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: