ILIAS CHRISSOCHOIDIS

 

P.O. Box 19689

Stanford, CA 94309

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EDUCATION

 

2004                Ph.D. in Musicology, Stanford University, USA.

Dissertation: “Early Reception of Handel’s Oratorios, 1732–1784: Narrative – Studies – Documents,” 3 vols., xiii + 1626 pp.

Dissertation committee: Professor Karol Berger (adviser), Professor Stephen Hinton (reader), Professor Thomas S. Grey (reader).

1996                M.Phil. (by research) in Musicology, University of Liverpool, UK.

Thesis: “The Concept of Music in the Shakespearean Corpus: An Exploration of Neoplatonic Ideas of Music in Shakespeare.”

1995–1996      M.Phil./Ph.D. status, Musicology, King’s College, University of London, UK.

Project: “The Impact of Aristotle’s Poetics on the Efforts Towards the Creation of Opera.”

Adviser: Professor Reinhard Strohm.

1995                M.Mus. in Historical Musicology, King’s College, University of London, UK.

Thesis: “Striggio-Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo: An Exploration of its Neoplatonic Layers.”

Adviser: Professor Curtis Price.

1992                Ptychio (equivalent to MA) summa cum laude and highest GPA in my class, Musicology and Music Education,

Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Thesis: “The Life and Works of Nicholas Astrinidis.”

1989–1990      private instruction in Conducting with Karolos Trikolidis (student of Hans Swarovski and Herbert von Karajan), New Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Greece.

1992                Diploma in Theory of Music (cluster of teaching degrees) cum laude,

Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Greece.

1992                        Fugue (Diploma: Excellent Unanimously with Distinction)

1990                        Hodiki (Degree: Excellent)

1990                        Counterpoint (Degree: Excellent Unanimously)

1988                        Harmony (Degree: Excellent)

1990                Diploma in Piano Performance (professional degree) cum laude and First Prize,

Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Greece.

 

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RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS AND ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS

 

2011–2012      Research grant, Greek America Foundation

Visiting Fellowship, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA

Visiting Scholar, Department of Music, Stanford University (July–September)

2010–2011      ACLS Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies

                        Kluge Fellowship, The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress

                        Visiting Fellowship, Houghton Library, Harvard University

                        McGill-ASECS Fellowship, The Burney Centre, McGill University

                        Honorary Research Associate, Department of Economics, University College London

                        Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University [declined]

2010, Jan.        Research grant, “Music & Letters” Trust

2009–2010      Research Associate, ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE),

Department of Economics, University College London

                        Early Career Research Associate, Institute of Musical Research,

School of Advanced Study, University of London

2007–2008      Mayers Fellowship, The Huntington

2006–2007      John M. Ward Fellowship in Dance and Music for the Theatre, Houghton Library, Harvard University

                        Mary and Eric Weinmann Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library

2005–2006      Kanner Fellowship in British Studies, Center for Seventeenth- & Eighteenth-Century Studies, UCLA

                        ASECS/Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

                        Gwin J. and Ruth Kolb Research Fellowship, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

2005                Honorary Citation, Academy of Athens

2004–2005      Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington

2004                J. Merrill Knapp Research Fellowship, American Handel Society

2003–2004      Aubrey Williams Research Travel Fund Award, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

2003                Travel Fellowship, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

                        Graduate Research Opportunity Award, Stanford University

                        Ingolf Dahl Award Competition Finalist, AMS Pacific Southwest and Northern California chapters

                        Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship Finalist, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

2002–2003      Research Fellowship, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA

                        Visiting Fellowship, The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

2001–2002      Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center

2000–2002      Doctoral Fellowship, Panayotis and Effie Michelis Foundation

1996–2000      Doctoral Fellowship, Stanford University

1995–1996      Postgraduate Fellowship, Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation

                        Vozou Fellowship, Academy of Athens

1994–1995      Velliou-Varonou Scholarship, Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs

1992–1993      Postgraduate Scholarship, Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki

1991 (Fall)       research grant, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

1990                Honorary Diploma and Scholarship, Rotary Club of Thessaloniki

1987–1991      Undergraduate Fellowships, Greek State Scholarships Foundation

1986                Honorary Diploma, Municipality of Neapolis, Thessaloniki

1985–1992      Fellowship, School of Advanced Music Theory, Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki

 

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Continuing Studies Program, Stanford University (Lecturer):

2012    Summer            What Makes Classical Music Tick: The Elements of Sound

2012    Winter              An introduction to Opera

2011    Fall                   Practical Music Theory

2009    Fall                   Handel and His Times [cancelled]

2009    Summer            Music’s Anatomy: Classical Music from the Inside

2008    Summer            Practical Music Theory

2008    Spring              Mozart and the Enlightenment

2007    Summer            Practical Music Theory

2006    Fall                   Beethoven’s Nine Symphonies

2006    Summer            Practical Music Theory

2006    Spring              A Practical Introduction to Harmony

2005    Fall                   Handel’s London

2005    Summer            A Practical Introduction to Music Theory

2005    Spring              Handel and Georgian England [cancelled]

 

Teaching evaluations

 

Department of Music, Stanford University (Teaching Fellow):

2004    Winter              Elements of Music II

2003    Fall                   Elements of Music I

2003    Spring              Elements of Music III

2002    Fall                   Introduction to Music Theory

1999    Fall                   Mozart’s Instrumental Music

1999    Winter              Music History until 1750

1998    Fall                   The Music of J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel

1998    Spring              Talking about Music

1998    Winter              Introduction to Music

1997    Fall                   Introduction to Music Theory

 

Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Greece (Lecturer):

1989–1991                  Music Theory I

1989–1991                  Piano I

 

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WORK EXPERIENCE

 

