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biographical
notes
Ioannis
Fulias
Lecturer
in “Systematic Musicology. Music Theory (18th-19th centuries)” at
the Faculty of Music Studies of the University of Athens (personal
website: http://users.uoa.gr/~foulias).
He
was born in Athens in 1976. In 1989 he began music lessons in the
Municipal Conservatory of Kalamata, wherein he took the degrees in
Harmony (1994), Counterpoint (1996), Fugue (1998), and Piano (1998).
In 1994 he joined the Department of Musical Studies (now the Faculty
of Music Studies) of the University of Athens, where he graduated in
1999, and in which successfully defended his Doctoral Dissertation in
Musicology in 2005 (Slow movements in sonata forms in the
classic era. A contribution to the evolution of genres and structural
types through the works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven).
He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Musicologia and Polyphonia,
as well as of the Advisory Board of the latter one. He has also participated
in the Greek RIPM group, in scientific meetings and international
congresses, has published several articles and translations in various
Greek musicological journals and music periodicals as well as in other
scientific publications, and has contributed for several years to
programme notes for the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron)
and the Athens State Orchestra.
Nicolae
Gheorghiţă
He
has been Associate Professor at the Music National University in
Bucharest (since 1999) and Music Officer at the Military Music Service.
Born in 1971, in Constanţa County, he graduated the Music
National University, “Byzantine Music” section
(1996) and “Musicology” section
(1998), and attended post-university studies within the same
institution (master degree, 1996-1997; doctoral degree, 2005), as well
as in Athens with Gregorios Stathis and Lykourgos Angelopoulos
(1997-1998), in Thessaloniki with Antonios Alygizakis (2003-2004), in
Cambridge with Ruth Davis (2006, 2009) and in St. Petersburg (2009).
Second Conductor of the Byzantine Music Choir “Psalmodia” at the
Music National University in Bucharest and member of The Union of
Composers and Musicologists of Romania (2001).
Author
of four volumes (Sebastian Barbu-Bucur – monograph, Ed. PIC-ART
Press & Design, Bucharest, 2000; Chinonicul duminical în
perioada post-bizantină. Liturgică şi muzică,
Ed. Sophia, Bucharest, 2007 and 2009; Ôï
ÁíáóôáóéìáôÜñéï ôïõ Äéïíõóßïõ
Öùôåéíïý, Athens, 2009;
Antichitatea creştină şi muzica ei, Ed. Sophia,
Bucharest, 2009 – forthcoming) and over 20 studies in Romanian,
English and Greek languages, most of them submitted to national and
international Musicology and Byzantine Studies symposiums (in Greece,
Nederland, Finland, Austria, England and Romania).
Anastasia
Kakaroglou
She
was born in Athens. She graduated from the Department of Musical
Studies and the Department of French Language and Literature of the
University of Athens. She also received a piano diploma from the
Atticon Conservatory of Athens. She is at present a doctoral candidate
in Musicology, working on the subject “French researchers on Greek
music at the end of the 19th century and the beginnings of the
20th”. Anastasia Kakaroglou holds a state scholarship and teaches
music in primary school.
Magdalini
Kalopana
Magdalini
Kalopana (b. 1976, Athens) studied Musicology in the Department of
Musical Studies at the University of Athens (1993-1998). In 2008,
after ten years of research and under a State Scholarship, she
completed her doctoral dissertation with the title Dimitris
Dragatakis: Work’s catalogue, at the same University’s
Department. As a musicologist she has been collaborating with the
Athens Concert Hall (Publication Section and Music Library of Greece
“Lilian Voudouri”), the 3rd Programme of the Hellenic Radio (musicologist
and producer of the programmes: “By the reason of a song” and
“Track into the world”), Greek Composers Union (Works
for orchestra by Greek composers No 1, Lyra, 2004, etc.), D.
Dragatakis’ Friends Society (various concert programmes
and editions like Dragatakis
Dimitris. Chamber Music I, Irida, 2005) and other organizations
and companies in presentations and editions (Dragatakis
Dimitris. Complete Solo Piano Music, Naxos, 2008, etc.). She has
also participated in the international conferences: “Musical
folklore as a vehicle?” (Belgrade, 2008), “2nd International
Conference for Ph.D. Music Students” (Thessaloniki, 2009), “Greek
Music for the opera and other forms of the performing arts in the 20th
century” (Athens, 2009) and “Beyond the centers: Musical avant
gardes since 1950” (Thessaloniki, 2010). Her articles are often
published in Greek music periodicals.
Apostolos
Kostios
He
studied advanced theory and piano at the Hellenic Conservatory, vocal
studies at the Athens National Conservatory, Art History, Philosophy
and Musicology at the University of Vienna. In 1980 he was nominated
Doctor of Philosophy (Musicology) at the University of Vienna.
He
has taught at the Hellenic Conservatory of Athens and also served as a
music critic for the newspaper Dimokratiki Allagi, published in
Athens. He was elected Associate Professor in 1992 and Professor at
the Athens University in 1998, in the Faculty of Music Studies (Musicology).
He has worked with the First and Third Program of ERT (Hellenic Radio
and Television), as well as the Austrian Radio as scientific advisor
and producer in more than eight hundred broadcasts. He has given
lectures and made announcements in international musicology
conferences and has represented Greece at the General Congresses of
the International Music Council – UNESCO, while also has served as
President of the Greek department of this organization from 1998 to
its dissolution (2009). He is a member of the Plenary Session of the
Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO. His initiative established
the “Hellenic Music Award – UNESCO”. He has founded the
associations “Friends of Music Society” and “Friends of Hellenic
Music Library, Museum and Hellenic Art Music Archive Society”
(1991), of which he was elected President and has been elected ever
since. Moreover, he created the “Hellenic Music Archive and
Documentation Centre” that includes, among others, the “D.
