Dr Yannis Rammos is a research associate in music theory at the EPFL Digital & Cognitive Musicology Lab, and member of the piano faculty at European University Cyprus. An internationally active piano pedagogue trained in Russia, in 2022/23 he led classes at the Verbier Festival Academy, the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität für Musik, the Estonian Academy for Music & Theater, and Conservatorium van Amsterdam, among other venues. His research is motivated by technical, interpretive, and philosophical aspects of classical musical artistry, focusing on the fissure between structure and expression, anxieties of “authenticity” and “originality,” topics in piano timbre semantics, the use and disuse of music-analytical metaphors in (historical) performance treatises, and Russian musicological discourses. In most cases it engages traditions of linearity, including but not limited to Schenker’s, from various structuralist and post-structuralist perspectives. Formerly based at the Sibelius Academy, he completed his doctoral studies in piano and music theory at the CUNY Graduate Center and New York University, graduating from the latter with a Ph.D. in classical performance. Recent publications have appeared in Music & Letters, Quodlibet, and Music Theory & Analysis. He is winner of a Fulbright fellowship in piano. At EPFL he is currently working on a formal model of hidden (‘middleground’) motivic repetition, one of the most elusive, yet startling, features of the tonal canon.
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