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Thanasis Deligiannis, photo by Foppe Schut

Thanasis Deligiannis (born 1983, Larissa, Greece) is a Greek transdisciplinary artist, stage director, composer and educator based in the Netherlands.

Biography

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Thanasis Deligiannis was born in Larissa, Greece in 1983, growing up in a family of traditional musicians, dancers and farmers[1]. He studied composition and music theatre next to Dimitris Terzakis, Giorgos Kyriakakis and Sofia Karakantza at the Department of Music Science and Art at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki and moved to the Netherlands in 2007 to continue his Masters studies in composition with Wim Henderickx at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam at the Amsterdam University of the Arts[2]. Since his graduation in 2010 he lives in Amsterdam as a Dutch-based artist and educator, working in the Netherlands and abroad[3].

Career

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Thanasis Deligiannis has been a featured artist at Venice Biennale 2024, presenting the collective interdisciplinary work Xirómero/Dryland[4] at the Greek Pavilion (April-November 2024), conceived by himself and Yannis Michalopoulos, created along with the artists Elia Kalogianni, Yorgos Kyvernitis, Kostas Chaikalis and Fotis Sagonas. He has been an Onassis Culture Fellow for 2022-2023, co-directing with Yannis Michalopoulos The Margaroni Residency at Onassis AiR[5], a large-scale artistic-research on which the work Xirómero/Dryland was based.

From 2017 to 2019 Deligiannis has been artist-in-residence at Gaudeamus[6] with the support of the program Nieuwe Makers by the Performing Arts Fund NL, and at the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2012. In 2017-2018 he worked for the Tanztheater Wuppertal – Pina Bausch Company as a member of Dimitris Papaioannou’s creative team[7] and was assistant to Heiner Goebbels at Manchester International Festival. For the years 2016 and 2017 Deligiannis was artistic coordinator of the music-theatre research platform RE-FUSE[8], an initiative of the Greek National Opera in collaboration with Gaudeamus. Since 2018 he has been teaching at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam at the Amsterdam University of the Arts[9] and occasionally gives workshops to educational institutions in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe. He has been assistant artistic director for the Nieuw Ensemble from 2011 till 2014 and artistic coordinator of the intercultural music platform Atlas Lab[10] from 2011 till 2016.

In 2013 Deligiannis co-founded the Amsterdam-based company I/O[11] focused on the creation of international interdisciplinary projects. The work of the company brings together technology and the interaction among different disciplines, while exploring hybrid artistic forms and redefining the dialogue between the performative event and its audience.

Deligiannis has been active as a transdisciplinary artist, director, composer, sound designer and performer in Europe, Asia and North America.

Discography

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  • Communicational Entropy / Andromeda, Kaja Draksler - The Live Of Many Others (Clean Feed, 2013)[12]
  • A bit Unfair, Seldom Sene - Not A Single Road (Brilliant Classics, 2019)[13]
  • An Onion Of No Return, Sterre Konijn - Een (7 Mountain Records, 2021)[14]

Publications

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  • Anna Ioanna - Entefktirio, Poetry Magazine (Entefktirio, 2009)[15]
  • The Meal - Afresh A New Generation of Greek Artists, Exhibition Catalogue (ΕΜΣΤ, 2013)[16]
  • Various works with/by Efthimis Theou - Theatre / Archaeology | Efthimis Theou (ΕΜΣΤ, 2020)[17][18]
  • Panel discussions and interviews / Disembordering the Musical Field, Paul Craenen & Michiel Schuijer - Shifting Boundaries, Situating Contemporary Music Practices (November Music, 2023)[19][20]

Works

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Staged/Transdisciplinary

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  • Xirómero/Dryland (2024) collaborative immersive installation for the Greek Pavilion, Venice Art Biennale
  • ENA ENA (2021) cross-over performance for voice, violin, keyboards, drums and electronics
  • μ (2020) staged concert for violin, double bass, trombone, tuba, percussion, piano and electronics
  • re- (1st & 2nd drafts) (2018-19) cross-over performance for solo performer, electronics and robotics devised by I/O
  • ALICE (2017) performative installation devised by I/O
  • The Moon Is Electric (2017) music theatre performance for one to six speaking performers; conductor, pianist, trombonist, harpist, one or two clarinetists, Text: A. Minou
  • THIEVES (2016) music theatre performance for violin, flute/bass flute, cello, clarinet, piano, percussion
  • I/Orgel (2016) music theatre performance for organs, 2 voices, violin and live electronics, devised by I/O
  • Lovyrinths (2014) music theatre performance for 2 voices, saxophone, violin, electric guitar, organs, harmonium, 2 pianos, Text: A. Minou
  • The Grief of Eurydice: where does she go? (2013) staged concert for recorder, violone, harpsichord, dancer and narrator, under the direction of M. Suzuki
  • I/O (2013) music theatre performance for flute, clarinet, electric guitar, harp, percussion, piano, violin, double bass, live electronics and 2 tennis players, devised by I/O
  • Sound of Protest (2011) performance installation in collaboration with Ji Youn Kang
  • Grief of Eurydice (2011) collective interdisciplinary opera for soprano, recorder, baroque violin, baroque viola, baroque cello, harpsichord, positive organ and dancers, under the direction of M. Suzuki
  • The Meal (2011) performance for two performers, devised with E. Theou
  • Adrastea (2010) music theatre performance for 2 actors, 3 female singers, 3 children, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, harpsichord and percussion, Text: A. Minou

