Lina Tonia, was born in Greece, in 1985. She studied composition close to Professor Christos Samaras (student of Erich Urbanner and Isang Yun), at the Department of Music in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2003 - 2008).

She completed a PhD in composition in Edinburgh University (2008 - 2011) under the supervision of the professor Nigel Osborne and Michael Edwards, where she was studying with a Greek National Scholarship from Union of Greek Composers (2008 - 2009) and IKY Foundation (2...