Links

https://uoa.academia.edu/EvangeliaChaldaeaki  

www.orcid.org/0000-0003-0398-3711

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2i49GfWUejouY3CYwSbblO?si=QtCo3EjLTtO45suAbaCfBg

Vita

Evangelia Chaldæaki has a BA in Turkish Language, Literature and History and an MA in Folklore Studies and Folk Culture, both from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She earned her PhD from the Department of Turkish Studies and Modern Asian Studies at the same institution, with the thesis “Folk Music in Turkish and Greek Musical Collections of the Late Ottoman Period: Popular Culture and Inter-Communal Relations”. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Music Studies at the University of Ioannina. An experienced researcher, she has received awards for her work, which generally relates 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. Since 2013, she is teaching relevant courses at the Centre for Greek Music “Fivos Anogianakis”. Since 2023 she has taught at the Postgraduate Programme “Ethnomusicology and Musical Practice” of the Department of Music Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, at the Undergraduate Programme of the University of Ioannina during the spring semester of the 2023-2024 academic year, and at the Undergraduate Programme of the Department of Music Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens during the fall and spring semesters of the 2024-2025 academic year. Since 2025, she is a research associate for the project “Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO)” at the University of Münster, a cooperation with the Orient-Institut Istanbul, part of the Max Weber Stiftung – Foundation German Humanities Institutes Abroad. She is working on cataloguing Greek sources of Ottoman Turkish music, specifically the Psachos and Kamarados Archives, located in Athens, Greece.

Publikationen/Publications/Yayınlar

This is a list of the most relevant and recent publications. For a full list of them see the links provided above.

Books

2018. Ο Κ. Α. Ψάχος και η συμβολή του στην καταγραφή και μελέτη ελληνικών δημοτικών τραγουδιών [=C. A. Psachos and his contribution to the transcription and study of Greek folk songs]. Athens: Edition Orpheus. [In Greek]

2024. With Chaldæakes, Achillefs G. & Loupas, Socrates. K. A. Psachos’s archive: Historico-musicological testimonies. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Press.

Conference presentations & Lectures

2025, April 2. 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. Orient-Institut Istanbul, Musicology Lecture Series, https://oiist.org/en/event/the-musical-culture-of-theottoman-greeks-in-the-late-ottoman-empire-a-study-through-the-cases-of-nilevs-kamaradosand-konstantinos-a-psachos-archives-in-athens/.

2025, 20 February. Case studies of musical transcriptions of Greek folk music from the Kamarados Collection of the Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri”. Interdisciplinary Conference Musicology and Music Librarianship in Cultura Context in Honour of Stephanie Merakos. IMS Study Group Music and Cultural Studies & The Friends of Music Society Athens.

2023, April 12. Turkish and Greek folk songs of the late Ottoman era: Popular culture and intercommunal relations through musical collections. Orient-Institut Istanbul, Musicology Lecture Series, https://www.oiist.org/events/dr-evangelia-chaldaeaki.

2023, September 20-24. Turkish folk songs in Greek musical collections of the late Ottoman era. Turkologentag. Fourth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies, University of Vienna.

Publications

2024. Turkish folk songs in Greek musical collections of the late Ottoman era. Rast Müzikoloji Dergisi, 12 (1), pp. 47-61, https://doi.org/10.12975/rastmd.20241213

2024. With Rizopoulos, A. & Rengis, A. Local musical traditions in Greece: The case of the Petroússa village. Etnomüzikoloji Dergisi, 7(2), pp. 207-243.

2023, April 12. Turkish and Greek folk songs of the late Ottoman era: Popular culture and intercommunal relations through musical collections. Orient-Institut Istanbul, Blog, https://www.oiist.org/en/turkish-and-greek-folk-songs-of-the-late-ottoman-era-popular-culture-and-intercommunal-relations-through-musical-collections/.  

2023, May. Ottoman Greeks who studied and transcribed Ottoman Turkish music: The case of Nilevs Kamarados. Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 1 (27), pp. 91-137, https://doi.org/10.51576/ymd.1198307.

2023. Turkish folk songs in Haşim Bey’s Anthology. Journal of Turkish Studies, 18 (2), pp. 445-468, http://doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.68064.

2022, December. Testimonies of Ottoman Turkish music in K. A. Psachos’s personal archive. Yegâh Müzikoloji Dergisi, 5 (2), pp. 202-236, https://doi.org/10.51576/ymd.1198307.

2021. With Chaldæakis, Achilleas G. & Loupas, Sokratis. Uses of the New Method of the Byzantine Notation. Historico-Musicological Testimonies from K. A. Psachos’s Archive. Epistēmēs Metron Logos, 5, pp. 1-47 & Π1-71, https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/episteme/article/view/27256.

2021. With Chaldæakis, Achilleas G. & Loupas, Sokratis. Historico-musicological aspects of K. A. Psachos’s archive. Musicologist 5 (2), pp. 187-239, https://doi.org/10.33906/musicologist.986502.

2020. Pod redaktsiey Patriarha Moskovskogo i vseya Rusi Kirilla. Psachos, K. A. In: Pravoslavnaya entsiklopediya, (Tom. 58, pp. 558-560). Moskva: Tserkovno-nauchny tsentr “Pravoslavnaya entsiklopeiya”.