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Born in Kavala, he grew up and is currently residing in Thessaloniki, Greece. Since the early sixties he has been writing and contributing to magazines, as well as playing the piano.
He has been developing radio programs for the State Radio since 1975. Has been composing music for theater plays and has organized events which combined on-stage music, dance, painting and/or silent movies.
Author of 18 books of short prose, essays, and texts on improvisation. Editor of TZAZ, plus and minus, Jazz & Tzaz magazines. Discography of 17 records in total: Leo Records (London) produced six, In Situ (Paris) produced two, and the rest were released by Greek independent record companies.
Performed solo piano, and with Günter Sommer, Andrè Jaume, Daunìk Lazro, Carlos Zingaro, Jean Bolcato, Joe McPhee, Vittorino Curci, Glen Velez, Gianni Gebbia, Gianni Lenoci and others.
Participated in many European Festivals and projects: Jazz Bühne, (Berlin), Europalia (Brussels), Salon du Jazz (Paris), Actual (London), Total Music Meeting (Berlin), Musiques du Sud (Lyon), Europa Jazz Festival (Le Mans), Konfrontationen, (Nickelsdorf), Music im Theater (Vienna), Decade de musique improvisee (Paris), Gibellina Etno-Jazz (Sicily), Leo Festival (London), Festival Jazz (Mulhouse), This Piano Thing (Berlin) and others.
Sakis Papadimitriou and Georgia Sylleou have been working together on a permanent basis since 1995. They have presented both in Greece and internationally cycles of songs, performances with dancers and actors, and silent movies of the twenties, including films by Murnau, Pabst, Richter, Ruttmann, Dulac, Clair, Stroheim, Lang, and others.
They have performed at the following festivals:
Jazz & Altro, Molfetta, 1996
European Cultural Month, Ljubljana, 1997
Druga Godba, Ljubljana, 1997
Europa Jazz Festival, Noci, 1997
Roma Jazz Festival, 1997
Festival Mediterraneo, Conversano, 1998
Festival Mediterraneo, Bisceglie, 1998
Greek Music Festival, Belgrade, 1998
European Music Programme, Cairo, 1999
European Music Programme, Alexandria, 1999
Theatre Rialto, Limassol, 1999, 2000
Gezziamoci, Matera, 1999
International Jazz Festival, Beijing, 1999
International Jazz Festival, Shanghai, 1999
Eurojazz Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 2000
Festival Mediterraneo, Bisceglie, 2000
Festival Mediterraneo, Conversano, 2000
Kypria 2000, Nicosia, Cyprus
EuroChristmas, Hong-Kong, 2000
Winter in Sarajevo, 2001
Festival Paleariza, Calabria, 2002
Festival Griechenland, Stuttgart, 2003
Fonomanie, Bari, 2003
Musica Lontana, Bisceglie, 2004
Nosferatu, Monopoli, 2004
They have released six CDs.
The Song of Lulu (1996) by Jazz and Τζαζ Magazine and Ano Kato Records.
Music and lyrics by Sakis Papadimitriou
Based on the film Lulu-Pandora’s box by Georg W. Pabst.
Open Routes (1998) by Ano Kato Records
Open interpretation of nine storied songs:
An ancient Greek hymn to the Muse, an Armenian folk song of Kappadocia, a spiritual , a song of Greek-speaking villages of Salento, a rebetiko song, a Celtic Sea ritual of the Hebrides Isles, the Epiphany Carol and a song of the Aegean Sea.
Ballad of the Pirates (2000) by Ankh Productions
Poems and songs by Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Hollaender, Tom Waits, Kostas Yiannidis, Sakis Papadimitriou.
Nosferatu (2002 ) by Leo Records,.A project of “Silent Movies With Music In Situ” performed after the 1922 film by F.W.Murnau. George Bandoek Apostolakis, guitar.
Nosferatu a Monopoli (2005) by Anakrousis
A project of “Silent Movies With Music In Situ” recorded live at the
Nino Rota Conservatory in Italy, 2CDs album. Gianni Lenoci, Mario Volpe and anothers.
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