Tania Giannouli © Daniel Wetzel
Tania Giannouli
‘This music invites the listener to dream of eternity.’ (Jazzspace)
Tania Giannouli’s genre-defying music is highly original, lyrical, complex, eclectic and intoxicating. Classically trained and inspired by many traditions and influences, her compositions and interdisciplinary projects span an impressive range of styles, creating a borderless amalgamation of our global reality.
A renowned pianist, composer, improviser and bandleader, she has performed at venues and festivals across Europe and her explorative collaborations have been released on New Zealand's foremost art-music label, Rattle Records: Solo (2023, a passionate and epic solo album recorded in Athens at Dimitris Mitropoulos Hall), In Fading Light (2020, a trio with trumpet player Andreas Polyzogopoulos and oud player Kyriakos Tapakis), Rewa (2018, improvised collaboration with traditional Maori instrumentalist, Rob Thorne), Transcendence (2015, featuring works composed for the Tania Giannouli Ensemble), and Forest Stories (2012, with Portuguese wind player, Paulo Chagas). Her albums receive widespread international acclaim, with Transcendence cited as one of the most important albums of the decade in her Greek homeland and Solo cited among the top releases of 2023.
In 2023 Tania was honoured by the Greek International Women Awards (GIWA) as a visionary individual who has made a significant impact in arts and culture. In 2022 she was one of two artists-in-residence at Enjoy Jazz Festival (DE), where she premiered new works and collaborations — an article about this has been published on the influential website All About Jazz, and in 2021, she was nominated for the Deutscher Jazzpreis (German Jazz Prize) alongside international pianists Tigran Hamasyan and Shai Maestro.
Tania is currently performing solo, in duo with Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch, with her trio featuring Andreas Polyzogopoulos and Kyriakos Tapakis, collaborating on with HEMERA with Michele Rabbia (percussion) and Daniele Roccato (double bass), and in a range of other constellations across Europe and beyond.