Faculty – ΠΜΣ “Εθνομουσικολογία και Μουσική Πράξη”

Dimitris Mikelis

Yiannis V — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:45:15 +0000

Dimitris Mikelis was born in Athens in 1976. From an early age he was involved with the piano and, as a student of the Experimental Music High School of Pallini (1988-1994), he came into contact with the oud. Immediately afterwards, she moved to the United States, where she studied piano at the Berklee College of Music (2001) and completed postgraduate studies in Jazz Performance at William Paterson University (2007). In the United States he had the opportunity to immerse himself in Arabic music, studying with the leading oud soloist Simon Shaheen.

In New York, he became a member of the Arabic music and dance group ‘Zikrayat’, with which he toured and recorded extensively, while he also founded the ‘Mitz Jazz Quintet’ with which he recorded his own compositions and performed in the city’s music scenes.

In 2009, he moved to Ramallah, Palestine, where he worked as a teacher of oud and piano at the Al Kamandjati Association and, later, at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, as a theoretician. He soon became a key member of the Palestinian National Arab Music Orchestra, touring the West Bank and abroad and recording an album with them. At the same time, he participated in smaller Arabic music groups and founded the ‘Ramallah Jazz Quartet’.

From a young age he has participated in music festivals in Greece and abroad, while he has a rich record and teaching career. Finally, he has composed music for films and documentaries, and has participated in various music projects to promote music education in Palestine; some of them supported by the European Union and the United Nations.

Maria Melachroniou

Yiannis V — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 06:04:34 +0000

Maria Melachroniou was born in Athens and is a graduate of the

Experimental Music High School and Lyceum of Pallini. Under the tutelage of Pericles Papapetropoulos, she devoted herself to the sazzi, while through her acquaintance with Ross Daly she became close to the teachers Mehmet Erenler and Erdal Erzincan, studying the Turkish folk repertoire. He holds a degree in Greek Traditional Instruments – Tamboura from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Greece, and a Master’s Degree in Ethnomusicology and Cultural Anthropology, specializing in the performance/interpretation of Traditional Music and specializing in Tamboura from the Hellenic Academy of Music and Performing Arts.

She has studies in Developmental Psychology, Music Therapy and Special Education, and has been trained in issues of children with deafness.

During his school years, he started oud lessons with Antonis Apergis, and then studied with Necati Çelik and Yurdal Tokcan.

He holds a diploma in Byzantine Music and a degree in Fugue. He has been teaching tamboura since 2000 in Music Schools and in 2011 he obtained an instrumental position at the Music High School of Pallini. She has collaborated, as a music performer and singer, with important people in the field of Greek music, both in concerts and on recordings, such as Lykourgos Angelopoulos, Michalis Adamis, Giorgos Koumentakis, Martha Mavroidis, Savina Giannatou, etc. She is a member of the vocal quartet “Jasemi” and the musical group Palimpsisto Trio.

Chrysanthi Gika

Yiannis V — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 06:01:53 +0000

Chrysanthi Gika was born in Athens.

At the age of thirteen, she came in contact with the lyre for the first time. Since then, she has studied alongside distinguished musicians and teachers such as Socrates Sinopoulos, Derya Turkan and Ross Daly.

Her academic education began in 2014, with her admission to the Department of Music Science & Art of the University of Macedonia, in the direction of Greek Traditional Folk Music. After completing the first cycle of studies, receiving a degree of specialization in the instrument, she continued (in 2022) her studies in the second cycle and, specifically, in the program “Music Sciences and Arts” of the same institution.

From a young age he participated in various musical ensembles and student orchestras (Athens Conservatory, the Students “Orchestra of the Music Workshop” Labyrinth “, the Orchestra of the” Tettix “School, the musical ensembles of the K.E.P.E.M., the Romana Orchestra). In recent years he has performed in renowned festivals and concert halls around the world (Athens Epidaurus Festival, Festival D” Aix en Provence, Festival of Religious Music, Alkantara Music Festival, Houdetsi Festival, Herodou Atticus Conservatory, Oscar Niemeyer Auditorium, Auditorio Ibirapuera). In addition, he has collaborated with musicians and musical groups in Greece and abroad for the purpose of conducting performances and producing recordings.

Since 2017, she has been intensively involved in the teaching of the lyric lyre, having been a member of the teaching staff of her conservatories and conducting seminars in Greece and abroad. Since 2020, she has been a member of the “artistic mentors” of the “Ethno” program organized by Jeunesses Musicales International, while in the academic year 2021-2022, she undertook, as a scholarship holder of the University of Macedonia, the teaching of the polyphonic lyre at the Department of Music Science and Art.

Dionysia Pappouli

Yiannis V — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 10:22:26 +0000

Dionysia Pappouli was born in Athens and comes from Kos. He is a graduate of the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens, holds a degree in Fugue, Counterpoint, Harmony and a diploma in Byzantine Music. He has studied piano and flute. She teaches Theory of European Music and has been a choir and ensemble leader of Traditional Music in music schools since 2009.
He taught Traditional Singing at the “Phoebus Anogeianakis Greek Music Centre” during the years 2016-2021. In 2022 he founded the children’s choir “Mikri Rodia”, in collaboration with Martha Mavroidis.
He has taught in seminars and workshops of private institutions that seek to disseminate Greek traditional music. She collaborates with masters of the genre and has numerous performances in Greece and abroad.

Vangelis Karipis

Yiannis V — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 10:21:23 +0000

He was born in Athens in 1971.

He has been involved in music from an early age. He discovers percussion at the age of 16 and, at the same time, studies Byzantine Music, obtaining his diploma from the Hellenic Conservatory.

Since 1993, he has been professionally involved with percussion, having in his portfolio many collaborations, in concerts and recordings, with Greek and foreign composers and singers (Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Giorgos Dallaras, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Socrates Malamas, Alkinoos Ioannidis, Nikos Kipouris, Giorgos Andreou, Nikos Xydakis, Orfeas Peridis, Haig Yazdjian, Ara Dinkjian, Theodossi Spasov, Ross Daly, Domna Samiou etc.ά.).

In 1997, he creates together with Petros Kourtis and Andreas Pappas the percussion group ‘Krotala’.

He participated in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.

Since 2005 and for two years, he has been participating in the Medi Muses educational program for concerts and seminars in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, Kuwait, England, Jordan and Turkey.

In 2006 and 2016, at the invitation of composer John Psathas, he travels to New Zealand for concerts and seminars.

Personal discography:

Percussion (FM Records, 1995)

Krotala (2002)

Voices of Percussion (Metro Magazine, 2005)

Percussion Pictures (ANTART MUSIC, 2011)

Evangelia Chaldaiaki

Yiannis V — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 10:18:25 +0000

Evangelia Chaldaiaki was born in Athens. She graduated from the Alimos Music School in 2009. In 2014 she completed her undergraduate studies at the Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

In 2017 she obtained a Master’s degree in “Folklore Studies and Popular Culture” from the Department of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The title of her thesis was “C. A. Psachos and his contribution to the recording and study of Greek folk songs”, for which he received the 2018 Kautantzoglio Prize. Published the same year by the Athens Conservatory Publications-Edition Orpheus.

He was a SYLFF (Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Found) scholar for the academic year 2015-2016.

Since 2022 he is a PhD candidate at the Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In the context of her PhD thesis she received a scholarship for 24 months from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (EL.ID.E.K.). Her doctoral thesis is entitled “Folk music in Turkish and Greek-speaking music collections of the late Ottoman period: popular culture and inter-community relations”.

She has participated in educational and research programmes, conferences and has published several papers, with her interest concentrated on Laography, Ethnomusicology, Greek and Turkish culture. The most recent research project with which he was thoroughly involved received funding from the Operational Programme “Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning 2014-2020” and concerned the “Digitization, documentation and promotion of the archive of K. A. Psachos”.

He has been involved with Greek traditional music from an early age, and in 2016

obtained a diploma in Byzantine music from the Orpheum Conservatory of Athens with the degree of

“Excellent” and first prize.

She teaches traditional singing at the Greek Music Centre “Phoebus Anogeianakis” since 2013. She has also worked as the coordinator of the seminars and events of the same venue and has served as the treasurer of its Board of Directors since 2018.

A sample of his scientific articles can be found at the following link:

https://uoa.academia.edu/EvangeliaChaldaeaki

George Kitsios

Yiannis V — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 10:13:21 +0000

Graduate of the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens. In the same Department in 2006 he defended his PhD thesis on: “Aspects and Transformations of an Urban Music Culture (Ioannina, late 19th century – 1924). He has a degree in Orchestration, Flueggio and a Diploma in Violin (Orfeio Conservatory, class of Sophocles Politis). He was a fellow of the Japanese SYLFF (Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund – Tokyo Foundation). He has worked in research projects at the Athens Concert Hall, the University of Athens and the Institute of Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas. He was an associate member of the symphony orchestra of the National Opera Orchestra and a substitute violin teacher at the Music School of Piraeus. He also worked as a substitute teacher of music in general secondary schools and as a permanent teacher in primary education. He has participated in several Greek and international recordings, while he has also recorded for theatre and cinema.

More information: https: //www.music.uoa.gr/anthropino_dynamiko/meli_dep/georgios_kitsios/

Eleni Kallimopoulou

Yiannis V — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 14:23:47 +0000

Eleni Kallimopoulou (PhD, MMus, SOAS, University of London) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is the author of the books Paradosiaka: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece (Ashgate/Routledge, 2009) and Learning Culture through City Soundscapes – A Teacher Handbook (with P. K. Poulos and K. Korneti, electronic version, University of Macedonia, 2013), and co-editor of the volumes Counter-files: revisiting history from below (with R. B. Bushoten and V. Dalcavoukis, Oral History Association, 2021), Musical communities in 21st century Greece: ethnographic views and audiences (with A. Theodosiou, Field, 2020), and Introduction to Ethnomusicology (with A. Balantina, Asini, 2014). He is a founding member of the research group sonorCities, which focuses on the history and ethnography of sound and the senses, and a member of the international advisory board of the journal Ethnomusicology Forum.

Email: elkallim@music.uoa.gr

Indicative Publications

Theodosiou, A. and E. Kallimopoulou, ed. 2020. Musical communities in 21st century Greece: ethnographic perspectives and audiences. Athens: Field.

Theodosiou, A. and E. Kallimopoulou. 2020. Music workshops, participatory music tourism and transnational communities of practice. In Musical communities in 21st century Greece: ethnographic perspectives and audiences, edited by Aspasia Theodosiou and Eleni Kallimopoulou, 99-132. Athens: Field

Kallimopoulou, E., and K. Kornetis. 2017. ‘Magical Liturgy’: A History of Sound at the Kyttaro Music Club, 1970-1974. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 35(2): 481-512.

Kallimopoulou, E. and A. Balladina, ed. 2014. Introduction to ethnomusicology. Athens: Athens.

Kallimopoulou, E. 2009: Paradosiaka: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece, Farnham: Ashgate.

Ifigenia Ioannou

Yiannis V — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 15:21:09 +0000

Ifigenia Ioannou was born in Athens in 1981 and at the age of 8 she started her studies in classical guitar. Graduated from the Experimental Music High School & Lyceum of Pallini and continued her musical studies by obtaining a Bachelor of Harmony, a Bachelor of Guitar, a Diploma of Guitar with A’ prize, a Bachelor of Counterpoint and a Bachelor of Fugue. He holds a degree from the Department of Folk & Traditional Music of TEI of Epirus, with specialization in canon music, as well as a Master’s degree from the Department of Music Studies of the National and National University of Athens. The subject is “Interpretation of Instrumental & Instrumental Music”, with a specialization in the field of music of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), with the subject “Interpretation of Instrumental & Instrumental Music”. Vocal Music”.

He participates in the music group “Esperanto” and “Rebetika with Guitars” by Dimitris Mystakidis, he collaborated with Dimitris Lappas in the music group “Ta Piragmena”. To date he has participated in a series of performances with various artistic groups in music scenes in Thessaloniki, Athens and abroad.

In 2020 she created the music orchestra “Ensemble of Smyrna and Rebecca Music” at the Greek Music Centre “Phoebus Anogeianakis” and in the same year she held a masterclass in vocal performance entitled “Rita Abatzi – Rosa Eskenazy: comparative study of vocal technique and performance“. The same masterclass was delivered online in 2021 with the organisation of the Greek Fringe. In the summer of 2022 he held the workshop “Smyrna and Rebbe singing” at the Music Courts in Raches of Ikaria.

In 2022 he created the orchestra of traditional and Smyrna music “Iphigenia Ioannou & Eivala”, making a series of performances throughout the country.

He teaches at the Athens Music School and at the Greek Music Centre “Phoebus Anoyeianakis”.

Alexandros Kapsokavadis

Yiannis V — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 05:48:32 +0000

Alexandros Kapsokavadis was born in 1981 in Athens. At the age of ten he started classical guitar and theory lessons. As a student of the Music School of West Attica he came into contact with the night folk instruments, next to important teachers such as Christos Tsiamoulis and Nikos Grapsas. After high school, he became close to Ross Daly and devoted himself to the polite lute and the musical traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean.

She is a graduate of the Department of Music Studies of Athens, holds a Master’s degree in Music Culture & Communication and, since 2015, a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Athens.

He has taught in the music schools of Pallini, Ilion and Alimos, while from 2009 to 2021 he worked as a music teacher in primary public schools. He has collaborated as a music performer with some of the most important people in Greek music (Stavros Xarchakos, Nikos Mamagakis, Nikos Xydakis, Haris Alexiou, Dimitra Galani, Glykeria, Alkistis Protopsaltis, Savina Giannatou, Haig Yazdjian, etc.).

As a composer, he appears in the Greek discography with the bands Matt in 2 Yefesis andPolis Ensemble, having participated with his songs and music in numerous productions.