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biographical
notes
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.
Leontios
Hadjileontiadis
Born (1966) in Kastoria, northern Greece. He studied music theory and
classical guitar obtaining Diplomas in Guitar Performance (1993 –
Prof. F. Bakses, Macedonian Conservatory, Thessaloniki [MCT], Greece)
and in Composition (1997 – Prof. Th. Antoniou, MCT), both with
honors and 1st Prize. He also holds a Diploma in Electrical
Engineering (1989, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki [AUTH],
Greece), a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1997, AUTH)
and a PhD in Music Composition (2004 – Prof. David Blake,
University of York, UK). He currently serves as an Associate
Professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
AUTH, and teaches composition at the State Conservatory of
Thessaloniki, Greece. Up to now, he has written 81 works and awarded
9 times. He has been a member of Greek Composers’ Union (GCU) from
1993; since 2001, he is a Board Member of GCU and ISCM Greek Section.
His works have been played (or broadcast) both nationally and
internationally (e.g. in ISCM-WMD 1999 and 2006). His compositional
orientations and research interests include the use of advance
signal processing techniques (e.g. wavelets, fractals, fuzzy-logic,
polyspectra, stochastic models), both in music composition and in
biomedical engineering.
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.
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); Dimitri Mitropoulos (1985 / Athens
Academy Award); Dimitri 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 “Dimitri 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 Dimitri 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.
Dimitris E. Lekkas
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BS, Mathematics, Carnegie – Mellon University, 1973;
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MBA, Operations Management, The University of Rochester,
1975;
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Ph.D., Department of Music Studies, The University of Athens, 1996;
dissertation: The mathematical
theory of music.
Author, scientific supervisor of textbook and already a tutor
(7th year) in the course “Arts II, Overview of Greek music and
dance”, Studies in Greek Culture, The Greek Open University.
Professional experience: two years as Director of Programmes in The Greek
Management Association, several years’ experience in radio and
television, texts in various media, musicological analyses in CDs
and books, especially of traditional music, literary editor of a
multi-volume series of Greek literature, teacher of seminars and
classes on music and mathematics at governmental and other agencies
as well as schools, linguistic advisor of a scientific dictionary,
translations.
Student of Catalan composer Leonardo Balada. He has composed a variety of
works, pieces and songs for various ensembles, notably settings of
poetry, music for radio, television, documentaries, drama with a
particular emphasis on theatre for children, cinema (best soundtrack
award, Greek cinematography festival 1980), ballets, cartoons,
puppet theatre, art and scientific exhibitions, CD-Roms. Concerts,
albums and CDs with original, traditional and dubbed material, songs,
scorings and instrumentations. He plays recorders. An almost
exclusive collaboration with illustrious shadow theatre master
Eugenios Spatharis.
Research interests and accomplishments in the fields of tonal and modal
music theory, structural and historical approach to Greek music (prehistoric,
ancient, Byzantine and traditional), pure mathematics (especially
Logic), cosmology and astronomy, linguistics (e.g. phonetics and
structural aspects of the ancient Greek tongue), cultural studies
and classical philosophy in what regards music. Participation and
papers read at several international conferences, lectures on music
and mathematics at Greek and foreign Universities and other
organizations; published monographs, articles and music scores.
Ioannis
Papachristopoulos
Ioannis Papachristopoulos is a Doctor of Musicology (Dr. phil. / Ph.D.)
of the University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln) in
Germany. He has completed his undergraduate studies in Musicology
– Philosophy – Pedagogy as well as his postgraduate degree (Magister
artium / Master of Arts) in Musicology at the same university. He is
an alumnus of the Higher Musical Faculty of Cologne (Musikhochschule
Köln), where he received a double degree (Diplom) in
Composition and Theory of Music. Moreover, he has completed the
superior theoretical courses at the National Conservatory of Athens,
the Conservatory of Piraeus and Patras Conservatory, as a result
being the holder of degrees of Fugue, Counterpoint and Harmony, as
well as of a diploma and a degree in Byzantine Music.
Since 2008 he is a lecturer at the University of Cologne in the sector of
Historic Musicology at the department of Musicology, direction of
Contemporary Music (Music of
the Present). He has published several articles and entries in
renowned magazines and dictionaries in the area of Musicology and he
has participated in many scientific seminars and international
conferences and symposiums. His research and teaching interests
include compositional-analytical and theoretic-aesthetic issues and
reflections regarding Contemporary Music and Byzantine Music.
Katy
Romanou
Associate professor of musicology; she taught at the Music Department of
the University of Athens from 1994 to 2009 (as a faculty member,
from 1996 to 2006). In
January and February 2010 she participated in the University
Seminars Program of the Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
(USA) as a Senior Visiting Scholar in four U.S. universities.
Katy Romanou has established and directs a Greek group participating in
RIPM (Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale / Retrospective
Index to Music Periodicals, 1800-1950).
Recent publications:
• Katy
Romanou, Greek Art Music in
Recent Times, Cultura, Athens, 2006 [in Greek language].
• Katy Romanou (ed.), Serbian
and Greek Art Music. A Patch to Western Music History, Intellect,
Bristol & Chicago, 2009.
• Chrysanthos of Madytos, Great Theory of Music,
translated by Katy Romanou, New Rochelle – The Axion Estin
Foundation, New York, 2010.
Katy Romanou’s research interests extend to various periods and fields
of modern Greek music. In this respect, she has promoted the
collaboration with musicologists of Balkan and Eastern European
countries. The influence of politics on music life and creation is a
standard of her scientific curiosity. A recent research on the years
of the dictatorship of I. Metaxas and the German occupation was
presented in an article entitled “Exchanging Rings
under dictatorships”, published in Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America (Brepols,
Turnhout, 2009), p. 27-64.
Anastasia Siopsi
Anastasia Siopsi is an Associate Professor in “Aesthetics of Music”,
Music Department, Ionian University; she is also tutor of a
course entitled “History of the Arts in Europe” (degree in “European Culture”),
Greek Open University. She
has also a degree in Architecture (Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Department of Architecture, Thessaloniki, 1989).
Her main research activities include papers and lectures in international musicological conferences and –
over 70
– publications and contributions in collective volumes, international musicological journals and publications in Greece and abroad, mainly on German romantic music, especially Richard Wagner’s music dramas (her
PhD dissertation was entitled Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des
Nibelungen: The Reforging of the Sword or, Towards a Reconstruction of the
People’s Consciousness, U.E.A., U.K., 1996); also on
modern Greek art music, especially Manolis Kalomiris’s work and
aesthetic and ideological aspects at the era of the National School
of Music; on Greek women composers; on music in revivals of ancient
drama in modern Greece; and on issues of music education in Greek
Universities.
Her books include: Three Essays on Manolis Kalomiris [in Greek] (Athens: Greek
Musicological Publications 4, Music Publishing House Papagrigoriou
– Nakas, 2003), and Music
in Nineteenth-Century Europe [in Greek] (Athens: George Dardanos Publications [Gutenberg],
2005).
Chapters in collective volumes include (more recent) her
“Dreaming the myth of ‘wholeness’: Romantic interpretations of
Ancient Greek Music in Greece (c1890-1914)”, in a collective edition
entitled Textual Intersections: Literature,
History and the Arts in Nineteenth Century Europe (Internationale
Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft series), Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi,
2009, p. 201-214.
She is co-editor, together with Prof. Graham Welch (Institute
of Education, U.K.), of an international on-line journal entitled Hellenic
Journal of Music, Education and Culture (HeJMEC).
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