Manolis Christodoulou is a qanun player and composer based in Athens. His influences from Greek, Arabic, broader Eastern Mediterranean music, as well as world music and Ethnic Jazz, are evident in his debut solo album “Dawn”. He was born in Athens in 1990. At the age of 8, he began playing the piano, studying Western classical music along with Greek traditional and rebetiko music. After 2009, he began his studies at the Department of Folk and Traditional Music in Arta. He also studied at the historic Istanbul Conservatory “ITU”, attending classes in Eastern music theory and qanun performance, taught by renowned Turkish musicians and instrumentalists.

He is one of the founding members of the band “Dysanatolia”, who released the album “After a Long Time” in 2021. He is also a founding member of the group KoYaMan, with whom he released their debut album in 2025, as well as of the Intercultural Orchestra of the Greek National Opera. He contributed to the composition of the award-winning documentary Argo Navis. In 2021, he participated as a musician in the National Theatre production “To agori sto theoreio”, and has also composed music for theatre (Scene 22), as well as contributed to the music composition of the TV series “Psychokores”. In 2023, he released his first solo album “Dawn”, along with a short animated film of the same name in collaboration with Valasia Dontoulou.

He has performed and collaborated with many renowned artists in the field of traditional music, such as Areti Ketime (with whom he currently performs), and has appeared in numerous major festivals and music venues across Greece, Cyprus, Istanbul, Germany, Spain, as well as on Turkish and Greek national television and radio.