Pavlos Antoniadis

Piano
Pavlos Antoniadis is a pianist, musicologist and creative technologist from Korydallos, Athens, Greece, currently Associate Professor of Music Communication and Technology at the University of Ioannina, Greece, research collaborator with the team ismm and the ERC REACH at IRCAM, Paris, and PhD supervisor in Artistic Research at Lund University, Malmö.
Ηe has performed in Europe, North & South America and Asia with the new music ensembles Work in Progress-Berlin, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Phorminx, ERGON, Accroche Note, Contemporary Inisghts. As a soloist, he has performed with the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, he has worked with composers such as Mark Andre, Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, Wolfgang Rihm, Tristan Murail, Richard Barrett, Walter Zimmermann, Wieland Hoban, and he has premiered solo piano works by James Erber, Nicolas Tzortzis, Andrew R. Noble, Luis Antunes Pena, Dominik Karski, Laurentiu Beldean, Lula Romero, Uday Krishnakumar, Irene Galindo Quero, Frank Cox, Michael Edward Edgerton among others. He has recorded for Mode (2015 German Recording Critics Award/Deutscheschallplattenkritikspreis), Wergo and Diatribe records.
His programming features the most complex contemporary works, extremes of physicality, live electronics, multimedia, sensors, Virtual and Augmented reality and musical theatre, often in eclectic dialogue with ancient repertoire from Cabezón to Bartók. He is also active in free improvisation, collaborating with Panos Ghikas or with the Improtech community and notably Mikhail Malt (IRCAM REACH programme) for AI-assisted improv, and has collaborated with the physical theatre group Zero Point (Athens).
Pavlos studied the piano with Chryssi Partheniade, Ian Pace, Geoffrey Douglas Madge and Aleck Karis. In ensemble performance, he was a Fellow of Ensemble Modern and Klangforum Wien. He holds a prize-winning PhD in musicology from the University of Strasbourg in co-direction with the IRCAM, an MA in piano performance from the University of California, San Diego on a Fulbright Scholarship, and an MA in music studies from the University of Athens. He has conducted post-doctoral research at EUR-ArTeC, Université Paris 8 and at the Technische Universität Berlin – Audiokommunikation as a Humboldt Stiftung Fellow.
His research interests include embodied cognition, complexity, embodiment, multimodality, sensor-based interactive technologies, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented and Virtual Reality and biopolitics, with a focus on technology-enhanced learning and performance for musics of the 20th and 21st centuries. He is the author of multiple publications, including two forthcoming monographs from Wolke Verlag and EUR-ArTeC and a collective volume on the music of Anestis Logothetis, and has given over 60 lecture-performances around the world, while pursuing an active performing career.

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