Ionian University

Department of Music

Kostas Kardamis

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Kostas Kardamis graduated from the Music Department of the Ionian University in 2000, after submitting a thesis in the field of Neohellenic Music (supervisor: Prof. Haris Xanthoudakis). In 2002 as scholar of the «Panayotis and Effie Michelis Foundation» he  obtained the title of Master in Advanced Musical Studies from the Music Department of Royal Holloway, University of London (supervisor: Prof. David Charlton). In 2006 he concluded his doctoral studies in the Ionian University and successfully presented his thesis entitled The "pre-solomian" Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros and his works (supervisor: Prof. Haris Xanthoudakis). 

He has contributed in the activities of the Athens Megaron, the Greek Composers Union, the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Group and has participated in panhellenic and international conferences and colloquia. His published studies and articles are mainly focused on Neohellenic music, with particular interest in 18th and 19th centuries,  as well as on the opera and musical theatre. His research interests also include band music and the interaction of music, society and politics.

Since 2002  he teaches in the Music Department of the Ionian University. He is a member of the Hellenic Music Research Lab of the aforementioned department and of the editorial committee of the musicological journal Moussikos Loghos, as well as General Editor of the series Monuments of Neohellenic Music. From 2003 he is in charge of the archive and the, still under construction, museum of the Philharmonic Society of Corfu.

Parallel activities include an interest for brass instruments and brass playing. His particular occupation with tuba, an inclination resulting from his early experiences in the Philharmonic Society of Corfu that were further cultivated during his studies in the Ionian University, does not exceed the limits of the positively approached amateurism. He was student of Nikos Zervopoulos (National Opera House) and George Rarakos (Athens State Orchestra), from whose class obtained a tuba certificate. He participated in masterclasses of George Rarakos, Roger Bobo and Hed. Jan Renes, as well as in brass ensemble seminars (Melos Brass, Fred Mills, Ben van Dijk, Walter Hilgers). He is coordinator of the Éonian Brass Quintet, founding member of the Just Tuba Quartet and is proud to have been a bandsman of the Egham Brass Band (UK).

Publications and Research activity

 

  • Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros (Niccolo Calichiopulo Manzaro): «Unity within multiplicity» (Corfu, Corfu Studies Society, 2008), in the series Artists of Corfu, ISBN: 978-960-88037-5-6 (in Greek) [«Distinction for Musicological Publication 2009» by the  Union of Greek Critics for Drama and Music]

Conferences

  • «Giuseppe Mazzini's Filosofia della Musica», paper in the conference The thought of the artists (Corfu, Society of Corfu Studies,  6-7/11/2009), to be published (in Greek)
  • «Challenging the canon; Towards a history of neo-hellenic music», paper in the Joint Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association and the Society of Musicology in Ireland (Dublin, 9-12/7/2009)
  • «The band before the band: Some thoughts on the early wind ensembles in Ionian Islands», The culture of Ionian Islands yesterday and today (Argostoli, 11-14/12/2008), published in the Proceedings of the conference (Argostoli, Municipality of Argostoli, 2009), volume I, 100-107
  • «Schubert, Liszt, Mantzaros: Three 19th-century composers set to music petrarchian poetry», paper in the conference With poetry as datum... (Corfu, Corfu Studies Society, 7–9/11/2008)
  • «Music education in the Ionian Islands during the British Protection (1814-1864)», paper in the colloquium Music in the schools of Greece: From the past to the future (Athens, Athens School of Fine Arts, 9/6/2007), to be published (in Greek)
  • «The musical theatre and the revolutionary fêtes in Corfu during the period of Republican French (1797-1799)», paper in the colloquium Hellenic Music and France (Athens, French Institute of Athens, 24/2/2007), to be published (in Greek)
  • «The basis of the mantzarian settings' technique», paper in the conference Solomos–Mantzaros–Polylas (Corfu, Society of Corfiot Studies, 10–12 November 2006), to be published (in Greek)
  • «Ionian musical repertoire: The case of the music archive of Philharmonic Society of Corfu», paper in the conference Sources of Ionian Philology (1500–1940) (Argostoli, Society of Cephalonian Historical Studies, 28–30/10/2006), published in the Proceedings of the Conference (Argostoli, Society of Cephalonian Historical Studies, 2008), 715–727 (in Greek)
  • «Un Italiano in Corcira: Severiano Fogacci’s music-related activities during his exile in Corfù (1831-1846)», paper in the XIII Covegno Annuale di Società Italiana di Musicologia (Torino, 20–22/10/2006), to be published (in English)
  • «Philharmonic Society of Corfu: An overview of its history and perspectives», Paper in the VIII International Panionian Conference (Kythira, 21–25/5/2006), published in the Proceedings of the Conference (Kythira, Society of Kyhterean Studies, 2009), vol.  IVa, 335-355 (in Greek)
  • «Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Ionian Islands», paper in the colloquium on W.A. Mozart organised by the Technological Institution of the Ionian Islands, Lixouri, Cephalonia (17/5/2006), to be published (in Greek)
  • «The folkloric element in the opera The Paliamentary Candidate by Spiridon Xindas», paper in the Conference Aspects of Hellenism in Music, Athens Megaron Concert Hall, 5–7/5/2006 (Athens Megaron, Athens State Orchestra, Ionian University-Hellenic Music Research Lab), to be published (in Greek)
  • «“Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù”: an overview of its significance for the Greek ottocento» paper in the XI Convegno Annuale di Società Italiana di Musicologia (Lecce, 22–24/10/ 2004), published in the Donizetti Society Newsletter 99 (October 2006), as well as in the  site of the aforementioned  Society. (in English)
  • «Mantzaros and the British», common presentation with Prof. Haris Xanthoudakis in the conference The Unification of the Ionian Islands with Greece 1864–2004 (Athens, Academy of Athens / University of Athens, 24–27/2/2004), volume 2 of the proceedings, 331–338 (in Greek)
  • «Greece and symphonism: the case of Dionysios Rodotheatos through his symphonic poem Atalia (for wind orchestra), 1879» paper in the international conference Romanticism and Nationalism in Music (Corfu, 17–20/10/2003), to be published (in Greek)

