- country:Greece
- style(s):Balkan, World Jazz
- label:not signed
- type:Solo, Composer/Songwriter, Small Ensemble
- instrumentation:instrumental, string, jazz combo
- artist contact:CReNe - Music from Greece
Line up
- Angeliki Spyridaki (Manager | Booker)
- Eleanna Pitsikaki (Qanun, Composer | World Jazz & Balkan music)
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Eleanna Pitsikaki is an internationally touring Kanun virtuoso, sound explorer, composer, arranger, music educator, and advocate of transcultural and transtraditional music. With her unique blend of transcultural and transtraditional elements, she transcends musical boundaries, creating a captivating sonic experience.
Her career is marked by global performances and projects that build cultural bridges. Since 2024, Eleanna has been a lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz (HfM Mainz) for intercultural music exchange and a Kanun instructor at the Freies Musikzentrum München. She leads the Transcultural Bridges Music Sessions. From 2023 to 2024, she was a lecturer in Oriental Music at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (HfMT Köln).
As a project leader, Eleanna has founded two of her own bands: EPI Music and the Balkan Fuego Trio. In 2020, she appeared as the lead and creative contributor in a ZDF documentary that highlighted Crete and the Kanun instrument. In 2019, Eleanna represented Greece and Germany at the prestigious International Festival Sharq Taronalari in Uzbekistan.
Her musical journey began almost self-taught and led her to Music Seminars of Labyrinth in Crete. After, she studied world music at the Popakademie Mannheim. An Erasmus stay at the HKU Conservatory in Utrecht and a Master’s degree in Jazz Improvisation at the HfMT Köln completed her artistic development. Additionally, she studied Systemic Psychotherapy for two years at ESYTHEPAS in Athens.
Her pedagogical training includes certifications in Elementary Music Pedagogy and Early Childhood Music Education from EOPPEP Crete. In 2018, she received a diploma in Byzantine Music from Papachronis Giannis of the Agios Stefanos School. In 2015, she represented Greece at the second Kanun Festival at the State Conservatory in Ankara and performed as a soloist with the Plovdiv Orchestra in Bulgaria.
Her first Album "Aroma" an Ethno Jazz Fusion, is to be released in 2025.