Statement​

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I create multimedia performances and installations with live musicians, videos, archives, and oral histories for people who have left a place or time they cannot return to, so they have somewhere to put their belonging, memory and grief.

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Bio

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Ioannis Panagiotou is a composer and visual artist based in Belgium and the United Kingdom. He holds a PhD in composition from the University of Edinburgh and works as a composer and researcher at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp. Drawing on multimedia storytelling and oral history, his works explore themes of memory, migration, and identity, and have been presented in the USA, Japan, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Lithuania, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, as well as at major festivals and institutions such as b-side Festival, Kournos Music Festival, Dialogues Festival, PLUG Contemporary Music Festival, Performing Media Festival, Sound/Image Festival, Miry Concertzaal, the Tériade Museum of Modern Art, and the Greek National Opera.
 

He has collaborated with ensembles including Plus-Minus Ensemble, Red Note Ensemble, Sibil-la Ensemble, the Edinburgh Quartet, the Athens State Orchestra, Edinburgh Contemporary Ensemble, St Andrews New Music Ensemble and the Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra. He has been an artist-in-residence at Zurich University of the Arts and has taught and conducted research at the University of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Music Aarhus, the Ionian University and the University of the Aegean.

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STUDIES

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Ioannis holds a PhD in Multimedia Composition 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, Gareth Williams and Simon Steen-Andersen. 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.