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biographical
notes
Kostas
Chardas
Kostas Chardas is a lecturer of Systematic Musicology (with
emphasis on music theory and analysis) at the Department of Music
Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Kostas had his
Bachelor in Musicology and his Diploma in Piano by the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki and the Athinaikon Conservatoire
respectively. He then pursued further studies in England, supported by
a scholarship from the Greek Academy. He received a MMus degree by the
University of London and a PhD by the University of Surrey (supervised
by Chris Mark). His research areas are: theory and analysis,
19th-century music, 20th-century music and Greek art music. His book The
Music for Solo Piano of Yannis A. Papaioannou up to 1960: An
Analytical, Biographical and Contextual Approach was published in 2010. He is working on the critical editions of
Papaioannou’s piano music for Nakas Editions. For the academic year
2011-2012 he taught a course at the Open Workshop on Music Education
of the Music Library of Greece
“Lilian Voudouri”.
Kostas is also an active pianist. He has played in
concerts in Greece, England and Czech Republic. He has recently
recorded Papaioannou’s music for Naxos. He has also written music
for theatrical plays.
Valia
Christopoulou
Ph.D. in Musicology (University of Athens). She
graduated from the Department of French Language and Literature and
the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens and also
received a piano diploma and a harmony degree from the National
Conservatory of Athens, and a counterpoint degree from the Athenaeum
Conservatory. She has been the curator of the exhibition “Yorgos Sicilianos. The composer in the avant
garde of contemporary music” (Benaki Museum, 2007). She is the author of the Catalogue
of Works of Yorgos Sicilianos (Athens: Panas Music, 2011) and of
several articles and programme notes. She teaches piano at the Music
High School of Pallini.
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 his 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, from where he graduated in 1999, and in which defended
successfully 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 Board as well as of the Advisory Board of both the journals Polyphonia and Musicologia. He has also participated in the Greek RIPM group (Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale
/ Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals,
1800-1950), in
scientific meetings and international congresses, he has published
several articles and translations in
various musicological journals and music periodicals as well as in other
scientific publications, and he has contributed for several years to programme notes for the Athens Concert
Hall (Megaron) and the Athens State Orchestra. After the circulation of two books translated by him in
Greek (Nicholas
Cook, Music: A Very Short
Introduction, 2007; Constantin Floros, Gustav Mahler – Visionär
und Despot. Porträt einer Persönlichkeit, 2010), his
original study entitled The
two piano sonatas of Dimitri Mitropoulos: From late romanticism to
National School of Music was published by “Panas music” in
2011.
His research interests include the following fields:
theory of music forms (from
18th to 21st centuries), the evolution of instrumental music genres
and forms in the
baroque, classic and romantic era,
music analysis and morphology.
Vasilis
Kallis
Vasilis Kallis earned his PhD in Music Theory and
Analysis from the University of Nottingham and his MA in Music Theory
from Queens College of the City University of New York. He has taught
theory, analysis, and composition courses and seminars at the
University of Nottingham (1999-2001), and counterpoint, fugue,
harmony, analysis, and form at the University of Macedonia, Greece
(2002-2007). Currently, he is an Assistant
Professor of Music Theory and Analysis at the University of Nicosia,
where he is also Head of the Department of Music and Dance. His
specialties include form and analysis, pitch organization in twentieth-century music, set-theory, the Russian
Nationalists and Stravinsky, the French Impressionists as well as
other Eastern-European composers. His
publications include articles in Music Theory Online (USA), Rivista
di analisi e teoria musicale (Italy) Musicologia and Mousikos
Logos (Greece), and he has presented
papers at several conferences (among others, at the West Coast
Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, the Seventeenth Annual
Conference of the Italian Musicological Society, the Joint Annual
Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland and the Royal
Musical Association – 2009, and the VII European Music Analysis
Conference). He is also an active guitarist.
Magdalini
Kalopana
Magdalini Kalopana (1976, Athens) graduated the University of Athens
(1998) with a degree in Musical Studies, under a University
Scholarship (legacy of Antonis Papadakis).
Later on she completed her doctoral thesis with the title Dimitris Dragatakis: Catalogue of Works (Department of Musical
Studies – University
of Athens) in 2008, being a bursar of the State Scholarship Foundation.
As a Musicologist she has been collaborating with the Athens Concert
Hall, the Third Programme of the Greek Radio Television and D.
Dragatakis’ Friends Society for editions, music productions and
concerts. She has been Consultant for cultural issues at the General
Secretariat for the Olympic Games 2004 (2001-2003) and she was member
of the Organising Committee of the 11th Biennale
of Young European and Mediterranean Artists
(Athens, 2003).
Her papers have been presented in international musicological
conferences in Greece and abroad and published in proceedings and
musicological journals. She is member of the Scientific and the Editorial Board of the Greek musicological journal Polyphonia.
Markos
Tsetsos
Markos Tsetsos (b. 1968). Associate Professor of the
Aesthetics of Music at the University of Athens, Department of Music
Studies. Member of the editorial board of the journal Musicologia and collaborator of the philosophical journal Axiologika.
He wrote many articles on Greek composers for the music encyclopaedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (M.G.G.),
among others the article on Nikos Skalkottas. He is author of the
books Nationalism and Populism
in Greek Music (2011), Will
and Sound. The Metaphysics of Music in the Philosophy of Schopenhauer
(Athens 2004), Music in Modern
Philosophy (forthcoming). He has published numerous articles in
journals, collective volumes and conference proceedings, on issues
concerning philosophical aesthetics of music, general aesthetics and
problems of aesthetics and ideology in Greek music. He has published
the first Greek translations of classical texts on musical aesthetics,
such as Hegel’s Lectures on the Aesthetics of Music (Athens 2002), E. Hanslick’s On
the Beautiful in Music (Athens 2003) and Schopenhauer’s complete
texts on music. At present his research is focused on issues of
axiology and philosophical anthropology of music. As a conductor,
graduate of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory (Russia), he has
collaborated with most of Athens’ symphony orchestras.
Costas
Tsougras
Costas Tsougras (composer – musicologist) was
born in Volos in 1966. He began his music studies in Volos (piano,
accordion and classical harmony) and continued them in Thessaloniki (counterpoint,
fugue and composition). 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 the editor of Musical
Pedagogics, the GSME’s (Greek Society for Music Education)
scientific journal.
Nikos
Tzioumaris
He was born in 1984. He has Master in “Musical
culture and communication. Anthropological and communicational
approaches of music” from
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He graduated from
Department of Traditional Music of Technological Educational
Institute of Epirus with musical specialization in lute. He also has
a degree in classical guitar. He has worked as an editor of Musical
Archive of Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT S.A.). He is
interested in aesthetics and ideology of arts.
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