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biographical
notes
Evangelia Chaldæaki
Evangelia Chaldæaki received her doctorate from the Department of
Turkish and Modern Asian Studies at the National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens in 2022 with a dissertation titled Folk
Music in the Turkish and Greek Musical Collections of the Late
Ottoman Era: Popular Culture and Intercommunal Relations (in
Greek). She studied “Turkish Language, Philology and History” at the
same Department and then received her MA in “Folklore Studies” from
the Philology Department at the National and Kapodistrian University
of Athens. She is currently
conducting post-doctoral research in the Department of Music Studies
at the University of Ioannina, with a thesis titled Turkish and
Greek Folk Music in the Greek Musical Collections of the Late
Ottoman Era: Musical Transnotations, Commentary and Modern
Performance (in Greek).
As an experienced researcher, she has conducted extensive
historical work through archival research, while also being an
active musician. Most of her work concerns archival research in her
areas of study, such as Greek and Turkish music, culture, and
folklore. She holds a Diploma in Byzantine Music and teaches singing
at the Center of Greek Music “Fivos
Anoyanakis”. She has received several distinctions for her work.
During the 2015-2016 academic year, she was a scholar of the
Sasakawa Young Leaders Fund (SYLFF) and, between 2019 and 2021, of
the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.). Her
master’s thesis titled K. A. Psachos and His Contribution to
Recording and Studying Greek Folk Songs (in Greek) received the
2018 Kaftantzoglio Award and was also published in 2018 as a
monograph by Edition Orpheus.
Anastasios Hapsoulas
Anastasios Hapsoulas is a Professor of Ethnomusicology at the
Department of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens. He holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology – Systematic Musicology
from Georg-August University of Göttingen (Germany). He studied
Musicology and Philosophy at the corresponding Departments of the
same University. His Ph.D. thesis titled Information on the
Traditional Greek Music-Life in Travellers’ Chronicles of the 18th
and the 19th Centuries was published by Orbis Musicarum (Edition
Re) in 1997 in Göttingen. His work was partly sponsored by the
Onassis Foundation. He also received a scholarship from the State
Scholarships Foundation and carried out post-doctoral research
titled Music Transcriptions of Melodies from Xeropotamos of Drama,
which was published in June 2003 by Panas Music Editions. Parts of
his work have been presented in international conferences. His
research interests include the methodology of ethnomusicology, the
history of Greek traditional music, as well as the secular music
traditions of the Middle Ages.
Eleni Kallimopoulou
Eleni Kallimopoulou is an ethnomusicologist and
associate
professor at the Department of Music Studies, National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens. She studies Greek popular music
through ethnographic and historical research.
She
is author of Paradosiaká: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern
Greece (Routledge, 2009), and co-editor of
Popular Music of the Greek World
(National and Kapodistrian University
of Athens Press, e-book, 2024), Counter-Archives:
Rethinking Oral History from Below (Greek Oral History
Association, 2021), Music Communities in 21st-century Greece:
Ethnographic Glances and Listenings (Pedio, 2020), and
Introduction in Ethnomusicology (Asini, 2014).
She is a member of the International
Advisory Board of Ethnomusicology Forum.
