Vita

Dr. 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 for her 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. She also holds a diploma in Byzantine music from the Orpheus Conservatory of Athens.

Dr. Chaldæaki’s research focuses on Greek, and, more broadly, Balkan, folk and popular musical traditions and their development from the late Ottoman period to the present day. She has published two books, articles in scientific journals, presented her work at various conferences, given lectures, received distinctions, while being an active musician and a teacher of Greek folk singing, having tought since 2013.

During the 2023-2025 academic years, she taught on the Postgraduate Programme in “Ethnomusicology and Musical Practice” at the Department of Music Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as on the Undergraduate Programme at the same university and at the University of Ioannina. In 2025, she was a research associate at the Orient-Institut Istanbul for the DFG-funded project “Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO)”, and she has been based at the University of Münster since 2026, where this project is housed. Her work there focuses on Greek sources of Ottoman Turkish music.

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

• 2025. Τουρκόφωνη και ελληνόφωνη δημοτική μουσική κατά την ύστερη οθωμανική περίοδο: λαϊκός πολιτισμός και διακοινοτικές σχέσεις. [Folk Music in Turkish and Greek Musical Collections of the Late Ottoman Period: Popular Culture and Inter-Communal Relations]. Athens: Herodotos.
• 2024. With Chaldæakes, Achillefs G. & Loupas, Socrates. K. A. Psachos’s archive: Historico-musicological testimonies. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Press.
• 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.

Conference presentations & Lectures

• 2026, September 17-19. Piano sounds in 19th century Istanbul: the co-existence of ala franga and ala turca musical styles in musical leisure. International Conference “Soundscapes of Entertainment: Music at Leisure in the 19th Century”, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, September 17-19, 2026.
• 2026, July 14-17. Popular music in contemporary southern Albania: folklore, tradition and the new trend converging. International Research Collective for Popular Music in Greece, 3rd Annual Conference, Popular Music Across Southern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean: New Research Perspectives. Delvinaki, Epirus, July 14-17, 2026.
• 2026, June 30-July 3. Bridging musical archives: two Ottoman Greeks’ collections as part of the Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae project. IAML 2026, June 30-July 3, Thessaloniki.
• 2026, June 4-6. With Vatansever, Nazlı. Between scripts and sounds: comparative perspectives on Turkish song-text collections in Arabic and Greek alphabets in the 19th century. Mecmuas in the Ottoman World. Interdisciplinary Approaches and Current Research. University of Vienna.
• 2026. May 5-10. Ένα σύγχρονο βιωματικό παράδειγμα βλάχικου διασπορικού δικτύου: ο Γ.Π., λαϊκός μουσικός που εκπροσωπεί τρεις μουσικές παραδόσεις [A contemporary firsthand example of a Vlach diaspora network: G.P., a folk musician who represents three musical traditions]. 12th Scientific Conference of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences. The Diaspora and the Global System. Identities, Politics, Bridges of Culture and Education.
• 2026, April 24-26. «Δέλβινο και Τσαμουριά»: Ένα αλυτρωτικό δημοτικό τραγούδι ως μέρος του σύγχρονου ηπειρώτικου μουσικού ρεπερτορίου και η θεώρηση του από μετανάστες της Νότιας Αλβανίας [“Delvino kai Tsamouria”: an irredentist Greek folk song, which forms part of the contemporary Epirotic repertoire, and the perspective of immigrants from southern Albania on it]. “Anthropology and Ethnomusicology in Dialogue: Between Practice and Theory”: International Conference in Memory of Theodoros Konkouris. University of Macedonia.
• 2025, November 18-20. From a nihavend peşrev to “Kalenin bedenleri”: The repertoire of a Turkish ince saz orchestra in 1986, as recorded by Wolf Dietrich. Symposium Marking the 100th Anniversary of Official Folk Music Collection Efforts in Turkey, November 18–20, 2025. Istanbul Technical University.
• 2025, September 18-20. With Dimitriou, Marco & Pelen, Semih. Transmission of Ottoman music in three different notation systems: A case study on a composition by Asdik Ağa. Turkologentag 2025 – 5th European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.
• 2025, September 1-16. An Epirus folk song recorded by Wolf Dietrich in 1969 in the village of Panagia, Thessaly. Sonic Traces. Revisiting the Recordings of the Wolf Dietrich Archive in Münster. Symposium, November 15–16. Münster: University of Münster.
• 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

• Pending. Folk and folk-style Karamanlidika şarkı sources from the late Ottoman Empire. Transcription issues relating to oral testimonies and the music itself. In Edith Gülçin Ambros & Hatice Aynur (ed.). Ottoman Literature Revisited: A Holistic Approach, υπό έκδοση.
• 2026. Καταγραφή οθωμανικής τουρκικής και ελληνικής δημοτικής μουσικής στη βυζαντινή σημειογραφία: η μέθοδος του Κ. Α. Ψάχου [Transcriptions of Ottoman Turkish and Greek folk music in Byzantine notation: the method of K. A. Psachos]. Polyphonia, 37, pp. 7-29.
• 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.
• 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”.