TANIA GIANNOULI
Genres: World Fusion, Third Stream, Jazz Related Improv, Composition, 21st Century Modern • Greece

Greek pianist, composer, improviser and bandleader. She studied classical music (Piano Soloist and Composition diplomas) and Agriculture (MS on Food Technology, AUA). She explores jazz as the most creative music form and regularly employs improvisation in her practice. She makes jazz of the kind where improvisation is just the starting point and somewhere out there - or something deep inside - is the aim. Ιnspired by many different traditions and influences, her music and interdisciplinary projects span an impressive range of styles - a creative and borderless amalgamation of the global today’s reality. Her genre-defying "open sound language" is often described as lyrical, inspired, complex, eclectic, intoxicating and highly original. As the Korean magazine Jazzspace has written: “This music invites the listener to dream of eternity.” Her imaginative, explorative musical nature has led to five unique recording collaborations, all released on New Zealand's foremost art-music label, Rattle Records: Forest Stories (2012, with read more...