evi nakou is a musician, sound artist and curator. Her practice is a hotchpotch of listening and sharing gestures of sound, text, and performance. She explores proximity and intimacy through situated stories in an improvised and semi-structured manner – stories often untold, unheard or erased. evi is a co-founder of the music ensemble Breakfast Club quartet and the curator of Noisy Words festival at Goethe Institut Athen.

Shifting between installation and performance, she has made collaborative work with people from diverse backgrounds and life paths. She has performed and shown her work locally and internationally, namely at KET TV Control Centre, Barbican, Stegi Onassis, Bergen International Theatre, Beit Al Musica in Palestine, La Sonora in Argentina, SNFCC, amongst others. She has facilitated transdisciplinary composition workshops at Korydallos Prison Complex, the Organization Against Drugs (OKANA), various schools, and hospice, health care, and detention facilities in Attica, Greece. She has collaborated with organizations such as the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Women for Refugee Women, Melissa Network, Goethe-Insitut Athen, New York Philharmonic, CTM Festival, Greek National Opera, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Onassis Stegi, on the basis of conceiving and facilitating context-led pedagogies and performing arts practices. Between 2014 and 2017 she worked as tutor and mentor for undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. In 2016 she was appointed Head of Learning and Participation at the Greek National Opera, where in 2019 she conceived and designed, together with her team, “Co-OPERAtive: an intercultural and collaborative hub for young people” that was awarded with the Fedora Prize for Education. She then worked as an artistic consultant for Athens Epidaurus Festival next to Katerina Evangelatos where she curated practice-based research projects on dramaturgy, sound art and performance. In 2021 she was appointed Leitung der Junge Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Germany. Since March 2026, evi nakou is Head of Education at the National Theatre of Greece.

evi is an Onassis AiR fellow (2024). In her PhD research, at the University of Thessaly Greece, she explored prefigurative pedagogies of non-hierarchical collective writing of transmedia poetry via an intersectional lens.