  • 2010                executive assistant, “Game Theory, Drama, & Opera” workshop (organized by Steffen Huck and Sir Peter Jonas), July 6–7, University College London.
  • 2008–2009      research and editorial assistant, Richard Wagner and His World, ed. Thomas S. Grey (Princeton and Oxford, 2009).
  • 2007                exhibition curator, “Celebrating Handel in Georgian England,” Houghton Library, Harvard University
  • 2006–2008      research and editorial assistant, The Cambridge Companion to Wagner, ed. Thomas S. Grey (Cambridge, 2008).
  • 2004–2008      music director and piano accompanist, “Hope Musical Theatre,” Palo Alto, CA.
  • 2004                musicological advisor, “Hellenic Festival” (28, 30 October, 6 November), The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York City
  • 2003                referee for the Journal of the American Musicological Society
  • 2003, Aug 5     panel chair, “Music and Words,” 11th Quadrennial Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), UCLA
  • 2002, Oct        finalist, regular columnist search, The Stanford Daily
  • 2002–2004      research associate to a non-profit organization
  • 2002, 2003      coordinator, photo exhibit on world development problems, “Rhythms” hunger relief concert, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University (24/02/02, 16/02/03)
  • 2001, Dec 4     organizer, “The Miracle behind the Miracles,” lecture and slide-show by Buddy Piper, Bechtel International Center, Stanford University 
  • 2001, Dec. 1    organizer, “A Spiritual Perspective on the September 11 Attacks: Panel Discussion and Public Forum,” Stanford Humanities Center
  • 2001–2003      organizer, photo exhibit on world development problems, United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF), Stanford University (25–28 October 2001, 24–27 October 2002, 1 May 2003, 22–26 October 2003)
  • 2000–2002      published author of three books of fiction in Greek
  • 2000–2001      desk assistant, Media & Microtext, Stanford University Libraries
  • 2000–2001      piano accompanist for “Ballet I,” Stanford University Dance Division
  • 1999–2000      administrative assistant, “Ron Alexander Memorial Lectures in Musicology,” Stanford University Department of Music
  • 1998–2004      guest columnist, “The Stanford Daily”
  • 1998–2000      co-director, “Graduate Musicology Forum,” Stanford University
  • 1998–1999      assistant, “Lully Archive,” Stanford University Music Library
  • 1997–2003      piano recitalist, Stanford University and Palo Alto
  • 1996                musicological advisor, Nikos Astrinidis: A Portrait, TV documentary by Giorgos Keramidiotis, Greek Television Channel 3
  • 1994–1996      office assistant (unpaid), “World Goodwill,” London, UK
  • 1989–1992      archivist and assistant to composer Nikos Astrinidis, Thessaloniki
  • 1989–1991      co-founder and member of the editorial board of the journal Mousikotropies, Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • 1989–1990      assistant to the director (unpaid), New Conservatory of Thessaloniki
  • 1983/4             various musicological projects
  • 1981–1985, c1990—present: composer
  • also, experience as a piano performer (soloist and accompanist), editor, translator (into Greek), lecturer, recording supervisor

 

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WRITINGS [Gr= in Greek]

 

Monographs

Research articles

Shorter pieces

Invited presentations

Unpublished research papers

Music essays

Other writings

Journalism

Reviews

Fiction-other

 

 

Monographs

 

  • Studies in Handel Reception, 1732–1784, collection of essays on Handel, his oratorios, and their reception in Britain before the 1784 Commemoration Festival [proposal submitted].
  • The Doomed Challenger: John Brown (1715–1766) and his Reform of English Oratorio, 100–150 page monograph [proposal submitted].
  • Handel Reference Database, Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH) at Stanford University, 2008– (3550 items, 670,637 words).
  • Neoplatonic Musical Imagery in Shakespeare, book manuscript (ca 50,000 words) [under revision].
  • From the Garden of Diaspora to the Cell of Repatriation: The Life and Works of Nikos Astrinidis (1921–2010), book manuscript (50,000 words) [awaiting publication funding] [Gr].

 

 

Research articles

 

Work in progress

  • “Handel in the balance: A scale of musical merit from 1776” [ca 7,000 words, in progress].
  • “Music and musicians in the Jennens-Holdsworth correspondence (1729–46),” jointly with Amanda Babington [ca 30,000 words, in final stages].
  • “Handel at sixty (1745): New insights on Handel’s darkest hour” [15,000 words, in final stages].
  • “A Handelian piracy during a ‘Handel’ Year” [in preparation].
  • “Farinelli sings Handel” [in preparation].
  • “Handel and crime” [in preparation].
  • “From the music historian’s desk: Burney researching the Royal Academy of Music” [in preparation].
  • “An annotated wordbook of The Beggar’s Opera (1728)” [in preparation].
  • “A ghost reference to Lohengrin in Nietzsche’s Der Fall Wagner” [in preparation].

 

Work under review

  • “Νίκος Αστρινίδης (1921–2010): Βιογραφία και κατάλογος έργων [Nikos Astrinidis (1921–2010): Biography and works catalogue]” [15,500 words, under review].
  • “‘As a dictionary to a novel’: A C.P.E. Bach entry in Beethoven’s Op. 2, No. 3?” [10,100 words, under revision].
  • “Μουσικός Πλατωνισμός στην Ελισαβετιανή Αναγέννηση [Musical Platonism in Elizabethan Renaissance]” [9,750 words, under review].
  • “‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t’: A Counterfactual Analysis of Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser,” jointly with Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, and Wieland Müller [7,150 words, under review].
  • “Born in the press: The public molding of Esther into an English oratorio (1732)” [under revision].
  • “From the garden of Diaspora to the cell of repatriation: Hellenism in the life and works of Nikos Astrinidis,” Aspects of Hellenism in Music [in production].

 

 

 

 

Invited Presentations

 

