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Giorgos Sakallieros

                                                             

Assοciate Professor

 

Historical Musicology, with emphasis on Greek Art Music (19th-20th century)

 

 

Contact

School of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki

Office tel: +30-2310-991840

E-mail: gsak@mus.auth.gr

 

 

 

Research Interests

History of Greek art music (Music in the Ionian Islands, Athenian musical life, Greek National School, Greek avant-garde before and after 1945

Applications of music theory and analysis in works of Modern Greek composers

Western Music History (especially 17th century)

Historical and analytical review of genres and forms of Western art music (17th-20th century)

Critical editions of Greek art music works

 

 

 

Classes

  Greek Art Music (General Historical Review)

  Introduction to Music Analysis and Morphology

  Aspects and Phases of Greek Musical Avant-Garde in the 20th century (D. Mitropoulos, N. Skalkottas, D. Dragatakis, J. Christou)

  Aspects and Phases of Greek art music: Yiannis Constantinidis

  17th Century Instrumental Music

  The Fugue: Genre and Technique in Musical Composition (17th-20th century)

  Musical texture/Theory of Music (harmony, counterpoint, fugue, tonal composition) III (exercise)

  Elements of the Fugue (exercise)

  Critical editions of Greek art music works (seminar)

 

 

 

 

Studies

  PhD in Musicology, Faculty of Music Studies, School of Philosophy, National & Κapodistrian University of Athens (2005)

  Bachelor in Musicology, School of Music, Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle Univeristy of Thessaloniki (1996)

  Advanced Diplomas in Composition and Music Theory, Collegium Musicum Conservatory of Thessaloniki (2004, 1995, 1993)

  Advanced Diploma in Guitar Performance, Collegium Musicum Conservatory of Thessaloniki (1995)

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Books

1. Yannis Constantinidis (1903-1984): His Life, Works and Compositional Style (Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2010) [465 pages]

 

2. Dimitri Mitropoulos and His Works in the 1920s. The Introduction of Musical Modernism in Greece (Athens: Hellenic Music Centre, 2016) [416 σελ.]

 

Selection of publications (over 30 titles of articles in journals, conference proceedings, collective volumes etc.)

1. “Aspects of neoclassicism within post-war Greek musical avant-garde: the violin concertos by Dimitri Dragatakis (1969), Yannis A. Papaioannou (1971) and Yorgos Sicilianos (1987)”, in: Costas Tsougras, Danae Stefanou and Kostas Chardas (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference Beyond the Centres: Musical Avant-Gardes Since 1950 (Thessaloniki: Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1-3 July 2010) . Available in: http://btc.web.auth.gr/

 

2. “Mitropoulos’ composing in the 1920s: into and out of the Second Viennese School boundaries”, Institute of Musicology, University of Vienna (22 Oct 2011) -Electronically published in: http://www.dimitrimitropoulos.gr (edited by Apostolos Kostios).

 

3. Diverging from an established Greek musical nationalism: aspects of modernism in the works of Dimitri Mitropoulos, Nikos Skalkottas, Dimitrios Levidis and Harilaos Perpessas, during the 1920s and 30s”, Muzikologija 12 (Musicology 12, Journal of the Institute of Musicology of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012), 183-206.

 

4. "Perspectives of the Athenian musical life, 1870-1940", in Katrin Stoeck & Gilbert Stoeck (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference "Musik-Stadt. Traditionen und Perspektiven urbaner Musikkulturen", Leipzig University (2008) (Leipzig: Gudrun Schroeder Verlag 2012), Band 4, 94-104.

 

5. «A decisive step to prewar Greek musical modernism: Dimitri Mitropoulos’ Ostinata for violin and piano (1926-27)», in: E. Nika-Sampson, G. Sakallieros, M. Alexandru, G. Kitsios, E. 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 – International Musicological Society, 2013), 725-742

 

6. "The Greek symphony (1900-1950): Oscillating Between Greek Nationalism and Western Art-Music Tradition", in Proceedings of the International Musicological Conference "The National Element in Music", ed. Nikos Maliaras (Athens: Faculty of Music Studies, University of Athens), 31-49.

