Since 2008 I work at the Cultural Department of Thermaikos Municipality (Thessaloniki, Greece) as a musicologist. Apart from my musical activities there, I also manage the Municipal Library which operates in three different areas (New Michaniona, Peraia, Epanomi). During the summers of 2014 and 2015, with the help of a volunteer team, I organized creative reading activities for children in the Library, within the program “Future Library”, sponsored by Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
In the course of my graduate and postgraduate academic studies, I have worked on various subjects (unfortunately all these projects are written in Greek):
Aristoxenus of Tarentum
Folk music of Argentina
Mental representation and imaging of classical music
Computational models of Tenney-Polansky, Lerdahl-Jackendoff
Life and work of guitarist-composer Dimitris Fampas
The audience of classical music
Heitor Villa-Lobos: life and work with analysis of his Five Preludes for solo guitar
Observation of educational environments
children’s emotional education
psychopathology
social inclusion and students with special needs
psychological research and educational practice
resource room in special education
slang use and gender
mental retardation and socialization
learning difficulties
digital divide
the subversive power of music
music and media
cultural management of classical music institutions
Since 1994, I have attended many seminars, festivals and conferences in the fields of creativity, culture, musicology, music education, psychology of music, music therapy, music theory and analysis, classical guitar, piano, special education, qualitative and quantitative research methodology in Greece and abroad:
GUITAR
masterclasses with Hubert Käppel, Τhomas Müller-Pering, Gary Ryan, David Grimes, Uros Dojcinovic, Roland Dyens, Frank Bungarten, Vladislav Blaha, Timo Korhonen, Luciano Damiani, Michele Libraro, Marco Socias, Mauro Bruschi, Margarita Escarpa, Joseph Urshalmi, Xuefei Yang, Korina Vougiouka, Carlo Marchione, Carlo Domeniconi, Oscar Ghiglia, Elena Papandreou, Duo Melis, Harold Gretton
Veria Guitar Festival, Volos Summer and Winter Guitar Festival, Weikersheim Guitar Festival, Archanes Guitar Festival
PIANO
masterclasses with Borislava Taneva, Paul Badura-Skoda, Pantcho Vladiguerov, Comis Epifanio, Bernd Götzke
MUSIC IN GENERAL
George Xatzinikos, Milos Petrovic, Mariza Koch, Dimitris Dimopoulos
Mokra Gora Summer Art School (Belgrade University of Arts)
CONFERENCES
9th International Congress on Music Perception and Cognition, Bologna (August 2006)
Medieval & Renaissance Music Conference (MedRen 2007), Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Wien (August 2007)
4ο International Interdisciplinary Musicology Conference (CIM08), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (July 2008)
Conference “Performing romantic music: theory and practice”, Durham University – School of Music (July 2008)
2nd International Conference for PhD Music Students, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (February 2009)
I.A.M.L. – I.M.S. Conference (International Association of Music Libraries & International Musicological Association): “Musical Notation”, Amsterdam Conservatorium (July 2009)
Conference “The Symphony Orchestra as cultural phenomenon”, I.M.R (Institute of Musical Research) – School of Advanced Studies – University of London (July 2010)
Conference “Three eras – Four Anniversaries: Pergolesi, Chopin, Schumann, Barber”, Department of Music Studies (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and National Kapodistrian University of Athens) (November 2010)
International Musicological Conference “Crossroads/Greece as an intercultural pole of musical thought and creativity”, Thessaloniki (June 2011)
12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (I.C.M.P.C.)/8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (E.S.CO.M.), Thessaloniki (July 2012)
2004 Triantafyllia Kriezi Grant (National & Κapodistrian University of Athens) for distinguished students of Humanities
2003 – 2004 State Scholarships Foundation scholar for excellent performance at the 4th year of studies in Musicology
2002 – 2003 State Scholarships Foundation scholar for excellent performance at the 3rd year of studies in Musicology
2001 – 2002 State Scholarships Foundation scholar for excellent performance at the 2nd year of studies in Musicology
2000 Award from Rotary Club of Eastern Thessaloniki for excellent achievement in the first year of studies
1999 State Scholarships Foundation scholar for entering Accountancy and Finance Department of U.o.M. (University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki) with the highest score
June 2008 till now Musicologist at the Cultural Department of Thermaikos Municipality (Thessaloniki)
September 1999 – June 2006 Classical Guitar teaching at Stefanidou Conservatoire (Thessaloniki)
December 2007 – June 2008 Classical Guitar teacher and conductor of the European Choir at the Military School of Officers (Thessaloniki)
November 2007 – April 2008 Teacher of Aesthetic/Cultural Literacy – Choir Conductor at the Second Chance School of Katerini (Lifelong Education Institute)
Winter Semester 2007 – 2008 Teacher of Music Education at Oreokastro Institute of Vocational Training – Nursery Department
December 2007 – April 2008 Music Teacher in Primary Education (Ministry of Education, Prefecture of Thessaloniki)
January – June 2007 Music Teacher in Primary Education (Ministry of Education, Prefecture of Pella)
November 2005 – June 2008 Music Teacher and Choir conductor at Lakkia Special Education School (Thessaloniki)