  • Pacific Southwest and Northern California AMS chapters joint meeting, University of California, Berkeley, April 28–29, 2012: “‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t’: A Counterfactual Analysis of Tannhäuser’s Dilemma” (co-authored with Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, and Wieland Müller)
  • “The Theory, Practice and Business of Opera Today,” Leeds University Centre for Opera Studies, University of Leeds, April 12–14, 2012: “‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t’: A Counterfactual Analysis of Tannhäuser’s Dilemma” (co-authored with Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, and Wieland Müller) [withdrawn]
  • Noon Lecture, Whittall Pavilion, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 18 May 2011: “From the London Stage to Westminster Abbey: Cultural Mobility of Handel’s Oratorios in Britain, 1732-1784”
  • “Early Modern Women in the Arts,” West Chester University, 16 April 2011: “A ‘new-fashioned Martyr’: Handel, Lady Brown, and ‘baby-boomer’ musicology” [cancelled]
  • American Musicological Society Capital Chapter meeting, Washington, D.C., 2 April 2011: “Dramatic pairing in Fidelio: A structuralist approach”
  • 16th Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University of Southampton, 8–11 July 2010: “Dramatic pairing in Fidelio: A structuralist approach”
  • “Game Theory, Drama, & Opera,” University College London, 6–7 July 2010: “‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t’: A Counterfactual Analysis of Tannhäuser’s Dilemma” (co-authored with Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, and Wieland Müller)
  • “Directions in Musical Research” seminar, Institute of Musical Research, University of London, 18 February 2010: “Handel, Us and Them: Reflections on Handelian Historiography”
  • “Music and the Moving Image,” New York University, 29–31 May 2009: “Sid Caesar, ‘Argument to Beethoven’s Fifth’: A Comic Misreading of Cultural Consequence”
  • “Purcell, Handel, Haydn, and Mendelssohn: Anniversary reflections,” New College, Oxford, 27–29 March 2009: “Handel as a Transitional Figure”
  • “Greek music for the opera and other forms of the performing arts in the 20th century,” Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall, Greece, 27–28 March 2009: “Drama in the works of Nikos Astrinidis”
  • Third Biennial Conference of the North American British Music Studies Association, York University, Toronto, 31 July–3 August 2008: “A Founding Father of Social Responsibility in Music? Handel in Georgian Britain” [cancelled]
  • 39th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, OR, 27–30 March 2008: “Public Discipline and Handel’s Oratorios” [cancelled]
  • 18th Congress of the International Musicological Society, University of Zurich, 10–15 July 2007: “Handel as a transitional figure”
  • 2007 American Handel Festival, Princeton University, 19–21 April 2007: “‘How is the hero fall’n!’: New Light on Handel’s Darkest Hour (1745)”
  • 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory (jointly with AMS), “Scholars for Social Responsibility” session, Los Angeles, 2–5 November 2006: “A Founding Father of Social Responsibility in Music?  Handel in Georgian Britain”
  • Second Biennial Conference of the North American British Music Studies Association, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT, 4–5 August 2006: “A ‘Scale to Measure the Merits of Musicians’ (1776)”
  • Twelfth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, University of Warsaw, Poland, 26–30 July 2006: “Born in the Press: The Political Context of Handel’s Esther (1732)”
  • “Music and Consciousness,” University of Sheffield, UK, 17–19 July 2006: “Cyril Scott’s Musical Platonism”
  • Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) International Conference 2006, Durham University, UK, 6–9 July 2006: “Couples and Coupling in Beethoven’s Fidelio”
  • Annual joint meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern California AMS chapters, University of California, Berkeley, 6–7 May 2006: “Handel, Lady Brown, and Baby-Boomer Musicology” [cancelled]
  • “Aspects of Hellenism in Music,” Music Megaron of Athens, Athens, Greece, 5–7 May 2006: “From the Garden of Diaspora to the Cell of Repatriation: Hellenism in the Life and Works of Nikos Astrinidis”
  • 37th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, Quebec, 30 March–2 April 2006: “Handel and the Sublime according to John Baillie (1747)” [cancelled]
  • 35th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK, 4–6 January 2006: “Building the Empire on Sound Art: John Brown’s Reform of Handelian Oratorio, 1763” [cancelled]
  • “Romania-Enescu-Europe,” The City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, 1–2 December 2005: “From Romanian Folklore to Greek Nationalism: The Cultural Migration of Nikos Astrinidis (1921–)”
  • “Politics [AND/IN] Aesthetics International Conference,” Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece / University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria, 4–9 June 2005: “National Regeneration through Art: John Brown’s Reform of Handelian Oratorio, 1763”
  • International Symposium Iannis Xenakis, University of Athens / University of Montpellier 3, Athens, Greece, 18–20 May 2005: “Set theory in Xenakis’ EONTA” (in collaboration)
  • Annual joint meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern California AMS chapters, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 30 April—1 May 2005: “Sid Caesar, ‘Argument to Beethoven’s Fifth’: A Comic Misreading of Cultural Consequence”
  • 36th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, 31 March–3 April 2005: “Quantifying Genius: British Adaptations of de Piles’ Scale of Painters”
  • 2005 Joint Meetings of College Music Society Pacific Central Chapter, West Coast Conference for Music Theory and Analysis, and Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory, University of San Francisco, 18–20 March 2005: “Chopin’s ‘Prelude’ Op. 28, No. 14: A Case of Monophonic Counterpoint in Romantic Music” (March 19)
  • The American Handel Society Conference, Santa Fe, NM, 17–20 March 2005: “Born in the Press: The Public Molding of Handel’s Esther into an English Oratorio” (March 18)
  • “Music’s Intellectual History: Founders, Followers & Fads,” The City University of New York Graduate Center, 16–19 March 2005: “Handel’s Reception and the Rise of Music Historiography in England” (March 17)
  • 34th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK, 6–8 January 2005: “Quantifying Genius: British Adaptations of de Piles’ Scale of Painters”
  • “Britannia (Re-)Sounding,” The First North American British Music Studies Association Biannual Conference, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, OH, 18–19 June 2004: “From Stage to Cathedral: Cultural Mobility of English Oratorio in 18th-Century Britain”
  • Annual joint meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern California AMS chapters, University of San Francisco, 1–2 May 2004: “Quantifying Genius: Justice Balance’s ‘hit parade’ of Composers, 1776”
  • Renaissance Conference of Southern California, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 20–21 February 2004: “An Advertisement of Music’s Power?  Temporal Symmetry in the Prologue of L’Orfeo”
  • 33rd Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, 3–5 January 2004: “Born in the Press: The Public Molding of Handel’s Esther into an English Oratorio”
  • 11th Quadrennial Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 3–9 August 2003: “National Regeneration through Art: John Brown’s Reform of Handelian Oratorio, 1763”
  • Annual joint meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern California AMS chapters, California State University, Fullerton, 3–4 May 2003: “Born in the Press: The Public Molding of Handel’s Esther into an English Oratorio”
  • The American Handel Festival, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, 27 February–2 March 2003: “Re-Inventing a Genre: John Brown’s Reception of Handelian Oratorio”
  • Winter meeting of the Northern California AMS chapter, University of San Francisco, 8 February 2003: “‘Like a Dictionary to a Novel’: A C.P.E. Bach Entry in Beethoven’s Op. 2, No. 3?”
  • 68th meeting of the American Musicological Society, Columbus, OH, 31 October–3 November 2002: “The Doomed Challenger: John Brown’s Reform of Handelian Oratorio”
  • Pacific Southwest and Northern California AMS chapters joint meeting, Stanford University, 27–28 April 2002: “The Doomed Challenger: John Brown’s Reform of Handelian Oratorio”
  • Fellow lecture, Stanford Humanities Center, 14 February 2002: “Early Reception and the Moral Claims of Handel’s Oratorios, 1732–1784”
  • “Ron Alexander Memorial Lecture in Musicology,” Stanford University, 9 April 2001: response to Reinhard Strohm, “The End of the Middle Ages and the End of Modernity”
  • Undergraduate Seminar in Composition (instructor: Professor Melissa Hui), Stanford University Department of Music, 13 April 1999: “Ilias Chrissochoidis, Piano Concerto”
  • Royal Musical Association 29th Research Students’ Conference, Royal Holloway College, University of London, 20–23 December 1995: “‘Was Monteverdi a Misogynist?’ and ‘Does Anyone Really Care About It?’”
  • Royal Musical Association 28th Annual Research Students’ Conference, University of Manchester, December 1994: “Towards the Emancipation of the Musical Work”
  • Armenian Cultural Center, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 1993: “The Life and Works of Nicolas Astrinidis”
  • School of English, University of Liverpool, June 1992: “Baconian or Stratfordian Theory?”

 

 

Unpublished Research Papers

 

  • “Fragmentation in Classical Era Instrumental Music” (research paper, fall 1998).
  • “Three Moments in Music Aesthetics” (paper, fall 1998).
  • “An Essay on Schenker and Some of his Intellectual Affinities with Hanslick and Schopenhauer” (research paper, spring 1998).
  • “Beethoven’s Heiliger Dankgesang” (research paper, spring 1997).
  • “An Exploration of Anti-Teleological Moments in Beethoven’s Fidelio” (research paper, winter 1997).
  • “The Canon and how one can blow it up: Improvisation on a commonly obscure theme” (seminar paper, April 1995).
  • “An Analysis of John Williams’ Star Wars (Main Title)” (seminar paper, January 1995).
  • “Baconian or Stratfordian Theory?” (seminar paper, June 1992).

