Mireille Chamass-Kyrou

Mireille Chamass-Kyrou was a Musique Concrète composer born in Cairo in 1931. She studied piano with Brigitte Schiffer at the State Institute for the Education of Women in Fine Arts in Cairo. In 1955, she moved to Paris and studied under Oliver Messiaen.

In 1958, she joined the Groupe de Recherche Musicale, founded by Pierre Schaeffer. She worked with the GRM for four years, contributing to the system of musical notation for musique concrète that was eventually published by Schaeffer. She left GRM in 1961.