Mitropoulos Collection” and with the support of whom exhibitions
under the title “D. Mitropoulos – Life and work” were realized
in Greece and large music centres abroad (Athens, Milan, Vienna, N.
York, Nafplio, Volos, Moscow, Patra etc.). He served as Vice-President
of the Board of Directors of the National Opera for the time span
between 1999-2006. From 1981 until 2009, he has offered his services
as “Advising Professor” to the “Alexander S. Onassis” public
benefit foundation.
Greek
music constitutes the centre of his research interests. He has been
the advising scientist or cooperator of research programmes, such as:
“Publication of texts and biography documentations of M. Kalomiris”,
“The History of the Athens National Orchestra”, “Corpus of music
critic notes by M. Dounias”, “Detection and collection of texts in
newspapers and magazines relevant to the Greek music life from the
middle of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century”,
“Digitization of the National Opera Archive” etc. The revival of
interest on the work of Mitropoulos is owed to him and –to a great
extend– the promotion of Greek art music abroad. He has established
the “Biography construction of living Greek composers” university
seminar. He has written the following books: Fifty years of the
Greek Composers Union, 1931-1981 (1981); Dimitris Mitropoulos
(1985 / Athens Academy Award); Dimitris Mitropoulos (Florence
2003); Texts by D. Mitropoulos – Comments by A. Kostios
(1997); Catalogue of works by D. Mitropoulos (1997); The
element of theatricality in the work of D. Mitropoulos (1997); Musicological
issues I (1999); Method of Musicological Research (2001); 75
years of the Greek Composers Union, 1931-2006 – From Chronicle to
History (2007 / Union of Greek Theatrical and Music Critics Award,
2008). Written also by A. Kostios are parts of the World Biography
Dictionary encyclopaedia, papers on operas performed by the Greek
National Opera, articles in Greek and foreign newspapers and magazines.
He has translated opera librettos and music books (Paul Griffiths, A
Concise History of Modern Music from Debussy to Boulez, 1993;
Victor Fuchs, The Art of Singing and the Voice Technique,
1999). He has edited publications of compositions by Mitropoulos, the
volume dedicated to music of the Educational Greek Encyclopaedia
(Athens Publishing), records publications in Greece and abroad. He is
the founder and scientific advisor in charge of the “Greek
Musicological Publications” series (eight volumes / Panas Music ed.,
Papagrigoriou & Nakas). He is a member of the advisory scientific
committee for the Musicologia and Mousikos Logos
journals. He proposed the foundation and is a member of the Honorary
Committee of the orchestra conduct and composition international
organization “Dimitris Mitropoulos”. He participates in the
initiative for the creation of the “Greek Music Workshop” in the
Department of Music Studies of the Athens University. He has been in
charge of coordination and scientific editing of the “2010, Year of
Dimitris Mitropoulos – 50 years after…” events.
The
Austrian Ministry of Education has awarded him with the title of “Professor”.
In 2003 he was appointed Professor Emeritus of the Athens University.
In 2004 he was appointed Honorary Member of the Greek Composers Union
in recognition of his contribution to Greek music. In 2009 he was
appointed Honorary Chairman of the Greek National Music Council –
UNESCO.
Katy
Romanou
Katy
Romanou – Ph.D. in Musicology (University of Athens); Master of
Music in Musicology (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana) – was
music critic of the daily He Kathemerine (1974-1986) and taught
in various music conservatories in Athens, Argos, Kalamata and Volos.
Since 1993 she is in the Faculty of Music Studies of the University of
Athens.
Katy
Romanou is head of the Greek team and associate editor for the Greek
language in RIPM (Répertoire International de la Presse
Musicale / Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals, 1800-1950), and
member of the editorial board of the Greek periodical Musicologia.
She
is the author of many articles and chapters (in Greek and foreign
periodicals and collective editions), and the books (in Greek language):
Wandering National Music. 1901-1912, 2 volumes (Cultura, Athens
1996); History of Neohellenic Art Music (Cultura, Athens 2000);
Greek Music in the Olympic Games and the Olympiads (1858-1896)
(Ministry of Culture / Cultura, Athens 2004); The Music Library of
Corfu’s Philharmonic Society (Cultura, Athens 2004); Greek
Art Music in Modern Times (Cultura, Athens 2006). She is also the
editor of a trilingual collective edition, entitled Aspects of
Greek and Serbian Music (Orpheus, Athens 2007).
Giorgos
Sakallieros
Dr.
Giorgos Sakallieros is a lecturer of historical musicology at
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Department of Music Studies /
Faculty of Fine Arts). He was born in Tübingen, Germany, in
1972. Initial studies on classical guitar and music theory (National
Conservatory of Athens) were followed by further studies on
musicology at the Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki (BA, 1996) as well as the Department of Music
Studies, University of Athens (PhD, 2005). He also studied guitar
performance, music theory and composition at “Collegium Musicum”
Conservatory in Thessaloniki (graduated with Advanced Diplomas in
1995 & 2005). His papers have been announced in international
musicological congresses and published in musicological journals,
collective editions and proceedings. His works including orchestral,
vocal and chamber music, have been regularly performed, and were
awarded in national composition competitions. He is a member of the
International Musicological Society (IMS) and of the Greek Composers’
Union.
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