University Professor of Music Theory, Guitarist & Composer
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About me
Hello everyone! Allow me to say a few words about myself and my interests.
I graduated from Purchase College of the State University of New York with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in guitar performance. My guitar skills were furthered with jazz/rock guitar lessons at the New School for Social Research (New York) and the Guitar Institute (London). I am also a holder of a Ph.D. in Music Theory from the University of Nottingham and an MA in Music Theory from Queens College of the City University of New York.
Between 1999 and 2007 I taught at the University of Nottingham and the University of Macedonia, Greece. Currently, I am a Professor of Music Theory and Analysis at the University of Nicosia. My research interests include methods of pitch organization in early twentieth-century music, non-diatonic scales, popular music (particularly rock music), and form and analysis. My publication record features:
The book Demystifying Scriabin (co-editor and author of 2 chapters), published by Boydell and Brewer (2022)
The co-edition of Vol. 3 of the journal Mousikos Logos (2019)
Chapters in various books
Articles in internationally renowned journals such as Music Analysis, Music Theory Online, and Rivista di analisi e teoria musicale.
As a composer, I like to experiment with the ideals and techniques of art (progressive) rock, integrating materials from late Romantic harmony and early 20th-century avant-garde music into my songs. In parallel, I perform with rock and ethnic groups as a guitarist and singer.