Articles

  • «New information regarding Ioannes Aristides and the teaching of music in the Ionian Academy», Moussikos Ellinomnemon 4 (September-December 2009), 4-19
  • «The arrival of Andreas Kalvos in Corfu», joined article with Theodosis Pylarinos, Mikrofilologika 25 (Spring 2009), 18-21
  • «Musical echoes of the French Revolution in the Ionian Islands», Ï Eranistes 26 (2007), 79–104 [published in January 2009] (in Greek)
  • «'The collection that this Mr. Berggreen wants to compile...': A Dane records the music of Greece», Moussikos Ellinomnemon 2 (January–April 2009), 3–11 (in Greek)
  • «Dionyssios Rodotheatos [Dionisio Rodoteato] and his symphonic works», Moussikos Ellinomnemon 1 (September–December 2008), 18–23 (in Greek)
  • «The Parliamentary Candidate by Spiridon Xindas: an attempt of reproach», Annals of Aesthetics 43 / 2005–2006, 121–129 (in Greek)
  • «An unknown obituary by Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros (Niccolo Calichiopulo Manzaro) for Antonio Liberali», Moussikos Loghos 7 (Summer 2006), 95–136 (in Greek)
  • N.H. Mantzaros, Madrigale primo, Kostas Kardamis (ed.), Moussikos Loghos 7 (Summer 2006), 137–140 (in Greek)
  • «‘…despite having financial difficulties…’ the economical problems of the Mantzaros family through period sources and its consequences», Moussikos Loghos 5 (Summer 2003), 12–26 (in Greek)
  • «The theatre San Giacomo of Corfu in 1815: Its cultural activities and its sociopolitical significance during the transition from the Imperial French to the British Protection», Moussikos Loghos 3 (Fall 2001), 13–26 (in Greek)
  • «The twenty-one songs by Leonidas Albanas in the General State Archives of Corfu», published in the website of the Hellenic Music Research Lab (in Greek)

Participation in collective volumes - Editorial Activities

  • Philharmonic Society of Skripero 1909-2009: A centenary (Corfu, 2009) [Texts - Edited] (in Greek)
  • «The music in the research activities of Gerasimos Hytiris», Omage to Gerasimos Th. Hytiris, editied by Theodosis Pylarinos (Corfu, Corfu Reading Society, 2008), 165–180 (in Greek)
  • «The music of Ionian Islands» in Ionian Islands: History and Culture (Athens, Region of Ionian Islands, 2007), 186-203 and 356-365 (in Greek and English)
  • «Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros: some interesting findings in the British Library», in Haris Xanthoudakis, Kostas Kardamis (eds.), Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros: a contribution for the 130 years from the composer's passing (Corfu, Ionian University-Music Department, 2003), 113–127 (in Greek)

Programme and cd notes (selected titles)

