Manos Tsangaris

Since the 1970s, Tsangaris has published poems, performed as a soloist and with various music groups (including Ritim Grup and MIR) and exhibited drawings, theatre machinery and sound installations. He participated in festivals such as Cologne-New York in New York (1989), Ars Electronica in Linz (1991), Linz; "Sound Ways" in Saint Petersburg (1995), "Yokohama Arts" (1997) and the "Musica-Festival Strasbourg" (1998). Tsangaris has composed works commissioned by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, the Südwestrundfunk, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Kölner Philharmonie, the Diözesanmuseum Köln, the Kunststiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, the Katholisches Bildungswerk Köln and the city of Witten. He is also active as a percussionist; he plays with Jaki Liebezeit and other percussionists in the improvisation ensemble Drums Off Chaos [de]. In 2009, he was appointed professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden. In 2015 he was a scholarship holder at the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 2016, Tsangaris took over the artistic direction of the Munich Biennale together with the Swiss composer Daniel Ott (as successor to Peter Ruzicka).