Ionian University

Department of Music

Kostas Kardamis

Professor

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Kostas Kardamis graduated from the Music Department of the Ionian University in 2000, after submitting a thesis in the field of Neohellenic Music (supervisor: Prof. Haris Xanthoudakis). In 2002 as scholar of the «Panayotis and Effie Michelis Foundation» he  obtained the title of Master in Advanced Musical Studies from the Music Department of Royal Holloway, University of London (supervisor: Prof. David Charlton). In 2006 he concluded his doctoral studies in the Ionian University and successfully presented his thesis entitled The "pre-solomian" Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros and his works (supervisor: Prof. Haris Xanthoudakis). 

He has contributed in the activities of the Athens Megaron Concert Hall, the Greek Composers Union, the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Group, Oxford University Press (The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians) and participates in panhellenic and international conferences and colloquia. His published studies and articles are mainly focused on Neohellenic music, with particular interest in 18th and 19th centuries,  as well as on the opera and musical theatre. His research interests also include band music and the interaction of music, society and politics.

Since 2002  he is a faculty member of the Music Department of the Ionian University. He is the director of the Hellenic Music Research Lab of the aforementioned department, as well as member of the editorial committee of the musicological journals Moussikos Loghos and Moussikos Ellenomnemon, and of the Greek committee for RILM, as well as General Editor of the series Monuments of Neohellenic Music. Since 2003 he has been appointed curator of the Archive and the Museum of the Philharmonic Society of Corfu.

Parallel activities include his interest for brass instruments and brass playing. His particular occupation with tuba, an inclination resulting from his early experiences in the Philharmonic Society of Corfu that were further cultivated during his studies in the Ionian University, does not exceed the limits of the positively approached amateurism. He was student of Nikos Zervopoulos (National Opera House) and George Rarakos (Athens State Orchestra), from whose class obtained a tuba certificate. He participated in masterclasses of George Rarakos, Roger Bobo and Hed. Jan Renes, as well as in brass ensemble seminars (Melos Brass, Fred Mills, Ben van Dijk, Walter Hilgers). He had been the coordinator of the Ιonian Brass Quintet, founding member of the Just Tuba Quartet and is proud to have been a bandsman of the Egham Brass Band (UK).

Publications and Research activity

  • Nikolaos Mantzaros and the emergence of a Greek composer (Durrell Studies 5) (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2022), ISBN: 978-1-5275-8279-8 (in English)
  • Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros (Niccolo Calichiopulo Manzaro) (Athens: Fagotto Books, 2015), in the series Biographies of Greek Composers, ISBN: 978-960-6685-62-0 (in Greek)
  • Six essays for the Corfu Philharmonic Society, in the "Publications of the Music Museum 'Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros'" (Corfu: Corfu Philharmonic Society, 2010), ISBN 978-960-99715-0-8 (in Greek and partly in English)
  • Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros (Niccolo Calichiopulo Manzaro): «Unity within multiplicity» (Corfu: Corfu Studies Society, 2008), in the series Artists of Corfu, ISBN: 978-960-88037-5-6 (in Greek) [«Distinction for Musicological Publication 2009» by the  Union of Greek Critics for Drama and Music]

Conferences

  • «From transnationalism to nationalism; The formulation of the Ionian Islands cultural identity during the "long nineteenth century" through music», in the International Conference The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal (Durham University, 10-12.7.2024), to be published 

  • «Transnational aspects of the operatic activity in the Ionian Islands», in the Conference The Circulation of Opera and Operaic Companies around the Mediterranean Theatres (Part II), Valetta, Malta (25-27.4.2024), to be published 

  • «Dionyssios Lavrangas and the Grand Hellenic Encyclopaedia», in the Conference Dionyssios Lavrangas: A multifaceted musician (Athens Conservatory, 24.5.2024), to be published 

  • «“Belligerent voices” of Fredom in the 19th-century Ionian Islands: Continuities and connotations», paper in the International Conference "Hail, Liberty! Hail!" (Museum of Solomos and Eminent Zakynthians, Zakynthos, 8-10.12.2023), to be published

  • «Iossif Liberalis (Giuseppe Liberali): Some unknown aspects of the life and the activities of the Ionian composer, bandmaster and impresario during his "Corfu years” (1819-1852)», paper in the XII International Panionian Conference (Zakynthos, 18-21.10.2023), to be published

  • «The East of the West and the West of the East”: Reapproaching the Ionian Islands’ music (16th-20th cent.», Panel Session “Remapping the Confines of the Historiographical Canon in Greek Art Music” (coordinator: Georgios Sakalieros), in the 21st Qinquennial Congress of the International Musicological Society, Athens, 22-26.8.2022

  • «Reflections on the operatic activity in the Ionian Islands; Aspects of a (now forgotten) shared world», presentation in the IMS Study Group “Mediterranean Music Studies”: “The Circulation of Opera and Operatic Companies around the Mediterranean Theaters”, in the 21st Qinquennial Congress of the International Musicological Society, Athens, 22-26.8.2022, to be published

  • «Academic music education in the Ionian Islands. An overview and a proposition through a musicological perspective», paper in the Conference Music in he Ionian Islands (Organized by the Corfu Choir, Corfu, 13-15.10.2022), to be published

  • «"Design it as you like" or Depicting Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros through the distorting mirrors of the 19th century», Music Creation and Practice in Modern Greece. Honouring Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros (Corfu, 8-11.4.2022, Co-organized by Ionian University-Music Department-Hellenic Music Research Lab / Corfu Philharmonic Society), published in the Conference's Proceedings (Corfu: Corfu Philharmonic Society-Hellenic Music Research Lab, 2023), 37-46

