Beyond the individual works presented on this website, this page offers a broader portrait of Thanasis Deligiannis’ artistic practice, bringing together the collaborations, institutions, educational activities and long- term artistic research that shape it. Working across concert music, hybrid performative works and immersive installations, he develops projects in close dialogue with musicians, performers, researchers, programmers and cultural institutions internationally. Alongside his practice, he teaches, leads workshops and directs interdisciplinary projects.
Artistic Approach
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-responsive 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 the compositional decisions shaping each work. 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 composition to expand beyond sound into the conditions through which the work itself is created.
Selected Collaborations
Music ensembles: Het Muziek (Asko|Schönberg) • Ensemble Klang • Ensemble Proton Bern • Ekmeles • Nieuw Ensemble • Atlas Ensemble • Riot Ensemble • Ensemble Genesis • Orkest De Ereprijs
Artists and companies: Dimitris Papaioannou/Tanztheater Wuppertal – Pina Bausch Company • Heiner Goebbels • Efthimis Theou
Institutions & festivals: Venice Biennale • Onassis Culture • Muziekgebouw Amsterdam • Gaudeamus • Time of Music Greek • 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 Culture 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 • Impuls Academy Graz • SWR Experimentalstudio
Teaching
Since 2018, Deligiannis has been teaching at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where he developed the master’s course Transdisciplinary Approaches, and contributes to coaching and teaching creative students from various departments, research advising and cross-academy projects of 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.
Previously he served as: Artistic Coordinator of RE-FUSE (Greek National Opera × Gaudeamus) • Artistic Coordinator of 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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