Zinovia Arvanitidi was born in Athens, Greece and has been honing her music-composing skills from very early on by learning piano at the young age of 8 and further on by obtaining various diplomas in Classical Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue, orchestration and music technology.
Since the completion of her musical studies she has been experimenting with electronic sounds, incorporating her influences in classical, electro, ambient, dub, neo-classical, jazz, and film scores into her own sound creations.
In 2012 Zinovia composed music in the collaborative album ‘Vanishing Mirror‘ under the moniker Pill-Oh which was released by the Singapore-based Kitchen.Label, and in 2013 she joined the Chicago-based label Tympanik Audio to present her solo album ‘The Gift Of Affliction”. A work consisting of beautiful, haunting melodies, ethereal vocals and warm, entrancing atmospheres, underlined by subtle beats, piano arrangements with the addition of melodica, which is constantly receiving remarkable reviews from people all over the world.
In the beginning of 2014 Zinovia joined the roster of Oticons film composer’s agency among the names of Rachel Portman, Shigeru Umebayashi,Jan A.P. Kaczmarek etc.
Zinovia has also written music for theatrical plays, short films and an animated feature film titled “From the Earth to the Moon” (based on the novel by Jules Verne) created by Angelos Spartalis, featuring two of the most significant composers / performers of Greece, Dionysis Savvopoulos and Psarandonis.
Her latest work is the soundtrack of the Russian mini TV series titled “Godfather ( Крестный )”, scheduled to be broadcasted within early 2015.