Research
ACRDC ACTIVITIES
From 2013 to the present day, the team that formed around the founder of ACRDC, Haris Xanthoudakis, has worked to highlight the material of the Athens Conservatoire’s Archive by organizing exhibitions, lectures, concerts, etc. Here, we present the most noteworthy of these activities.
EXHIBITIONS - EVENTS
May 23-24, 2024 | TWO-DAY EVENT - SCREENING - CONCERT, Athens Conservatoire “Dionysios Lavrangas, a Multitalented Musician” A tribute to Dionysios Lavrangas marking the donation of his Musical Archive to ACRDC.
December 9, 2023 | PRESENTATION - CONCERT, Apollon Theatre, Syros “Hermoupolis in the History of Music” Presentation of the publication History of Music in Modern Greece in Hermoupolis, Syros.
October 13-14 & 18, 2023 | SYMPOSIUM - CONCERTS, Athens Conservatoire "The Archive of Jani Christou at the Athens Conservatoire” Events organized to celebrate the recent donation of Jani Christou’s archive to ACCRD.
June 1, 2023 - January 7, 2024 | EXHIBITION, EMST (National Museum of Contemporary Art) “Xenakis and Greece.” In collaboration with EMST and CMRC.
April 3, 2023 | PRESENTATION, Athens Conservatoire “The Archive of Stathis Arfanis at the Athens Conservatoire” Presentation of the archive and its donor.
October 1, 2022 | CONFERENCE, French School of Athens “Meta-Xenakis.” An international conference marking 100 years since the birth of Iannis Xenakis, in collaboration with CMRC (Contemporary Music Research Centre) and CIX.
September 22, 2022 | PRESENTATION, Corfu Reading Society, Corfu
Presentation of the publication History of Music in Modern Greece, Volume I: From the Fall of Constantinople to the Expulsion of King Otto.
June 21, 2022 | LECTURE - DANCE PERFORMANCE, Byzantine Museum “Tribute to Iannis Xenakis” as part of the European Music Day celebrations.
June 17, 2022 | LECTURE - CONCERT, “Magemenos Avlos (Magic Flute)” "This is Lillipoupoli! A Tribute to Manos Hadjidakis” as part of the City of Athens “Culture in Neighborhood” initiative.
March 19 and April 16, 2022 | PRESENTATION
Presentation of the publication History of Music in Modern Greece as part of “Athens Book Walks,” featuring storytelling, performances, and music in various locations in Athens.
February 26, 2022 | PRESENTATION, Athens Conservatoire Presentation of the publication History of Music in Modern Greece, Volume I: From the Fall of Constantinople to the Expulsion of King Otto.
November 5, 2021 | EXHIBITION - LECTURE - CONCERT, Athens Conservatoire “Kapodistrian Encounters.” On the occasion of the Greece-Russia Year of Shared History.
July 1, 2021 | LECTURE - CONCERT, Andritsaina “The musical world of Konstantinos Agathophron Nikolopoulos” In collaboration with the Public Historical Library of Andritsaina.
February 2021 | CONCERT, Athens Conservatoire “The 1821 Revolution through music”
An audiovisual production curated by ACRDC, including a concert and bilingual documentation.It was realized in collaboration with the Bodossaki Foundation and the Hellenic Foundation for Culture.
November 18, 2020 | CONFERENCE (online) curated by ACCRD (Athens Conservatoire Centre for Research and Documentation), dedicated to the memory of composer Jani Christou (1926-1970).
February 26, 2020 | CONCERT, Athens Conservatoire “The 1821 Revolution through Music” A concert featuring Greek and international works written in relation to the 1821 Revolution.
February 5-29, 2020 | EXHIBITION, Athens Conservatoire “Music and the establishment of the modern Greek State”
An exhibition featuring archival material from the General State Archives and the Archive of the Athens Conservatoire, held on the occasion of Maria Efthymiou’s lecture series at the Conservatoire about the 1821 Greek War of Independence.
May - December 2019 | EXHIBITION, Athens Conservatoire
May 17-18, 2019 | ONE-DAY CONFERENCE | CONCERT, Athens Conservatoire
“The Multifaced Nikos Skalkottas,”
An exhibition featuring material from the historical archive of the Athens Conservatoire and the Chourmouzios-Papaioannou Foundation Archive.
The exhibition was accompanied by a conference and a concert-dance performance dedicated to Skalkottas.
March 12, 2019 | EXHIBITION, General State Archives “Exhibition and Concert in Memory of Nikolaos Dikaios,” in collaboration with the General State Archives. The exhibition featured a concert by Flex, a guest ensemble at the Athens Conservatoire.
February 1 - March 2, 2019 | EXHIBITION, Athens Conservatoire “The books of the Athens Conservatoire Archive”. An exhibition of printed or manuscript books (from the 16th century to the present) from the Archives of the Athens Conservatoire and the Chourmouzios-Papaioannou Foundation.
January 19, 2019 | CONCERT, Athens Conservatoire Concert featuring the 30 Mélodies Populaires de Grèce et d'Orient by Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, supported by the initiative “Athens World Book Capital - 2018.”
December 2018 - January 2019 | EXHIBITION, Municipal Library of Athens “Tribute to Michalis Adamis.” The exhibition included a concert featuring works by Adamis on December 21, 2018.
