George Kokkonis (Phd. Musicologist)

Assistant Professor at the «Department of Traditional Music», TEI of Epirus

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George Kokkonis was born in Serres. He is married and father of two boys. He studied in Paris composition (École Normale), jazz composition-orchestration (CIM) and mostly musicology at Paris VIII University, focusing on greek music (art and popular). In 1997 he received, a Master (DEA) from Paris VIII University, («The tonal period of the composer Y.A. Papaioannou») and in 2006 at the same university a PHD («The issue of greekness in Greek art music»).

From 1987 to 1990 he worked in Paris at the Bibliothèque Publique d'Information (Centre National d'Art et de Culture “Georges Pompidou”) and at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. In 1991 assumed the position of musicologists-Librarian in the Library of IRCAM - CNRS in Paris and remained in that position until late 1993 when he returned to Greece. In 1998, he was the principal coordinator of the foundation of the Department of Traditional Music, TEI of Epirus (Arta) and the Department of Technology of Musical Instruments, TEI of Ionian Islands (Lixouri). Since 2002 he is a permanent staff member at the Department of Traditional Music and head of the «Greek Music Archives».

Since the beginning of his research activity is involved in several scientific conferences in Greece and abroad, and regularly publishes articles and studies on art and popular musical traditions of Greece.

Books:

Kokkonis G. (ed.), Création musicale et nationalismes dans le Sud-Est européen (Études Balkaniques No 13), De Boccard, Paris: 2007

Kokkonis G. (ed.), Music from Epirus, Foundation of the Hellenic Parliament, Athens: 2008 (in greek)

Kokkonis G., La question de la grécité dans la musique néohellénique, De Boccard, Paris: 2008

Kokkonis G., Popular musiacal Traditions, Fagottobooks, Athens: 2017

Kokkonis G. (ed.), Music from Thessaly, Foundation of the Hellenic Parliament, Athens: 2018, forthcoming (in greek)

Selection of recent publications:

Kokkonis C., "George Labelet and Greek folk music: a musicology of signs", in I. Foulias, P. Vouvaris, C. Kitsios, K. Chardas (ed.), Music and Musicology. Present and Future, Proceedings of the interdisciplinary congress under the auspices of the Greek Musicological Society (Thessaloniki 21-23 /11/2014), Thessaloniki 2015, p. 291-299 (in greek).

Kokkonis G., «Manolis Angélopoulos et les frontières du laiko», Études Tsiganes, No 54-55, Paris, 2015, p. 76-95

Kokkonis G., «L’altérité amadouée. Louis Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray et la chanson populaire grecque», in Fascinantes étrangetés. La découverte de l’altérité musicale en Europe au XIXe siècle, L’Harmattan, Paris: 2014

Kokkonis G., «La création musicale savante et les collections des chants populaires en Grèce : découverte ou invention ?», in Musique et globalisation : Une approche critique, Delatour (Collection Filigrane), Paris: 2012

Kokkonis G., «La sérialité dans les traditions musicales orales», in L'homme et son environnement dans le Sud-Est européen, Éditions de l’Association Pierre Belon , Paris: 2011

Kokkonis G., «Recordings on 78rpm format; an interesting musicological issue», in Dionysopoulos N. (ed.), Samos in 78rpm records, Crete University Press, Heraklion-Athens: 2009 (in greek)

Kokkonis G., «The ‘same’ and the ‘other’ of the ‘(neo-)demotical’ music and the role of discography», in Otherness and music in the Balkans, TEI of Epirus, Arta: 2009 (in greek)

Skoulios M., Kokkonis G., «Théories et pratiques modales de l'Orient: un itinéraire», in Ayari M. (éd.) De la théorie à l'art de l'improvisation - Vol. 1, Delatour, Paris: 2005

Kokkonis G., “The 'tonal' work of Y. A. Papaioannou" in Y. A. Papaioannou, the composer, the teacher. Search and avant-garde, Exhibition Catalogue, Benaki Museum, Athens: 2004 (in greek)

Kokkonis G., "The music of Ioannina" in Ioannina Historical Τestimony (CDROM), University of Ioannina - Holy Cathedral of Ioannina, Ioannina: 2002 (in greek)

Kokkonis G., “The fisrt Symphony of Y. A. Papaioannou”, in Journal of The Benaki Museum, t. 2, Athens: 2002 (in greek)

Kokkonis G., "The musical style of Zagori: Intersection, Continuity and Survival Conditions", Proceedings of the scientific symposium Cultural Ecology, Kapesovo-Zagori, Ioannina: 2002 (in greek)

2002-2016: Editor and booklet texts of 6 cd's about the music of the Greek region of Zagori-Epirus

1998-2010: Editor of several works of the Greek composer Y.A. Papaioannou, (Benaki Archives - Philippos Nakas publications, Athens)