WORKSHOP LEADERS

DR. ACHILLEAS CHALDAIAKIS

Professor at the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens, Greece

Achilleas Chaldaiakis was born in Athens in 1969 where he studied Theology and Musicology. He attended post-graduate courses at the Theological School of the University of Athens. He received his doctorate degree from the Department of Music Studies of the same University (his doctoral thesis was entitled: "The most merciful in the Byzantine and post-Byzantine music composition", Athens 2003, pgs. 992). He served at the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens since 1992 initially as an academic assistant enabled to teach by virtue of presidential decree 407/80; he then was elected Lecturer (in 1999) and since 2004 he serves the cognitive subject of Byzantine Musicology as Assistant Professor. At the same time, he is the choir leader of the psaltic choir The Masters of Psaltic Art; he also is the first chanter of a main church of Athens; he serves as general secretary of the Synodal Institution of Byzantine Musicology; he is a founding member and administrator of the urban non-profit company "All-around-sounds of Anatolia;" he is a founding member of the urban non-profit Company "The Woman from Aigina" and chief editor of the homonymous six-month periodical cultural publication (of which 10 issues have been published already); he is a scientific collaborator of the critical publication of the complete works of Saint Nektarios and a member of other scientific associations and art organizations. He has published six self-contained books and coordinated the publication of as many collective volumes (conference minutes, honorary volumes, etc.). He has published tens of other studies in periodicals and collective works; he has taken part in international musicological and theological conventions. His research activity focuses on the cognitive realms of Byzantine musicology, music folklore, Christian worship, hagiology and hymnography. He is married and has four children.