Research Projects

2016-2017     «Musical evidence on performance techniques of Greek musical instruments in the classical era», funded by the Research Committee of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (ref. code: 93576, scientific supervisor: Alexandra Goulaki-Voutira). The project’s main goals were the collection and cataloguing in the digital database MITOS and comparative study of iconographic material relating to the depiction of performance techniques of Greek musical instruments in antiquity.

2014-2015 “Musical evidence from Greek colonies in South Italy», funded by the Research Committee of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (ref. code: 90793, scientific supervisor: Alexandra Goulaki-Voutira). The project’s goals were the collection, documentation and cataloguing in the digital database MITOS of iconographic material from the Greek colonies of South Italy and its comparative study with similar finds from the mainland of Greece to establish possible connections in iconography and actual practices.

2005-2010 “Archive of Musical Iconography and Literary Sources”, funded by the Aristotle University Property Development and Management Committee (ref. code 80098, scientific supervisor: Alexandra Goulaki-Voutira). The projects goals were the collection, documentation and cataloguing in the digital database MITOS of iconographic material and the support of music iconography courses in the School of Musical Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

2004-2009 “Greek Musical Instruments”. Research project resulting in the creation of a digital database of iconographic and literary material (accessible since February 2010 in the venues of the Piraeus Bank Cultural Foundation) and the preparation of a volume examining the form and presence of Greek musical instruments from antiquity to the end of the post-byzantine era using iconographic and literary sources (published in December 2012).

2002-2004 “Music and Dance in Ancient Greece”, funded by the Research Committee of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (ref. code: 20892, scientific supervisor: Alexandra Goulaki-Voutira). Its main goal was the collection and cataloguing of material for the preparation of an exhibition on ancient Greek music and dance by the Greek Ministry of Culture. 

2002-2003 “Images of Music – A Cultural Heritage”. A research project, under the general scientific supervision of Tilmann Seebass (Institut für Musicwissenschaft, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck), co-financed by the European Union (Culture-2000 program). The project’s main objective was the joining of seven countries in a single network aiming to promote documentation and cataloguing of images with musical subject matter. The project concluded with the preparation of three online virtual exhibitions of musical iconography using pilot material from all participating archives under the titles:

Ι. “Sacred Music :Image and Reality” (coordinated by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice)

ΙΙ. “Rhythm in Music and Dance“ (coordinated  by the Archive of Musical Iconography and Literary Sources )

ΙΙΙ. “Musical Myths :From Antiquity to Modern Times“ (coordinated by the Centre d’ Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance of the University of Tours).

These exhibitions were accessible on the Internet in seven languages (English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Greek) and published in CD-ROM.

2001-2004   Research project for the re-exhibition of the Museum of Ancient, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Musical Instruments of the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, scientific supervisor Alexandra Goulaki-Voutira. The project’s goal was the collection, documentation and cataloguing of musical iconographical evidence depicting organological features of musical instruments.

1999-2000 “Literary and iconographical evidence on ancient Greek music” (ref. code 7676, scientific supervisor: D. Themelis). The project’s goal was the collection and cataloguing of representations depicting music practices in ancient Greece for the purposes of the Archive of Musical Iconography of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.