​

​​​​Dr. Ioannis Panagiotou is a Greek UK-based artist and composer. His works have been showcased internationally in US, Japan, UK, Lithuania, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, and Greece, receiving recognition in renowned festivals and collaborations with notable ensembles. Notably, his audiovisual work “Umwelt” has been exhibited and performed at prestigious festivals such as b-side Festival, Dialogues Festival, Art Work Exeter, International Forum of Performance Art, Tériade Museum of Modern Art, Days of Electroacoustic Music and the Runt of the Litter in London. Ioannis' compositions have been performed by Plus Minus Ensemble, Athens State Symphony Orchestra, Red Note Ensemble, Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra, Edinburgh Contemporary Ensemble, Edinburgh Quartet, Decoda, Sibil-la Ensemble, Portativ Ensemble and the St Andrews New Music Ensemble.​

​

Ioannis' art explores issues of memory, migration, and identity through cross-media narratives and oral history. He works with sound, multimedia and open forms aiming to activate sociocultural ghosts of the past.

​

Academically, Ioannis holds the position of Tutor in Composing for Screen at The University of Edinburgh and serves as the Head of Music at Lincoln College. Ioannis has been an Artist in Residence at the Zurich University of the Arts and the Artistic Director of the Peter Nelson Ensemble - Edinburgh Contemporary Ensemble. He has taught composition at the Royal Academy of Music (Aarhus), Ionian University and the Academy of Music and Sound. He is also an active member of the International Confederation for Electroacoustic Music, the International Society for Contemporary Music.​ Currently, Ioannis is concentrating his research efforts on composition, video art, and oral history while serving as a Postdoc Research Fellow at the University of the Aegean. Moreover, Ioannis has been involved in various artistic, community projects, including collaborations with the European Commission and HMP Portland Prison.

​

STUDIES

​

Ioannis holds a PhD in Composition and Transdisciplinary Arts from The University of Edinburgh, an MA in Composition from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and an Integrated MA in Composition for Film, Theatre and The Performing Arts from Ionian University. His extensive studies have encompassed composition with renowned mentors such as Martin Parker, Peter Nelson, David Fennessy, Dimitra Trypani, Simon Steen-Andersen, Juliana Hodkinson, Niels Rønsholdt, Gareth Williams and Oliver Searle. Additionally, he has delved into Sonic Arts and Interactive Composition with Alistair McDonald and Diana Salazar, Film Music with Yati Durant, Fine Arts with Kevin Dagg, Bill Psarras and Nikos Kokkalis, and Byzantine Musicology with Dimitrios Giannelos.