Andreas Linos

He studied viola da gamba with Nima Ben David at the CNR in Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris), where he won first prize in 2006. Since then, he has pursued a career as a chamber musician, performing in ensembles such as Le Poème Harmonique, L’Acheron, Le Baroque Nomade , Capriccio Stravagante, Le Concert Étranger, La Camera delle Lacrime, Latinitas Nostra, with whom he has recorded around 20 albums. From 2008 to 2011, he organised the monthly season Consort Project at L'Archipel in Paris, dedicated to viol ensembles and English music. In parallel with his musical studies, he studied at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles and trained in string instruments manufacture at the workshop of Bernard Prunier. He created many semi-staged concert-performances in Périgord, Morocco, Paris and Mexico City. In 2012, he directed for the stage as well as designed the sets and costumes for John Blow's opera Venus and Adonis at Agios Lavrentios, Pelion, Greece. In 2014, he directed the work La Pellegrina at the Dijon Opera with the ensemble Les Traversées Baroques. In 2015, he staged the opera Venus and Adonis again for a new production at the Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall. He continued his exploration of the English operatic repertoire with Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, which he directed in 2016 for L’Atelier Lyrique de Tourqoing (France), in a double bill with Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.