About
Marina Tantanozi is a Basel-based flutist, improviser, curator, educator and sound artist from Thessaloniki Greece. Her work explores music-making in various settings rooted in improvised music practices, reflecting on the notions of communication, temporality and attentive listening. In her solo practice she combines the flutes (bass flute, flute in C) along with voice, microtonal textures and electronic processing in order to create a personal language, expanding the technical and expressive possibilities of her instruments. She creates open-end compositions, scores and other formats, using improvisation and field-recordings both as research process and compositional elements.
Active in various artistic, educational and curatorial contexts, she has collaborated with musicians and collectives all over Europe. She performs in various ensembles and with the trio Eden/Loriot/Tantanozi, the trio tangent mek (with Anouck Genthon & Anna-Kaisa Meklin), duo with Tom Malmendier, duo with Andria Nicodemou, duo with Silvan Schmid, with the Insub Meta Orchestra and with the Bottom Orchestra a.o. She regularly engages in research and works with other artists, including transdisciplinary collaborations in dance, theatre, literature and the visual arts.
She is the artistic co-director of the No Ordinary Festival of experimental sounds in Thessaloniki Greece and of the Zwei Tage Zeit Festival in Zürich; she is one of the organisers/ curators of the artist-run monthly series Murmur in Basel.
Tantanozi has performed in major festivals such as Irtijal Beirut (2022), Borderline Athens (2022), Copenhagen Jazz Festival (2023), Jazz Festival Willisau (2024), Archipel Genéve (2021), Jazz em Agosto (2024), Musik Festival Bern (2022), Neue Musik Rümlingen (2024) a.o. and released on the labels Montagne Noire, Inexhaustible editions, Crammed Discs, Unit records, Intakt.
She has received several grants, including the Arvore Stiftung grant (2024), the Work in Progress from the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia (tangent mek, 2022) and the 2026 Artists in Residency program in the Arab region also by Pro Helvetia.
Marina Tantanozi holds a Master of Arts in Improvisation from Musik Akademie in Basel, a Master of Music in Flute Performance from Konservatorium Zuyd Hochschule in Maastricht, a Bachelor of Music in Musicology & Pedagogics from University of Makedonia in Thessaloniki Greece.
