has presented a series of musical theater performances in Crete and Santorini.
Since November 2021, he has been a member of the Heraklion Choir, participating in choral works and operas performed at the Cultural Conference Center of Heraklion. She has participated as a soloist in numerous musical and musical theater performances in Greece and France and has sung songs by Babis Pramateftakis and Christophe Delvallé in their first performances.
With the Grecanto Music Group, which he created with Yannis Kiayadakis and in collaboration with artists from Crete, he has performed at the "Art on the Road" and "Crete, A Story, 5+1 Cultures," "Cretan Food Festival") and under the auspices of municipalities and the Region of Crete, concerts such as They Call Me Melachrini (August 2019), A Walk Through Music of the World (July 2024) and performances such as Strangers in the Night (November 16 & 17, 2024) and Words Must Be Nailed Down Like Nails. Don't Let the Wind Take Them Away (November 8 November 2025) at the Heraklion Cultural and Conference Center.
She has also performed abroad, in Saint-Hilaire du Rosier (July 2017) and Besançon, France France (July 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024) and in Innsbruck, Austria (October 2023).