 

 

Music Essays

 

  • “Saved by (English) grace” [1200 words].
  • “René Descartes, Compendium musicae (1618)” [under review] [Gr].
  • “Infernal diva” [1500 words].
  • “έτος Robert Schumann: Η Συμφωνία αρ. 1, έργο 38,” Πολύτονον 42 (September–October 2010), 37–39, and 43 (November–December), 42–43 [Gr].
  • “Η θεωρία των συνόλων στα ΕΟΝΤΑ του Ξενάκη,” (jointly with Χρίστος Μητσάκης and Σταύρος Χουλιαράς), Πολύτονον 43 (November–December 2010), 21–23 [Gr].
  • “Η πρόσληψη του Handel από τον Mozart [Mozart’s Reception of Handel],” Πολύτονον 38 (January–February 2010), 22–23, and 39 (March 2010), 40–41 [Gr].
  • “Composed in Hypocricy” [original title: “Music, torture, and the drama of American musicology”], Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 55, no. 35, Friday 8 May 2009, B10.

Epilogue (14 May 2009).

 

 

Other Writings

 

  • “Sharing as Practice” (program notes to personal piano recital, 6 February 2002).
  • “A Spiritual Perspective on the September 11 Attacks: Panel Discussion and Public Forum” (introductory remarks, 1 December 2001).
  • “On the UN’s Peace Nobel Prize” (program notes to personal piano recital, 17 October 2001).
  • “The Case for Sharing” (program notes to personal piano recital, 4 April 2001).
  • “You are right…but I’m not convinced” (entry for the “Center of Teaching and Learning Speech” contest, 1 November 2000).
  • “A 1767 UFO Sighting?” (communication to various UFO-research electronic boards, 27 August 2000).
  • “Religion, Morality, and the University,” The Thinker 6/1 (October 1999), 3, 5.
  • “1999 Stanford Founders’ Day Speech” (competition entry, 22 February 1999).
  • “1998 Stanford Founders’ Day Speech” (competition entry, 20 February 1998).
  • “A Meditation on Time and History” (essay, 30 November 1995) [also in Gr].

 

 

Journalism

 

(major themes:  defending the Humanities in a corporate academia

uniting personal spiritual freedom and social justice)

 