  • «Between "national illness" and "the return of the Muses to their homeland": Topographies of opera in the Ionian Islands», International Conference Musical Topographies of the Mediterranean (16-18.3.2022, Organized by Max Weber Foundation, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, DHI, Orient-Institut Istanbul), to be published

  • «"These heroic poems substituted the absence of political newspapers": Melodic directness and Revolution in the Ionian Sea», The Ionian Islands during the 1821 Revolution, Ionian University, 23-24.3.2022, Organized by the Ionian University's 1821 Committee

  • «The pre-modern Italian revolution under the light of Giuseppe Mazzini's Filosofia della Musica: The case of the Verdi's La battaglia di Legnano», Social reactions, upheaval and revolution in the pre-modern Italian States (13th -18th cent.). Organized by the Department of Italian language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Zografou Campus, 29-30.11.2021, to be published

  • «The sound, the echo and the reverberations of the Struggle», Ionian Patriotism (18th-19th cent.). People, Ideas, Institutions and Actions (Organized by the Corfu Reading Society, Corfu, 12-14.11.2021) to be published

  • «Aspects of the musical encounters between Germany and Greece in the Ionain Islands», Greek-German crossroads in the Arts from 1821 to 2021, The Centre of Modern Greece (CEMOG), Freie Universität Berlin, 23.6.2021, published (Greek, German) in the Conference's Online Compendium: https://comdeg.eu/el/compendium/essay/111233/ 

  • «An intellectual of the sounds: Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros and the philosophization of music», Greek-German crossroads in the Arts from 1821 to 2021, The Centre of Modern Greece (CEMOG), Freie Universität Berlin, published (Greek, German) in the Conference's Online Compendium: https://comdeg.eu/el/compendium/essay/111587/

  • «Re-reading Spiros G. Motsenigos», 12th Interdepartmental Musicological Conference under the auspices of the Hellenic Musicological Society (Thessaloniki, 27-29.11.2020, Co-organized by the Music Department of Music Science and Art of the University of Macedonia and the Music Department of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki), published in the Conference's Proceedings (Thessaloniki: Hellenic Musicological Society, 2022), 557-567

  • «The music in, and around, Ionian Academy during the presence of Christophoros Filitas», Intellectuals and the formation of the history of Neohellenic Literature: 18th-19th century (Athens, Auditorium of the Hellenic Parliament, 13-14.12.2019, Organized by the Hellenic Parliament and the University of Crete-Faculty of Philosophy-Department of Literature), published (in Greek) in Alexandros Katsiyannis, Dimitris Polychronakis, Konstantinos Chrysogelos (eds.), Christophoros Filitas (1787-1867) and the formation of Neohellenic Literature in the 18th and 19th century (Athens: The Library of the Hellenic Parliament, 2022), 175-186

  • «Music and musicians in Filiki Etaireia [Friendly Society]. The Ionian Islands' aspect», in the colloquium 200 years since the installation of the superintendents of Filiki Etaireia in Ionian Islands (Athens, The Old Parliament, 23.11.2019. Organized by the Corfu Reading Society and the Corfiot Union of Athens), published in the Proceedings (Corfu: Corfu Reading Society, 2021),  217-227 (in Greek)

  • «The migrations as shaping factors of the Ionian Islands' music», paper in the conference Migrations towards the Ionian Islands from the 13th century until their annexation to Greece, University of Athens-Department of Italian Language and Literature, Ionian Research Centre, 9-11 October 2019, published (in Greek) in the Conference's Proceedings, (Athens: Department of Italian Language and Literature of the Athens University, Ionian Research Centre, 2022), 167-183

  • «‘Exceptions’ and ‘deviations’; The Ionian Islands», paper presented in the workshop ‘It Sounds Greek to Me’: Greek Art Music since the Nineteenth Century May 9th 2019, King’s College London, Centre for Hellenic Studies

  • «Tracing the 'Colonnes d'Harmonie': Some new information regarding music in the masonic lodges of Corfu during 19th century», paper in the  10th Interdepartmental Musicological Conference under the auspices of the Hellenic Musicological Society (Corfu, 26-28.10.2018), published in the conference's Proceedings (Athens: Hellenic Musicological Society, 2019), 27-37 (in Greek)

  • «Experiencing the past and encountering the future; Music, War and Politics in Corfu (1916-1919)», The Birth of Contemporary Europe: WW1, Music and the Arts, Athens, The Music Library of Greece «Lilian Voudouri», 9-11.11.2018, to be published (in English)

  • «Between ideological stereotypes and entrepreneurship. The case of the 'Oriental Overture' by Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros», paper in the 11th Panionian Conference (Cephalonia, 21-25/5/2018), published in the conference's Proceedings (Argostoli: Society of Cephalonian History Researches, 2019), vol.3, 563-571 (in Greek)

  • «Domenikos Padovas: a ‘minor’ of an anniversary», paper in the conference Opera and the Greek World during 19th century (Corfu, 17-19/11/2018), published in Opera and the Greek World during the Nineteenth Century (Corfu: Ionian University-Music Department-Hellenic Music Research Lab / Corfu Philharmonic Society, 2019), 105-118.

