Pianist Lenio Liatsou enjoys a career as soloist, collaborative artist and academic educator. She is one of Greece’s most ardent advocates for contemporary music, having performed countless premieres of new works. She has worked with composers such as Niels Roensholdt, Beat Furrer, Manos Tsangaris, Peter Eötvos and Georges Aperghis. Her work is particularly focused on the development of new forms of art which leads her to work not only with composers, but also with directors, actors and dancers. Her academic research concerns a new approach for teaching contemporary music.

 She has been invited to perform in concert halls and festivals, such as the Carnegie Hall (U.S.A), the Purcell Room (GB), KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen (Hannover), Spor Festival (Aarhus), New York University Casa Italian Zerilli Marimo, Athens Megaron Concert Hall, Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens) , Klang Festival (Copenhagen), Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music 2012, Ensembl[:E]uropa (Cologne),  Klangspuren (Innsbruck) , Salzburg Biennale, the ancient theatre of Epidaurus, documenta14, Thessaloniki Piano Festival a.o. 

She has recorded for dacapo records, GOD Records, Disc's Club ,WDR, Naxos, ORF, and Dissonance Records. Her solo recordings have been broadcasted in various countries such as Austria, Germany, France, Slovenia, U.S.A and Australia. Her recording of Piano Works by G.Aperghis was nominated for an Award by the Union of Greek Critics for Music&Drama 2018.

 She studied with Domna Evnouhidou,Susan Bradshaw, Andrew Ball, Yonty Solomon, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Georges Pludermacher (Thessaloniki Music College, Goldsmiths College, Royal College of Music, Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris, Cologne Music Academy).  She also holds a PhD from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Lenio is the co- founder (together with violinist Theodor Patsalidis) and pianist of the contemporary music ensemble dissonArt, one of the top new music greek ensembles (www.dissonart.gr) .

She is invited frequently as a jury member to piano competitions and she was a mentor to Munich Biennale’s international platform (Athens) 2018. From 2018-22 she worked with theatre director Michail Marmarinos as the concept developer for the production of a new music theatre titled ‘Once to be realised- J.Christou’ which premiered in Munich Biennale and the Berlin Deutche Oper.

Lenio has taught Contemporary Piano Performance at the Aristoteles University (2003-2012), and from 2017-2020 she taught Contemporary Music Performance Practice at the Macedonian University. She is currently conducting a postdoc research project at Macedonian University funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation.