Thanasis Deligiannis works across composition, performance and installation, often bringing these forms together within the same project. Working across concert music, hybrid performative works and immersive installations, he develops projects in close dialogue with musicians, performers, researchers and cultural institutions internationally. This page gives a compact overview of the broader professional practice around the works: artistic collaborations, long-term research and residencies, teaching, and the development of interdisciplinary projects and platforms.
Artistic Approach
An extended notion of composition remains at the core of Deligiannis’ artistic practice, while each project develops its own relationship between sound, bodies, moving image, space and technology. His work ranges from commissioned music for ensembles and soloists to site-specific installations and large-scale performative environments.
Research often forms the starting point of Deligiannis’ projects, not as material to be documented or represented, but as a process that informs how each work takes shape. Observations, conversations, spatial situations and technologies gradually become part of the artistic language. Through workshops, rehearsals and sustained dialogue with musicians, performers and collaborators, ideas are continuously tested, challenged and transformed, allowing composing to expand beyond sound to the conditions through which the work itself is created.
Recent works show this taking different forms. In ENA ENA (2021–23), live music, documentary material, scenography and audience presence were composed into a performance-installation. Xirómero/Dryland (2024) extended composition across sound, moving image, machinery, light and the architecture of the Greek Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, while Nightwater (2025) unfolded through the Muziekgebouw as a building-wide performance-installation with live musicians, simultaneous events and audiences moving through the work.
Selected Collaborations
Music ensembles: Het Muziek (Asko|Schönberg) • Ensemble Klang • Ensemble Proton Bern • Ekmeles • Nieuw Ensemble • Atlas Ensemble • Riot Ensemble • Ensemble Genesis
Artists and companies: Dimitris Papaioannou/Tanztheater Wuppertal – Pina Bausch Company (creative team) • Heiner Goebbels (assistant, Manchester International Festival) • Efthimis Theou (artistic collaborator)
Institutions & festivals: Venice Biennale • Onassis Culture • Muziekgebouw Amsterdam • Gaudeamus • Time of Music • November Music • Orgelpark • Greek National Opera • National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens
Residencies & Fellowships
Long-term artistic development has been an essential part of Deligiannis’ practice. Research residencies have provided the context for exploring new artistic methods, technologies and collaborative forms of working, while expanding his compositional practice into immersive and transdisciplinary contexts.
Selected residencies: Onassis AiR Fellowship • Muziekgebouw Productiehuis • Het Muziek Studio • Gaudeamus (supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL – Nieuwe Makers) • Holland Festival (Immersive) • New York Foundation for the Arts • Orgelpark • Ratingen Hyperorgan • SWR Experimentalstudio
Teaching
Since 2018, Deligiannis has been teaching at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where he developed Transdisciplinary Approaches, a master’s course exploring how methods from different artistic disciplines can inform and expand individual creative practices. His educational work includes individual lessons, artistic research advising and leading interdisciplinary projects connecting departments and academies within the Amsterdam University of the Arts.
Alongside his work at the Conservatorium, he regularly leads workshops, lectures and mentoring programmes for festivals, conservatoires, universities and cultural institutions, focusing on transdisciplinary artistic practice, composition, artistic research and collaboration.
Platforms & Initiatives
Alongside his artistic work, Deligiannis is Artistic Director of the Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary company I/O. Through I/O he initiates and develops performances, installations and research projects together with artists and producing partners from different fields.
Previously he served as: Artistic Coordinator of RE-FUSE (Greek National Opera × Gaudeamus) • Artistic Coordinator of the summer academy Atlas Lab • Assistant Artistic Director of the Nieuw Ensemble
These roles have involved designing artistic programmes, developing research platforms, coordinating international collaborations and creating conditions for interdisciplinary and intercultural artistic development.
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