Nikolaos G. Maliaras

Nikos Maliaras was born in Athens in 1959. He studied philology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens and piano at the National Conservatory of Athens. He then pursued postgraduate studies in Byzantine Philology and History, Musicology, and Music Education at the University of Munich, where he earned his doctorate in 1990. Between 1992 and 1995, he served as a specialist in Musicology at the University of Crete. In 1995, he was elected as a faculty member of the Department of Music Studies at the University of Athens, where he has been teaching courses in Music History, History of Musical Instruments, and Music Analysis, and supervising seminars of similar content. Since September 2010, he has been the Chair of the Department, and since June 2011, the Director of the Division of Historical and Systematic Musicology and the Laboratory for the Study of Greek Music. He has published four books, numerous articles, and papers in Greek and international scientific journals, participated in international conferences in Greece and abroad, and has been an associate and editor of publications at the Athens Concert Hall, where he has published many of his studies. His research interests focus on the analytical study of the music of Manolis Kalomoiris and other representatives of the National School, as well as the exploration of the field of Byzantine secular music and musical instruments through historical, philological, archaeological, and iconographic sources. He has also extensively studied the works of Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Stravinsky, and has published related studies. Nikos Maliaras has been the director of the University Choir of the Department of Music Studies at the University of Athens since its inception in 1998, with which he has performed in Greece and abroad, as well as the Children's Choir "Manolis Kalomoiris," which had a fifteen-year collaboration with the Greek National Opera, the Athens Festival, and the Athens Concert Hall. He is also the President of the Board of Directors of the Athens Youth Symphony Orchestra (ASON), the General Secretary of the "Manolis Kalomoiris" Association, and a member of the Friends of the Greek Music Library Association.