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biographical
notes
Rachel
Beckles Willson
Rachel Beckles Willson is a writer and musician whose
research has explored the intersections of history, politics and
performance. She joined Royal Holloway in 2004, having taught at the
University of Bristol for four years. She is currently Professor of
Music at Royal Holloway and Director of the Humanities and Arts
Research Centre. She studied as a pianist at the Royal Academy of
Music in London and the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, before
reading for a Ph.D. at King’s College, London. Between 2008 and 2010
she was based at the Humboldt University in Berlin, supported by a
Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation. She has taught a wide range of courses, including Music
and Orientalism, Communism and Music, and Intercultural Performance.
Rachel’s two most recent books tackle ways in which the politics of
historiography affect musical practices including composition,
performance and consumption. Rachel’s publications in progress are
particularly concerned with listening and memory, and grow out of a
Study Abroad Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust (2013) and a
Fellowship from the Humanities and Arts Research Centre (2013-2014).
In January 2015 she began a three-year Major Research Fellowship
provided by the Leverhulme Trust, in which she will develop these and
related themes through a study of the oud entitled
“Reorientations: Migrations of a Musical Instrument”. Alongside
her scholarly pursuits, she is an active musician, performing as a
pianist, saxophonist and oud player.
Eva
Fourlanou
Eva Fourlanou was born in 1987 on Rhodes, Greece. She
was a member of local choirs from the age of four and member of the
Youth Band of the Municipality of Ialysos (Rhodes) from the age of
six, playing the flute and,
subsequently,
alto saxophone. Moreover, she received awards at local piano
competitions in 1998 and 1999. In 2011 she graduated from Music
Faculty of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She
is a graduate student of the interdisciplinary Graduate Programme “Music Culture and Communication:
Anthropological and Communicational Approaches of Music” of
the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Currently, she
is preparing for the exams of the piano diploma at the Hellenic
Conservatory, studying with professor George Aravidis.
Anastasios
Hapsoulas
Anastasios Hapsoulas is Associate Professor of
Ethnomusicology at the Department of Music Studies of the National
and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds a Ph.D. in
Ethnomusicology – Systematic Musicology from the Georg-August
University of Göttingen (Germany). He studied Musicology and
Philosophy at the corresponding Departments of the same University.
His doctoral thesis, titled Information on the traditional Greek musical life in travellers’
chronicles of the 18th and the 19th century, was published by
Orbis Musicarum (Edition Re) in 1997 in Göttingen. His work was
partly funded by the Onassis Foundation. He also received a
scholarship by the State Scholarships’ Foundation in order to
carry out postdoctoral research on the topic Music
transcriptions of melodies from Xeropotamos of Drama, which was
published in June 2003 by Papagregoriou – Nakas
editions. His
research interests include issues of methodology, the history of the
Greek music tradition, as well as the secular music traditions of
the Middle Ages. He teaches undergraduate courses on
“Historical-ethnomusicological approaches to the Greek music
tradition”, “Introduction to the Arab-Persian music”,
“Introduction to Indian Music” as well as seminars on special
ethnomusicological topics, such as “Music transcription and
analysis in ethnomusicology” and “Music and cultures” for the
interdepartmental Graduate Programme “Music
Culture and Communication: Anthropological and Communicational
Approaches of Music” of
the Faculty of Music Studies and the Faculty of Communication and Mass
Media at
the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Alexia
Kallergi-Panopoulou
Alexia Kallergi-Panopoulou graduated from Department of
Traditional Music of the Technological Educational Institute of
Epirus having specialised in the Greek santouri. She is currently a
student of the Graduate Programme “Music Culture and Communication:
Anthropological and Communicational Approaches of Music” at the
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She conducted ethnomusicological research and
collection of source material during her internship at the Hellenic
Folklore Research Centre of the Academy of Athens. She was also
assistant for exhibition applications of the Permanent Exhibition of
Mementos from the fifty-year period (1962-2012)
of the International Folklore Festival of Lefkas titled “The Gifts
of the Festival”. She has worked as a music teacher at Music
Schools in Drama and Ilion.
