Thanasis Deligiannis (Greece, 1983) grew up in a family of traditional musicians, dancers and farmers. In 2007, he moved to Amsterdam. He holds a bachelor in composition at the University of Macedonia of Thessaloniki and a master in composition at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where he has been teaching since 2018 with a focus on transdisciplinarity. He has been active as a multimedia artist, director, composer, sound designer and performer in Europe, Asia and North America.

Thanasis has been a featured artist at Venice Art Biennale and artist-in-residence at Muziekgebouw Productiehuis in 2024, at Onassis AiR for 2022-2023, at Gaudeamus for 2017-2019 with the support of the Nieuwe Makers programme of the Performing Arts Fund NL, and at the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2012. Next to his own compositions and performative work, he collaborated with the Tanztheater Wuppertal – Pina Bausch Company as a member of Dimitris Papaioannou’s creative team in 2017-2018, and he has been assistant to Heiner Goebbels at Manchester International Festival in 2018. For the years 2016 and 2017 he was the artistic coordinator of the music-theatre research platform RE-FUSE, an initiative of the Greek National Opera in collaboration with Gaudeamus. He has been assistant artistic director for the Nieuw Ensemble from 2011 till 2014 and artistic coordinator of the intercultural music platform Atlas Lab from 2011 till 2016. In 2013 Thanasis co-founded the Amsterdam-based company I/O, which focuses on the creation of transdisciplinary projects.

See also: https://thanasisdeligiannis.com/