The multi-instrumentalist and composer Tilemachos Mousas is a PhD candidate at the Department of Music Studies. He holds a Master of Music in Jazz Guitar from the same department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and Bachelor’s degrees in Education and Agricultural Studies. He has studied at the Contemporary Conservatory of Thessaloniki, the Dante Agostini Music School, and the Philippos Nakas Conservatory, from which he received a scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music in the USA. He has studied jazz guitar with Mike Moreno, Lage Lund, Gilad Hekselman, Grigoris Danis, Kostas Magginas, Giorgos Patsiaouras, and Dimitri Velitskov, flamenco guitar with Alejandro Chacon and Thomas Natsis, and classical guitar with Giorgos Arsenis. He also plays Theremin, musical saw, berimbau, didgeridoo, cümbüş, and politiko laouto. Mousas has composed music for theatre and dance performances, as well as for short and feature films, and has collaborated with institutions such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, CCRMA at Stanford University, IRCAM Centre Pompidou, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, the National Theatre of Greece, the National Theatre of Northern Greece, the Greek National Opera, the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron), the Onassis Stegi, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, the Cyprus Theatre Organisation, and TEDx University of Piraeus, among others. He is a founding member of the ODC theatre company. Mousas received the international Music Theater Now Award (2018) and the 1st Prize at the BE Festival in Birmingham. He has appeared at major international festivals and venues, including the Copenhagen Opera Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Aalborg Opera Festival, Operadagen Rotterdam, Neuköllner Oper Berlin, Singapore Arts Festival, Musiktheatertage Wien, Malta Cultural Capital of Europe, W Festival, and Sani Jazz Festival, among others. His compositions have been released on three albums by Ankh Records, reflecting a contemporary jazz aesthetic, as well as four albums of theatre music published by ODC.