Theodore
Karathodoros
Theodore Karathodoros is a composer and a musicologist. He graduated
from the Department of Music Science and Art at the University of
Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece,
and holds a master’s
degree in educational administration and management from the
Department of Primary Education at the University of Thessaly,
Greece. He received his PhD in Musicology from the Department of
Music Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Greece. He studied composition with Athanasios Zervas and Michael
Adamis, and attended composition seminars with Theodore Antoniou,
Dinos Constantinides, Eric Honour, Gustavo Leone, Ilya Levinson,
Stephen Syverud and Michail Travlos, among others. He also holds
degrees in harmony and music theory, as well as diplomas in
Byzantine music and piano. He has presented many papers at
musicology conferences, while several of his compositions have been
performed both in Greece and abroad by distinguished soloists and
prestigious ensembles, such as Rex Richardson, Iwona Glinka, Leo
Saguiguit, Nikos Christodoulou, the Louisiana Sinfonietta, Camerata
Europæa and the Athens Saxophone Quartet, among others. He has been
a scientific associate of the Great Orthodox Christian
Encyclopedia, contributing with various entries on Byzantine
music. Since 2008, he has been the Cultural Affairs Officer of the
Nea Anchialos Society of Athens. He is also a member of the
Specialized Educational Staff of the Department of Music Studies of
the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Athanasios Nastos
Athanasios Nastos is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of
Music Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology and an M.A. in the History of Music
from the same university, specializing in Historical and Systematic
Musicology with a focus on opera. He graduated from the Department
of Humanities at the Hellenic Open University (Studies in Greek
Civilization). He also studied advanced theory, piano, and
accordion, earning a Diploma in Fugue (Hellenic Conservatory), a
Diploma in Piano (Municipal Conservatory of Moschato) and a Diploma
in Accordion (Hellenic Conservatory). He teaches European Music
Theory at the Music School of Alimos and is a member of the Hellenic
Musicological Society. During the spring semester of the 2023-2024
academic year, he taught the course “Special Topics in the History
of Music: History of Modern Greek Opera” in the Department of Music
Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His
interests also include music composition, primarily chamber and film
music scores, which have received distinctions and awards in Greece
and abroad.
Aikaterini Syrrakou
Aikaterini Syrrakou is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department
of Music Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens. She holds a doctoral degree from the Department of Music
Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, an MA
in Arts in Education from the Institute of Education at the
University of London, UK, and a Bachelor of Music from North Texas
State University, TX, USA. She has participated in several
conferences and forums. Her key focus is collaboration. She has
taught undergraduate courses, including Philosophy of Music,
Aesthetics of Music, History of Greek Music, and Ancient Greek
Music, at the Department of Music Science and Art, University of
Macedonia. She worked as a public relations manager at the
Thessaloniki International Film Festival, contributing to
participants’ intellectual development and social cultivation on an
international level. She currently teaches piano performance,
history of music, and music education at the Conservatory of the
Municipality of Pylaia-Chortiatis. She also works in
artistic-educational programming at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall.
She is the director of the educational project “Window to the
Megaron”, developed in collaboration with the MOUSA Orchestra of the
Thessaloniki Concert Hall and other institutions. She is about to
publish her first book titled Music, Value, Education.
Nikos Tzioumaris
Nikos Tzioumaris is a PhD student in the Department of Music Studies
at the Ionian University. His thesis focuses on the history of Greek
radio orchestras. He also teaches at the Music School of Kalamata.
Panos Vlagopoulos
Panos Vlagopoulos was born in 1961 in Corinth, Greece. He studied
Law at the Democritus University of Thrace, and Musicology in Basel
and Corfu. He completed his PhD in the historiography of Ars Nova
under the supervision of Irmgard Lerch in 2004. He worked as a Music
Librarian at the Music Library Lilian Voudouri in the Megaron – The
Anthens Concert Hall (1995-2003). He is a Professor of Musicology in
the Department of Music Studies at the Ionian University, Corfu,
Greece. He is the editor-in-chief of the Greek musicological journal
Mousikos Logos Online. He has presented papers on
musicological topics in Athens, Oxford, Wien, Dresden et al., as
well as on Wittgenstein at Austrian Wittgenstein Society
conferences. He has translated books into Greek, including Lydia
Goehr’s Imaginary Museum of Musical Works and Nelson
Goodman’s Languages of Art. His research focuses on the
aesthetics and ideological issues in the history of Greek music. His
latest book is Two-Edged Harmonization or Modern Greek Music and
Its Others: Snapshots of a Struggle for Recognition (Athens: To
Rodakio, 2024).
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