Evi Nakou

She has collaborated with artists, ensembles and people from diverse life paths and areas of practice. Her practice sits at the intersection of context-led devised composition and performance, exploring non-hierarchical artistic processes, through collective transmedia improvisation. She is a co-founder of the music ensemble Breakfast Club quartet and collaborates closely with visual artist Daphne Sgourou Drosopoulou. Between 2016 and 2019 Evi founded and led the Learning & Participation Department of the Greek National Opera. In 2019, the Greek National Opera’s project Co-OPERAtive: an intercultural and collaborative hub for young people, was awarded with the 2019 Fedora Prize for Education. Between 2019 and 2021, this endeavor, she worked as a curator for the Athens and Epidaurus Festival focusing on sound practices and contemporary music. In 2021 she moved to Berlin to work as a Leiterin of the Junge Deutsche Oper. evi has worked as a tutor and mentor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and as a visiting artist at the Barbican Center and she is currently based in Athens, focusing on her practice as an independent artist and researcher. She studied Musicology/Music Pedagogy at the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and continued her postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London (MMus in Leadership). She holds a Diploma in Flute and is a PhD candidate at the University of Thessaly. evi has collaborated with the Barbican Centre, BBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Culture Mile, Melissa Network, Women for Refugee Women, Feminist Autonomous Center, Goethe Insitut Athen, Stegi Onassis, amongst others. Evi loves working with friends and making friends through work.