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Department of Music Studies

AIKATERINI LEVIDOU

AIKATERINI (EKATERINI/KATERINA) LEVIDOU

Assistant Professor of Historical Musicology

Sector: Historical and Systematic Musicology

email: alevidou@music.uoa.gr

 

STUDIES

  • Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Music (University of Oxford, Faculty of Music & St Antony’s College, 2009)
  • Master of Music (MMus) (King’s College, University of London, 2003)
  • Ptychio in Music Studies-Integrated Master (Department of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2001)
  • Piano diploma (National Conservatory, 2001)
  • Counterpoint degree (National Conservatory, 2000)
  • Harmony degree (National Conservatory, 1997)

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2021-present)
  • Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Hellenic Studies, Department of Classics, King’s College London (2020-present)
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow, Centre for Hellenic Studies, Department of Classics, King’s College London (2018-2020)
  • Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London (2014 -2018)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Ethnomusicology and Cultural Anthropology Lab, University of Athens (Research Project Aristeia II: ‘Western Art Music at the Time of Crisis: An Interdisciplinary Study of Contemporary Greek Culture and European Integration’ – WestArtMus-4342) (2014-2015)
  • External Scientific Collaborator, Department of Art History (Musicology), University of Lausanne (2012-2013)
  • Swiss Federal Scholar, Department of Art History (Musicology), University of Lausanne (2011-2012)
  • Junior Research Fellow in Music, Christ Church, Oxford University (2007-2011)

 

TEACHING

Winter semester

  • Special Issues in Historical Musicology: Russian Music (M270)

Spring Semester

  • History of Greek Art Music (ΜΣ 39)
  • Seminar: Igor Stravinsky (Μ271)

 

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

  • Katerina Levidou, Dokimia istorikis mousikologias: Opseis tēs ellēnikēs kai tēs rōsikēs entehnēs mousikēs (Essays in Historical Musicology: Aspects of Greek and Russian Art Music) (Athens: Edition ORPHEUS, 2020).
  • Polina Tambakaki, Panos Vlagopoulos, Katerina Levidou and Roderick Beaton (eds), Music, Language and Identity in Greece: Defining a National Art Music in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (London: Routledge, 2020).
  • Katerina Levidou, Katy Romanou and George Vlastos (eds), Musical Receptions of Greek Antiquity: From the Romantic Era to Modernism (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016).
  • Katerina Levidou and George Vlastos (eds), Revisiting the Past Recasting the Present: The Reception of Greek Antiquity in Music, 19th Century to the Present. Conference Proceedings (Athens: Hellenic Music Centre, 2013). https://hellenicmusiccentre.com/index.php?id_product=32&controller=product&id_lang=1

