Biographie

Dr. Yannis Rammos is a researcher in music theory at the EPFL Digital & Cognitive Musicology Lab, and visiting piano faculty at European University Cyprus. An internationally active pianist and piano pedagogue trained in Russia, in recent years he has delivered masterclasses, recitals, and lectures at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität für Musik, the Estonian Academy for Music & Theater, the Russian Institute for Art History, and Conservatorium van Amsterdam, among other venues. His research typically engages traditions of linearity, including but not limited to Schenker's, from various structuralist and post-structuralist perspectives, spanning performance practices and aesthetics, critical theory (primarily of French origin), and Russian musicological discourses. Formerly based at the Sibelius Academy, he completed his doctoral studies in piano and music theory at the CUNY Graduate Center and New York University, graduating from the latter with a Ph.D. in classical piano performance. Recent publications have appeared in Music & Letters, Quodlibet, and Music Theory & Analysis. At EPFL he contributes to the Laboratory's overarching corpus initiative, focusing on the history of Western harmony and formalizations of harmonic-contrapuntal tonal structures.