Lena Platonos

Biography

Lena Platonos (Greek: Λένα Πλάτωνος, Heraklion, Crete, 21 October 1951) is a Greek pianist and composer of electronic and art music. She starred in the electronic scene of the 1980s, while her work was an inspiration for Greek electronica musicians in the following decades.

However, she grew up in Athens. She studied at the Athens Conservatory under the guidance of Phoebe Vallinda and Marika Papaioannou, and became a professional pianist before she turned eighteen, while in 1963 she won the First Prize of the Kaiti Papaioannou Competition. She left with a scholarship to study abroad, first at the Vienna Academy and then in Berlin, where she came into contact with rock, jazz and oriental mus...