Pavlos
Kavouras
Pavlos Kavouras is Professor of the Faculty of Music
Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His
areas of academic expertise are cultural anthropology and
ethnomusicology. He is Head of the Department of Ethnomusicology and
Cultural Anthropology and Director of the University Laboratory
bearing the same name. He is also the Director and co-founder of the
Graduate Programme “Music Culture and Communication:
Anthropological and Communicational Approaches of Music”, run
jointly by the Faculty
of Music Studies and the Faculty of Communication and Mass Media of
the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds a first degree in Naval Architecture
and Marine Engineering from the National Technical University of
Athens, a MA
degree in Applied Urban Anthropology from City University of New
York and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from The New School for
Social Research of New York (1990). His
entire work revolves around the notion of dialogue, witnessed and
investigated in and across people, artistic genres, cultures and
academic disciplines. Moreover, he uses the concept of dialogue in
order to move between the spheres of culture and methodology, aiming
at the implementation of specific principles, perceptions and
practices of life, of various cultures and civilisations towards an
ecumenical expression of cultural dialogue. He has conducted
ethnographic fieldwork in various areas in Greece (Karpathos, Thrace,
Lesvos, Eastern Macedonia) in the U.S.A. (New York – the Greek
migrant community) and in Southwest India. He has participated in a
number of research programmes: “Performigrations:
People are the territory” (2014-2016, funded by the European Union – Canada
Programme for Cooperation in Higher Education and Vocational
Training), “Video life stories of migrants” (2012-2013,
funded by the Ministry of Interior – EIF), “Music and minorities:
An ethnomusicological approach of Indian minority in Greece” (funded
by the Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious
Affairs – Operational Programme “Education and Lifelong Learning”
– “Heraclites II”), “Cooperation of cultural and academic
operators for the network of education and development initiative
and other internet educational services” (2006-2010, e-paideia.net –
funded
by the Lambrakis Foundation),
“CEMMENTI
– Canada exchanges with the Mediterranean: Migration experiences
and their impact on nationalism, trans-nationalism and identity” (2006-2008,
funded by the European Union – Canada Programme for Cooperation in
Higher Education and Vocational Training). His publications include
ethnographic and theoretical essays in Greek and English that have
appeared in academic journals and collections of essays, while he is
the “Ethnomusicology
and Anthropology” series editor (Nissos Publications).
Katerina
Levidou
Katerina Levidou studied musicology, the piano and
music theory at undergraduate level in Greece (University of Athens
and National Conservatory). She received a MMus from King’s
College London (funded by the A. S. Onassis Benefit Foundation) and
a doctorate from the University of Oxford (funded by the Ismene
Fitch Foundation and a Vice-Chancellor’s Fund Award). Between 2007
and 2011 she was Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, University
of Oxford. In 2011-2012
she held a Swiss Federal Scholarship for research at the University
of Lausanne, where in 2012-2013
she was External Scientific Collaborator (supported by a grant from
the Igor Stravinsky Foundation). Currently she works as a
postdoctoral researcher for the research project “Western
Art Music at the Time of Crisis: An Interdisciplinary Study of
Contemporary Greek Culture and European Integration” (ARISTEIA II – University of Athens), in the
context of which she researches festivals of Western art music in
contemporary Greece. Her research interests include Russian and
Greek music, modernism, nationalism, emigration, politics,
spirituality, identity, aesthetics and festivals. She has published
widely on Stravinskian neoclassicism and Eurasianism, on Nikos
Skalkottas’s 36 Greek Dances for Orchestra, the reception of
Greek antiquity in music since the nineteenth century, while she is
also contributor of Grove Music Online. Since 2008 she has been co-convenor
of the Study Group for Russian and Eastern European Music of the
British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, in which
capacity she has co-organised numerous international conferences.
Dionyssis Mallouhos
Over the last thirty years
Dionyssis Mallouhos has been active as a pianist, TV and Radio
producer, pedagogue, and author of articles on music. He is a
graduate of the Athens Conservatory (class of Georges Arvanitakis).
