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biographical
notes
Thimios Atzakas
Thimios Atzakas was born in Thessaloniki in 1971. He studied
classical guitar with Costas Cotsiolis, Hubert Käppel and Carlo
Marchione. He was taught the ud and modal music by Ziad Radjab,
Âehnam Manadjedi and Ross Daly. He is a graduate of the New
Conservatoire of Thessaloniki and holds a post-graduate degree from
the Music Academy of Köln and the Academy of Music and Drama of
Leipzig. In 2013, he completed his PhD thesis on the theme People
of the Wood – The ud-istic art from the outskirts of Eastern music
world to the contemporary Greek urban culture at the University
of the Aegean (Department of Cultural Technology and Communication).
He lived in Berlin from 1998 until 2004. During the last decade, his
main avocations have been the performance and exploration of the ud
and the modal Eastern music traditions, music composition and
improvisation. Moreover, as a performer, he also plays early and
contemporary music. From 1996 until present, Thimios Atzakas has
performed at international festivals and has lead or participated in
many projects in Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Albania, Spain, Portugal,
England, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Sweden,
Switzerland, Japan, Morocco, Syria and Kirgizstan. He has broadcast
and recorded for the Greek National Radio and Television, the WDR,
Deutsche Welle, MDR, Arte and the BBC.
Since 2005, Thimios Atzakas teaches the ud and co-ordinates
ensembles and several projects in the sector of Traditional Greek
Music at the Department of Musical Arts and Sciences of Macedonia
University. In 2006 he undertook the artistic administration of the
international musicians’ and artists’ forum “Music Village”
(www.music-village.gr),
which takes place every summer in Agios Lavrentios, Pilio. His last
CD, Udopia, was honoured with the prestigious “German Record
Critics’ Award” (“Preis
der deutschen Schallplattenkritik”)
in “Grenzgänge” (“crossover”). Udopia is a production of the
German record label Carpe Diem in cooperation with the international
artistic community Music Village, based in Greece, and distributed
internationally by Naxos Music.
Ioannis Fulias
Assistant
professor in “Systematic
Musicology. Music Theory (18th-19th centuries)” in the
Faculty of Music Studies at the University of Athens (personal
website:
http://users.uoa.gr/~foulias).
He was born in Athens in 1976. He studied music at the Municipal
Conservatory of Kalamata (degrees in Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue,
and Piano, 1994-1998) and musicology in the Faculty of Music Studies
at the University of Athens (bachelor in 1999, and Ph.D. in 2005,
with a dissertation on Slow movements in sonata forms in the
classic era). He is a member of the Editorial Board and the
Advisory Board of both the journals Polyphonia and
Musicologia, as well as
founder member and Secretary General of the Hellenic Musicological
Society.
He has participated
in the Greek RIPM group, in scientific meetings and international
conferences. He has also published several articles, as well as
Greek translations of books
(by R. Wagner,
C. Floros and N. Cook) and shorter studies. His
own
books, entitled The two piano sonatas of Dimitri Mitropoulos:
From late romanticism to National School of Music (2011) and
The symphonies of Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf on Ovid’s
Metamorphoses: A contribution to the restoration of a milestone
in the history of programme music (2015), have been published by
“Panas Music”. His research interests fall into 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 form.
Kostas Kardamis
Kostas Kardamis (kardamis@ionio.gr)
is a musicologist currently serving as Assistant Professor in the
Music Department at the Ionian University (Corfu). He has
collaborated with the Oxford University Press, the Megaron Athens
Concert Hall,
the Greek Composers Union,
the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group and the Durrell
School of Corfu. His published studies, papers and articles mainly
concern Neohellenic music, with particular focus on 18th and 19th
centuries, as well as opera and musical theatre. His research
interests also include band music and the interaction of music,
society and politics. He is a member of the Hellenic Music Research
Lab,
the Greek committee for
RILM,
the editorial committees of the musicological journals Moussikos
Loghos and Moussikos Ellenomnemon. He is also the General
Editor of the series
“Monuments
of Neohellenic Music”.
