CURRENT / FORTHCOMING
2026
25.04 Live performance, Guild label launch, Patission 65, Athens
24.04 Improv night collab, with musicians Echo Canyon, Foteini Korre and dancers Christina Karpouzou and Antonia Economou at DOS, Αthens
14.03 Live improvisation set with modified microtonal combo organs and cello, with Dario Papavassiliou, Cycle of 4ths, Athens Arts Collective, Baumstrasse, Athens
06.03 Performance with Soya Arakawa, score for cello and traditional japanese singing, K23 Artstudio, Athens
07.02 Live improvisation set with modified microtonal combo organs, with Dario Papavassiliou, Athens Arts Collective, Cycle of fourths, Underflow, Athens
18.01 Live improvisation set with modified microtonal combo organs, with Dario Papavassiliou, Athens Arts Collective, Cycle of fourths, Tzamia Krystalla, Athens
08.01 Muddy Bless, Ep.7 radio show radio show hosted by Viki Steiri and Dario Papavassiliou, Stegi Radio
MUSIC RELEASES
2024 Solo LP Balm, vinyl release by Rekem Records
2024 Solo LP Balm, digital release by Alien Jams
2023 LP Future Chorus, digital and vinyl release by Maenads/Hypermedium), curated by Eleni Ikoniadou with AGF, Harrga, Lafawndah & Trustfall, Chino Amobi, Savvas Metaxas (collaboration)
2019 LP sex robot, by Sidsel Meineche Hansen in collaboration with Brynje and Design a Wave (self-released), Ectopia collaboration
2017 Ectopia LP life/section, digital and vinyl release by Wysing Polyphonic
FILM MUSIC COMMISSIONS
2025 Siticulosa, by Maeve Brennan, composition commission. Shortlisted for the CPH:DOX New Vision Award (UK, Denmark) and opened the Open City Documentary Festival, Barbican Centre, London
2025 Recording Angel, by Danae Io, composition commission (Greece, Netherlands)
2025 All these Summers, by Therese Henningsen, composition commission. Shortlisted for the CPH:DOX New Vision Award (UK/Denmark)
2020 The Blood Bride, by Caspar Leopard and Hannah McKibbin, cello recording
2017 Salt for Svanetia by Mikhail Kalatozov, live music score with Dario Papavassiliou commissioned by Sharna Pax film collective, Grow Elephant, London
2011 Normal Love, by Jack Smith, live soundtrack composed and performed by Ectopia, commissioned by ICA, London
SELECTED LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES
2025 Improvisation performance at Cycle of fourths with cello and modified combo organ, with Dario Papavassiliou, Athens Arts Collective, To Pano Spiti, Athens
2025 Live performance at TV Control Centre, Athens
2025 Ametric Festival, San Salvatore Bastion, Chania
2025 Cafe OTO with Adam Christensen, London
2025 Borderline Festival 2025, Onassis Stegi, Athens
2025 Live performance set with 'Time Capsuled'. To Pano Spiti, Athens
2024 Live performance feat. Dario Papavassiliou at Stellage, alongside Simon Whetham, S. Metaxas, G. Arapis, Athens
2024 Panorila IV, live performance feat. Dario Papavassiliou, Tzamia Krystalla, Athens
2024 Niche.ldn, The Bath House, London
2024 Balm LP presentation alongside Marc Behrens, Sissi Rada, Will Laut, Yannis Iasonidis at Romantso, Athens
2023 Performance with Adam Christensen, David Aird and Tom Wheatley for Adam Christensen's exhibition Bedtime, The Art Museum in Tønder, Tønder
2023 Live improvisation set with Dario Papavassiliou, Prelab (periodiko.dilittirio), Athens
2023 Live performance at Kilymeia 2023, Booze Cooperativa, Athens
2023 Venue MOT Unit 18 ATATA live, Ectopia alongside NKISI, Bridget Ferrill & Áslaug Rún Magnúsdóttir, Henry Cyer, Avel Mismo, London
2019 Live performance with Adam Sherry (Dead Forest Index) at O2 Academy Islington, London
2018 Ectopia performance Eyes of Blood, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
2018 Zvarna live performance, Balabam, London
2018 Ectopia performance, SET Dalston Lane, London
2017 Clapton Sessions #5, performance with Dario Papavassiliou and AMAN!, The Depot, London
2017 Ectopia performance at Cafe OTO, London
2017 ICA Ectopia album launch, London
2016 Le Guess Who? Festival, Ectopia performance, Utrecht
2015 Le Lac and La Generale en manufacture, Ectopia tour with Mathilde Fernandez, Brussels - Paris
2015 ARTES, Fundação Manuel Antonio Da Mota, Ectopia performance, Porto
2011-2014 Cafe OTO, cello improvisation performances at, Eddie Prevost’s Workshop Series, London
INTERDISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCES / COMMMISSIONS FOR INSTALLATIONS, PERFORMANCE, VIDEO ART, DANCE
2025 Everynight at the derelict Alphaville cinema, performance as part of the two-day event of moving image, music, poetry, and site-responsive interventions, Athens
2025 Live Cinema performance, Everything alive is radical - Πορτραίτο μιας πόλης, direction/live editing: Petros Kolotouros, live soundtrack with Marius Mathiszik, Yorgos Stavridis, Newman Cinema, Athens
