Andria Nicodemou is a multidisciplinary musician, sound artist, and educator from Cyprus working internationally across improvisational, experimental, and interdisciplinary performance. Her practice centers on vibraphone and percussion, improvisation, sound art, and interactive performance, exploring extended, embodied, and multisensory approaches to sound-making.
An active touring artist, she performs internationally in ongoing collaborations, including duos with Marina Tantanozi and Petr Vrba, and a trio with Vasco Trilla and Drew Wesely. She has collaborated with artists such as Joe Morris, Ikue Mori, Joe McPhee, Ingrid Laubrock, Anthony Coleman, Tayler Ho Bynum, Anne La Berge, Ab Baars, Gerald Cleaver, and Hans Koch, among others. Her work has been presented at major festivals and venues including MoMA PS1 and The Stone (New York), Earshot Jazz Festival (Seattle), Irtijal (Beirut), Borderline Festival (Athens), the Megaron Athens Concert Hall, and with the Royal, Prague, and London Improvisers Orchestras.
Her discography includes The Industry of Entropy (Relative Pitch), R̔ aven (Glacial Erratic Records), and The River Is Full(Subcontinental Records). She has been invited as a speaker at international conferences including the Change Maker Conference (Boston) and Ignite at Lesley University.
As an educator, she develops process-driven, exploratory learning environments that emphasize creativity, listening, embodiment, and interdisciplinary collaboration. She has worked in public and private schools in Massachusetts, designing alternative curricula beyond traditional music education, and collaborates with Young Audiences of Massachusetts. She is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the NGO Make Music Cyprus and the founder and curator of Breach Festival, Cyprus’s first festival dedicated toimprovisational and experimental music.
