"Lizzard Point" from the landmark album "Ambient 4: On Land", arranged for TETTTIΞ
With the kind permission of Brian Eno.

On Land: Lizzard Point [Brian Eno] ·· arr. 2018

Born in Athens, studied and worked as a graphic designer, while studying accordion and piano. After lessons with Costas Varotsis, he shifted entirely to music and moved to the Netherlands to study composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. His teachers were Yannis Kyriakides, Martijn Padding, Cornelis de Bondt and Diderik Wagenaar. At the same conservatory he studied classical singing, while taking lessons in medieval and renaissance polyphony singing by Rebecca Stewart. He has taken masterclasses by Franck Bedrossian, Christian Wolff, Klaus Lang, Mark Andre, Dimitri Papageorgiou and Orestis Toufektsis.

He has won the impuls composition competition where his piece "Kāma" premiered on 2017. He has collaborated with musicians such as Klangforum Wien, ASKO|Schönberg Ensemble, Ensemble dissonArt, Nieuw Ensemble, Momenta Quartet, Slagwerk Den Haag, Ensemble KLANG, Enno Poppe, Ilan Volkov, Bas Wiegers, Ben Roidl-Ward, Katerina Konstantourou, Theodore Antoniou, Yorgos Ziavras, Konstantinos Terzakis and many more. His music has been presented in venues and festivals like Muziekgebouw aan ‘t Ij Amsterdam [NL], MATA Festival New York [US], impuls Festival [AU], Onassis Stegi [GR], Greek National Opera [GR], Athens & Epidaurus Festival [GR], REACTOR Vienna [AU], Korzo Theatre [NL] Tehran International Electronic Music Festival [IR] etc. 

As a singer/performer, he focuses on challenging and demanding singing and music-theatre works, including “Kassandra” by Iannis Xenakis and “Anaparastasis I” by Jani Christou, Recitations by George Aperghis, Maknongan by Giacinto Scelsi, as well as polyphony from Medieval and Renaissance era. He has performed together with the ASKO/Schönberg Ensemble, ASKO Kammerkoor, the Ballata Ensemble, the Athens State Orchestra and the Greek National Choir. Additionally, he participated in several premieres by composers or artists including Kate Moore, Kriests Auznieks, Nikos Ioakeim, Maya Verlaak, Nikos Galenianos and more.

He is the founder and artistic director of the new music ensemble TETTTIX in Athens, which already shapes an important presence in the music scene of Greece, staging music theatre or interdisciplinary performances.

His interest for music-theatre started with performing J. Christou’s works and with participating in Karyn Benquet’s choreography “Ensuing” in Nederlands Dans Theater. His first opera "Strella", was commissioned and premiered by the Greek National Opera in 2023, repeated on the next season due to its great success.

From 2019 his is a PhD candidate on music-theatre, under the guidance of Dimitri Papageorgiou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Franck Bedrossian (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz).

TETTTIΞ (with triple t, pronounced tétix) was born in 2017 on the initiative of Michalis Paraskakis. Its first performance took place in mid 2018, in the small, underground venue Zp87, in the centre of Athens. Since then, it has performed in the Onassis Cultural Centre [Athens], TV Control Centre [Athens] and participated in the last feature film of director Nikos Kornilios “Where the worlds cross”.

ΤΕΤΤΤΙΞ is a team of young musicians, brought together by their love for contemporary/new music, after their long friendship and collaboration. Consisting of 13 musicians, it has a unique formation: flute, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, accordion, piano, guitar, harp, percussion, double bass and 3 composers. TETTTIΞ aims at the creation of new repertoire for its bizarre instrumentation, from young and established composers from around the world. Meanwhile, as a genuine child of its era, TETTTIΞ is flirting with improvisation and other music genres, pop, rock, jazz, rembetiko, electronic, traditional, to name a few.