Marina Tantanozi (GR/CH) is a greek Basel-based flutist and improviser, also working in sound art.

She explores music-making in various settings based on improvised music practises, reflecting on the notions of communication, temporality and active listening. She regularly plays solo concerts, as well as with the Eden/Loriot/Tantanozi, tangent+mek (w/ Anouck Genthon & Anna-Kaisa Meklin), APLOMB (w/ Andria Nicodemou), duo w/ Silvan Schmid, Insub Meta Orchestra and Kaspar von Grünigen’s Bottom Orchestra a.o..

As an improviser she has performed solo and with different bands in major festivals, such as Irtijal Beirut, Borderline Athens, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Archipel Genéve, Jazz em Agosto, Musikfestival Bern etc.

Active in various artistic and curatorial contexts, she has collaborated with musicians and collectives such as Frantz Loriot, Andria Nicodemou, Tom Malmendier, Martina Berther, Eve Risser, Philipp Eden, Alfred Zimmerlin, Jonas Kocher, Hans Koch, Clara de Asis, Silvan Schmid, Peter Schärli, Lucas Niggli, Sylvain Haenen, Xavière Fertin, Gamut Collective, Insub. and many others.

She pulls from a wide range of musical influences to compose a sound world where she extends the techniques and expressions of the flutes, combining voice, microtonal textures and electronic processing. She regularly engages in research and works with artists from fields such as dance, theatre and the visual arts. In 2019 she created the sound installation “the third space”, for Unfrozen Education or How to Relearn in Rethymno (GR/ CH).

She curates together with Dimos Vryzas the No Ordinary Festival for experimental sounds in Thessaloniki since 2023, as well as the concert series Murmur (Wurm.club Basel, 2024- ) together with Philipp Eden. She co-curated the improvised music series KlangBang in Basel, from 2015 until 2019, and she is a co-founder of the organisation AdhocArts in Athens (2021).

Marina holds a M.A. in Improvisation from the Musik Akademie Basel, a M.Mus in Flute Performance from the Maastricht Conservatorium and a degree in Musicology from UOM (University of Macedonia Thessaloniki).