Born in West Germany to Macedonian parents and raised in the Northern Greek prefecture of Edessa, Dine Doneff (or Kostas Theodorou his Greek citizenship name) has been active as a musician and composer since the mid-eighties. Educated his inner soul by exploring life through music, he became a self taught musician. 
 By the 90’s he was working as an arranger, ensemble director and producer on studio recordings. Alternating between touring abroad, he joined the group Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico in 2001, with four albums released by ECM. From 2002 to 2005 he taught at the Technical Education Institute of Epirus and the University of Macedonia. Later, under the fictional auspices of ‘no bizz productions’, he became the pivot, and inspiration, of ninety nine, improvised public rehearsal performances in a small underground theatre in Thessaloniki from 2005 to 2011 involving onstage encounters between Doneff and musicians, dancers, actors, poets and visual artists. Interludes of composing for the theatre and silver screen interspersed with forays into theatre direction and, under the name of Tome Rapovina, directing and editing short films. 
 Selective discography: Nostos 1999 LYRA Echotopia 2003 FM Sumiglia 2005 ECM Songs Of An Other 2008 ECM Songs Of Thessaloniki 2015 ECM Rousilvo 2017 neRED / ECM In / Out 2019 neRED / ECM