2024
1.8 Remote improvisation collaboration with Sofia Jernberg and Saint Abdullah for Late Junction BBC Radio 3 (four-leg suite passing tracks between each other like a baton, and taking as inspiration the words of the Olympic motto: Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together).
19.6 Live performance ('Balm' LP presentation), curated by stellage.highlights at Romantso Athens, alongside performances by Marc Behrens, Sissi Rada, Will Laut, Yannis Iasonidis (DJ set), Athens.
24.5 LP Balm, vinyl release by Rekem Records.
05.4 'Cello rituals, sonic monuments and musical tarot', Late Junction, BBC3, by Jennifer Lucy Allan.
29.3 'Alien Jams presents VIKI STEIRI -Tangle Mix', mixtape and interview for CLOT magazine, vol. 73.
15.3 LP Balm, digital release by Alien Jams.
2023
16.12 Performance with Adam Christensen, David Aird and Tom Wheatley for Adam Christensen's exhibition Bedtime, The Art Museum in Tønder, Tønder
20.10 Performance with Eleni Ikoniadou and Savvas Metaxas, Granny Records Showcase, TV Control Center, Athens
12.07 Performance with Adam Christensen, Lise exhibition, Vatsaxi 6, Haus N Athen Off-Site, Athens
11.06 Performance with Dario Papavassiliou, Prelab (periodiko.dilittirio), Athens
5.05 Performance at Kilymeia 2023, Booze Cooperativa, Athens
25.01 Ectopia performance, ATATA live, Venue MOT Unit 18, London
20.01 Cello improvisation and recording for LP Future Chorus (A Maenads and Hypernedium Production), curated by Eleni Ikoniadou
2022
18.11 Performance in collaboration with Eleni Ikoniadou, The Lamenters (lecture performance), SOUND QUESTS 2022 (ALMARE), at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
2021
1.10-27.11 Audio piece The Lamenters, music/sound in collaboration with Eleni Ikoniadou, for the exhibition Wake Words, commissioned by Golden Pixel Cooperative, Vienna
2020
06.10 Music and video for the online music/art archive CHANNEL9319062
20.06 Cello recording for the short film The Blood Bride by Caspar Leopard and Hannah McKibbin
2019
10.12 Cello performance with Adam Sherry (Dead Forest Index) at O2 Academy Islington, London
11.05 Art performance in sound and word, by Urara Tsuchiya, with Jack Brennan at Villa Lena Foundation, Tuscany
26.04 Ruffles, cello improvisation for Zoe Williams’ art performance at Artmonte-carlo exhibition, Monaco
18.01 Art performance in sound and word, by Urara Tsuchiya, with Jack Brennan at Kunstverein Langenhagen, Hannover
2018
28.11 Ectopia performance and vinyl release as part of Sidsel Meineche Hansen's exhibition Real Doll Theatre, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
20.10 Eyes of Blood, Ectopia performance at Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
01.06 Free Energy Workshop 2, musical arrangement for Monster Chetwynd’s mixed media performance at Central Station, Antwerp
02.03 Zvarna, cello performance, Balabam, London
17.02 Ectopia performance, SET Dalston Lane, London
2017
07.09 Ceremony of the Void by Zoe Williams, composition commission and live performance with musicians Dario Papavassiliou and Patchfinder at David Roberts Art Foundation, London
21.06 Salt for Svanetia by Mikhail Kalatozov for Sharna Pax film collective, live film score with Dario Papavassiliou, Grow Elephant, London
02.04 Clapton Sessions #5, performance with Dario Papavassiliou and AMAN! (Tasos Stamou and Thodoris Ziarkas), The Depot, London
23.03 Ectopia album launch, Wysing Polyphonic, ICA, London
13.01 Ectopia performance at Cafe OTO, London
2016
11.11 Ectopia performance at ‘Le Guess Who?’ music festival, Utrecht
18.10 Tender Touches, group exhibition, piano performance, part of Zoe Williams’ installation, Austrian Cultural Forum, London
16-25.04 Chateaux Double Wide, composition commission for Zoe Williams and Urara Tsuchiya’s collaborative project, Glasgow International art festival, Glasgow
08-15.01 Ectopia art residence at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
2015
10-12.06 Jolie-Laide Tour, Ectopia tour with Mathilde Fernandez, Le Lac, Brussels, La Generale en manufacture, Paris
06.03 Why can’t we just enjoy it the way it is? Ectopia performance, ARTES, Fundação Manuel Antonio Da Mota. Porto
2014
Three arrangements for Annabel and Cello, composition commission for three videos by Shezad Dawood, London
Jonah, Music design for radio play by Diana Duta, London
2013
27.02-15.03 …instead to meet strangers that might change our minds. Dorine Van Meel’s installation at the Swiss Church, London
2012
26.10-01.01 Home Made Tasers and The Lion Tamer. Musical arrangement for Spartacus Chetwynd, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
2011
08.09 Normal Love, live soundtrack commission for Ectopia for Jack Smith’s film screening, ICA, London
30.05, 25.04 Cello improvisation performances at Cafe OTO, Eddie Prevost’s Workshop Series, London
24.03 The Visionary Vineyard: Dreaming of Free Energy, musical arrangement and cello performance for Spartacus Chetwynd’s mixed media performance, Hayward Gallery, British Art Show 7, London
Co-hosting a radio show with Chloe Alice Frieda (Wind-Up Radio) at NTS radio, London
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Ectopia feature, Life’s A Scream, The Wire magazine, July issue.
2006 ‘Jani Christou: a composer of musical surrealism’, in European Alternatives Journal, Issue 1, pp. 50-54.
EDUCATION
2008 – 2009 Master in Music (Composition), Goldsmiths College, University of London
2005 – 2007 Master in Music, (Contemporary Music Studies), Goldsmiths College, University of London
1995 – 2006 Cello Diploma, Attikon Conservatory, Athens
1999 – 2005 BA/ MMus in Musicology, University of Athens
1999 – 2004 Theory Studies (Harmony, 16th Century Counterpoint, Fugue) Phillipos Nakas Conservatory, Athens
1989 – 2002 Piano Diploma, Conservatory of Kalithea, Athens