  • «The Museum and Archive of the Corfu Philharmonic Society», paper in the 1st Conference of Music Libraries & Archives of the IAML-Greece (Athens, The Music Library of Greece 'Lilian Voudouri', 21-22.4.2017), to be published

  • «The Parliamentary Candidate by Spiridon Xindas and Ioannis Rinopoulos. The unkown aspects of a "given" opera», paper in the  8th Interdepartmental Musicological Conference under the auspices of the Hellenic Musicological Society (Athens, 25-27.11.2016), published in the Conference's Proceedings (Thessaloniki: HMS, 2019), p. 120-136 (in Greek)

  • «Orientalism in the Ionian Islands’ music», in “Bridging Musical Cultures? The Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asian Regions in the History of Music”, Oxford, 4-5 November 2016,  Balzan Programme in Musicology 2013-2017 “Towards a Global History of Music”. Published in Reihard Strohm (ed.), The Music Road. Coherence and Diversity in Music from the Mediterranean to India, “Proceedings of the British Academy” (London: The British Academy, 2019), 296-317

  • «Music of the Ionian Islands in Historical and Cultural Context», paper in the First joint symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Mediterranean Music Studies and the International Musicological Society (Naples, Università degli studi di Napoli “L'Orientale” and Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella, 21-26.6.2016), to be published.

  • «Regarding the correspondence of Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros: Some initial thoughts», paper in the  7th Interdepartmental Musicological Conference under the auspicies of the Hellenic Musicological Society (Corfu, 30.10-1.11.2015), published in the Conference's Proceedings (Thessaloniki: HMS, 2016), p. 266-273 (in Greek) [Digital Offprint]

  • «Approaches of the Greek antiquity in the operatic works by septinsular composers», Greekness and Otherness: Cultural mediations and 'national character' in 19th century, Organized by the Department of Theatre Studies of the Anthens University and the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research  Foundation (Athens, National Hellenic Research  Foundation, 14-17.5.2015), published in the Conference's Proceedings. Edited by Anna Tambaki and Ourania Polykandrioti, vol. II, (Athens, 2016), pp. 41-56 (in Greek) [Digital Offprint]

  • «Of Odes, Anthems and Battle Songs; Creating citizens through music in Greece during the ‘long nineteenth century’», Music, language and identity in modern Greece, Organized by British School in Athens, Athens Conservatory, King's College London (Athens, 8-10.5.2015), published in Polina Tambakaki, Panos Vlagopoulos, Katerina Levidou, Roderick Beaton (επιμ.), Music, language and identity in modern Greece, σειρά ‘Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London’ (London: Routledge, 2019), 63-74

  • «La Scuola Ionica di musica. Nikolaos Mantzaros, Pavlos Karrer, Spiros Samaras», "Sette note dalla Grecia". Musiche e compositori delle Isole Ionie a Milano nell’Ottocento. Nikolaos Mantzaros, Pavlos Karrer, Spiros Samaras, Conservatorio di Milano "Giuseppe Verdi", 17.3.2015 (Organized by: University of Milan, Conservatorio di Milano "Giuseppe Verdi", General Consulate of Greece)

  • «‘The cultivation of secular music would have been of great importance’: Ionian Academy and music», paper in the colloquium for the 190 years since the Academy's foundation organized by the History Department of the Ionian University (Corfu, 10/12/2014), published in Grigoris Psallidas (ed.), Ionian Academy: 190 since its Foundation. The historical framework (Corfu: Ionian University-History Department / Ionian Society for Historic Studies, 2019), p. 231-242

  • «‘They are my instruments the Council, the Police, the Lord High Commissioner and the Senate’: A ‘parliamentary candidate’ criticises  the pre-Unification and post-Unification Corfu», paper in the 10th International Panionian Conference (Corfu, 30/4-4/5/2014), Published in in the Conferences Proceedings, Kerkyraika Chronika, vol. 12 (2018), p. 155-166.

  • «Wind bands as  vehicles for art music's dissemination in Greece: some questions and matters of methodology», paper presented in the colloquium The reception of art music in Greece (Organized by the Music Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki State Conservatory, 11 April 2014), as part of the 10th Circle of the Hellenic Music Feasts, to be published

  • «Spyridon Xindas (Spiro Xinda), Leonidas Alvanas and some thoughts regarding the art song in Ionian Islands», paper in the colloquium Greek Song: historical, social and artistic dimensions (Organized by the Athens State Orchestra and the Music Library of Greece ‘Lilian Voudouri’) Athens, The Athens Concert Hall, 22 and  23 May 2013, as part of the 9th Circle of the Hellenic Music Feasts. Published in Polyphonia 23, p. 133-143.

  • «“Aria in idioma Greco” or Pending the Greek-speaking singers», paper presented in the International Conference entitled The National Element in Music (Athens, 18-20 January 2013, organized by the Faculty of Music of the Athens University and the Music Library of Greece 'Lilian Voudouri'). Published in the Conference's Proceedings (available on line through the website of the Athens University Music Department, p. 126-134) (in English)

  • «That music is only an artistic combination of sonorous waves may be true, but there is no reason why these waves should be let loose in deafening tempests: Music in Jules Verne's works», in the conference Music and Language (Athens, National and Capodistrian University of Athens-Music Department, 23-24 November 2012), to be published (in Greek)

  • «The quest for  ‘national music’ in the nineteenth-century Ionian Islands», keynote speech in the conference entitled Greek music creation: Identities and historic reminiscences (Nicosia, European Univeristy of Cyprus, 15-17 November 2012), to be published

  • «Dionyssios Rodotheatos, Oitona (1876): A gaelic legend in Corfu», Interdepartmental colloquium entitled Ancient myths and music creation (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – Tellogleio Art Institute, 21 and 22 October 2012). Published in the Conference's Proceedings (available on line through the website of the Hellenic Musicological Society, p. 83-96) (in Greek)

  • «A Scot bard in the European South: Dionisios Rodotheatos’s opera Oitona (1876)», in the 17th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music (Edinburgh, The University of Edinburgh, 27-30/6/2012), to be published (in English)
  • «Music representations of place and people: The case of the Ionian Islands»,  In memory of Evi Olympitou, Colloquium: «Local communities in the coastal and mountainous regions in southern Balkans, 18th-19th centuries», Corfu, Ionian University-Department of History, 24-26 May 2012, to be published (in Greek)
  • «Lorentzos Mavilis (Lorenzo Mabili) and music», in the conference Lorentzos Mavilis. 100 years since his death (Corfu, Corfu Studies Society, 28-29/4/2012), published in the Conference's Proceedings, The Corfu Chronicles II-6  (Corfu: Society for Corfu Studies, 2012), 23-40 (in Greek).
  • «Aspects of female pianism in the 19th-century Ionian Islands», in the conference Aspects of Music Historiography (Athens, Athens University-Music Department and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki-Music Department, Central Bulding of Athens University, 15 and 16 December 2011). Published in Moussikologia 21, p. 333-348 and extended version in Ionika Analekta 3 (2013), 65-81. (in Greek)
  • «“A consideration on the power of Music”. Ionian Islands and music during late 18th century.», in 13th International Congress for Eighteenth Century Studies, Graz, Austria, 25-29 July 2011 (in English)
  • «Ionian (Septinsular) composers and Classical Antiquity: Revisiting the past or legitimising the present?», in Crossroads: Greece as an intercultural pole of musical thought and creativity, Thessaloniki, 6-10 June 2011 (Organized by the Music Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and International Musicological Society). Published in the Conference's Proceedings (available on line through the website of the Music Department of A.U.Th.), p. 453-463 (in English)
  • «The birth of 'Greek national music' in 19th-century Ionian Islands», paper in the 16th Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music (Southampton, University of Southampton, 8-11/7/2010), to be published (in English)
  • «The Ionian musical identities: remarks and revisions through recent research», Paper in the IX International Panionian Conference (Paxos, 26–30/5/2010),  published in the Proceedings of the Conference (Paxos: Society for Paxian Studies, 2014), vol. 2, p. 231-261 (in Greek)
  • «New information for the operatic activities of San Giacomo theatre between 1799 and 1823», paper in the conference Ionian Opera and Music Theatre until 1953, Anthens Megaron Concert Hall, 23–24/4/2010 (Athens Megaron, Athens State Orchestra, Department of Theatre Studies / University of Athens), published in the Proceedings of the conference, available online by the Department of Theatre Studies of the Athens University, p. 42-53 (in Greek)
  • «Giuseppe Mazzini's Filosofia della Musica», paper in the conference The thought of the artists (Corfu, Society of Corfu Studies,  6-7/11/2009), to be published (in Greek)
  • «Challenging the canon; Towards a history of neo-hellenic music», paper in the Joint Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association and the Society of Musicology in Ireland (Dublin, 9-12/7/2009) (in English)
  • «The band before the band: Some thoughts on the early wind ensembles in Ionian Islands», The culture of Ionian Islands yesterday and today (Argostoli, 11-14/12/2008), published in the Proceedings of the conference (Argostoli, Municipality of Argostoli, 2009), volume I, 100-107 (in Greek)
  • «Schubert, Liszt, Mantzaros: Three 19th-century composers set to music petrarchian poetry», paper in the conference With poetry as datum... (Corfu, Corfu Studies Society, 7–9/11/2008) (in Greek). Published in Porfyras 140 (July-September 2011), 135-148
  • «Music education in the Ionian Islands during the British Protection (1814-1864)», paper in the colloquium Music in the schools of Greece: From the past to the future (Athens, Athens School of Fine Arts, 9/6/2007), to be published (in Greek)
  • «The musical theatre and the revolutionary fêtes in Corfu during the period of Republican French (1797-1799)», paper in the colloquium Hellenic Music and France (Athens, French Institute of Athens, 24/2/2007), to be published (in Greek)
  • «The principles of the Μantzarian settings' technique», paper in the conference Solomos–Mantzaros–Polylas (Corfu, Society of Corfiot Studies, 10–12 November 2006), published in the Conference's Proceedings, The Corfu Chronicles II-5  (Corfu: Society for Corfu Studies, 2010), 157-169 (in Greek). 
  • «Ionian musical repertoire: The case of the music archive of Philharmonic Society of Corfu», paper in the conference Sources of Ionian Philology (1500–1940) (Argostoli, Society of Cephalonian Historical Studies, 28–30/10/2006), published in the Proceedings of the Conference (Argostoli, Society of Cephalonian Historical Studies, 2008), 715–727 (in Greek)
  • «Un Italiano in Corcira: Severiano Fogacci’s music-related activities during his exile in Corfù (1831-1846)», paper in the XIII Covegno Annuale di Società Italiana di Musicologia (Torino, 20–22/10/2006), published in the online version of the journal Moussikos Loghos (Fall 2012), http://m-logos.gr/issues/i0000/ (in English)
  • «Philharmonic Society of Corfu: An overview of its history and perspectives», Paper in the VIII International Panionian Conference (Kythira, 21–25/5/2006), published in the Proceedings of the Conference (Kythira, Society of Kyhterean Studies, 2009), vol.  IVa, 335-355 (in Greek)
  • «Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Ionian Islands», paper in the colloquium on W.A. Mozart organised by the Technological Institution of the Ionian Islands, Lixouri, Cephalonia (17/5/2006), to be published (in Greek)
  • «The folkloric element in the opera The Paliamentary Candidate by Spiridon Xindas», paper in the Conference Aspects of Hellenism in Music, Athens Megaron Concert Hall, 5–7/5/2006 (Athens Megaron, Athens State Orchestra, Ionian University-Hellenic Music Research Lab), to be published (in Greek)
  • «“Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù”: an overview of its significance for the Greek ottocento» paper in the XI Convegno Annuale di Società Italiana di Musicologia (Lecce, 22–24/10/ 2004), published in the Donizetti Society Newsletter 99 (October 2006), as well as in the  site of the aforementioned  Society. (in English)
  • «Mantzaros and the British», common presentation with Prof. Haris Xanthoudakis in the conference The Unification of the Ionian Islands with Greece 1864–2004 (Athens, Academy of Athens / University of Athens, 24–27/2/2004), volume 2 of the proceedings, 331–338 (in Greek)
  • «Greece and symphonism: the case of Dionysios Rodotheatos through his symphonic poem Atalia (for wind orchestra), 1879» paper in the international conference Romanticism and Nationalism in Music (Corfu, 17–20/10/2003), in English. Updated and extended publication in Six essays for the Corfu Philharmonic Society, in the "Publications of the Music Museum 'Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros'" (Corfu, Corfu Philharmonic Society, 2010), 111-126 