November 2, 2018 | ONE-DAY CONFERENCE - CONCERT, Athens Conservatoire
Conference and concert dedicated to Armand Marsick and his students
November 2018 | EXHIBITION, Athens Conservatoire Exhibition on Armand Marsick, in collaboration with the Marsick Archive and the Archive of the “Manolis Kalomiris” Society
April 27 - May 12, 2018 | EXHIBITION, Athens Conservatoire
“The Conservatoire and Its Students,” as part of the City of Athens initiative “Open Collections.” A student concert took place in the context of the exhibition on May 5, 2018.
December 15, 2017 | EXHIBITION, Athens Conservatoire “100 years since the birth of Spyros Samaras”
December 12-22, 2017 | EXHIBITION - CONCERT, Athens Conservatoire
“Maria Callas at the Athens Conservatoire.” The concert on December 22 included works performed by Callas during her student years at the Conservatoire.
October 10-22, 2016 | EXHIBITION, LECTURE, CONCERT, Parnassos Hall
October 1, 2016 | LECTURE - CONCERT, Parnassos Hall “Exhibition on Dimitri Mitropoulos from the Archive of the Athens Conservatoire.” A lecture and concert dedicated to D. Mitropoulos took place on October 10.
February 2015 & March-July 2015 | EXHIBITION, French Institute of Athens & Athens Conservatoire: “From Camille Saint-Saëns to Pierre Boulez: 100 years of French musical presence in Greece”
November 2014 | EXHIBITION, Athens Conservatoire "Presenting the treasures of the Athens Conservatoire"
The videos of the exhibitions are available on the Athens Conservatoire website: www.athensconservatoire.gr .
THE PERIODICAL PUBLICATION NEOS MOUSIKOS ELLINOMNIMON
The Athens Conservatoire Research and Documentation Centre, in collaboration with the Hellenic Music Research Laboratory of the Ionian University, has launched the quarterly musicological journal Neos Mousikos Ellinomnimon. This publication is a continuation of the journal Mousikos Ellinomnimon, which was published by the Hellenic Music Research Laboratory at the Ionian University from 2008 to 2015.
In its new phase, and thanks to the partnership with the Music House Marios Nikolaidis, the journal aims to highlight issues related to Greek musical activities, Greek composers, Greek works, and the musical life in our homeland, with significantly expanded and enriched content. It is the only journal worldwide that specializes in issues of Greek music creation and practice. Neos Mousikos Ellinomnimon is sold in bookstores, while an annual subscription option is also available.
For more information about the journal or to submit texts, you can contact us at: archives@athensconservatoire.gr or eremus@ionio.gr .
ATHENS CONSERVATOIRE PUBLISHING SERIES
The Athens Conservatoire Research and Documentation Centre, within the framework of its research activities, has launched a series of publications focused on research in the field of Greek music, aiming to reconstruct our musical and cultural history through primary archival and other sources.
The publishing activities will cover a broad range of topics, such as the history of modern Greek music through studies and historical documentation, music theory and aesthetics, music education, while it will also include scores and encyclopedic works.
Evangelia A. Chaldaiaki, K.A. Psachos and His Contribution in the Recording and Study of Greek Folk Songs (2018)
Utilizing the invaluable collection of documents that make up the history of our modern Greek music in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Athens Conservatoire published the first book in its “Studies” series. This is Evangelia Chaldaiaki’s book K.A. Psachos and His Contribution in the Recording and Study of Greek Folk Songs, with a preface by the Ecumenical Patriarch.
History of Music in Modern Greece (H. Xanthoudakis, P. Vlagopoulos, K. Kardamis, S. Kourmpana, eds.) Three Volumes with Six Accompanying Discs (2022-2025)
The three-volume History of Music in Modern Greece presents, for the first time, a comprehensive account of the musical activity in Greece from the period after the Fall of Constantinople (1453) until the dawn of the 21st century. Previous histories or studies about the music of modern Greece have been fragmented, both chronologically and thematically, usually focusing on presenting composers, works, and institutions, and leaving out a comprehensive overview of modern Greek musical life and creation. This publication aims to expand on the social and cultural impact of musical activity...
Panos Vlagkopoulos, "Vlepeis xene file mou den lismono ta tragoudia" ["You See, My Foreign Friend, I Do Not Forget the Songs"] From Haxthausen to Vinée, or One Hundred Years of Western European Views on Greek Folk Songs (2022)
This book consists of the publication of five Western European collections of harmonized folk songs. The musical part is accompanied by introductions to the collections and texts related to the interest exhibited by early European intellectuals, such as Johann Gottfried Herder, in the people and their culture, specifically focusing on Greek folk songs (understood as both text and music). Of the five collections presented here, only one is relatively well-known (that of Bourgault-Ducoudray), while the other four are being presented for the first time: those of Werner von Haxthausen (1780-1843)...
Kostis Demertzis, Parallel Texts on Skalkottas (2020)
Kostis Demertzis is one of the oldest and most knowledgeable scholars of Nikos Skalkottas. His doctoral dissertation on Skalkottas Orchestration, published as a large-format book in 1998, is essentially the first scholarly monograph on the great, internationally acclaimed Greek composer. Since then, Demertzis has continued to study Skalkottas, publishing numerous articles (studies, reviews, conference papers, lectures, notes) in the newspapers Proodeftiki Evia and Kathimerini Evia. These texts, while based on Demertzis’s vast knowledge as a specialist of the work of Skalkottas and maintaining...
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