The conductor and pianist Chrysanthie Emmanouilidou, born in Thessaloniki, has lived in Berlin since 1998. She continued her piano and harmony studies at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, where her time with Prof. Georg Sava was an invaluable source of inspiration.
Conducting studies in Italy with the conductor Andrea Pestalozza, to whom she owes her access and enthusiasm for contemporary music, further complete her musical education.
While still a student, she took part in numerous piano and conducting master classes in Germany, France and Austria, where she worked with a wide variety of European orchestras.
C. Emmanouilidou worked as an assistant to conductor Michael Boder at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, at the Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and during the "Ruhr Triennale" in Bochum, and subsequently with Kurt Masur in Rome.
Her work with Claudio Abbado (in Bolzano, Cremona, Bologna, Lucerne) and Lionel Friend (Birmingham), also as an assistant, play a decisive role in the development of her personal style.
In addition to numerous concerts as a pianist in Europe and Japan (Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto), C. Emmanouilidou has worked as a conductor with the LBBL (Landesverband Berlin-Brandenburgisches Liebhaberorchester), the BBSO (Berlin-Brandenburgisches Symphonie-Orchester) as well as the Kammerchor Braunschweig, her own chamber orchestra, the International Ensemble Berlin, the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kaposvar Symphony Orchestra, the Darmstadt Chamber Symphony Orchestra and the Brandenburg State Orchestra.
From January 2022 until the end of 2025, she took over as the sixth conductor in a row (and the first woman at the podium) of the Berlin Doctors' Orchestra.
Another of her passions is Byzantine music, which she studied and graduated with a degree.
She is the musical director and lecturer in music history at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences.
Her interests include researching the effect of music on mental and organic illnesses. She is also a Alternative Medical Practitioner and trained Neurological Music Therapist® (NMTTM).