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biographical
notes
Minas
I.
Alexiadis
He was born in 1960 in Athens. He studied piano
with Marika Papaioannou and George Platon, jazz piano with Béla
Lakatos, music theory and composition with Yannis Ioannidis in
Athens and then with Günther Becker (Diploma in composition, Robert
Schumann University) in Düsseldorf. He also is a graduate of Law and
a Ph.D. in Musicology (University of Athens). Many of his
compositions have been performed and broadcast worldwide, awarded
prizes, recorded and released in 21 LP’s and CD’s in Greece, Italy,
Germany, England and Japan. From 1989 till now he is a member of the
presidency of the Greek Composers’ Union and 2002-2006 he was a
member of the administrative council and General Secretary of the
Greek National Opera. He has participated in international
musicological and theatrological congresses and writings of his have
been published in several editions – as, for instance, his
analytical study on Igor Stravinsky’s
Histoire du Soldat
published by Ph. Nakas Editions, Athens. From 2000 to 2004 he has
been teaching at the Music Departments of the Aristotle University
and the Macedonian University in Thessaloniki. Since 2004 he teaches
as an Assistant Professor for Music Theater and Opera at the
Department of Theatre Studies – Athens University.
Nikos Bubaris
Nikos Bubaris is a Lecturer at the Department of Cultural
Informatics at the University of the Aegean in Greece. His research
interests focus on cultural theory, sound theory and design, music
industry and contemporary cultural production. He has published in
several journals and books on issues related to music youth
cultures, music industry, the new media, sound cultures and
technologies, and he has edited books on cultural theory,
representation and the cultural industries. He has also produced
soundscape compositions, interactive installations and multimedia
works that have been presented in Greece and abroad.
Ioannis Fulias
Lecturer in
“Systematic Musicology. Music Theory (18th-19th
centuries)”
at the
Faculty of Music Studies of the
University of Athens
(personal website:
http://users.uoa.gr/~foulias). He was born in Athens in 1976. In 1989 he
began music
lessons in the Municipal Conservatory of Kalamata, wherein he took
the degrees in Harmony (1994), Counterpoint (1996), Fugue (1998),
and Piano (1998). In 1994 he joined the Department of Musical
Studies (now the Faculty of Music Studies) of the University of
Athens, where he graduated in 1999, and in which successfully
defended his Doctoral Dissertation in Musicology in 2005 (Slow
movements in sonata forms in the classic era. A contribution to the
evolution of genres and structural types through the works of Haydn,
Mozart, and Beethoven). He is a member of the Editorial Boards
of the journals Musicologia and Polyphonia,
as well as of the Advisory Board of
the latter one. He has also participated in the
Greek RIPM group, in scientific meetings and international
congresses, has published several articles and translations in
various Greek musicological journals and music periodicals as well
as in other scientific publications, and
has
contributed for several years to programme notes for the Athens Concert
Hall (Megaron) and the Athens State Orchestra.
Anastasia
Kakaroglou
She was born in Athens. She graduated from the
Department of Musical Studies and the Department of French Language
and Literature of the University of Athens. She also received a
piano diploma from the Atticon Conservatory of Athens. She is at
present a doctoral candidate in Musicology, working on the subject
“French researchers on Greek music at the end of the 19th century
and the beginnings of the 20th”. Anastasia Kakaroglou holds a state
scholarship and teaches music in primary school.
Christos Kolovos
He was born in Athens in 1979, descending from a musical family. He is a
graduate violinist with the class of Ioannis Tzoumanis at the Athens
Conservatory (2002). In the latter, he also attended advanced theory
taught by the composer Periklis Koukos. He is a Bachelor’s Degree
graduate violinist too, with the class of Florian Donderer at the
Prins Claus Conservatorium of Groningen in The Netherlands. He has
also participated in several relevant seminars, including the ones
by Diana Ligeti and Carolyn Stuart, and he has been tutored by
Grigory Zhislin and Harald Thedéen. Furthermore, he is a student at
the Department of Musical Studies of the University of Athens. He
has also taken lessons of orchestra conducting by Odissei
Dimitriadis and the Dutch conductor Lucas Vis. Since September 2008
he is a pre-Master student of Fontys Conservatorium of Tilburg, with
the class of Arjan Tien.
