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Department of Music Studies

VALIA CHRISTOPOULOU

Ph.D. in Musicol­ogy (University of Athens, 2009). She graduated from the Department of French Language and Literature and the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens and also received a piano diploma and a harmony degree from the National Conservatory of Athens, and a counterpoint degree from the Athenaeum Conservatory. She has been the curator of an exhibition on Yorgos Sicilianos in the Benaki Museum (2007). She is the author of the Catalogue of Works of Yorgos Sicilianos (Athens: Panas Music, 2011) and, also, contributed the article on Sicilianos to the Grove Music Online (2013). She has participated in scientific conferences and published articles in conference proceedings and scientific journals. She is a member of the Greek Musicological Society. Since 2009 she has participated in workshops on improvisation and experimental music (Dartington Summer School 2009, knot 2011-2012, Syros Sound Meetings 2012). In 2011, she founded the Group of Experimental Music at the Pallini Music High School which has presented numerous performances (at the Onassis Stegi, the Goethe Institute, the Athens School of Fine Arts). As a musician, she has participated in the group Open Score Project  and, since 2022, she is a member of the group WHI. Research interests: Archival Research, Greek Art Music, Musical Modernism and Postmodernism, Experimental Music.

email: vchristopoulou@gmail.com