WORKSHOP LEADERS

GREGORIOS G. ANASTASIOU

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

Gregorios Anastasiou is a graduate in Theology (Faculty of Theology of the University of Athens) and a doctor in Byzantine Musicology (Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens ). He holds a Diploma of Byzantine Music from the Conservatory of Chalkis (grade: Excellent). He has also been trained in Computerization of Historical Archives and Electronic Processing of Archive Material.

The subject of his doctoral thesis, published in 2005 by the Foundation of Byzantine Musicology, is The Kratemata in Psaltic Art. More generally, his research interests orbit around issues of History and Morphology of the Psaltic Art. In parallel, he works as a scientific collaborator in the Foundation of Byzantine Musicology of the Church of Greece since 2000. Since 2004, he teaches at the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens , according to the provisions of Presidential Decree 407/80, the course "Use of Computers in Byzantine Music".

He also deploys an intense artistic activity: since 1995, he is a regular member of the Choir "The Maestors of Psaltic Art"; from 2000 to 2002, he was Chief of Choir in the Association of Chanters of the Euboia District; moreover, he is First Chanter in the Sainte Marina Church of Ano Ilissia, Athens . He is a founding member of the urban nonprofit association "Anatoles to Periechema" and Art Director of the School of Byzantine Music "Priest Pavlos Skopelitis" of the Bishopric of Chalkis.