  • «Rossini, the opera La cambiale di matrimonio and the italian operatic scene of early 19th century», in the programme of the production of G. Rossini's  La cambiale di matrimonio in Corfu as part of the EU Intereg IIIa project La bottega delle voci (Municipal Theatre of Corfu, 12 and 13/4/2008), (in Greek)
  • «Mantzaros and his Solomos's settings», Concert with poems by Dionisios Solomos set to music by Mantzaros, organized by the Academy of Athens honouring the 150 from the poets passing (Athens, 4/12/2007, Eastern Hall of Academy of Athens) (in Greek)
  • Melos Brass: Music for Brass  (Melos Brass, Summer 2006) (in Greek and English)
  • «The music of Cavalleria Rusticana: Combining novelty with tradition», in the programme of the production of P. Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana in Athens Megaron Music Hall (November 2004), 31–35 (in Greek)
  • «Symphonic music ÉÉ: Symphonic music in Greece in 19th and 20th centuries», in the booklet of the 12-CD production of the Cultural Olympiad Music by 19th and 20th century Greek composers (Spring 2004), 48–52, (in Greek and English)
  • «Tradition, exoticism and the modern: the music of Turandot», in the programme of the production of G. Puccini's Turandot in Athens Megaron Music Hall (April 2003), 31–35 (in Greek)

Periodicals (selected titles)

  • «British Regimental Bands: A Corfu connection (1814-1864)», The Brass Herald 31 (December 2009-January 2010), 54-55 (in English)
  • «Manos Hadjidakis and rebetiko: An attempt of a re-evaluation», History Illustrated 498 (December 2009), 90-102 (in Greek)
  • «Demetrios Lalas: The Macedonian assistant of Richard Wagner», History Illustrated 485 (November 2008), 74–84 (in Greek)
  • «Aegean Sea and Music», History Illustrated 481 (July 2008), 88–97 (in Greek)
  • «Giovanni Battista Verger: His unknown performances in the Ionian Islands», History Illustrated 480 (June 2008), 69–72 (in Greek)
  • «The centenary of Spiro Samaras's Rhea», History Illustrated 478 (April 2008), 56–62 (in Greek)
  • «Three concerts of the Rombotis's School», Bulletin of the Hellenic Music Research Lab 7 (July–September 2007), 10–13 (in Greek)
  • «... lessons on the Cornett a Piston»: An announcement in the Gazzetta Uffiziale of the Ionian Islands», Bulletin of the Hellenic Music Research Lab 5 (January–March 2007), 13–14 (in Greek)
  • «Some thoughts on the "prehistory" of wind bands in the Ionian Islands», Bulletin of the Hellenic Music Research Lab 3 (July–September 2006), 6–7 (in Greek)
  • «Idomeneo and Greece», in 250 years Mozart: The birthday of a musical genius, special edition of the newspaper To Vima tis Kyriakis (29/1/2006), 11 (in Greek)
  • «The Petrides brothers», To Vima tis Kyriakis, special edition «To allo Vima» (17/12/2000), 7–8 (in Greek)

Lectures and other publications

  • «The music relations between German speaking countries and Greek art music» and «The development of opera in Greece»: lectures-seminars in Hochschule fuer Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, Institut fuer Musikwissenschaft as part of the Erasmus-LLP propramme (16-21/11/2009)
  • «Mantzaros, Padovanis, Rodotheatos: Three Septinsular composers in the 'Old Philharmonic'», lecture in the Philharmonic Society of Corfu (25/02/2009)
  • «The tuition of the History of Music in the university and the school», lecture in the annual colloquium of the Music Department's Graduates (Corfu, Ionian Academy, 13/5/2007)
  • «The use of the poetry of Solomos as a tuition tool», in the seminar In order to know Solomos (Corfu, Solomos's Museum, 28/4/2007)
  • «The death of Dionisios Solomos and the Philharmonic Society of Corfu», lecture in the Society of Corfiot Studies for the 150 years from the poet's passing (21/2/2007), to be published (in Greek)
  • «The opera Il ciarlatano preso per principe by Domenikos Padovanis (Domenico Padovani): an initial approach», lecture in the musicological circle Milestones of Neohellenic Art Music (Athens Megaron Music Hall / «The Friends of Music» Association / Music Library of Greece «Lilian Voudouris»), Athens, 15/3/2005
  • «Mantzaros and the fugue», lecture in the 3rd Summer Music Academy (Corfu, July 2005)
  • Philharmonic Society of Corfu: History – List of Archival Exhibits, report for the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Group (December 2004), (in Greek)
  • «Musicological research and Neohellenic Music: a historical overview, prerequisites, prospects», in the colloquium After graduation  (Corfu, Ionian Academy, 8/5/2004)
  • The Kessaris Archive of the Philharmonic Society of Corfu, research charged and supported by the PSC (Corfu, 2004), (in Greek)