  • Η Επιστροφή του Χριστού και οι Επιπτώσεις της στην Παγκόσμια Κρίση: Μια Προσωπική Έρευνα-Κατάθεση (Thessaloniki, 2011) [Gr].
  • “Ζητείται αλλήθωρος πρωθυπουργός” (op-ed, 547 words, 17 April 2010) [Gr].
  • “Κυβέρνηση εκτάκτου ανάγκης” (op-ed, 518 words, 14 February 2010) [Gr].
  • “Misalignment: viewing global recession from a cosmic perspective” (column, 872 words, 12 September 2009).
  • “Εκλογές ή μνημόσυνο;” (op-ed, 386 words, 6 September 2009) [Gr].
  • “Μέρες Αποκάλυψης” (1809 words, 14 April 2009), excerpts posted in troktiko blog, Sunday 24 May 2009 [Gr].
  • “Πρόβα Αποκάλυψης” (column, 951 words, 23 December 2008), Kathimerini, Tuesday 6 January 2009, 11 [Gr].
  • “Πρωθυπουργός Περιορισμένης Ευθύνης,” troktiko blog, Wednesday 8 October 2008 [Gr].
  • “Δαυλός” [excerpt from “Πρωθυπουργός Περιορισμένης Ευθύνης”], To Vima, Saturday 4 October 2008 [Gr].
  • “Πρώτο Ανάθεμα,” troktiko blog, 8 March 2008 [Gr].
  • “Προσκόλληση σε εικονική πραγματικότητα” [original title: “Μια μούμια μα ποιά μούμια;”], To Vima, 23 January 2008, A14 [Gr].
  • “Η χαμένη ευκαιρία του ΠΑΣΟΚ” (column, 5 November 2007) [Gr].
  • “Η 12η Νοεμβρίου ευκαιρία για τη νεολαία του ΠΑΣΟΚ” (column, 29 October 2007) [Gr].
  • “ΠΑσόκ χωρίς δέος” (column, 24 October 2007), excerpted as “Ο Β. Βενιζέλος έχει τις απαντήσεις,” Ta Nea, 9 November 2007, 19 [Gr]. 
  • “ΠΑΣΟΚ Romantique” (column, 19 October 2007) [Gr].
  • “Ψεύτικα διλήμματα” [original title: “Τα ψεύτικα διλήμματα τα δόλια”], To Vima, 18 October 2007, A9 [Gr].
  • “Apple Cider Vinegar can help fight the flu” (letter, 10 November 2005).
  • “Humanity is one and indivisible” (editor’s title; letter), The Stanford Weekly, 21 July 2005, pp. 4–5.
  • “Fiorina’s fall scratches Stanford” (column, 10 February 2005).
  • “Secretary Rice a challenge for US diplomacy” (column, 31 January 2005).
  • “Berman’s view of America utterly simplistic” (letter, 17 January 2005).
  • “Where are the WMD?” (op-ed column), The Stanford Daily, 7 October 2004, p. 6.
  • “Kerry’s secret ally?” (column, 25 August 2004).
  • “Op-ed on Iraq was deceptive” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 20 April 2004, p. ?.
  • “Fundamentalist views on Jesus hinder interfaith dialogue” (letter, 2 March 2004).
  • “Current anti-Americanism not culture-based: A Response to Russell Berman” (column, 27 January 2004).
  • “What a president should be made of: Kucinich is the right man for the job” [original title: “The stuff that makes a president: Kucinich at Stanford”] (op-ed column), The Stanford Daily, 11 November 2003, p. 5.
  • “Harmful Chemicals at Home” (letter, 28 March 2003).
  • “Calls for war should be matched with personal courage” (letter, 16 February 2003).
  • “Crack the Nuts! Tenure for Squirrels” (column, 2 February 2003).
  • “Stanford’s new stem cell research merits scrutiny” (op-ed column), The Stanford Daily, 10 January 2003, p. 4.
  • “Happy Thanksgiving for All” (column, 26 November 2002).
  • “A reply to Dr Zappert [director of Stanford’s sexual harassment policy office]” (letter, 18 November 2002).
  • “Frustrated grad student resents new sexual harassment policy [original title: Revised policy on consensual relationships borders on social engineering]” (op-ed column), The Stanford Daily, 11 November 2002, p. 5.
  • “Carter’s Nobel Peace Prize a call for America’s reformation” (column, 13 October 2002).
  • “Success that leaves a trace” (column, 3 October 2002).
  • “Guest column ‘twists reality’ [original title: Some habits never die]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 2 October 2002, p. 4.
  • “Think tanks that never think” (column, 24 September 2002).
  • “‘Wonder drug’ unworthy of front page [original title: ‘Wonder Drug’ story phony journalism]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 1 May 2002, p. 4.
  • “Αισθητική μιζέρια [original title: Φροιξαθήνεια 2004],” Eleftherotypia, 12 April 2002 [Gr].
  • “Gaudet letter ‘succeeded’ [original title: ‘Gaudet’s column poses the right questions’]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 28 January 2002, p. 4.
  • “Hewlett-Packard’s Deal with Compaq a Threat to Stanford” (column, 20 January 2002).
  • “UN-related events an antidote to American isolationism” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 5 November 2001, p. 5.
  • “Student criticizes Jim Clark’s decision [original title: ‘Suspension of payment’ thy name is blackmail!’]” (op-ed column), The Stanford Daily, 1 October 2001, p. 4.
  • “Housing Assignment System needs Revision” (letter, 29 May 2001).
  • “Film highlights the problem of glamor at Stanford” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 18 May 2001, p. 4.
  • “The Humanities need more than Money” (column, 6 May 2001).
  • “A Building more than a Building” (letter, 29 April 2001).
  • “Fiorina choice shows ‘nervousness’ about Stanford’s future [original title: Commencement speaker choice anticipates Stanford’s precarious future]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 4 April 2001, p. 4.
  • “South Africa’s present is not beholden to its past [original title: Forget the past if you cannot remember the present!]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 2 February 2001, p. 4.
  • “Recent Daily items offer unreasonable ‘wisdom’” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 15 November 2000, p. A5.
  • “Daily should look at its own ‘corporate focus’ [original title: Self-criticism not unhealthy]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 19 October 2000, p. 4.
  • “Kofi Annan asks ‘Millennium Generation’ to safeguard the Environment” (news story, 22 June 2000).
  • “ ‘Morality’ overused in discussions on Cuba [original title: Cuba and the collapse of ideologies]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 11 May 2000, pp. A4–A5.
  • “Advertisement sends the wrong message [original title: Exactly 81 days...]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 31 March 2000, pp. 6–7.
  • “Stiglitz chills Davos” (column, 20 February 2000).
  • “Stanford promoting all the wrong values [original title: Tell us who you really are, uncle Stanford!]” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 19 January 2000, p. 4.
  • “Implications of Clark’s donation should be considered [original title: Clark’s donation well-deserved for Stanford...Polytechnic]” (op-ed column), The Stanford Daily, 28 October 1999, pp. 4–5.
  • “Religion, Morality, and the University” (essay), The Thinker 6/2, 4 October 1999, pp. 3, 5.
  • “Some Problems with the Bing Wing” (letter, 26 September 1999).
  • “Selective Sensitivity” (letter, 9 August 1999).
  • “Littleton’s Cry: Replace the American High School!” (letter, 26 April 1999).
  • “Co Ho ‘discrimination’ unfair” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 21 April 1999, p. 4.
  • “Towards a New American Left” (news story, –14 March 1999) [Gr].
  • “A Greek Philosopher at Stanford” (news story, –14 March 1999) [Gr].
  • “Open Letter to Saint Valentine” (column, 11 February 1999).
  • “Scholes’ welcome is undeserved” (op-ed column), The Stanford Daily, 11 February 1999, p. 4.
  • “Internalizing the Environment—Externalizing the Self [: Reflections on the Environmental Crisis]” (essay), The Thinker 6/1, 5 February 1999, pp. 4, 6.
  • “Wrong attitude persists” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 28 January 1999, p. 4.
  • “Express yourselves” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 24 November 1998, p. 4.
  • “Scream Hype and Student Responsibility” (letter, 8 November 1998).
  • “Avoid rape hysteria” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 4 November 1998, p. 4.
  • “Suicide: The Lethal Flower of Despair” (column, fall 1998).
  • “The Golden Calf of Capitalism” (column, fall 1998).
  • “Come, if you dare! (Letter to a Friend)” (column, 31 May 1998).
  • “A Defense of Madame Blavatsky” (letter-review, 24 February 1998); Greek translation published in http://www.blavatsky.gr/.
  • “Sexual assault is not a major campus issue” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 20 February 1998, p. 4.
  • “Nanopoulos…” (letter, 9 January 1998) [Gr].
  • “Regarding the Gulf (and a Persian one)” (commentary), Mousikotropies 1/1991, 6–7 [Gr].

 

 

Reviews

 

  • short review, Winton Dean, Handel’s Operas, 1726–1741 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2006), The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 41/2 (Spring 2009), 239 [authorship withdrawn].
  • “practical humanism divinely propelled” (Benjamin Creme, The Awakening of Humanity, Amsterdam and London: Share International Foundation, 2008) (short review in “amazon.com,” 27 December 2008).
  • “A short book on the biggest subject” (Benjamin Creme, The World Teacher for All Humanity, Amsterdam and London: Share International Foundation, 2007) (short review in “amazon.com,” 10 March 2008).
  • “Taking life seriously” (Benjamin Creme, The Art of Living: Living within the Laws of Life, Share International Foundation, 2006) (short review in “amazon.com,” 5 January 2007).
  • “Spiritual politics” (Maitreya’s Teachings: The Laws of Life, ed. by Benjamin Creme, Share International Foundation, 2005) (short review, 20 September 2005).
  • “A spiritual take on politics” (Maitreya’s Teachings: The Laws of Life, ed. by Benjamin Creme, Share International Foundation, 2005) (short review, 12 September 2005).
  • “Benjamin Creme, The Art of Co-Operation (London, Amsterdam and Los Angeles: Share International Foundation, 2002)” (review, 8 October 2002).
  • “Cecile Andrews, The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life (New York: HarperCollins, 1997)” (review, 15 May 2002).
  • “Lynn Hunt’s Presidential Lecture recovers the hidden Power of Art” (column, 11 April 2002).
  • “How do We keep Happy? Serve!” (review of Benjamin Creme, The Great Approach: New Light and Life for Humanity [Amsterdam, London, Los Angeles: Share International Foundation, 2001], 29 September 2001).
  • “Wayne Peterson, Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Beings: Encounters of an American Diplomat with Maitreya and the Masters of Wisdom,” Scatter Magazine online (April 2001) [also available in Spanish].
  • “An Antidote to Religious Fundamentalism” (short review of Thomas Curley, Masters among Us: An Exploration of Supernal Encounters and Miraculous Phenomena, 20 February 2001).
  • 80 book and 12 recording reviews and presentations for the journal Mousikotropies (1990–1994)

 

 

Fiction-Other

 