He completed his studies at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in
Budapest with István
and Márta Gulyás funded by scholarships
by the “Alexander S. Onassis” and “Bakala” Foundations. He has given recitals and performed at chamber music
concerts in major concert halls all over Greece and abroad. As a
soloist he has performed – among others – with the Athens State
Orchestra, the Athens Camerata, the City of Athens Symphony
Orchestra, the City of Thessaloniki Symphony Orchestra, and the
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra. He has recorded solo piano and
chamber music works for EMI, SONY, Subways Music, IRIDA Classical,
and UTOPIA – Mikri Arktos. Since 2003 he is the producer and presenter of a programme on the Third Public Radio Station of Greece (the “Third Programme”). In addition, he
teaches music at the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece
and piano at the Attikon Conservatory in Athens. He has been
Director of the Kalamata Municipal Conservatory since 2009.
George
Manouselis
George Manouselis holds a ÂA
degree in Economics from the Department of Social Sciences of the
Faculty of Economics, University of Crete. He is currently a
graduate student at the National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens for the Graduate Programme “Music
culture and communication: Anthropological and communicational
approaches of music”. At
the same time, he is a professional folk musician. He has worked as
corporate executive for the project of excavation of Ancient Messina
under the sponsorship of the Ministry of Culture and the “Stavros
Niarchos” Foundation.
Nick
Poulakis
Nick Poulakis studied musical performance, music theory,
composition and musicology. He holds a PhD in ethnomusicology and
cultural anthropology from the Faculty of Music Studies at the
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens with a thesis on
Greek cinema of the ’60s. He has worked as a music teacher at
state and private schools, and as a music editor for major music
publishing houses and cultural / educational institutions. He
teaches courses on ethnographic film and documentary, as well as on
film music theory at the Faculty of Music Studies at the National
and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has taught ethnomusicology,
music technology and multimedia, ethnographic cinema and film music
at the Department of Popular and Traditional Music at the Technical
Educational Institute of Epirus (Arta) and he has participated in
more than 20 research programs. He has published articles and
chapters in books, edited volumes and journals on music, cinema, (ethno)musicology,
anthropology, media and education. He has received scholarships by
the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the
“Propontis” Foundation and the “Sasakawa” Foundation. His
compositions have been performed in Greece and abroad with great
success. He is a member of the advisory board of the Greek
musicological journal Polyphonia
and the International Music and Media Research Group. Recently he
was elected member of the Special Technical Laboratory Staff of the
Ethnomusicology and Cultural Anthropology Laboratory at the National
and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he currently works as a
postdoctoral researcher.
Jim
Samson
Jim Samson is Emeritus Professor of Music at Royal
Holloway, University of London. He joined the staff at Royal
Holloway in 2002 as Professor of Music, having previously been
Professor at the Universities of Exeter and Bristol. He has
published widely (including seven single-authored books and seven
edited or co-edited books) on the music of Chopin and on analytical
and aesthetic topics on nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. His
books have been translated into German, Polish, Spanish, Korean and
Japanese. He is one of three Series Editors of The
Complete Chopin: A New Critical Edition (Peters Edition, in
progress). In 1989 he was awarded the Order of Merit from the Polish
Ministry of Culture for his contribution to Chopin scholarship, and
in 2000 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. His edition
of the Chopin Ballades (Peters
Edition) was named “2009 Edition of the Year” in the
International Piano Awards. He recently edited a textbook with J. P.
E. Harper-Scott, An
Introduction to Music Studies (2009), while in 2013 his
monograph Music in the Balkans was
published. He is currently co-editing a collection of essays on
music in Cyprus, a monograph provisionally entitled Black
Sea Sketches: Music, Place and People, and a novel set during the
Greek War of Independence.
Georgia
Vavva
Georgia Vavva is a graduate of the Music Faculty of the
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the National
Conservatory (classical guitar and music theory). She completed her
Master in Social Anthropology and Ethnomusicology at Queen’s
University Belfast in 2010, where she was awarded the title of “MA
in Social Anthropology with Distinction”. As part of her
Master’s dissertation, she conducted research at classical guitar
festivals in Slovenia, Ireland and Greece. She is postgraduate
student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
studying for the interdepartmental Graduate Programme of the
Faculties of Music Studies and Communication and Mass Media titled
“Music Culture and Communication: Anthropological and
Communicational Approaches of Music”. Her research interests
include urban ethnomusicology with a focus on the relationship
between music, crisis and globalisation. She has worked in primary
education and vocational training institutes (IEK Kifissias:
Department of Sound Engineering and Music Technology).
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