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biographical
notes
Dionysia
Blazaki
Dionysia
Blazaki, born in Athens in 1962, holds a PhD in Music Aesthetics
from the Department of Music Studies at the University of Athens (July
2013). The title of her thesis is: The notion of abstraction in Hegel’s and Schopenhauer’s aesthetics
of music. In 2005 she graduated with honors from the Faculty of
Humanities at the Hellenic Open University, completing the program
“Studies in Greek Civilization”.
She
gained her guitar diploma from Pindario Conservatory of Athens
(1992) with G. Kertsopoulos. Since then, she has been working in
conservatory education. During the period 2005-2009 she collaborated
as a certified trainer with the General Secretariat for Adult
Education (Institute of Adult Continuing Education) in the programs
“Listening to Music” and “Greek Music”.
Her
artistic activity includes musical performances in concert halls,
cultural centers, radio and television. She actively collaborates to
the musical proposals “Kertsopoulos Aesthetics” and
“Reinventing Guitar”. She participates in CD discography Kertsopoulos
Aesthetics, as well as in recordings with the Contemporary Music
Orchestra of ERT. Also, she has been active in the field of theater,
mainly with her both works: The
shores of the heart and People
..!? 2020 AD (published by Dodoni, Athens 2002). Her research
interests include issues concerning the aesthetics of music.
Sokratis
Georgiadis
Sokratis
Georgiadis was born in Athens (Greece) in 1970. He has studied Music
Theory, Composition, Piano and Musicology. He is a graduate of the
Music Faculty at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
and of Panarmonio Conservatory. His compositional output includes
music for symphonic orchestra, acousmatic, vocal, and choir music,
piano music as well as compositions for solo instruments and various
instrumental ensembles. He has composed incidental music for the
theatre and television, and has collaborated as a composer, arranger,
producer and performer with various artists and performance
ensembles in recordings as well as live performances. He is being
teaching music theory and piano for more than two decades, while in
parallel with his artistic and pedagogical work is actively engaged
in musicological research.
Vasileios
Kalagkias
Vasileios
Kalagkias was born in 1975. In 2015 he graduated with “Great
honors” from the Faculty of Music Studies / School of Philosophy
of the University of Athens. In 1998 he graduated from the Faculty
of Mathematics of University of Patras and in 2011 he got “Harmony
Certification” from A. Mavrouli’s Conservatory of Nafplion. He
is competent in playing folk and traditional instruments (bouzouki,
oud, lute), as he attended music lessons from teachers-musicians
such as Themis Papavasileiou and Antonis Apergis. In the summer of
2015 he released his first album that includes ten of his own songs,
three of which have been awarded in the 2013 music competition of
Foudouli’s Conservatory of Volos. Since 2010 is active in musical
education, teaching bouzouki at the Music School of Argolis. Since
1998, he teaches mathematics to High School students (in private
education). He is also an active musician, as he plays folk /
traditional stringed instruments and he sings in music groups of
Nafplion. From 2014 he is a founding member of the art group “Celesta”,
concerning the music education for children and puppet theatre.
Katerina
Maniou
Doctor
of the Department of Music Studies at the University of Athens. She
is a Graduate from the same Department and has also studied Piano (under
A. Papastefanou) and Music Theory: Harmony, Counterpoint (under Y.
Belonis) and Fugue (under P. Adam). In 2014 she received her singing
Diploma with grade honors and first prize as mezzo soprano (under J.
Drivala). In the same year she successfully defended her Doctoral
Dissertation under the title Aspects
of Modernism and Postmodernism in Alfred Schnittke’s work, for
which she was funded by the State Scholarship Foundation.
As
a practitioner, she has taken part in J. Drivala’s opera
performances, in performance-art projects, in performances of Music
Village and in projects by the choreographer Natasha Avra, while she
consistently cooperates with musicians in the field of free
improvisation etc. She has attended seminars by P. Adam, C. Studer,
H. Gogios, A. Strikos, A. Christofellis and others. In a personal
path of vocal investigation, she has been trained at M.
Gementzaki’s vocal method and has also attended several intensive
workshops of “physical theater” (“Post-Grotowski Theater
Practices”).
Solon
Raptakis
He
was born
in Athens in 1991. He studied at the Attikon Conservatory with
Dionyssis Mallouhos, where he received his piano diploma in 2012 (grade
A, first prize and distinction). He has also received awards in
piano competitions (second prize in the Arafinios Panhellenic
Competition, first prize in the UNESCO Panhellenic Competition). In
addition, he has studied Harmony, Counterpoint and Fugue. He is
participating in the post-graduate study program of the Municipal
Conservatory of Kalamata (“Music Unbound”), in the field
“piano”.
He has actively taken part in master classes of Daniel Blumenthal,
Dmitry Bashkirov, Evangelos Sarafianos and Lilia Boyadjieva. In 2014
he graduated from the Department of Music Studies at the University
of Athens, having completed a thesis under the supervision of Prof.
Ioannis Fulias on the subject “The Piano Sonata in Early
Romanticism: A Comparative Study of First Movements from Piano
Sonatas of the 1820s”. He specializes in the performance of late
romantic, modern and contemporary piano pieces (including in his
repertoire works by A. Webern, A. Schoenberg, A. Berg,
J.
Adams, Ô.
Takemitsu
et al.), and regularly participates in the artistic events of the
Department of Music Studies at the University of Athens and the
Municipality of Vironas, where he lives. He is a piano teacher at
the Attikon Conservatory.
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