  • Πατατουήλ και Μπιφτεκιάν: Το Γδάρμα της Λύτρωσης [tale for adults, in final stages].
  • Captain Mihelis: Dragon of the seas (Charleston, SC, 2011) [Gr].
  • George Catlin.  Christianity and the New Age.  Los Angeles: Tara, 1998 (translation into Greek, July 2004).
  • T… k… I… E…  Athens, Greece: …, 2002 [Gr].
  • Ανέστιος, Φοίβος.  Στα Ίχνη του Αμερικανικού Ονείρου.  Θεσσαλονίκη: Παρατηρητής, 2002.  [Anestios, Foivos.  On the Trails of the American Dream.  Thessaloniki: Paratiritis, 2002] [Gr].
  • L… t… A…  Athens, Greece: …, 2000 [Gr].
  • “A generational Affair” (short story, 4 September 2000).
  • “How I discovered God” (moral tale, 4 April 2000).
  • “An Archaeological Drink” (short story, 1999).
  • “Where are the humans?”  In In Our Own Words: An Anthology of Poetry From a Generation Falsely Labeled Generation X.  Ed. by Marlow Peerse Weaver.  Raleigh, NC: MW Enterprises, 1999.
  • “So, you wanna know why I’m after you” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 3 June 1998, p. 18.
  • “Your body belongs to you, but the whores belong to everybody!” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 3 June 1998, p. 18.
  • “Non-Protestant Christian children’s question” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 28 May 1998, p. 14; and 3 June 1998, p. 18.
  • “Sharing” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 21 May 1998, p. 14.  Reprinted in In Our Own Words: An Anthology of Poetry From a Generation Falsely Labeled Generation X.  Ed. by Marlow Peerse Weaver.  Raleigh, NC: MW Enterprises, 1999.
  • “It came from the redwoods” (short story, 5/20/1998; audio-book version contracted by “Osiris Audio Books”).
  • “Fiction, friction or freak-scene?” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 7 May 1998, p. 14; and 3 June 1998, p. 18.
  • “In capitalism we thrust” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 30 April 1998, p. 18.
  • “A Plagiarist’s Odyssey” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 23 April 1998, p. 18.
  • “A kiss-met kismet” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 9 April 1998, p. 18.
  • “Generation BP (Bill Payers)” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 11 March 1998, p. 14.
  • “Cynical Dogs and Dogged Cynics” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 5 March 1998, p. 14.
  • “‘United States’ or ‘Uniform Tastes’ of America?” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 19 February 1998, p. 18.
  • “Life and death, the same debt” (27-word aphorism), The Stanford Daily: Intermission, 12 February 1998, p. 15.
  • E… s… A… (treatise, 23 April 1996) [Gr].
  • Christos Mitsakis.  T.M.S ABEE: Drawings.  Thessaloniki: Mousikotropies, 1991.  x+64 pp. (editor and author of preface and epilogue) [Gr].

 

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COMPOSITIONS

 

  • 2012    Apr      27                    Elsa’s thwarted honeymoon (youtube)
  • 2012    Feb      19                    falling in love (youtube)
  • 2012    Feb      10                    blues / Mississippi (youtube)
  • 2012    Feb        3                    noble grandeur / valor (youtube)
  • 2012    Jan       28                    love lost forever
  • 2012    Jan       18                    adagio (youtube)
  • 2012    Jan       15                    improvisation (youtube)
  • 2012    Jan       14                    inquiry (ringtone)
  • 2011    Dec      29                    obnoxious horn (ringtone)
  • 2011    Dec      26                    impatient (ringtone)
  • 2011    Dec      25                    themostsublimehandeloarnebachiana (ringtone) (youtube)
  • 2011    Dec        2                    Noël
  • 2011    Nov     30                    two sides of globalization (ringtone)
  • 2011    Nov     29                    Christmas means to be alone (youtube)
  • 2011    Nov     25                    Karaiskakis
  • 2011    Nov     17                    ringtones suite
  • 2011    Oct      29                    rococo (youtube)
  • 2011    Oct      22                    cosmic trance
  • 2011    Oct        8                    mistery
  • 2011    Oct        2                    perky
  • 2011    Oct        1                    miracle
  • 2011    Sep      30                    saloon
  • 2011    Sep      27                    resolve
  • 2011    Sep      26                    owl blues (youtube)
  • 2011    Sep      23                    Anatolia
  • 2011    Sep      21                    Alexander’s bet
  • 2011    Sep      20                    hangover
  • 2011    Sep      18                    Spiderman (Diabolique)
  • 2011    Sep      13                    supplication
  • 2011    Sep        9                    arctic morning
  • 2011    Sep        8                    voluntary
  • 2011    Sep        6                    baby sleeping (youtube)
  • 2011    Sep        5                    prince
  • 2011    Sep        2                    fantasia (youtube)
  • 2011    Aug      28                    romantico
  • 2011    Aug      20                    Yiayia
  • 2011    Aug      18                    mer-maid
  • 2011    Aug      14                    Myconoose
  • 2011    Aug      13                    the white horseman (youtube)
  • 2011    Aug        6                    6/8
  • 2011    Aug        3                    pieta
  • 2011    Aug        3                    Once upon a time in Greece…
  • 2011    Jul        28                    fire dance
  • 2011    Jul        24                    march for justice
  • 2011    Jul        24                    excite
  • 2011    Jul        23                    hero
  • 2011    Jul        23                    Elizabeth
  • 2011    Jul        23                    sweet dreams
  • 2011    Jul          9                    accordion
  • 2011    Jun       20                    mosquito without a cause
  • 2010    Dec                              swine leak
  • 2009    July                              youth
  • 2009    June                             repentance [Improvisation for strings]
  • 2009    June                             psychedelia / Apocalypsis (youtube)
  • 2009    June                             elegy for strings / miserere (youtube sample)
  • 2009    June                             seaside (youtube sample)
  • 2009    June                             tetelestai (youtube sample)
  • 2009    May                             alarum (youtube sample)

 

*          *          *

 

  • 2008    March                          Child Care, piano (commissioned by “Tummy Records”)
  • 2000                                        Transfigured Rock; piano
  • 2000                                        Flamingos; piano
  • 1999                                        Healing Light; piano
  • 1999    Aug                              Sonatamounatamou; piano
  • 1999                                        Heroic Rock; piano
  • 1998    Dec        1                    The Prince of Peace (lyrics: Ilias Chrissochoidis); soprano and piano
  • 1998                                        Hannah’s Complaint; piano
  • 1997                                        Overture; piano
  • 1996    fall                                Lethal Lie (lyrics: Ilias Chrissochoidis); voice and piano

 

*          *          *

 

