Andreas Linos

He studied viola da gamba with Nima Ben David at the Conservatoire de Boulogne-Billancourt, where he won the first prize in 2006. Since then he has developed a career as a chamber musician, collaborating with ensembles such as Le Poème Harmonique, L’Achéron, 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 of the Consort Project, dedicated to viol ensembles and English music, at L’Archipel hall in Paris. At the same time, he studied at the Versailles School of Architecture and trained in string instrument making at the workshop of Bernard Prunier. He created many concert-shows with a combination of scenic elements in Périgord, Morocco, Paris and Mexico City. In 2012, he was the stage director as well as set and costume designer for John Blow’s Venus and Adonis, staged in the forest of Pelion in Greece. In 2014, he directed La Pellegrina at the Dijon Opera House with the ensemble Traversées Baroques. In 2015, Venus and Adonis became the subject of a new production at 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, concurrently with Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, for the Atelier Lyrique of Tourcoing.