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biographical
notes
Evangelia Chaldaiaki
She was born at Athens in 1991. She acquired her bachelor degree from
the Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies of the National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2014, with the grade “Very Well”.
Since November 2014 she studies at the Programme of Post-Graduate
Studies, Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian
University, specializing in “Folklore Studies”. She is a fellow of the
SYLFF Fellowship Program (Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Found) for
the academic year 2015-2016. In 2014 she gained the degree of
Byzantine music from the Orpheum Conservatory with the grate
“Excellent”. She teaches Greek traditional singing in group courses at
the Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments since 2013. She knows
English (Certificate of Proficiency in English, University of
Michigan) and Turkish (intermediate).
Anastasia Georgaki
Anastasia Georgaki is Associate Professor in Music Technology at the
Music Department of the University of Athens and head of the
Laboratory of Music Acoustics and Technology of the same Department.
She studied Physics (University of Athens, 1986) and Music
(accordion, piano, harmony, counterpoint / Hellenic Conservatory of
Athens, 1981-1990) and continued her studies at IRCAM (Paris,
1990-1995) in computer music and music technology (DEA / 1991 and
PhD / 1995 in Music and Musicology of the XXth century, IRCAM /
EHESS). During the period 1995-2002 she has been teaching as a
lecturer in Music Acoustics and music technology at the Music
Department of the Ionian University at Corfu. Since 2002, she is
teaching matters in
Music Technology at the Music Department of the University of
Athens. Since 2008 she is teaching in three different Master
programs at the University of Athens and the School of the Fine Arts
(Music and New Media, Sound Ways of Knowledge, Digital Visual
Music). She is also supervisor of PhD candidates on the area of
singing voice analysis and interactive systems.
She has
participated
in many international computer music and musicological conferences in
Europe, Canada, and Latin America, and has published around 65
articles concerning the synthesis of the singing voice, the
interactive music systems, Greek electroacoustic music composers (Xenakis,
Adamis, Logothetis), physical modelling of instruments, music
technology in education and acoustic ecology matters. She has chaired
and co-chaired
seven symposia and conferences as: Music and Computers (Ionian
University, 1998), First Greek Symposium on Music Informatics (Ionian
University, 2000), International Symposium Iannis Xenakis (University
of Athens, 2005), 4th Sound and Music Computing Conference 2007 (Lefkada,
2007), Pythagorean Views on Music and Mathematics (Pythagorion, 2009),
Anestis Logothetis Tribute (Athens 2012) and the Joint Conference ICMC/SMC2014
in Athens (14-20 September 2014: www.icmc14-smc14.net), under the
special theme: “Music technology meets philosophy (from digital Echos
to virtual ethos)”. She has collaborated with the Greek research
institute ILSP in music information retrieval European projects (Wedelmusic),
with IEMA, with the Voice Lab of the Department of Informatics and
Telecommunication, with the Onassis Foundation Cultural Center, with
IRCAM, with the University of Paris VIII, etc. Her research projects
focus on the analysis and acoustics / psychoacoustics of the Greek
singing voice, controlling synthetic voices through a MIDI-accordion,
the development of tools for the application of new technologies in
music creation and education, musicological aspects on the impact of
technology in contemporary music creation, methodological issues of
music technology in interdisciplinary education, acoustic ecology and
soundscapes. She is a member of numerous committees in Greece and
abroad (member of the SMC Steering Committee and ICMA). She is also a
professional accordion player (www.novitango.gr) and an active
musician.
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.
George Leotsakos
Music critic, music researcher and composer. Although he studied
music privately with Konstantinos Kydoniatis and Yannis A.
Papaioannou at the Hellenic Conservatory in Athens (graduating in
1964), he considers himself largely self-taught. As a student he
began writing music criticism for the newspaper Kathimerini,
succeeding Minos Dounias as its full-time critic in 1962.
Subsequently he worked for several daily papers in Athens, including
Messimvrini, Ta Nea, To Vima, Proini,
Eleftheri Gnomi, I Proti, Epikairotita and
Express, as well as for the periodicals Hellenika Themata,
Anti, Diphono, Gnossi and Ekti Imera,
the weekly cultural issue of Imerissia. He also served as
music editor for the Greek encyclopaedia Papyros
– Larousse – Britannica
and the Ekpaideftiki Helliniki Encyclopedia, introducing to
the latter new materials on dozens of Greek composers of the 19th
and 20th centuries. Thanks to his collaboration with
The
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
in both 1980 and 2001 editions, these data were made partially
available for a world-wide readership, too.
As a
translator
he has published books in Greek on Gustav Mahler’s and Jani Christou’s
music, as well as Emile Vuillermoz’s Histoire de la musique. He
was also a producer of Greek art music programmes for Hellenic Radio
and in 1975 he was responsible for introducing programmes of
traditional Asian music to the Greek public. However, in the early
1970s, he had already abandoned ethnomusicology, which occupied him
from the late 1950s, devoting himself exclusively to research in the
history of Greek art music, mostly inspired by his experience of Greek
musical life as a critic.
His main publication is the book
Spyros Samaras (1861-1917). The Great Injustice in Greek Art Music: A
Biographical Attempt
(Athens 2013). He has
also
composed a small number of works in a free atonal style interspersed
with modal structures.
Eirini Nikolaou
Eirini Nikolaou graduated as a musicologist from the
Music Department of
University of Athens (1998).
She
received the Msc degree in Dept. of Philosophy in University of
Ioannina, under the title “Music Education in Aristotle’s Thought”.
After that she received a PhD degree in Dept. of Philosophy in
University of Ioannina, under the title “The Philosophical and
Pedagogical Dimensions of Music According to Aristides Quintilianus”.
Furthermore she has a diploma as a piano soloist and in composition,
where she took the first and second awards as well. She has been
involved with the conducting (chorus and orchestra) and she has done
many concerts as a piano soloist and conductor
as well.
From 2002 she is a teaching staff member for the Primary Educational
Department of Ioannina University, teaching music and conducting the
chorus of the Department. From 1999 to 2004 she was a contract
teacher in the Technological Institute of Epirus for the subject
“Music Pedagogue”. She was a lecturer on high theory, piano and
music for pre-school education at several conservatories. Her
research interests are
focused on Music Pedagogue, Philosophy and Ancient Greek Music as
well.
Katy Romanou
Katy Romanou is a Greek musicologist, a researcher of
Greek music
in the C.E.
She was a faculty member of the Music Department of the University
of Athens and is at present a faculty member at the European
University of Cyprus. Katy Romanou is also coordinator of the Greek
team of RIPM.
She has
published
widely in Greek and foreign periodicals and collective editions, among
which: “Exchanging Rings under dictatorships”, in Music and
Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America (Brepols, 2009); “Music
education in Nineteenth century Greece: Its institutions and their
contribution to urban musical life”, Nineteenth Century Music
Review (June 2011); “Verdi’s reception in Greece”, in Verdi
Reception (Brepols 2013); “Serbian Music in Western Music
Historiography”, in Serbian Music: Yugoslav Contents (Institute
of Musicology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2014). She
is a contributor to Grove / Oxford music online (2015) for
Greece and Cyprus.
Her recent books include: as editor and author,
Serbian and Greek Art Music. A Patch to Western Music History
(Bristol & Chicago, 2009); a translation of
Chrysanthos of Madytos,
Great Theory of Music
(New York, 2010); co-editor and author,
Musical Receptions of Greek Antiquity: From the Romantic Era to
Modernism
(Cambridge, 2015).
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