ABOUT

Photo: Daphne Kotsiani

Panagiotis Andreoglou was born in 1980 in Kavala, Greece. He focuses on the performance of contemporary music. Through collaborations with composers, he has premiered more than 30 new works for accordion in concerts throughout Europe and in the United States. 

He studied the accordion and the piano at the Municipal Conservatory of Kavala, where he took the diplomas on the two instruments. He continued his studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where he studied musicology and music education and at the University of Macedonia where he majored in accordion. He completed his postgraduate studies on accordion at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 2011.

In 2017 he was awarded the Fulbright Artist scholarship and he  implemented research on works that combine accordion and electronics at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, USA. He has given lectures on contemporary accordion techniques at universities and contemporary music festivals in Europe and the US (University of Iowa, Bowling Green State University, Latvian Music Academy,  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, outHEAR New Music Week)

He has been invited by many international music festivals (“Arena” in Latvia, “28th International Review of Composers” in Serbia, “outHEAR New Music Week” in Larissa, 14th Music Festival of Aigina, G. A. Papaioannou festival) and has also performed at the Athens and Thessaloniki Concert Halls and Onassis Cultural Centre among others. ​Performances of his have been broadcast live by the national radios of Denmark, Latvia and Greece.

He is member of the folk band “Grikanta” where he plays folk music from South Italy. He currently teaches the piano at the Music School of Veria.