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Yorgos Dimitriadis is a Berlin based drummer active in the realms of improvised music and contemporary jazz.

After having studied drums at the New Conservatory Thessaloniki, Greece, Dimitriadis moved to Boston, U.S.A. to study with Alan Dawson and Bob Moses. After returning to Europe, in 1994 he was offered a two-year residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris from the Greek Ministry of Culture. For the next twelve years Dimitriadis was an active member of the Paris jazz and improvised music scene, playing locally as well as participating in festivals world wide.

Since 2006 he works and lives in Berlin, connecting with the international improvisers scene and participating in different groups and projects: from solo performances to appearances with the 25 piece orchestra BerIO. Dimitriadis is a founding member of among others: GRIX, GLUE and FABRIC trios.

He has played with: Sirone, Achim Kaufmann, Tobias Delius, Clayton Thomas, Axel Dörner, Ignaz Schick, Andrea Parkins, Paul Dunmall, Tristan Honsinger, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Marco Eneidi, Alexander Frangenheim, Matthias Bauer, Jan Roder, Edoardo Maraffa, Julie Sassoon, Lothar Ohlmeyer, Harri Sjöström, Nils Ostendorf, Antonio Borghini, BerIO (Berlin Improvisers Orchestra), Marc Turner, Michel Hadjigeorgiou, Nedim Nalbantoglou, Minino Garay, Mano Solo.

ALBUMS


Eventless Plot / Yorgos Dimitriadis
Entanglements
2024, Cass, Album, Ltd, Innovo Editions, ,
Experimental/Electroacoustic
Han-earl Park*, Yorgos Dimitriadis, Camila Nebbia
Gonggong 225088
2024, CD, Album, Waveform Alphabet
van Huffel* / Kneer* / Dimitriadis*
Synomilies
2024, CD, Album, Evil Rabbit Records, Evil Rabbit Records
Yorgos Dimitriadis
14 20 22
2023, ,
Free Improvisation
Floros Floridis / Yorgos Dimitriadis
Tone Sequence Evaluators
2022, CD, Album, Evil Rabbit Records, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation
Yorgos Dimitriadis, Axel Dörner, Lori Freedman, Andrea Parkins, Christopher Williams
BeingFive
2022
Achim Kaufmann, Yorgos Dimitriadis
Nowhere One Goes
2019, CD, Album, Jazzwerkstatt, Jazzwerkstatt
Philippe Lemoine, Guilherme Rodrigues, Yorgos Dimitriadis
Studio Recording Berlin 2018
2018, 5xFile, FLAC, Album, Not On Label (Guilherme Rodrigues Self-released)
Philippe Lemoine, Guilherme Rodrigues, Yorgos Dimitriadis
Mirror Mirror Sommer Festspiele September 2017
2017, File, FLAC, Album, Not On Label (Philippe Lemoine Self-released)
Yorgos Dimitriadis
Kopfkino
2016, CD, Album, Ltd, Creative Sources
Hilary Jeffery, Frank Paul Schubert, Paul Dunmall, Alexander von Schilppenbach*, Mike Majkowski, Yorgos Dimitriadis
Red Dhal Sextet
2013, CD, Album, FMR Records (2), ,
Free Improvisation
Glue (23), Tom Arthurs, Miles Perkin, Yorgos Dimitriadis
Glue
2011, CD, Album, Not Applicable
Oğuz Büyükberber Trio
The Power Of Movement In Plants
2020, CD, Album, TryTone
Kern
Mittendrin
2017, CD, Album, Ltd, Creative Sources
Grix
Penetralia
2015, CD, Album, Ltd, Creative Sources
Glue
Chats With The Real McCoy
2014, CD, Album, Ltd, Creative Sources
Fabric Trio
Murmurs
2013, LP, Album, Ltd, NoBusiness Records
Grix
Sweet, Sour, Sharp & Soft
2009, CD, Album, Jazzwerkstatt, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation