Haris Sarris was born in Athens. He graduated from the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens and was awarded a doctorate from the same Department. Thesis topic: “The bagpipe in Thrace: an organological ethnography”.
He studied Western music (degrees in Accordion, Harmony and Counterpoint). At the same time, from the age of nine, he has been playing the Cretan lyre, first learning alongside his father and then alongside George Vizirianakis. During his student years he was involved with various types of lyres and in the context of his doctoral thesis he also dealt with the bagpipe.
She teaches at the Master’s degree course “Interpretation of instrumental and vocal music” at the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens. He taught as a research associate and academic scholar at the Department of Folk and Traditional Music of TEI of Epirus (2008-2017), at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly (2001-2004) and worked as a researcher at the Research Programme “Thrace” of the Association “Friends of Music” (1995-2004). Since 2007 she has been teaching at the Department of Music and Movement Education of the Moraitis School.
From 1998 to 2010 he worked on a monthly basis as a music critic for Hitech magazine. Since 2002 he collaborates with the Prefecture of Cyclades in the annual meetings of folk musicians, as well as in special ethnomusicological field researches, in order to create an archive dedicated to the music and musicians of the Cyclades.
In collaboration with the director Dimitris Kitsikoudis and the photographer Dionysis Gagatsos, he works on ethnographic film. Their collaboration so far has resulted in the documentary “Bagpipes Laloun” (2012, 30 minutes), which was awarded at the Patras Festival, the feature length documentary “Music and Musicians of Andros” (2016, 60 minutes) and the documentary “The Tiger of Aperathos” (forthcoming).
His research interests include musical instruments, the vocal and instrumental music of the Balkans, the music of the Aegean, ethnographic film.
He has participated in international conferences in Greece and abroad and his articles have been published in scientific journals.

 

A sample of his scientific articles can be found at the following link: https://teiep.academia.edu/HarisSarris