Pavlos Antoniadis is a Berlin-based pianist and musicologist, specializing in complex contemporary and experimental music. Next to his performing activity, he is developing concepts (corporeal navigation) and tools (gesture cutting through textual complexity, IRCAM 2014) for piano performance.

He performs regularly with the new music ensembles Work in Progress-Berlin, KNM Berlin, ERGON (Athens), while organizing and playing solo concerts, often in collaboration with renowned and younger composers, such as Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, Mark Andre, Beat Furrer, Wolfgang Rihm, Nicolas Tzortzis, Andrew Noble, Dominique Karski. He has performed in France,
Germany, the Netherlands, Greece, Austria, Italy, England, Ireland, Argentina and the USA. Radical complexity, live electronics, music theatre and idiosyncratic excurtions in music history are his points of focus as a soloist. He has recorded for Mode, Wergo and Los Angeles River Records.

As a musicologist he advocates the development of performer-specific discourses and practices for new music, with an interdisciplinary approach to the bond between notation and corporeality, influenced by cognitive science and cultural theory. Next to his published writings (transkript-Verlag, CeReNeM Journal, EAM Book Series, JIMS online etc), he is currently developing an interface for real-time gestural processing of complex piano notation at the IRCAM (musical research residency 2014).

Pavlos holds degrees in piano performance (MA, UC San Diego) and musicology (Athens National University) and is currently completing his PhD ("The development of a performer-specific navigational tool for complex piano scores after 1950,,) at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden. He studied piano performance in Nakas Conservatory in Athens, in Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag, privately in London with Ian Pace, and completed his MA in the University of California, San Diego, on Fulbright, UCSD, Nakas and Impuls Academy scholarships.