Marina Tantanozi (GR/CH) is a greek Basel-based flutist, improviser, curator and teacher, 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 trio Eden/Loriot/Tantanozi, the trio tangent+mek (w/ Anouck Genthon & Anna-Kaisa Meklin), duo with Andria Nicodemou, duo with Silvan Schmid, the 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 Willisau Jazz Festival, 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.

She co-curates together with Dimos Vryzas the No Ordinary Festival for experimental sounds in Thessaloniki (2023 – ). Together with Philipp Eden they organise and curate the concert series Murmur (Wurm.club Basel, 2024- ). She is in the curatorial team of the Zwei Tage Zeit Festival for Improvisation in Zürich (next edition January 2026) and she is the co-founder of the organisation AdhocArts in Athens (2021), dedicated to promote improvised music practises.

Marina holds the following degrees:

– Master of Arts in Specialised Performance Improvisation (Musik Akademie Basel, Switzerland; 2017)

– Master of Music in Flute Performance (Conservatorium – Zuyd Hochschule, Maastricht Holland; 2013)

– Bachelor of Music, with specialisation on Musicology and Pedagogics (University of Makedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece; 2008)