 

7.-15. Eight (8) articles in the international music encyclopaedia Grove Music Online (online version of The New Grove II Dictionary of Music and Musicians), Deane Root (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2014:

  - «Asēmakopoulos [As(s)imakopoulos], Euangelos [Evangelos]»

  - «Astrinidēs [Astrinidis], Nikolaos [Nikos, Nicolaos]»

- «Fampas, Dēmētrēs [Fambas, Dimitris]»

  - «Constantinidis [Konstantinidis, Constantinides], Yannis [Giannis] [Giannidis, Kostas]»

  - «Kotsiōlēs, Kōstas [Cotsiolis, Costas]»

  - «Lalas, Dēmētrios [Dimitrios] (Stergiou)»

  - «Lialios, Dēmētrios [Dimitrios]»

  - «Zōē [Zoe, Zoi], Liza [Lisa, Elisabeth]»

 

16. «Dimitri Mitropoulos in the 1920s: the pioneering steps of musical modernism in Greece», in: Eva Mantzourani, Costas Tsougras, Petros Vouvaris (eds.), Perspectives of Greek Musical Modernism (Ashgate Studies in Theory and Analysis of Music After 1900 series), Routledge (Francis & Taylor Group) - (to be published in 2018).

 

17. [co-authored with Kostas Chardas] «Μusical modernism in Greece: An Overview», in: Eva Mantzourani, Costas Tsougras, Petros Vouvaris (eds.), Perspectives of Greek Musical Modernism (Ashgate Studies in Theory and Analysis of Music After 1900 series), Routledge (Francis & Taylor Group) – (to be published in 2018).

 

 

Editor:

Giorgos Sakallieros, Ioannis Fulias (eds.), Proceedings of the Conference Purcell, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn – τέσσερις επέτειοι (Thessaloniki: School of Music Studies A.U.Th. - University Studio Press, 2010) [in Greek]

 

Giorgos Sakallieros, Ioannis Fulias (eds.) Proceedings of the Conference Three Eras - Four Commemorations: Pergolesi, Chopin, Schumann, Barber (Athens: School of Music Studies, University of Athens) [E-book with ISBN: available in http://musicology.mus.auth.gr/publications/] [in Greek]

 

Evi Nika-Sampson, Giorgos Sakallieros, Maria Alexandru, Giorgos 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 – International Musicological Society, 2013) [E-book with ISBN: available in http://crossroads.mus.auth.gr].

 

Kostas Chardas, Petros Vouvaris, Kostas Kardamis, Giorgos Sakallieros, Ioannis Foulias,  Influences and Interactions. Proceedings of the 8th Inter-departmental Conference of the Hellenic Musicological Society (Athens, 25-27 November 2016) [E-book with ISBN: available in http://musicology.mus.auth.gr/publications/] [in Greek]

 

 

 Selection of musical works (over 30 titles):

1. ORCHESTRA

- Sinfonia “...’22” (2004)  for large orchestra (28΄)

- Into Dance Movements (2004) for orchestra (12΄)

- “...Autumn steps to C” (2006) for guitar and chamber orchetrsa (18΄)

- Εpistolē (2011) for orchestra [2 2 2 2   2 2 1 0  timp., susp.cymb., sn.drum, tub.bells, glsp., xyl., chimes, harp, piano, strings] (13΄) 

 

2. CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA

- Agraphon (2004), cantata for two narrators, mixed chorus and orchestra (to the poem of Angelos Sikelianos, 25΄)

 

3. CHAMBER MUSIC

- Passacaglia (2001), for flute, clarinet, viola and piano (5΄)

- Polytonic Dance for three (2001) for violin, viola and cello (2΄)

- Sonata (2001), for cello and piano (13΄30΄΄)

- Intermezzo (2002), for flute and guitar (2΄)

- Little Suite in Three Movements (2002), for flute, clarinet and guitar (8΄)

- Into Dance Movements (2002), for flute, clarinet, viola, double-bass, piano and percussion. [Commissioned by Athens Concert Hall (Megaron) – Workshops 2003]  (12΄)

- Lament for D. A string quartet (2003), for string quartet and tape [First prize in the National First Greek Composers Union Competition "Dimitris Dragatakis" (2004)] (13΄)

- Voces, in luce et silentio aeterna... (2009)  for clarinet, vibraphone, violin, viola, cello and piano (12΄)

- Eight Abstract Variations  (2011), for cello and guitar (8΄)

 

4. SOLO WORKS

- Επτά πρόσωπα για τη μοναξιά  (Seven Faces of Loneliness, 2004), variations for piano (10΄10'')

- Pause-S (2012) for piano (10΄)

 

 

 

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