Since 2003, he has been the curator of the Archive and the Museum of
the Corfu Philharmonic Society.
Angeliki Skandali
Angeliki Skandali, descended from Crete, was born in Athens. Her
conservatory studies include piano, lyric song and harmony at the
Hellenic Conservatory, counterpoint and fugue at the Music College
of Thessaloniki,
band
orchestration at the Hellenic Conservatory and composition at the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has attended classes of
orchestra conducting at the Hellenic Conservatory and at the Athens
Conservatory. She has graduated (A Honours) the Department for Music
Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She continued
with postgraduate studies in Musicology-Opera Analysis at the
University of Leeds in United Kingdom with Emeritus Professor Julian
G. Rushton. She authors books about opera history and publishes
articles about opera cultivation. She is a fellow researcher at the
Department of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki since 2008, and she prepares a thesis at the University
of Athens since 2010. She is a member of the Royal Music Association
and of the Hellenic Historic Society. Since 2015 she is also a
member of the Hellenic Musicological Society.
Nestor Taylor
Born in Melbourne in 1963, Nestor Taylor studied at the Athens
Conservatory with George Diamantis and distinguished
composer-academic Menelaos Pallantios. He continued his studies in
composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama under Francis
Shaw and Robert Saxton and at Royal Holloway under John Woolridge
and Peter Wiegold, where he was offered scholarship funding
for
performance excellence.
He holds a number of diplomas and degrees: ALCM in Conducting,
LGSM in Composition, LGSM in Choral Composition & Orchestration,
Certificate of Advanced Studies (GSMD), as well as M.Mus. and M.Phil
degrees, both in Composition (University of London).
His
works
have been extensively performed in all major venues across Greece as
well as overseas (Purcell Room in London, Kioi Hall in Tokyo, Lübeck
Opera, Great Hall in Odessa, etc.).
He has received
many
awards
for his work,
among
them the 1st prize in Manchester’s
Inter-University
Competition (1995), the 1st prize in the
Mediterranean Composers
Competition (2002), the
1st prize in the 2nd National
Chamber Music Competition of Greece (2004),
the Fulbright Award in 2005 as composer in
residence at Yale
University, and others.
Founder of the External Examinations Department in Athens
(1998-2004), established
in association with the London College of
Music, Lecturer in Harmony
in the Department of
Music Studies of
the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Lecturer in History and Music Appreciation at the
State School of Dance
(2005-2011), General Artistic Advisor at
the Greek National Opera (2009-2016). Nowadays, he
collaborates as an orchestrator providing arrangements for the same
institution.
Author of the books The Harmony of the Pythagoreans
(published by “Nefeli”, Athens 2000) and The Technique of
String-Divisi (“Edition
Orpheus”, Athens 2007), and writer of numerous
musicological articles published in Greek.
Demetre Yannou
Dr.phil.
Professor emeritus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Born
in Athens, he is graduate in history and archaeology of the Athens
University (1972), viola diploma holder of the Conservatory of
Athens in the same year (from prof. Tatsis Apostolidis’ class), and
he made private studies in advanced theory and composition
techniques with the composer Y. A. Papaioannou (1968-1972). He
continued university studies at the Cologne University (R. F.
Germany) in musicology, linguistics and philosophy, and he received
the Dr. Phil. degree at the same university in musicology (1980).
He
was member of the Orchestra of the National State Opera in Athens
(1980-1985) and member of its board for two years. From 1985 on he
was professor of historical musicology at the School of Music
Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Faculty of Fine
Arts) and one of the founding members of this first established
university music department in Greece. He served in several
university and academic administrative positions (chairman of the
School of Music Studies, dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts etc.).
He
lectured also at the University of Crete and at various universities
outside of Greece. He also published various musicology articles and
books in Greek and in other languages.
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