Eleni Papakyriakou comes from Thessaloniki, Greece. Her main studies of orchestra conducting were completed in 2015 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Mag. art.). Immediately after graduation she took up the chorus master’s post at Landestheater Niederbayern in Passau, Germany, where she conducts opera performances. She is also the chief conductor and artistic director of the Passau University Orchestra (from October 2016 until July 2019 and also since April 2022). In 2023 she is founding her own symphony orchestra, Sinfonietta Passau, which will celebrate its first concerts in March/April 2023.
 
In September 2020 she held an invitation - among 220 applications - for the international conducting competition La Maestra Paris, which took place in Philharmonie de Paris, with Paris Mozart Orchestra, and was live broadcasted on arte.tv. This led to a concert with Orchestre Pasdeloup in Philharmonie de Paris (Grande Salle Pierre Boulez) in December 2021. Other guest conducting commitments brought her to Vienna (Akademischer Orchesterverein Wien 2019-2020), Kassel (Orchestra of the Music Academy "Louis Spohr", lectureship summer semester 2022 and symphony concert in October 2022) and Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, school and family concerts in November-December 2022).