The musical culture of the Ottoman Greeks in the late Ottoman Empire: A study through the cases of Nilevs Kamarados and Konstantinos A. Psachos archives in Athens

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The musical culture of the Ottoman Greeks in the late Ottoman Empire: A study through the cases of Nilevs Kamarados and Konstantinos A. Psachos archives in Athens

Dr. Evangelia Chaldæaki

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 19:00 (Turkish Time GMT+3)

Many scholars have studied the role of Ottoman Greeks in the music of the Ottoman Empire, as they wrote down a large part of this repertoire, mainly that of the Ottoman court and some of the popular music. However, the Ottoman Greeks generally transcribed the music they heard or performed themselves, which means that in addition to the musical genres mentioned above, this included Byzantine music and Greek music in general, as well as Western music. This lecture attempts to provide a more distinctive perspective on the musical culture of the Ottoman Greeks of the late Ottoman Empire by examining the personal archives of two Ottoman Greeks: Nilevs Kamarados (1847–1922), an Ottoman Greek musicologist who spent his life in Istanbul, and Konstantinos A. Psachos (1869–1949), an Ottoman Greek musicologist from Istanbul who moved to Athens in 1903 for professional reasons. Both archives are now located in Athens, Greece. More specifically, this presentation will give a general description of the documents in these archives, as recent efforts have been made to include the documents on Ottoman music from the Psachos and Kamarados archives in the Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae material, in collaboration with the Orient-Institut Istanbul.

Evangelia Chaldæaki holds a PhD from the Department of Turkish Studies and Modern Asian Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and wrote a thesis about “Folk Music in Turkish and Greek Musical Collections of the Late Ottoman Period: Popular Culture and Inter-Communal Relations” (supervisor: Panagiotis Poulos), a Bachelor’s Degree in Turkish Language, Literature and History and a MA in Folklore Studies and Folk Culture from the same institution. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Music Studies, University of Ioannina (supervisor: Nikos Andrikos). She is an experienced researcher and has received awards for her work, which is generally related to Greek and Turkish music, culture, and folklore. She also holds a Diploma in Byzantine music from the Orpheus Conservatory of Athens. She is an active musician and a teacher of Greek folk singing. She has been teaching relevant courses at the Centre for Greek Music “Fivos Anogianakis” since 2013, at the Postgraduate Programme “Ethnomusicology and Musical Practice” of the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens since 2023, at the Undergraduate Programme of the same Department during the fall and spring semester of the academic year 2024–2025, and at the Undergraduate Programme of the corresponding Department of the University of Ioannina during the spring semester of the academic year 2023–2024.

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