Bio
Jannos Eolou is a multi-talented artist with his major art being Music. He was born in Greece. He studied in the U.K. and the U.S. Mechanical Engineering, as well as Music (composition, improvisation, orchestration – Masters Degree in Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television.) He is a prolific composer, a very skilled orchestrator, an experienced producer, an art director, a writer, a director... a creative person...
Jannos Eolou has composed music for the cinema, the theatre, contemporary dance companies, the concert hall and for album songs. He has worked as a recording producer, as a session conductor as well as a sound engineer.
His works have been distributed, performed, enjoyed in more than 30 countries, and he has sold many tens of thousands of CDs.
In 1999 he started creating multimedia spectacles combining many art forms in an effort to tell a story evoking emotions. His most prominent work is The Dance of the Dead Roses, a performance combining symphonic music, contemporary dance, cinema, poetry, video art utilizing a 100+ orchestra. The work was performed in more than 40 performances with thrilling reviews.
Since 2000 he has started writing virtuosic chamber group works crafting arrangements of rembetico for classical instruments as well as minimalistic style quartets.
In 2002 he composed the score for the film SOLINO, by Fatih Akin, the celebrated German director of Turkish origin. The score was released on a soundtrack CD by BMG GmbH and had a great impact to audiences of over 30 countries.
His film scores were twice nominated for Best Original Score Award for Dramatic Works by the Greek Ministry of Culture (2004 for the film Wintry Nostalgia by Kostas Aenian & 2006 for the film A Hero in Rome by Panos Angelopoulos – Soundtrack released by EMI).
In 2007 Jannos composed the Narcissus Suite, a chamber hybrid work for string section, piano and a Mid Eastern percussion ensemble, as well as the full size symphonic work Quintessence based on the Aristotle’s theory of five elements.
In 2008 he completed the scoring of 2 feature film documentaries "The Diary of a Times Square Thief" by the Dutch director Klaas Bense (production by Egmond film & TV) and "Bells, Threads & Miracles" by Greek director Mariana Economou (production Inkas Films).
In 2009 he has composed music for the first animated stereoscopic film in Greece on the history of aviation SKIES TO ETERNITY.
In 2011 he has scored the music for the Dutch film ONE FINE DAY by Klaas Bense (Eye Works) as well as the Greek film TO TANGO TON HRISTOUGENNON (Christmas Tango) directed by Nikos Koutelidakis (Village Roadshow).
He has his own studio for composing, orchestrating and mixing his works and recently he has launched his record label MALADIE D’ AMOUR MUSIC WORKS.
We could send you a full CV with all his compositions and filmography if necessary.
Jannos Eolou creates music in order to take us in a journey, like cinema does, like books, like dance... a journey into the human heart, portraying images, discovering our inner universe...