BOOK CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES

  • Katerina Levidou, ‘Sounding the Greek Revolution: Music and the Greek War of Independence’, in Paschalis Kitromilides and Constantinos Tsoukalas (eds), The Greek Revolution: A Critical Dictionary (Cambridge M.A.: Harvard University Press, 2021), 659-667. Greek version in ΚριτικόΛεξικότηςΕλληνικήςΕπανάστασης (Iraklio: Crete University Press, 2021).
  • Katerina Levidou, ‘Music from the Gods: Stravinsky and Greek Antiquity’, in Graham Griffiths (ed.), Stravinsky in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 213-221.
  • Katerina Levidou, ‘Petros Petridis, Music and Politics: Writings of the Great War’, in Alexandros Charkiolakis et al. (eds), The Birth of Contemporary Europe: World War I, Music and the Arts (Athens: National Documentation Centre – submitted).
  • Katerina Levidou, ‘A Museum of “Greekness”: Skalkottas's 36 Greek Dances as a Record of his Homeland and Time’, in Roderick Beaton, Katerina Levidou, Polina Tambakaki, and Panos Vlagopoulos (eds), Music, Language and Identity in Greece: Defining a National Art Music in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (London: Routledge, 2019), 178-195.
  • Katerina Levidou, ‘Feasts in Time of “Plague”: Festivals of Western Art Music in Greece during the Crisis’, in Dimitris Tziovas (ed.), Greece in Crisis: The Cultural Politics of Austerity (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017), 180-197.
  • Katerina Levidou, ‘A Dionysiac Angel: Nietzschean Elements in Prokofiev’s Ognennii angel’, in Katerina Levidou, Katy Romanou, and George Vlastos (eds), Musical Receptions of Greek Antiquity: From the Romantic Era to Modernism (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016), 296-317.
  • Katerina Levidou, ‘Epiviōnontas stēn krisē: Therina festival entechnēs dytikēs mousikēs stē sygchronē Ellada (Surviving the Crisis: Summer Festivals of Western Art Music in Contemporary Greece)’, Polyphōnia, 26 (spring 2015), 124-155.
  • Katerina Levidou and Georgia Vavva, ‘Parartēma: Festival me entechnē dytikē mousikē stēn Ellada, 2008-sēmera (endeiktikos katalogos) (Appendix: Festivals with Western Art Music in Greece, 2008-present (indicative list)’, Polyphōnia, 26 (spring 2015), 224-245.
  • Katerina Levidou, ‘A Dubious Mission: Skalkottas’s Vision of Truly Greek Music and his 36 Greek Dances’, in Nikos Maliaras (ed.), The National Element in Music. International Musicological Conference, Athens (Megaron-The Athens Concert Hall) 18-20 January 2013. Conference Proceedings. (Athens: University of Athens, 2014), 255-66. http://nem2013.music.uoa.gr/NEMproc2013.pdf
  • Katerina Levidou, ‘Eurasianism in Perspective: Suvchinsky, Lourié and the Silver Age’, in Christoph Flamm, Henry Keazor, and Roland Marti (eds), Russian Émigré Culture: Conservatism or Evolution? (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), 203-227.
  • Katerina Levidou, ‘Between the National and the Universal: Music as a Uniting Force in Interwar “Russia Abroad”’, in Philip Ross Bullock et al. (eds), Loyalties, Solidarities and Identities in Russian Society, History and Culture (London: School of Slavonic and East European Studies UCL, 2013), 181-200.
  • Katerina Levidou, ‘Aforismoi stē mousikologia: Skepseis peri istoriko-politismikēs plaisiōsēs me aformē ton Igor Stravinsky (Aphorisms in Musicology: Reflections on Historical-cultural Contextualisation Taking the Case of Igor Stravinsky as a Starting Point)’, Musicology: Review of Theory and Praxis of Music, 21 (2013), 300-312.
  • Katerina Levidou, ‘Rethinking “Greekness” in Art Music’, in Evi Nika-Samson, George Sakallieros, Maria Alexandru, George Kitsios, Emmanouil Giannopoulos (eds.), Proceedings of the International Musicological Conference Crossroads: Greece as an International Pole of Musical Thought and Creativity (Thessaloniki: School of Music Studies - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2013), 503-513. http://crossroads.mus.auth.gr/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/CROSSROADS_PROCEEDINGS.pdf
  • Katerina Levidou, ‘Arthur Lourié and his Conception of Revolution’, Muzikologija: Journal of the Institute of Musicology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 13 (2012), 79-100. http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-9814/2012/1450-98141200013L.pdf
  • Katerina Levidou, ‘The Artist-Genius in Petr Suvchinskii’s Eurasianist Philosophy of History: The Case of Igorʹ Stravinskii’, Slavonic and East European Review, 89/4 (October 2011), 601-629.
  • Katerina Levidou, ‘The Twentieth Century: Un siècle de musique … russe?’, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 136/1 (spring 2011), 181-193.
  • Katerina Levidou, ‘To tetradio mousikōn skitsōn sto mikroskopio tou analytē: ē periptōsē tou Oedipus rex tou Stravinsky (The Musical Sketchbook under the Analyst’s Microscope: The Case of Stravinsky’s Oedipus rex)’, in Kōstas Tsougkras (ed.), Mousikē theōria kai analysē – Methodologia kai praxē. Praktika Synedriou(Music Theory and Analysis – Methodology and Praxis. Conference Proceedings) (Thermi: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2006), 273-281.
  • Katerina Levidou, ‘Ē Ierotelestia tēs Anoiksēs kai ē rōsikē paradosē (The Rite of Spring and the Russian Tradition)’, Polyphonia, 3 (autumn 2003), 52-69.
  • Katerina Levidou, ‘Dyo Ellēnikoi Choroi tou Nikou Skalkōta (Two Greek Dances by Nikos Skalkottas)’, Polyphonia, 1 (autumn 2002), 49-79.

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Klára Móricz and Simon Morrison, eds, Funeral Games in Honour of Arthur Vincent Lourié (New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014), in Music & Letters, 96/3 (August 2015), 486-489.
  • Charles M. Joseph, Stravinsky’s Ballets (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011); Pieter C. van den Toorn and John McGinness, Stravinsky and the Russian Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), in Music & Letters, 95/3 (August 2014), 471-476.
  • Gretchen Horlacher, Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in the Music of Stravinsky (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), in Music & Letters, 93/4 (November 2012), 624-626.
  • Valérie Dufour, Stravinski et ses exégètes (Brussels: Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 2006), in Polyphonia, 18 (spring 2011), 147-153.
  • Eric Humbertclaude, ed., Pierre Souvtchinski, Cahier d’étude (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2006), in Slavonic and East European Review, 86/3 (July 2008), 537-539.
  • Valérie Dufour, Stravinski et ses exégètes (Brussels: Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 2006), in Slavonic and East European Review, 86/1 (January 2008), 152-154.
  • Boris Gasparov, Five Operas and a Symphony (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), in Slavonica,12/2 (November 2006), 173-174.
  • Pierre Souvtchinsky, Un siècle de musique russe (Arles: Actes sud, 2004), in Slavonic and East European Review, 84/1 (January 2006), 132-134.

ENCYLOPEDIA ENTRIES

  • Single-authored entries for The Cambridge Stravinsky Encyclopedia(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming – submitted): ‘Afanasyev, Alexander’, ‘Balmont, Konstantin’, ‘Blok, Alexander’, ‘Chaliapin, Fyodor’, ‘Gorodetsky, Sergey’, ‘Kochno, Boris’, ‘Mayakovsky, Vladimir’, ‘Mitusov, Stepan’, ‘Stasov, Vladimir’, ‘Pushkin’, ‘St Petersburg’, ‘Stravinsky and Russia’, ‘Tchelitcheff, Pavel’, ‘Russian Literature’.
  • Entries for Grove Music Online: ‘Angelakēs, Giannēs’,Devetzē, Vasō’, ‘Kaimakēs, Iōannēs’, ‘Kavouras, Pavlos’, ‘Kōnstantinidēs, Kōnstantinos’, ‘Lalantē, Lila’, ‘Liavas, Lampros’, ‘Markeas, Alexandros’, ‘Papaiōannou, Marika’, ‘Tsoupakē, Kalliopē’ (co-authored with Helen Metzelaar), ‘Zervos, Giōrgos’ (co-authored with Giorgos Leotsakos).