Christos Kolovos was a member of the Kalamata Symphonic Orchestra –
Greece (1998-2003) and performed with several ensembles across
Greece. He has also performed with the Orchestra of the Greek
National Opera’s in various productions and he has been a member of
the Orchestra of the Operetta Theater. He has performed with a
variety of orchestras and chamber music ensembles across Greece,
Netherlands, Germany and Turkey. He gave recitals in many Greek and
Dutch cities. Similarly, he performed in several Greek cities with
the “Kydoniatis String Quartet”, being its first violinist and
founding member. The period 2003-2008 he had a permanent duo with
the Greek pianist Titos Gouvelis. He gave the World Première and the
first audition in Greece and in Holland of many compositions by
Greek composers.
Christos Kolovos has organized numerous events and concerts for many
Greek composers, especially for Constantinos Kydoniatis (1908-1996).
From 1998 to 2008, he has been studying his work. He has edited the
“Complete and Detailed Catalogue of Works” of K. Kydoniatis, partly
published in Polyphonia (issue 4). As a researcher, he has
repeatedly worked with Takis Kalogeropoulos – for the seventh volume
of the lexicon “From Orpheus to Present” and on an album
highlighting the history of the Athens State Orchestra – and
Georgios Katralis in his book on C. Kydoniatis. He worked as well as
a “Tonmeister” in several recordings. Since 2006 he is the editor
and compiler of Kydoniatis’ compositions from “Orpheus Editions”
(Athens). Furthermore, he was a regular columnist in a municipal
newspaper of Kallithea (Athens, 2003-2005), while also publishing in
various newspapers and music magazines (Rizospastis,
Antifonon, Polytonon and others). From 2001 to 2003, he
taught at the Music High School of Ilion (Athens). The season
2007-2008 he has been the leader of Amsterdam Symphonie Orkest “Con
Brio”.
Apostolos Kostios
He studied advanced theory and piano at the Hellenic Conservatory, vocal
studies at the Athens National Conservatory, Art History, Philosophy
and Musicology at the University of Vienna. In 1980 he was nominated
Doctor of Philosophy (Musicology) at the University of Vienna.
He has taught at the Hellenic Conservatory of Athens and also served as a
music critic for the newspaper
Dimokratiki Allagi, published in Athens. He was elected
Associate Professor in 1992 and Professor at the Athens University
in 1998, in the Faculty of Music Studies (Musicology). He has worked
with the First and Third Program of ERT (Hellenic Radio and
Television), as well as the Austrian Radio as scientific advisor and
producer in more than eight hundred broadcasts. He has given
lectures and made announcements in international musicology
conferences and has represented Greece at the General Congresses of
the International Music Council – UNESCO, while also has served as
President of the Greek department of this organization from 1998 to
its dissolution (2009). He is a member of the Plenary Session of the
Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO. His initiative established
the “Hellenic Music Award – UNESCO”. He has founded the associations
“Friends of Music Society” and “Friends of Hellenic Music Library,
Museum and Hellenic Art Music Archive Society” (1991), of which he
was elected President and has been elected ever since. Moreover, he
created the “Hellenic Music Archive and Documentation Centre” that
includes, among others, the “D. Mitropoulos Collection” and with the
support of whom exhibitions under the title “D. Mitropoulos – Life
and work” were realized in Greece and large music
centres
abroad (Athens, Milan, Vienna, N. York, Nafplio, Volos, Moscow,
Patra etc.). He served as Vice-President of the Board of Directors
of the National Opera for the time span between 1999-2006. From 1981
until 2009, he has offered his services as “Advising Professor” to
the “Alexander S. Onassis” public benefit foundation.
Greek music constitutes the centre of his research interests. He has been
the advising scientist or cooperator of research programmes, such
as: “Publication of texts and biography documentations of M.
Kalomiris”, “The History of the Athens National Orchestra”, “Corpus
of music critic notes by M. Dounias”, “Detection and collection of
texts in newspapers and magazines relevant to the Greek music life
from the middle of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century”,
“Digitization of the National Opera Archive” etc. The revival of
interest on the work of Mitropoulos is owed to him and –to a great
extend– the promotion of Greek art music abroad. He has established
the “Biography construction of living Greek composers” university
seminar. He has written the following books:
Fifty years of the Greek
Composers Union, 1931-1981 (1981);
Dimitris Mitropoulos (1985
/ Athens Academy Award); Dimitris Mitropoulos (Florence 2003);
Texts by D. Mitropoulos – Comments by A. Kostios (1997);
Catalogue of works by D.