Articles

  • «Experiencing the past and encountering the future; Music, War and Politics in Corfu (1916-1919)», Eptanisos Politeia 1/2023 (Online journal of the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpretation of the Ionian University). See: https://lhciilab.wixsite.com/ioniolab/δημοσιεύσεις
  • «The poet of the Arie Greche. Regarding the setting to music of Greek poetry during the early 19th century», The Athens Review of Books 117 (May 2020), 45-48, co-authored with Nasos Vayenas. Detailed version in Neohellenic Music: Matters of history and historiography. On the occasion of the 50 years since the death of Spiros Motsenigos (Corfu: Ionian University-Music Department-Hellenic Music Research Lab / Corfu Philharmonic Society, 2021), 112-122.
  • «Spiros Samaras , a ‘regular freemason’», Neos Moussikos Ellinomnemon 1 (September-December 2018), 31-42
  • «Spiros Samaras' interventions regarding the musical matters of Greece (1888-1909)», Polyphonia 30 (Spring 2017), 108-138 (in Greek)
  • «On the occasion of an 1818 contract from Corfu's  San Giacomo theatre», Ionika Analekta 6 (2016), 57-74 (in Greek)
  • «Regarding the foundation of the Corfu Philharmonic Society: Urban legends and historical facts», Moussikos Ellinomnemon 21-22 (May-December 2015), 12-27 (in Greek)
  • «"The music of the Philharmonic was coming on a boat": Music and politics in the 1850 Corfu», Moussikos Ellinomnemon 18-19 (May-December 2014), 3-23 (in Greek)
  • «"The artists are not willing anymore to obey these wise advices": An unknown aspect of the reception of Verdi's operas in the Ionian Islands», Ionika Analekta 4 (2014), 36-46 (in Greek)
  • «Corfu, San Giacomo theatre, 4 April 1848: A 'civic dinner', five operas, three anthems and five toasts», Moussikos Ellinomnemon 17 (January-April  2014), 10-15 (in Greek)
  • «The folkloric element in the opera The Paliamentary Candidate by Spiro (Spiridione) Xinda» Polyphonia 22 (Άνοιξη 2013), 7-34 (in Greek)
  • «Anna Winter by Spiro (Spiridione) Xinda: The earliest operatic adaptation of Alexander Dumas's The Three Musketeers», Moussikos Ellinomnemon 12 (May-August 2012), 13-32 (in Greek)
  • «Two reviews by Schumann for Camille Stamaty», Moussikos Ellinomnemon 10 (September-December 2011), 3-10 (in Greek)
  • «From popular to esoteric: Nikolaos Mantzaros and the development of his career as composer», Nineteenth-Century Music Review 8 (2011), 101-126 (in English)
  • «Franck Choisy for Camille Stamaty», Moussikos Ellinomnemon 8 (January-April 2011), 7-14  (in Greek)
  • «Recent findings regarding Kalvos's arrival in Corfu and his early professorship in the Ionian Academy», joined article with Theodosis Pylarinos, Eptanissiaka Fylla 29, 3-4 (Winter 2009), 301-317 (in Greek)
  • «New information regarding Ioannes Aristides and the teaching of music in the Ionian Academy», Moussikos Ellinomnemon 4 (September-December 2009), 4-19 (in Greek)
  • «The arrival of Andreas Kalvos in Corfu», joined article with Theodosis Pylarinos, Mikrofilologika 25 (Spring 2009), 18-21 (in Greek)
  • «Musical echoes of the French Revolution in the Ionian Islands», Ο Eranistes 26 (2007), 79–104 [published in January 2009] (in Greek)
  • «'The collection that this Mr. Berggreen wants to compile...': A Dane records the music of Greece», Moussikos Ellinomnemon 2 (January–April 2009), 3–11 (in Greek)
  • «Dionyssios Rodotheatos [Dionisio Rodoteato] and his symphonic works», Moussikos Ellinomnemon 1 (September–December 2008), 18–23 (in Greek)
  • «The Parliamentary Candidate by Spiridon Xindas: an attempt of reproach», Annals of Aesthetics 43 / 2005–2006, 121–129 (in Greek)
  • «An unknown obituary by Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros (Niccolo Calichiopulo Manzaro) for Antonio Liberali», Moussikos Loghos 7 (Summer 2006), 95–136 (in Greek)
  • N.H. Mantzaros, Madrigale primo, Kostas Kardamis (ed.), Moussikos Loghos 7 (Summer 2006), 137–140 (in Greek)
  • «‘…despite having financial difficulties…’ the economical problems of the Mantzaros family through period sources and its consequences», Moussikos Loghos 5 (Summer 2003), 12–26 (in Greek)
  • «The San Giacomo theatre of Corfu in 1815: Its cultural activities and its sociopolitical significance during the transition from the Imperial French to the British Protection», Moussikos Loghos 3 (Fall 2001), 13–26 (in Greek)
  • «The twenty-one songs by Leonidas Albanas in the General State Archives of Corfu», published in the website of the Hellenic Music Research Lab (in Greek)

