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biographical
notes
Irena
Bogdanović
Irena Bogdanović was born in Belgrade (Serbia)
in 1974. She studied theatrology in the Faculty of Theatre
Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (BA in
2001, MA in 2004 and PhD in 2012). In
parallel with her dissertation on The
theatre of Renaissance and Baroque in the Balkan Peninsula and the
Islands, she undertook and completed, in collaboration with
professor Walter Puchner,
theatrological research on Greek performance in Odessa 1814-1914,
a project under the auspices of the Academy of Athens. Her articles
have been published in Greek and Serbian journals. She has also worked
on the translation of theatrical plays and other literary works (G.
Xanthoulis, M. Držić, G. Joannou, A. Terzakis, N.
Kazantzakis etc.). At the moment she is a postdoctoral researcher in the Faculty of Theatre Studies at the National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens, working in a project
titled The ancient motifs in Renaissance and Baroque secular
theatrical productions of the Southeastern Europe.
Nikos
A. Dontas
Born in Bonn (Germany) in 1963, he holds a PhD in
Musicology (Faculty of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens, 2014). Since 2006 he is the Head of the
Dramaturgy Department of the Greek National Opera and since 1995 he
is the music critic of the Athens daily newspaper Kathimerini.
He has contributed articles to the 29-volume German Dictionary Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) and has written extensively for the publishing departments of
the Athens and Thessaloniki Concert Halls, the Athens Festival, the
Greek National Opera etc. He has produced series of programs
regarding classical music for the Greek National Radio as well as
for private radio stations. He holds a M.Sc. in Advanced
Architectural Studies (Bartlett School of Architecture, University
College London, 1986) and has worked as a designer and supervisor of
the 20.000 m2 extension of the Byzantine and Christian
Museum of Athens. He has also been Supervisor of Computer Aided
Design and Visuals at the Foundation of the Hellenic World and is
the author and academic editor of a volume on the Ionian city of
Priene (GHW 2001), which was translated and published in English by
Harvard University Press in 2005.
Nick Poulakis
Nick Poulakis studied
musical performance, music theory, composition and musicology. He
holds a PhD in ethnomusicology and cultural anthropology from the
Faculty of Music Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University
of Athens. The topic of his thesis is the music in Greek cinema of
the ’60s. He has worked as a
music teacher in public and private schools and as a music editor in
major music publishing companies and cultural / educational
institutions. He teaches courses on ethnographic film and
documentary, as well as on film music theory in the Faculty of Music
Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He
has taught ethnomusicology, music informatics and multimedia,
ethnographic cinema and film music in the Department of Popular and
Traditional Music at the Technical Education Institute of Epirus (Arta)
and he has participated in more than 15 research programs. He has
published articles and chapters in books, edited volumes and
journals on music, cinema, (ethno)musicology, anthropology, media
and education. He is a fellow of the National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens, the “Propontis” Foundation and the
“Sasakawa” Foundation. His compositions have been successfully
performed in Greece and abroad. He is a member of the advisory board
of the Greek musicological journal Polyphonia
and the “International Music and Media Research Group”. He was
recently elected as a member of the Special Technical Laboratory
Staff of the Ethnomusicology and Cultural Anthropology Laboratory at
the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where, in the
meantime, he works as a postdoctoral researcher.
Walter Puchner
He was born in Vienna in 1947. He is Professor of
Theatre Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens. Dr.
Puchner taught as a Visiting Professor at various leading university-level
institutions in Europe and the United States. He has published
over 80 books, about 1000 book reviews and more than 300 scholarly studies on subjects concerning
Greek and Balkan theatre, comparative ethnology, Byzantine and
Modern Greek studies, and the theory of theatre and drama.
Katy
Romanou
Musicologist Katy Romanou was a member of the Faculty of Music Studies at
the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1994-2009).
Since 2010 she teaches at the European University of Cyprus. She is
a researcher of recent Greek art music and has conducted a number of
research projects funded by the Research Committee of the National and Kapodistrian
University
of Athens (2003-2004, 2006-2007) and the Greek State’s General
Secretary of Research and Technology (2005-2007). She is coordinator
of the Greek team of RIPM (Répertoire International des
Sources Musicales / Retrospective Index of Music Periodicals). She
has published widely in Greek and foreign journals and edited
volumes, among which: “Exchanging Rings
under dictatorships”, Music
and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America (Brepols, 2009); (with
Maria Barbaki), “Music education in Nineteenth century Greece: Its
institutions and their contribution to urban musical life”, Nineteenth
Century Music Review (June 2011); (with Sophia Kompotiati),
“Verdi’s reception in Greece”, Verdi
Reception (Brepols, 2013). Her recent books include Serbian
and Greek Art Music: A Patch to Western Music History (Bristol
& Chicago, 2009), as well as a translation of Chrysanthos of
Madytos’ Great Theory of
Music (New York, 2010).
Konstantinos
G. Sampanis
Konstantinos G. Sampanis was born in Athens in
1964. He completed his studies in the Faculty of History and
Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
He received a MA in Opera from the Faculty of Theatre Studies at the
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a PhD in
Historical Musicology from the Faculty of Music Studies at the
Ionian University, with a thesis entitled Opera in Athens during the reign of King Otto (1833-1862) through
newspaper articles and travelers’ memoirs of that era. In
particular, he examines the introduction, the reception and the
establishment of the operatic genre in the theatres of the Greek-speaking
area during the 19th century. He works as a Greek language teacher
since 1989. He is married and has two adult daughters.
Ioannis
Tselikas
Ioannis Tselikas studied piano with Uwe Matschke
at the National Conservatory of Athens (Diploma, 1997), oboe with
Claude Chieulet at the Athens Conservatory (Diploma, 1999) and music
theory with Panaghiotis Adam at the Athenaeum Conservatory. He
received his BA from the National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens (1999) and continued his postgraduate studies in music
history and theory (double degree) at Boston University. He
submitted the topic of his dissertation entitled “Nikolaos
Skalkottas’ works for winds and piano”. In 2008 he founded,
along with Yannis Sabrovalakis, the Hellenic Music Centre, aiming at
collecting, publishing and disseminating musical works written by
Greek composers. He is a member of Athens Municipality Symphony
Orchestra and a member of the “Aeolos” woodwind quintet. Since
2007 he teaches music history and theory at the Hellenic American
University.
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