  • 1996    Feb      2[?]                  We’re after Tomorrow (lyrics: Ilias Chrissochoidis); voice and piano
  • 1996    Jan                               Solitary Voyager (lyrics: Ilias Chrissochoidis); voice and piano
  • 1995    Jun       15                    Nostalgia; piano
  • 1995    Jan       21                    Forerunner’s Sacrifice; piano
  • 1995                                        The Course of the Soul; piano
  • 1994                                        Francis Bacon Suite: “The Mask (Shake-Spear),” “Eros (Margueritte de Valois),” “Immolation (F.B.)”; piano
  • 1992    Nov     27                    The Great Invocation (lyrics: anonymous); voice and piano
  • 1992    Jul          7                    H’Asibak Lel Zaman (lyrics: Stavros Houliaras); soprano and/or tenor and piano
  • 1992    Jun                               Three Studies on John Williams’ Style: Study no. 3; piano
  • 1992    Apr      22                    Pythagoras’ Great Decision, opera/musical in five scenes (libretto: Stavros Houliaras)
  • 1992    Feb      18                    The T.M.S. Saga (lyrics: Stavros Houliaras); voice and piano
  • 1992    Feb      11                    Greek Dance; piano
  • 1992    Jan       28                    Fuga in stilo moderno (on a Theme from Hindemith’s Ludus Tonalis); piano
  • 1991    Dec        9                    Studies on Musical Experiences: “Renaissance,” “Air,” “Kalamatianos,” “America,” “Here comes the Prince of Peace”; piano
  • 1991    Dec        4                    Hommage à Mozart; choir
  • 1991    Nov      6                    Prelude; piano
  • 1991    Aug      13                    Air: Study on J. S. Bach’s experience; piano
  • 1991    Aug        7                    Hommage à Manos Hadjidakis; piano
  • 1991    Jul        29                    Gallop; piano
  • 1991    Jul          4                    Love Theme; piano
  • 1991                                        Orgilo; piano
  • 1991                                        March; piano
  • 1991                                        Hymn-Lament (lyrics: Stavros Houliaras); bass/baritone and piano
  • 1991                                        Studies on John Williams’ style: Study no. 2 (If Kalomiris had been John Williams); piano
  • 1991                                        Lethal Tango; piano
  • 1990                                        Studies on John Williams’ style: Study no. 1; piano
  • 1990                                        The End of Music; piano
  • 1990                                        The Songs of Enoch (song-pentagon): “Enoch,” “Kritikos,” “Epitritos,” “Tsamikos,” “Mystic Ben” (lyrics: Stavros Houliaras); soprano and piano
  • 1990                                        Concert Piece; piano
  • 1990                                        Passacaglia on a given Theme; organ

 

*          *          *

 

  • 1983                                        Bagatelle in B-flat major; piano
  • 1983    Jul        11                    Minuetto; string trio
  • 1983    Jun       29                    Six Variations on the folksong Hänschen Klein; piano
  • 1983    Jun         7                    Minuetto in E-flat major; piano
  • 1983    Jun         3                    Six Variations on a German Waltz; piano
  • 1983    May     30                    Twelve Variations on a Theme by W. A. Mozart; piano
  • 1983    May       6                    Chrysanthems (lyrics: anonymous); voice and piano
  • 1983    Apr      28                    German Dance; orchestra
  • 1983    Apr      19                    Six Contredances; violoncello
  • 1983    Apr        1                    Walzer; piano
  • 1983    Mar      28                    Six Variations on the folksong Suse, liebe Suse, was raschelt im Stroh?; piano
  • 1983    Mar      22                    Twenty Variations on the folksong Im Prater; piano
  • 1983    Mar      13                    Minuetto in D major; piano
  • 1983    Mar        7                    Bagatelle in C minor; piano
  • 1983    Feb      14                    Adagio con variazioni; string quartet
  • 1983    Feb        5                    Scherzo in A major; string quartet
  • 1983    Jan         7                    Minuetto; string quartet
  • 1982    Nov                             Scherzo in C major; string quartet
  • 1982    Oct      15                    Minuetto in C major; piano
  • 1982    Jun       22                    Sonata; piano (Allegro con spirito, Andante, Tema con variazioni)

 

Creative Arrangements

 

  • 2012    Jan       22                    street musician vs concert hall
  • 2011    Oct        7                    A Wagner pilgrim’s birthday
  • 1998                                        Frankenstein Sonata (Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Elgar, and John Williams); piano
  • 1995                                        Jurassic Prelude (J. S. Bach and John T. Williams); piano
  • 1991                                        Inter-National Anthem (national anthems of Greece, USA, Germany, and the UK); piano

 

Transcriptions

 

  • 1992    Feb        2                    Chopin, Krakowiak: Grand Rondo de Concert (2nd piano part)
  • 1988                                        Chopin, Prelude op.28, no. 14; piano (octaves study)
  • 1988                                        J. S. Bach, Prelude; piano
  • also piano transcriptions of other works by J. S. Bach and Paganini.

 

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PIANO PERFORMANCES

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/chrissochoidis

 

Samples (private recordings)

 

 

(HMT performances: accompanist/music director) 

 

2012

  • 2012    Jan       29        Sunday service (10:30 am), First United Methodist Church, Redwood City
  • 2012    Jan         8        Sunday service (10:30 am), First United Methodist Church, Redwood City

2010

  • 2010    Mar      18        Chrissochoidis: Here comes the Prince of Peace (Sara Stowe, soprano) Child Care: “Music by current UCL composers,” UCL Chamber Music Club concert, Haldane Room, London
  • 2010    Jan       14        Chrissochoidis: Elegy, Tetelestai, in “New Year, New Music, New Performers, New Repertoire,” UCL Chamber Music Club concert, Haldane Room, London

2009

  • 2009    Aug      21        Annie, HMT, Palo Alto High School [2 shows]
  • 2009    Aug        7        Annie, HMT, Palo Alto High School [2 shows]
  • 2009    Jul        24        Annie, HMT, Palo Alto High School [2 shows]
  • 2009    Jul        10        Annie, HMT, Palo Alto High School [2 shows]
  • 2009    Jun       26        Annie, HMT, Palo Alto High School [2 shows]
  • 2009    Apr      29        “Consider Yourself” (Oliver!), HMT workshop, Portola Valley
  • 2009    Apr      27        “Over the Rainbow” (The Wizard of Oz), HMT workshop, Los Altos
  • 2009    Apr      22        “Over the Rainbow” (The Wizard of Oz), HMT workshop, Los Altos
  • 2009    Apr      21        “Over the Rainbow” (The Wizard of Oz), HMT workshop, Portola Valley
  • 2009    Apr      14        “Kids!” (Bye Bye Birdie), HMT workshop, Portola Valley
  • 2009    Mar      26        “Kids!” (Bye Bye Birdie), HMT workshop, Los Altos
  • 2009    Mar      25        “Kids!” (Bye Bye Birdie), HMT workshop, Palo Alto

“Kids!” (Bye Bye Birdie), HMT workshop, Los Altos

  • 2009    Mar      23        “Over the Rainbow” (The Wizard of Oz), HMT workshop, Palo Alto

