Achilleas G. Chaldaeakes

Achilleas G. Chaldaeakes, associate professor of Byzantine Musicology at the Department of Musical Studies of the NKUA, published more than 100 studies (monographs, articles, entries in encyclopaedias, communications in congresses, essays in various collective volumes and scientific reviews, etc.), mostly on various subjects (theoretical, historical, aesthetic, etc.) pertaining to the field of Byzantine Music. He is also a regular collaborator and consultant on Byzantine musicological entries in both the Great Orthodox Christian Encyclopaedia and the ПРАВОСЛАВНАЯ ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЯ. He participates in almost all congresses on Byzantine Music both in Greece and abroad, and is a member of the scientific and organizing committees in most of them. He is also an active member of various international scientific societies (such as the Institute of Byzantine Musicology, The International Society for Orthodox Church Music, The American Society of Byzantine Music and Hymnology, etc.) whose activities are focused on Byzantine Musicological studies. At the same time, he is the director of an artistic group of international renown, the choir Masters of Psaltic Art. With this choir he has given, up to the present day, more than 400 performances in Europe, Asia, America and Australia, has recorded 20 CDs and has appeared in many radio and TV shows in Greece and abroad.

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