Ensemble music

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  • EKINOS (2018) for violin, cello and accordion
  • …while they were watching… (2014) for large ensemble
  • Satyrcrash (2012) for large intercultural ensemble
  • putridity and the vortex of shallow reciprocations (2012) for 3 recorder players, bass clarinet and 2 percussionists, Text: D. Dimitriadis
  • Harpyia (2010) for harpsichord, baroque violin, baroque cello and alto saxophone, Text: T. Deligiannis
  • Yriaeas (2010) for flute/bass flute, oboe/english horn, clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone and double bass
  • Emmeni (2009) for piano, piccolo, horn, trombone, viola and double bass
  • Synaxi (2009) for flute, oboe, clarinet, percussion, mandolin, guitar, harp, violin, viola, cello and double bass
  • Lefkipi (2008) for speaking pianist, alto flute, bass clarinet and string quartet, Text: T. Deligiannis
  • I was hunting, but I didn’t know (2008) for flute, bass clarinet, violin, double bass and percussion
  • An island mother (2007) for piano, flute, clarinet and bassoon, based on a poem by V. Amanatides

Vocal music

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  • Far away or close enough (2021) for automated organs, recorded voice and field recordings, Text: A. Minou
  • Prayers of Incompetence (2020) for 5 voices, automated organ and field recordings, Text: A. Minou
  • a bit unfair (2017) for 5 female recorder players/singers, Text: I. Camhis
  • Wait, I’ll – 5 incidents (2015) for mezzo-soprano, flute, harpsichord and 2 percussionists, Text: A. Minou
  • ΛΕΣ (2015) for female voice, flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, harp, vibraphone, violin, viola, cello, Text: A. Minou
  • Wet eyes Marina / Dry eyes me (2014), for piano-speaker, violin and trombone, in collaboration with 7090, Text: V. Amanatidis
  • Ignored Manuals (2012) for soprano, 2 mezzo-sopranos and 2 baritones, revision for soprano, mezzo-soprano, countertenor, tenor, baritone and bass (2013), Text: A. Minou, Rumi
  • Une prière (2011), for female voice, lupophon or english horn, 2 vibraphones, 2 celli, harp and positive organ, Text: D. Dimitriadis
  • Aprothymos (2009), for solo voice, Text: T. Deligiannis
  • Ino (2007) for 2 female voices, piano, violin and 2 percussionists, Text: T. Deligiannis
  • Dionysus (2006) for 2 female voices, piano, violin and 2 percussionists, Text: T. Deligiannis
  • Epoasi (2006) women’s chorus and string orchestra

Keyboard music

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  • What Will Happen (2020) for hyperorgan
  • Communicational Entropy (2005) for solo piano
  • Fairy Tales (2001) for solo piano

Video/Electronics

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  • in danger as a whole (2024) audio-visual installation based on Louis Andriessen's De Staat
  • Ariadne: where are you, brother, I have your pills (2008) short film
  • The Lake (2004) electronics

References

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  1. ^ "About". Thanasis Deligiannis. 2011-12-20. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
  2. ^ "Δεληγιάννης, Θανάσης | «Central Music Authority Archive (KeMKA)»". collection.melos-project.gr. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
  3. ^ "Thanasis Deligiannis". New Music Now. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  4. ^ "Xirómero/Dryland - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  5. ^ "Onassis AiR Thanasis Deligiannis and Yannis Michalopoulos Fellowship". www.onassis.org. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  6. ^ "Thanasis Deligiannis". Gaudeamus. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  7. ^ "Since she". www.pina-bausch.de. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  8. ^ "RE-FUSE music theatre research platform". RE-FUSE. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  9. ^ "Thanasis Deligiannis". Conservatorium van Amsterdam (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  10. ^ "Atlas Lab". www.atlasensemble.nl. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  11. ^ "About – I/O". Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  12. ^ "Kaja Draksler - The Lives Of Many Others".
  13. ^ "Not a Single Road". Seldom Sene. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
  14. ^ "Sterre Konijn - EEN".
  15. ^ ΕΝΤΕΥΚΤΗΡΙΟ ΤΕΥΧΟΣ 86 - ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΡΙΟΣ 2009 (in Greek).
  16. ^ "Afresh A New Generation of Greek Artists". EMSTeShop. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  17. ^ "Theatre / Archaeology | Efthimis Theou". EMSTeShop. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  18. ^ Theou, Efthimis. "GRIDS - A theatre/archaeology space".
  19. ^ Music, November. "Shifting Boundaries 2023". November Music (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  20. ^ Shifting Boundaries - Situating Contemporary Music Practices (PDF). November Music. 2023.
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