biographical
notes
Dimitris
Kabolis
Dimitris Kabolis was born in Athens in 1987 and has
graduated from the Department of Traditional Music (Faculty of Music
Technology) of the Technological Educational Institute of Epirus. His
academic education and professional interests include Ethnomusicology
and Music Education. During his practice he has worked as a
musicologist at the Institute for Research on Music and Acoustics (IEMA),
having the responsibility for the indexing and documentation of early
20th century Greek music journals. Furthermore, he has worked as a
music teacher in an elementary school. He is a graduate student of the
“Education and Human Rights” Graduate Programme of the Early
Childhood Education Department of the National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens and of the Institute of Education of the
University of London.
Kostas
Kardamis
Kostas Kardamis received his BMus (2000) and his PhD
(2006) from the Ionian University, and his MMus (2002) from Royal
Holloway, University of London. He is lecturer in the Music
Department of the Ionian University and curator of the Archive and
the Museum of the Corfu Philharmonic Society. His published studies
and articles are mainly focused on Neohellenic music, with
particular interest in 18th and 19th centuries, as well as on opera
and musical theatre. His research interests also include band music
and the interaction between music, society and politics. He is also
a member of the Hellenic
Music Research Lab, of
the editorial committee of the musicological journals Moussikos
Loghos and Moussikos Hellenomnemon and of the Greek committee for RILM, as
well as General Editor of the series Monuments of Neohellenic
Music.
Veroniki
Mavriki
Veroniki Mavriki was born in 1984 in Chios, where she
made her first music steps at the age of 6, studying harmonium and
piano at the local branch of the Philippos Nakas Conservatory. She
continued her musical studies at the Municipal Conservatory in Arta,
where she studied harmony, and
at the National Conservatory of Athens, where she studied
counterpoint. She graduated from the Department of Traditional Music
(Faculty of Music Technology) of the Technological Educational
Institute of Epirus, with musical specialization in accordion. She is actually working as accordion professor at
the Music School of Chios and her interests has been focused in the
field of music therapy and its impact on children with special needs.
Konstantinos
G. Sampanis
Konstantinos G. Sampanis was born in Athens in 1964 and
completed his studies at the Faculty of History and Archaeology
of the School of Philosophy at the University of Athens. He got his
Master Diploma in Opera from the Faculty of Theatre Studies of the
School of Philosophy at the University of Athens and his PhD in
Historical Musicology from the Faculty of Music Studies at the
Ionian University of Corfu, with subject of his thesis the “Opera
in Athens during the reign of King Otto (1833-1862) through
newspaper articles and travellers’ memoirs of that era”. He
deals specifically with the introduction, the reception and the
establishment of the operatic genre in the theatres of the Greek
speaking area during the 19th century. He works as a Greek Language
teacher since 1989, is married and has two adult daughters.
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