Participation in collective volumes - Editorial Activities

  • «"A lei soltanto prima di morire vorrei affidare la bella Scuola di Napoli": Nicola Zingarelli and Nikolaos Mantzaros», in: Paolo Sullo, Giovanna Carugno (eds.), Nicola Zingarelli: Il maestro, il compositore e il suo tempo, (Napoli: Editoriale Scientifica, 2023), 411-453 (text co-authored with Dr. Dimitris Brovas)
  • A History of Music in Modern Greece (Athens: The Athens Conservatory, 2022-), Texts and Co-editor with Haris Xantudakis, Panos Vlagopoulos and Stella Kourbana.
  • «The music education in the Ionian Islands: A route of continuities and abruptions», in Petros D. Aggelopoulos (ed.), The School in the Ionian Islands, 1864-2021 (Corfu, Regional  Directorate of Primary and Secondary Education of Ionian Islands, 2021), 303-315
  • Neohellenic Music: Matters of history and historiography. On the occasion of the 50 years since the death of Spiros Motsenigos (Corfu: Ionian University-Music Department-Hellenic Music Research Lab / Corfu Philharmonic Society, 2021) [Editor]
  • The wind band in Greece. History and Perspectivs (Corfu: Ionian University-Music Department-Hellenic Music Research Lab / Corfu Philharmonic Society, 2020) [Editor]
  • «Orientalism in the Ionian Islands’ music», in Reihard Strohm (ed.), The Music Road. Coherence and Diversity in Music from the Mediterranean to India, “Proceedings of the British Academy” (London: The British Academy, 2019), 296-317
  • «Odes, Anthems and Battle Songs; Creating citizens through music in Greece during the ‘long nineteenth century’», in Polina Tambakaki, Panos Vlagopoulos, Katerina Levidou, Roderick Beaton (eds.), Music, language and identity in modern Greece, series ‘Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London’ (London: Routledge, 2019), 63-74
  • «Music in Ionian Islands»,Theodoros G. Pappas (ed), The Ionian Islands History Textbook (Corfu: Prefecture of Ionian Islands, 2019), 287-314 (in Greek)
  • «Domenikos Padovàs: a “lesser” of an anniversary», in Opera and the Greek World during the Nineteenth Century (Corfu: Ionian University-Music Department-Hellenic Music Research Lab / Corfu Philharmonic Society, 2019), 105-118 (in English)
  • «Mantzaros, Nikolaos Halikiopoulos» in the online publication of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG), <www.mgg-online.com>. Uploaded: October 2018
  • «Spiros Samaras ‘a regular freemason’», Pages of History and Culture (Corfu: Ionian Society for Historic Studies, 2018), 65-77 (in Greek)
  • «Music Migrations and Creative Assimilations: The Ionian Islands», in Franco Sciannameo (ed.), Musicians' Migratory Patterns: The Adriatic Coasts (CMS Cultural Expressions in Music) (New York: Routledge, 2017), 23-40
  • Spyridon Xindas /Ioannis Rinopoulos, The Parliamentary Candidate. Special Edition for the 150 years since its premiere (1867-2017), Essays-Libretto-Vocal Score, (Corfu: Corfu Philharmonic Society, 2017)[General Editor]
  • «The Parliamentary Candidate: The turbulent history of the first Greek opera», in Spyridon Xindas /Ioannis Rinopoulos, The Parliamentary Candidate. Special Edition for the 150 years since its premiere (1867-2017) (Corfu: Corfu Philharmonic Society, 2017), xxxiv-xliii (in English)
  • «Giuditta Triumphans and the siege of Corfu», in 1716. The siege of Corfu (Corfu: Friends of the Foundation «Memory Albert Cohen» of Corfu, 2016), 54-60
  • «The music of the Ionian Islands and its contribution to the emergence of "Greek National Music"», Anthony Hirst, Patrick Sammon (eds.), The Ionian Islands. Aspects of their History and Culture (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), 340-366 (in English)
  • Contributions for the online version of The New Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians ( Oxford University Press). Entries titles: «Angri [D’Angri], Elena», «Anthis, Sokratis», «Doukakēs, Spyridon», «Greece, IV: Under Eastern and Western Rulers, 2. Under Western rulers, ii. The Ionian Islands», «Grek, Alexandros Konstantinos», «Ionian Islands», «Liberalēs [Liberalis, Liveralis], Iossif», «Mantzaros, Nikolaos Halikiopoulos», «Metaxas, Nikolaos Tzannis [Tzanēs]», «Mourikis, Spyros », «Padovanēs [Padovanis, Padovani, Padovas], Domenikos», «Rompotēs, Gerasimos», «Xyndas [Xyntas, Xinda(s), Xinta(s)], Spyridon».
  • Spyridon-Filiskos Samaras. An homage for the 150 years since his birth in the series «Publications of the Music Museum 'Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros'» (Corfu: Corfu Philharmonic Society, 2011), ISBN: 978-960-99715-1-5 [Editor] (in Greek and partly in English)
  • «Spiros Samaras [Spiro Samara] and the Corfu Philharmonic Society», Spyridon-Filiskos Samaras. An homage for the 150 years since his birth in the series «Publications of the Music Museum 'Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros'» (Corfu, Corfu Philharmonic Society, 2011), 80-113
  • Philharmonic Society of Skripero 1909-2009: A centenary (Corfu, 2009) [Texts - Edited] (in Greek)
  • «The music in the research activities of Gerasimos Hytiris», Omage to Gerasimos Th. Hytiris, editied by Theodosis Pylarinos (Corfu, Corfu Reading Society, 2008), 165–180 (in Greek)
  • «The music of Ionian Islands» in Ionian Islands: History and Culture (Athens, Region of Ionian Islands, 2007), 186-203 and 356-365 (in Greek and English)
  • «Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros: some interesting findings in the British Library», in Haris Xanthoudakis, Kostas Kardamis (eds.), Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros: a contribution for the 130 years from the composer's passing (Corfu, Ionian University-Music Department, 2003), 113–127 (in Greek)

