Katerina Anagnostidou
percussionist
Katerina Anagnostidou is a Greek percussionist and performer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. After first receiving her classical percussion degree in Athens, she enrolled at The Royal Danish Academy of Music, receiving her Master’s degree in 2017.
Katerina is an active soloist. She has competed in several international competitions, such as the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, and won a prize in PAS in Patras in the ‘Advanced keyboards’ category in 2011. In 2012 she won the YAMAHA Foundation in Europe Music Competition in Greece. She has been awarded the orchestral repertoire prize from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, for most promising musician in 2016. In 2018, she made a Danish premiere of Peter Klatzow’s marimba concerto with Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, and has also performed Danish premieres of Marcin Blazewicz’s marimba concerto and Komboï by Xenakis.
Katerina collaborates with various ensembles, specializing in new and contemporary music and has performed in many countries in Europe and in the USA. Katerina has commissioned many new works for percussion, both solo and with her percussion duo, SISTRO, with their latest release from 2025 on Don’t Look Back Records. She is founder and member of KIMI, a Copenhagen based ensemble, focused on contemporary music, with whom they have released their first EP in 2022, Bittersweet and toured together in Iceland and the USA. In April 2024, she performed in the Venice Biennale at the Nordic Pavillion, in the “Altersea Opera” by the multidisciplinary artist Lap See Lam.
Katerina is currently working on a solo album featuring new commissions for marimba by composers Nick Martin and Christos Farmakis.
katerina is a member of KIMI Ensemble
katerina performs in
Echoes from the Garden