Mitropoulos (1997); The
element of theatricality in the work of D. Mitropoulos (1997);
Musicological issues I
(1999); Method of
Musicological Research (2001);
75 years of the Greek
Composers Union, 1931-2006 – From Chronicle to History (2007 /
Union of Greek Theatrical and Music Critics Award, 2008). Written
also by A. Kostios are parts of the
World Biography Dictionary
encyclopaedia, papers on operas performed by the Greek National
Opera, articles in Greek and foreign newspapers and magazines. He
has translated opera librettos and music books (Paul Griffiths,
A Concise History of Modern
Music from Debussy to Boulez, 1993; Victor Fuchs,
The Art of Singing and the
Voice Technique, 1999). He has edited publications of
compositions by Mitropoulos, the volume dedicated to music of the
Educational Greek
Encyclopaedia (Athens Publishing), records publications in
Greece and abroad. He is the founder and scientific advisor in
charge of the “Greek Musicological Publications” series (eight
volumes / Panas Music ed., Papagrigoriou & Nakas). He is a member of
the advisory scientific committee for the
Musicologia and
Mousikos Logos journals.
He proposed the foundation and is a member of the Honorary Committee
of the orchestra conduct and composition international organization
“Dimitris Mitropoulos”. He participates in the initiative for the
creation of the “Greek Music Workshop” in the Department of Music
Studies of the Athens University. He has been in charge of
coordination and scientific editing of the “2010, Year of Dimitris
Mitropoulos – 50 years after…” events.
The Austrian Ministry of Education has awarded him with the title of
“Professor”. In 2003 he was appointed Professor Emeritus of the
Athens University. In 2004 he was appointed Honorary Member of the
Greek Composers Union in recognition of his contribution to Greek
music. In 2009 he was appointed Honorary Chairman of the Greek
National Music Council – UNESCO.
Risto Pekka Pennanen
Risto Pekka Pennanen is a research fellow at Helsinki
Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an ethnomusicologist and
historian of ideas,
specialising in
the Balkans. Pennanen received his Ph.D. from University of Tampere,
Finland, and has been an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at
the Department of Musicology at the Georg-August-University in
Göttingen,
Germany, and a research associate at the School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has published
articles on various Balkan musical styles, especially those of
Greece, Bulgaria and Bosnia, and on discography, recording industry
and the canons of music history in the peninsula. His current
research project is called “Colonial Representations and Discipline:
Music and Bureaucracy during the Period of Austro-Hungarian Rule
(1878-1918) in Bosnia-Herzegovina”.
Katy Romanou
Katy Romanou – Ph.D. in Musicology (University of
Athens); Master of Music in Musicology (Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana) – was music critic of the daily He
Kathemerine (1974-1986) and taught in various music
conservatories in Athens, Argos, Kalamata and Volos. Since 1993 she
is in the Faculty of Music Studies of the University of Athens.
Katy Romanou is head of the Greek team and associate editor for the Greek
language in RIPM (Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale /
Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals, 1800-1950), and member of
the editorial board of the Greek periodical Musicologia.
She is the author of many articles and chapters (in Greek and foreign
periodicals and collective editions), and the books (in Greek
language): Wandering National Music. 1901-1912, 2 volumes (Cultura,
Athens 1996); History of Neohellenic Art Music (Cultura,
Athens 2000); Greek Music in the Olympic Games and the Olympiads
(1858-1896) (Ministry of Culture / Cultura, Athens 2004); The
Music Library of Corfu’s Philharmonic Society (Cultura, Athens
2004); Greek Art Music in Modern Times (Cultura, Athens
2006). She is
also
the
editor of a trilingual collective edition, entitled Aspects of
Greek and Serbian Music (Orpheus, Athens 2007).
Dimitris Sarris
Dimitris Sarris studied Communication and Mass Media (BA), Business
Administration (BA), Cultural Policy, Management and Communication
(MA), Music, and is a Ph.D. Candidate (Scholarship from State
Scholarships Foundation) researching on Cultural Studies of Sound
(Department of Communication, Media, and Culture, Panteion
University of Athens). He thought in primary and higher education
subjects related to Music and Culture. In his research work are
included projects about didactic media in music education and
education in general, such as “digital abacus”, “Metasound Group
Project” (http://www.metasound.gr), “Organotopia” and other. They
entire have been presented with papers, in proceedings and
publishes. “Museum of Homemade Musical Instruments” that was
developed during “Mathitiada” organization (Proti Serron, Greece) is
the most recent from his project about Cultural Management and
Museum Culture. All of his work is been presented online on his
educational web page:
http://users.sch.gr/dsarris.
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