Yannis Rammos works as postdoc in the EPFL Digital & Cognitive Musicology Lab. He is also an Associated Researcher of the Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB) and piano artist-faculty at European University Cyprus. An internationally active piano pedagogue trained in Russia, he has delivered masterclasses at St Petersburg Conservatory, the Verbier Festival Academy, the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität für Musik, the Estonian Academy for Music & Theater, and Conservatorium van Amsterdam, among other venues. Inextricable from his artistic work, his research is motivated by interpretive, technical, and philosophical aspects of classical musical artistry, focusing on the fissure between structure and expression, anxieties of "authenticity" and "originality," piano timbre semantics, the use and disuse of music-analytical metaphors in historical performance treatises, and Russian musicological discourses. It often engages traditions of "linearity," including but not limited to Heinrich Schenker's, from various structuralist and post-structuralist perspectives. 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 performance. Recent publications have appeared in Music & Letters, Quodlibet, and Music Theory & Analysis. At EPFL he is currently working on a formal model of hidden ("middleground") motivic repetition, one of the most elusive, yet startling, features of the tonal canon.