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biographical
notes
Nikos
Andrikos
Nikos Andrikos was born in Mytilene in 1982. In the
age of seven he started studying ecclesiastical music with
Protopsaltis (First Chanter) Theodoros Maniatis. During 2000-2004 he
participated in the scientific programme of Manolis Hatziyakoumis
“Monuments of Ecclesiastical Music”. He lived in Istanbul from
2004 to 2007, working as a chanter in the first choir of the
Ecumenical Patriarchate next to the Archon Protopsaltis (Master First
Chanter) of the Holy Great Church of Christ, Leonidas Asteris.
In 2002 he commenced his studies in Turkish folk
music, learning the saz under the instruction of Periklis
Papapetropoulos. During his stay in Istanbul he studied saz, methods
of musical transcription and folk vocal repertoire next to the masters
of the old generation of the National Turkish Radio Institute (TRT), Mehmet
Erenler, Yücel Paşmakçı and Şahin
Gültekin. At the same time, he attended a postgraduate
programme at the University of Haliç as a
guest researcher, in the field of the folk idiomatic music of the
Turkish territory.
He has completed his PhD Dissertation in the
Department of Music Studies at the Ionian University under the title The Greek Orthodox
Ecclesiastical Music of Smyrna (1800-1922) (to be
published within the next months). At the same time, he has carried
out anthropological research, focusing on the Northeast Aegean region,
by recording musicians coming from Asia Minor and collecting rare
archives (collections of musical manuscripts, historical recordings,
etc). Since September 2009 he lives in Arta, teaching as a scientific
assistant in the Department of Folk and Traditional Music of the
Technological Institute of Epirus.
He has published papers in scientific journals and
made announcements in musicological and historical conferences. His
scientific interests include the musical production of the late-Ottoman
period, the oral-idiomatic character of ecclesiastical music, and the
theory of the modal systems of the art and folk music of the East.
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.
Katerina
Levidou
Katerina Levidou is a postdoctoral Junior Research
Fellow at Christ Church, University of Oxford. She studied musicology,
the piano, harmony and counterpoint at undergraduate level in Greece (University
of Athens and National Conservatory of Athens). She received a
Master’s degree in musicology from King’s College, University of
London, funded
by the Onassis Benefit Foundation, and a
doctorate from the University of Oxford (St Antony’s College), funded
by the Ismene Fitch Foundation and a Vice-Chancellor’s Fund Award.
Her doctoral thesis explores the intersection of Stravinskian
neoclassicism with Russian émigré Eurasianist ideology
during the interwar years. She has presented papers at several
international musicological and Slavic conferences, she has given
invited talks and has published articles and book reviews on Russian
and Greek music. She has been teaching undergraduate classes and
tutorials at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include
Eastern European (especially Russian and Greek) music, modernism,
nationalism, music and identity, emigration, spirituality and
aesthetics. She is co-convenor of the Study Group for Russian and
Eastern European Music of the British Association for Slavonic and
East European Studies.
Theodore
Loustas
Born in Thessaloniki in 1965, Theodore Loustas is a
Greek musicologist, violin professor and record collector. He studied
at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki and later at various
Conservatories in Athens (Harmony Diploma with professor Alkis Baltas,
Counterpoint Diploma with professor Konstantinos Nikitas, Fugue
Diploma with professor Yannis Ioannidis and Violin Diploma with
professor Vladislav Halapsis). He graduated from the Department of
Music Studies of the Aristotle University (Thessaloniki). He took
private piano lessons from the distinguished soloist Domna Evnouchidou.
He has attended composition seminars with Yannis A. Papaioannou and
Theodore Antoniou, among others, and many violin seminars with world
famous professors (Sergei Kravchenko, Edouard Grach, Zakhar Bron etc).
Between 1986 and 1995 he worked as a producer and
broadcaster of various radio programs of the Third Program of the
Greek State Radio (“Old recordings”, “The Great Violinists”,
“Impressionism in Western Art Music” etc.). His private sound
archive (mainly of Western art music, from the Middle Ages up to the
20th century) is one of the most important in Greece and includes
thousands of rare recordings.
As a musicologist he has collaborated for many years
with the Editorial Section (program notes) and the Music Library of
Greece “Lilian Voudouri” (critical presentation of books) at the
Athens Concert Hall (“Megaron”). He has taught at various Music
High Schools (violin) and Conservatories (violin, history and
morphology of music, harmony, counterpoint etc.) in Athens.
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.
Costas
Tsougras
The composer and musicologist
Costas Tsougras was born in Volos in 1966. He began his musical
studies in Volos (piano, accordion and classical harmony) and
continued them in Thessaloniki (counterpoint, fugue and composition
with Christos Samaras). He studied musicology at the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki (bachelor and PhD in music analysis). He is
Assistant Professor of Systematic Musicology and Music Analysis at the
Music Department of the A.U.Th. and a member of Greek Composers’
Union, ESCOM (European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music)
and SMT (Society for Music Theory). He is also the editor of Musical
Pedagogics, the GSME’s (Greek Society for Music Education)
scientific journal.
Ion
Zottos (1944-2010)
He was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1944, and
studied English, Music and Musicology in Greece, Great Britain and
the U.S.A. – M.A. and Ph.D. (1977) at the University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He dealt with music composition and
music critique, he worked for several years as a radio producer for
the Third Programme of E.R.T., he was a founding member of the
journal Musicologia (since
1985) and also a member of the Greek Composers’ Union and of the
International Siegfried Wagner Society. Since 1991, as a Professor
at the Music Department of the University
of Athens, he
promoted especially the research fields of history of music (from
Renaissance to 19th century), theory of several music genres and
forms (foremost of opera and chamber music), as well as comparative
theory of literature and music. His publications
include the books Church Music of the Baroque Era. Claudio
Monteverdi: The Mass and Vespers of 1610 (Athens
1996), The Early String Quartet, ca. 1760-1790 (Athens 1996),
and Humanism and the Birth of Opera (Athens 2003) – all of
them in Greek.
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