Programme and cd notes (selected titles)

  • Programma notes for the anniversary concert of the Athens State Orchestra Mantzaros +1 (Athens, 25.2.2022)
  • Programme notes for the revival of Alexandros Grek operetta Myriella (Corfu, 6-8.12.2019. Produced by the Corfu Philharmonic Society)

  • DVD booklet for the opera by Spiridon Xyndas and Ioannis Rinopoulos The Parliamentary Candidate (Corfu: Corfu Philharmonic Society, December 2018).

  • «1867-2017: Α 'Parliamentary Candidate' reveals the Greek society», in the programme of the opera The Palriamentary Candidate (Corfu, Municipal Theatre, 5.11.2017. Revival of the opera in its uncut version)

  • «Between Rossini and Romanticism», in the programme of the opera L'elisir d'amore by G. Donizetti (Athens, Greek National Opera, Season 2011-2012), 29-34 (in Greek)

  • «Music by nineteenth-century Greek composers; A note regarding the discography», Nineteenth-Century Music Review 8 (2011), 147-149
  • «Manzaro and his 'azione comica' Don Crepuscolo», in CD Georg Friedrich Haendel, Alessando Severo / Niccolo Manzaro, Don Crepuscolo (MDG, LC06768, 2011), 29-33
  • «Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros» and «Domenikos Padovas», in the programme of the Six Circle of Hellenic Music Feasts (Athens, 23–30/4/2010)
  • «Rossini, the opera La cambiale di matrimonio and the italian operatic scene of early 19th century», in the programme of the production of G. Rossini's  La cambiale di matrimonio in Corfu as part of the EU Intereg IIIa project La bottega delle voci (Municipal Theatre of Corfu, 12 and 13/4/2008), (in Greek)
  • «Mantzaros and his Solomos's settings», Concert with poems by Dionisios Solomos set to music by Mantzaros, organized by the Academy of Athens honouring the 150 from the poets passing (Athens, 4/12/2007, Eastern Hall of Academy of Athens) (in Greek)
  • Melos Brass: Music for Brass  (Melos Brass, Summer 2006) (in Greek and English)
  • «The music of Cavalleria Rusticana: Combining novelty with tradition», in the programme of the production of P. Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana in Athens Megaron Music Hall (November 2004), 31–35 (in Greek)
  • «Symphonic music ΙΙ: Symphonic music in Greece in 19th and 20th centuries», in the booklet of the 12-CD production of the Cultural Olympiad Music by 19th and 20th century Greek composers (Spring 2004), 48–52, (in Greek and English)
  • «Tradition, exoticism and the modern: the music of Turandot», in the programme of the production of G. Puccini's Turandot in Athens Megaron Music Hall (April 2003), 31–35 (in Greek)

Periodicals (selected titles)

  • «From “stromenti marziali” to the bands of the Ionian philharmonic associations: Elements of the creation of a “given music tradition”», Portoni 7 (Christmas 2018), 5-11
  • «Camille Stamaty: The early years of a famous 19th-century pianist», History Illustrated 560 (February 2015), 97-111
  • «Manolis Kalomiris, folkorism in music and the quest for "national music" in Greece until the eve of the 20th century», History Illustrated  539 (May 2013), 95–107 (in Greek)
  • «Spyros Samaras [Spiro Samara] (1861-1917). From the international acknowledgement towards the Greek  "stuffy atmosphere"», History Illustrated 524 (February 2012), 97–105 (in Greek)
  • «Dimitris Mitropoulos and 'New Music' in interwar Athens», History Illustrated 509 (November 2010), 72–86 (in Greek)
  • «Isaakios Argyropulos (Isacco Argiropulo): A Greek organist in Renaissance Europe», History Illustrated 506 (August  2010), 90-95 (in English)
  • «British Regimental Bands: A Corfu connection (1814-1864)», The Brass Herald 31 (December 2009-January 2010), 54-55 (in English)
  • «Manos Hadjidakis and rebetiko: An attempt of re-evaluation», History Illustrated 498 (December 2009), 90-102 (in Greek)

  • «Demetrios Lalas: The Macedonian assistant of Richard Wagner», History Illustrated 485 (November 2008), 74–84 (in Greek)

  • «Aegean Sea and Music», History Illustrated 481 (July 2008), 88–97 (in Greek)

  • «Giovanni Battista Verger: His unknown performances in the Ionian Islands», History Illustrated 480 (June 2008), 69–72 (in Greek)

  • «The centenary of Spiro Samaras's Rhea», History Illustrated 478 (April 2008), 56–62 (in Greek)