2025 Music featured on Julio César Palacio's Sound Tower, for Radio alHara and Wonder Cabinet, Bethlehem
2025 Performance with musician Dave De Rose and dancer Petrina Giannakou, TV Control Centre, Athens
2025 Performance at Silent Night, film projections and music curated by Panos Fourtoulakis, Vatsaxi Street, Athens
2025 Music/dance collab w/ Odysseas Tziritas, Schema Musicalis (musicians), Christina Karpouzou, Kostas Phoenix (dancers), To Pano Spiti, Athens
2025 Sound and movement improvisation set with musician Dario Papavassiliou and dancer Christina Karpouzou at Dot wip, Athens
2023 Performance with Eleni Ikoniadou and Savvas Metaxas, Granny Records Showcase, TV Control Center, Athens
2023 Performance with Adam Christensen, Lise exhibition, Vatsaxi 6, Haus N Athen Off-Site, Athens
2022 The Lamenters (lecture performance), SOUND QUESTS 2022 (ALMARE), collaboration with Eleni Ikoniadou, , Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
2021 Audio piece The Lamenters, collaboration with Eleni Ikoniadou, for the exhibition Wake Words, commissioned by Golden Pixel Cooperative, Vienna
2020 Composition commmission and video for the online music/art archive CHANNEL9319062
2019 In sound and word, performance with Urara Tsuchiya with Jack Brennan at Villa Lena Foundation, Tuscany
2019 Live performance at Zoe Williams Ruffles art performance at Artmonte-carlo exhibition, Monaco
2019 In sound and word, performance with Urara Tsuchiya and with Jack Brennan at Kunstverein Langenhagen, Hannover
2018 Ectopia performance as part of Sidsel Meineche Hansen's exhibition Real Doll Theatre, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2018 Ectopia performance Eyes of Blood, at Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
2018 Musical arrangement for Monster Chetwynd’s mixed media performance Free Energy Workshop 2, at Central Station, Antwerp
2017 Composition commission and live performance with musicians Dario Papavassiliou and AJ Pain for Ceremony of the Void by Zoe Williams, at David Roberts Art Foundation, London
2016 Live piano performance for Tender Touches, group exhibition as part of Zoe Williams’ installation, Austrian Cultural Forum, London
2016 Composition commission and live performance for Chateaux Double Wide by Zoe Williams and Urara Tsuchiya, Glasgow International art festival, Glasgow
2014 Composition commission for Three arrangements for Annabel and Cello by Shezad Dawood, London
2013 Composition commission for Dorine Van Meel’s installation…instead to meet strangers that might change our minds,Swiss Church, London
2012 Musical arrangement for Spartacus Chetwynd's Home Made Tasers and The Lion Tamer, Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
2011 Composition commission and cello performance for Spartacus Chetwynd’s mixed media performance The Visionary Vineyard: Dreaming of Free Energy, Hayward Gallery, British Art Show 7, London
RADIO
2025 Muddy Bless, bi-monthly radio show, hosted by Viki Steiri and Dario Papavassiliou, Stegi Radio, Athens
2024 KRAMA Entries Ep.21, Stegi Radio
2024 Remote 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)
2014 Jonah, Music design for radio play by Diana Duta, London
2011 Wind-Up Radio show, hosted by Chloe Frieda and Viki Steiri, NTS Radio, London
RESIDENCIES
2025 Residency at Camp.fr, Echoes of memory with Laima Leyton, Iggor Cavalera and Lavender Suarez, Aulus-les-Bains
2016 Art residency at Wysing Arts Centre, commission of Ectopia’s LP life/section, Cambridge
SELECTED PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
2025 Interview with Charis Apostolopoulos for Oowlr music magazine
2024 Interview with Stelios Papagrigoriou for CNN Greece
2024 Cello rituals, sonic monuments and musical tarot, Late Junction, BBC Radio 3
2024 Balm review by Philip Sherburne at Futurism Restated substack
2024 'Ουτοπία_ μέρος β’ | ευτοπία των ήχων', Παράξενος Ελκυστής, Τρίτο Πρόγραμμα, by Marilena Maragou, Balm LP presentation, ERTecho
2024 Alien Jams presents VIKI STEIRI -Tangle Mix, mixtape and interview for CLOT magazine, vol. 73
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
2009 Master in Music in Composition (Distinction), Goldsmiths College, University of London
2007 Master in Music in Contemporary Musicology (Distinction), Goldsmiths College, University of London
2006 Cello Diploma, Attikon Conservatory (Distinction), Athens
2005 BA/ MMus in Musicology (Distinction), University of Athens
2004 Theory Studies (Harmony, 16th Century Counterpoint, Fugue) Phillipos Nakas Conservatory, Athens
2002 Piano Diploma, Conservatory of Kalithea (Distinction), Athens