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biographical
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Nikos A. Dontas
Graduate of the German School of Athens,
he holds a Ph.D. in Musicology. He works as a music critic for the
Athens daily newspaper Kathimerini as well as Head of the
Dramaturgy Department of the Greek National Opera (GNO). He has
contributed to the German encyclopedic Dictionary Die
Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
(MGG) and wrote extensively for the publishing departments of
the Athens and Thessaloniki Concert Halls as well as the Athens
Festival, among others. For many years he has collaborated with the
3rd Program of the Greek National Radio as well as private radio
stations. He is the author and editor-in-chief of the GNO 80 Years
Jubilee Edition (2020) as well as the author of the volume Pictures for the Opera (Athens 2021). He holds a M.Sc. in
Advanced Architectural Studies (UC London) and has worked on the
extension of the Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens. He has
also been Supervisor of Computer Aided Design and Visuals at the
Foundation at the Hellenic World and the author and academic editor
of a volume on the Ionian city of Priene (FHW, Athens 2001 / Harvard
University Press, Cambridge [Mass.] 2005).
Dimitris Kollintzas
Dimitris Kollintzas was born in Athens and currently lives in
Chania. He is a teacher of Byzantine Music at the Chania
Conservatory “Ioannis Manioudakis” and psaltes of the Holy Temple of
Zoodochos Pigi in Mournies (Chania). His research and music
interests focus on the traditional Greek music and the secular music
of Constantinople as a player of the musical instrument kanoon. He
holds a diploma in Byzantine Music. In 2015 he graduated from the
Patriarchal University Ecclesiastical Academy of Crete with an
honors degree. In 2018 he completed his postgraduate studies at the
Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in
Byzantine Musicology and Hymnography with distinguished honor. He is
a doctoral candidate in Byzantine Musicology at the Department of
Music Studies, School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, supervised by professor Emmanuel Giannopoulos. He has
participated in the production of music albums as a chorister and
music performer in Byzantine and traditional music choirs and
ensembles. He is the author of various musicological articles in
academic journals and has presented papers at the 2nd and 3rd Hymnal
and Musicological Conferences in Crete as well as at the 4th
International Musicological Conference of Volos.
Dimitris Kotronakis
Dimitris Kotronakis (b. 1973) is a classical guitarist and
musicologist based in Athens, Greece. He started studying the
classical guitar at the age of seven, and graduated from the
International Conservatory of Athens with a guitar diploma in 1992.
He attended post-graduate studies in classical guitar at the Athens
Conservatory, graduating in 1996. He also undertook advanced
theoretical and musicological studies that led to a diploma in Fugue
(International Conservatory of Athens) and a Musicology degree
(University of Athens, School of Philosophy, Department of Music
Studies) in 1996. He holds a doctorate from the same University
(2014). His dissertation research focused in particular on the world
of guitar in Greece. He is a multiple prize winner in guitar
competitions in Greece, Spain and Romania. He also won the major
honorary mention award at the 12th International Web Concert Hall
Competition (USA, 2011) for all classical orchestra
instrumentalists. He has recorded nine albums of solo, chamber music
and concerto repertoire, mainly for EMI Classics, Clear Note and
Soundset Records. He has performed in numerous guitar recitals
throughout Europe, North America and China; he has also co-operated
as a soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Kielce (Poland), the
Orchestra Artave (Portugal), the Philharmonic Orchestra of Craiova
(Romania), the Camerata Orchestra (Greece), and the Athens
Philharmonia Orchestra (Greece). He teaches guitar in three music
institutions in Athens (the Music School of Athens, the
International Conservatory of Athens, and the Panarmonio
Conservatory). He is a board member of the historic Volos
International Guitar Festival.
Zafiris Nikitas
Zafiris Nikitas holds a PhD in Theatre Studies and is a Postdoctoral
Researcher. He studied Law and Theatre at the Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki. For his PhD, which focused on the dramaturgy of
Jannis Kambyses (and his relation, among others, with the reception
of Wagnerism at the end of the 19th century), he received an
excellence scholarship from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and
Innovation, graded first in Humanities at the Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki. His research interests focus on the cultural
identity of modern Greek theatre of the 19th and 20th centuries and
the connection of Music and Theatre. He has published articles in
Greek and international peer-reviewed journals (e.g. Skini,
Critical Stages, Paravasis). He has participated in
conferences at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
the Freie Universität Berlin and also in the 12th Interdepartmental
Musicological Conference. His interdisciplinary interests in
musicology focus on the work of Nikos Skalkottas, Manolis Kalomiris,
Manos Hatzidakis and Jani Christou. He has taken part in various
research projects and in the Ancient Drama Summer School in
Epidaurus. He taught History of European and Global Theatre at the
Drama School Iasmos and he delivered a talk at the Department of
Music Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has
received violin and theory music lessons. His recent publications
consist of three literature books and one literary translation in
collaboration with Professor Dimitrios Z. Nikitas.
Apostolos Palios
Piano soloist and musicologist. Born in Karditsa, in 1979, he
graduated from the Department of Music Studies at the National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds a Ph.D. degree. His
dissertation title is Life and work of Greek composer, pianist
and pedagogue Loris Margaritis. He also holds BA and MA degrees
with distinction as piano soloist from the Universities of Music of
Berlin and Leipzig. He is a fellow of various Greek and
international foundations and prize-winner of several national and
international piano, chamber music and composition competitions in
Greece, Germany, Spain and Italy, as well as laureate from the
Academy of Athens and from the Association of Greek Critics for
Drama and Music. He has performed as a soloist at the most important
concert halls of the world and his discography includes, among
others, Greek contemporary music. He has published papers and
articles in the fields of historical musicology and musical
interpretation. He has participated in various musicological
conferences and meetings, and authored an encyclopedia entry for
Grove Music Online. He is a member of the Hellenic Musicological
Society. He taught piano at the Department of Music Science and Art
(University of Macedonia) and “Music Interpretation and Analysis”
and “Piano Performance” as a teaching fellow at the Department of
Music Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Panos Vlagopoulos
Panos Vlagopoulos is a Professor at the Music Studies Department of
the Ionian University at Corfu. He studied Law and Musicology. From
1995 to 2008 he was Head of Acquisitions and Outreach Programs at
the Music Library “Lilian Voudouri” of the Friends of Music Society
in Athens. His academic interests fall in the intersection of (esp.
modern Greek) music history, philosophy and ideology.
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