  • «Three concerts of the Rombotis's School», Bulletin of the Hellenic Music Research Lab 7 (July–September 2007), 10–13 (in Greek)

  • «... lessons on the Cornett a Piston»: An announcement in the Gazzetta Uffiziale of the Ionian Islands», Bulletin of the Hellenic Music Research Lab 5 (January–March 2007), 13–14 (in Greek)

  • «Some thoughts on the "prehistory" of wind bands in the Ionian Islands», Bulletin of the Hellenic Music Research Lab 3 (July–September 2006), 6–7 (in Greek)
  • «Idomeneo and Greece», in 250 years Mozart: The birthday of a musical genius, special edition of the newspaper To Vima tis Kyriakis (29/1/2006), 11 (in Greek)
  • «The Petrides brothers», To Vima tis Kyriakis, special edition «To allo Vima» (17/12/2000), 7–8 (in Greek)

Lectures and other publications

  • «2023: Anniversaries of Freedom», inaugural speech of the «Year of the "Hymn to the Liberty (1823-2023)" (Organized by the Museum of Solomos and Eminent Zakynthians, Zakynthos, 26.3.2023).
  • Texts for the album The bands of Corfu. Music in the street (Athens: Organization of Corfiote Festivities, Kaleidoscope, 2019) [ISBN: 978-960-471-191-8] (in Greek and English)
  • «Domenikos Padovas: an unknown Corfu composer of the European 19th Century», ecture for the 2017 anniversaries honoured by the Corfu Philharmonic Society (Corfu Philharmonic Society,, 24/1/2018.
  • «Spiros Samaras and Greece», lecture being part of the anniversary of Samaras organized by the NGO «Ideotopos» and the Athens Conservatory (Athens, 15/12/2017).
  • «Α 'popularly unknown' Greek opera; The Parliamentary Candidate by Spyridon Xyndas», lecture for the 2017 anniversaries honoured by the Corfu Philharmonic Society (Corfu Philharmonic Society, 26/4/2017)
  • «Regarding the foundation of the Corfu Philharmonic Society: Urban legends and historical facts», lecture for the triple anniversary of  the 175 years since the Society's foundation, the 150 years since the adoption of the Greek National Anthem and the 200 years since the earliest performance of works by Nikolaos Mantzaros. Corfu Philharmonic Society, 11/9/2015.
  • «Prerequisites of Greekness in the music of Ionian Islands during 19th century. Three succesive, extravert and supplementary ways», Feasts of Speech and Art of Lefkada (Auditorium of the Lefkada Municipality's Cultural Centre, 8/8/2014), published in Cultural manifestations of the Ionian identity 17th-20th century. An homage to the 150 years since the Unification, 1864-2014. Proceedings of thw XIV Colloquia (Athens: Society of Lefkadian Studies, 2015), 73-84 (in Greek)
  • «The wind band in the Ionian Islands and the Philharmonic Society of Lefkada», Feasts of Speech and Art of Lefkada (Auditorium of the Lefkada Municipality's Cultural Centre, 11/8/2012), published in Modern Artist of Lefkada: Proceedining of thw XVI, XVII, XVIII Colloquia (Athens: Society of Lefkadian Studies, 2015), 243-262 (in Greek)
  • «Spyros Samaras [Spiro Samara]: Unknown biographical information and compositions of a Corfiot composer», lecture in the Corfu Philharmonic Society, 30/11/2011, as part of the Society's activities for the anniversary of the 150 years since the composers birth.
  • «Dionysios Solomos and the Corfu Philharmonic Society», lecture in Corfu Studies Society (Corfu, 12/6/2010)
  • «Music in the Ionian Islands», lecture in the seminar The History and Culture of the Ionian Islands (Corfu, The Durrell School of Corfu, 16-21/5/2010)
  • «Dimitri Mitropoulos and avante garde music in interwar Athens», lecture in Corfu Philharmonic Society, 28/04/2010
  • «The music relations between German speaking countries and Greek art music» and «The development of opera in Greece»: lectures-seminars in Hochschule fuer Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, Institut fuer Musikwissenschaft as part of the Erasmus-LLP propramme (16-21/11/2009)
  • «Mantzaros, Padovanis, Rodotheatos: Three Septinsular composers in the 'Old Philharmonic'», lecture in the Philharmonic Society of Corfu (25/02/2009)
  • «The tuition of the History of Music in the university and the school», lecture in the annual colloquium of the Music Department's Graduates (Corfu, Ionian Academy, 13/5/2007)
  • «The use of Solomos's poetry as a tuition tool», in the seminar In order to know Solomos (Corfu, Solomos's Museum, 28/4/2007)
  • «The death of Dionisios Solomos and the Philharmonic Society of Corfu», lecture in the Society of Corfiot Studies for the 150 years from the poet's passing (21/2/2007), to be published (in Greek)
  • «The opera Il ciarlatano preso per principe by Domenikos Padovanis (Domenico Padovani): an initial approach», lecture in the musicological circle Milestones of Neohellenic Art Music (Athens Megaron Music Hall / «The Friends of Music» Association / Music Library of Greece «Lilian Voudouris»), Athens, 15/3/2005
  • «Mantzaros and the fugue», lecture in the 3rd Summer Music Academy (Corfu, July 2005)
  • Philharmonic Society of Corfu: History – List of Archival Exhibits, report for the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Group (December 2004), (in Greek)
  • «Musicological research and Neohellenic Music: a historical overview, prerequisites, prospects», in the colloquium After graduation  (Corfu, Ionian Academy, 8/5/2004)
  • The Kessaris Archive of the Philharmonic Society of Corfu, research charged and supported by the PSC (Corfu, 2004), (in Greek)