Chariklia Apostolu studied geology at the University of Athens, piano with Thalia Moira at the Athens Conservatory and with Alfons Kontarsky at the Mozarteum University of Music and Performing Arts, and song accompaniment with Werner Hollweg and Hartmut Höll. At the Anton Bruckner Private University, she studied choral conducting with Kurt Dlouhy and orchestral conducting with Ingo Ingensand. She completed both master’s programs with honors.
She teaches musical staging in the Department of Opera and Music Theater at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and is a lecturer in conducting at the Joseph Haydn Private University in Eisenstadt.
In several productions at the Salzburg Festival and the Mozart Week in Salzburg, she has worked with René Jacobs, Andris Nelsons, and Marc Minkowski, among others.
She served as artistic director and chorus master at the “Chiemgau Opera Festival” and the “Herbsttage Blindenmarkt” operetta festival, and has conducted several productions at venues including the Theater an der Rott in Eggenfelden, the Trier City Theater, and the Landgraf Concert Agency’s touring theater.
Since 2018, she has been the music director, and since 2020, the artistic director of the Schloss Maxlrain Opera.