“Kids!” (Bye Bye Birdie), HMT workshop, Los Altos

  • 2009    Mar      16        “Do-Re-Mi” (The Sound of Music), HMT workshop, Palo Alto
  • 2009    Feb      26        “Do-Re-Mi” (The Sound of Music), HMT workshop, Los Altos
  • 2009    Feb      25        “Do-Re-Mi” (The Sound of Music), HMT workshop, Los Altos
  • 2009    Feb      23        “Do-Re-Mi” (The Sound of Music), HMT workshop, Los Altos

2008

  • 2008    Dec      16        “You can’t get a Man with a Gun” (Annie Get Your Gun), HMT workshop, Palo Alto
  • 2008    Dec      10        “The Farmer and the Cowman” (Oklahoma), HMT workshop, Los Altos
  • 2008    Dec        9        “The Farmer and the Cowman” (Oklahoma), HMT workshop, Palo Alto
  • 2008    Dec        8        “Happy Talk” (South Pacific), HMT workshop, Los Altos
  • 2008    Dec        2        “White Christmas” (Holiday Inn), HMT workshop, Palo Alto
  • 2008    Nov     25        “Happy Talk” (South Pacific), HMT workshop, Palo Alto
  • 2008    Nov     18        “My Favorite Things” (The Sound of Music), HMT workshop, Palo Alto
  • 2008    Nov     17        “My Favorite Things” (The Sound of Music), HMT workshop, Los Altos
  • 2008    Nov     12        selected numbers, The King and I, HMT workshop, Los Altos
  • 2008    Nov     11        selected numbers, The King and I, HMT workshop, Palo Alto
  • 2008    Aug      22        Peter Pan, HMT, Palo Alto [2 shows]
  • 2008    Aug        8        Peter Pan, HMT, Palo Alto
  • 2008    Jul        25        Peter Pan, HMT [2 shows]
  • 2008    Jul        11        Peter Pan, HMT [2 shows]
  • 2008    Jun       27        Peter Pan, HMT [2 shows]

2007

  • 2007    Dec      18        “White Christmas” (Holiday Inn), HMT workshop, Palo Alto Elks Lodge
  • 2007    Dec      12        “Steam Heat” (The Pajama Game), HMT workshop, Palo Alto Elks Lodge
  • 2007    Dec      11        “Goin’ Co’tin’” (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), HMT workshop, Palo Alto Elks Lodge
  • 2007    Dec        5        “Getting to Know You” (The King and I), HMT workshop, Palo Alto Elks Lodge
  • 2007    Nov     27        Auditioning workshop, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge
  • 2007    Nov     14        “Happy Talk” (South Pacific), HMT workshop, Palo Alto Elks Lodge
  • 2007    Nov     13        “Shall We Dance?” (The King and I), HMT workshop, Palo Alto Elks Lodge
  • 2007    Aug      24        The Wizard of Oz, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge [2 shows]
  • 2007    Aug      10        The Wizard of Oz, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge
  • 2007    Jul        27        The Wizard of Oz, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge
  • 2007    Jul        13        The Wizard of Oz, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge

2006

  • 2006    Aug      11        The Music Man, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge [2 shows]
  • 2006    July      28        The Music Man, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge [2 shows]
  • 2006    July      14        The Music Man, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge
  • 2006    June     30        The Music Man, HMT, Palo Alto Elks Lodge [2 shows]
  • 2006    May     19        Annie Get Your Gun, HMT workshop, Palo Alto
  • 2006    Apr      21        Peter Pan, HMT workshop, Palo Alto
  • 2006    Feb        1        Hans Christian Andersen, HMT, Palo Alto
  • 2006    Jan       31        Hans Christian Andersen, HMT, Palo Alto
  • 2006    Jan       30        Hans Christian Andersen, HMT, Palo Alto

2005

  • 2005    Aug        5        Bye Bye Birdie, HMT, Palo Alto [2 shows]
  • 2005    July      22        Bye Bye Birdie, HMT, Palo Alto [2 shows]
  • 2005    July        8        Bye Bye Birdie, HMT, Palo Alto [2 shows]
  • 2005    May     26        I need a Vacation! (end-of-year show), HMT, Palo Alto
  • 2005    May     25        I need a Vacation! (end-of-year show), HMT, Palo Alto
  • 2005    May     24        I need a Vacation! (end-of-year show), HMT, Palo Alto
  • 2005    May     23        I need a Vacation! (end-of-year show), HMT, Palo Alto
  • 2005    Apr      20        42nd street, Broadway musical workshop, Palo Alto
  • 2005    Apr      13        42nd street, Broadway musical workshop, Palo Alto
  • 2005    Apr        1        “An Art Affair,” White Plaza, Stanford University
  • 2005    Feb      26        vocal recital (anthology of ca. 20 songs from Broadway musicals), HMT, Palo Alto (private venue)
  • 2005    Jan       27        “God Bless America” (Irving Berlin Song Revue), HMT, Palo Alto
  • 2005    Jan       26        “God Bless America” (Irving Berlin Song Revue), HMT, Palo Alto
  • 2005    Jan       25        “God Bless America” (Irving Berlin Song Revue), HMT, Palo Alto
  • 2005    Jan       24        “God Bless America” (Irving Berlin Song Revue), HMT, Palo Alto

2004

  • 2004    Dec        3        Mamma Mia! Broadway musical workshop, Palo Alto
  • 2004    Nov     19        Mamma Mia! Broadway musical workshop, Palo Alto

 

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1996–2004

  • 2004    Apr        2        “An Art Affair,” White Plaza, Stanford University
  • 2003    Dec        4        “Honoring Lives Lost to AIDS: An Interfaith Service of Remembrance,” Memorial Church, Stanford University
  • 2003    Apr        4        “An Art Affair,” White Plaza, Stanford University
  • 2002    Nov     24        “Fall Recital: Classical and Jazz,” Blackwelder Lobby, Escondido Village, Stanford University
  • 2002    Oct        2        “Noon Recital,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University
  • 2002    Jun         3        presentation of the 2001–02 Fellows gift—a piano—to the Humanities Center, Stanford University
  • 2002    Apr      11        “Noon Recital,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University
  • 2002    Apr        7        “Community Day,” Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
  • 2002    Apr        5        “An Art Affair,” White Plaza, Stanford University
  • 2001    Feb        6        “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University
  • 2001    Oct      17        “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University
  • 2001    Aug      26        “Festival of the Arts,” University Avenue, Palo Alto
  • 2001    May     12        “Spring Fair,” White Plaza, Stanford University
  • 2001    Apr        6        “An Art Affair,” White Plaza, Stanford University
  • 2001    Apr        4        “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University
  • 2001    Feb      16        “Lunchtime Recital,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University
  • 2000    Oct      11        “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University
  • 2000    Mar      31        “An Art Affair,” White Plaza, Stanford University
  • 2000    Mar      29        “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University
  • 2000    Jan       19        “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University
  • 1999    Oct      20        “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University
  • 1999    Sep      29        “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University
  • 1999    Sep      23        “Bing Concerts,” Stanford Hospital
  • 1999    May     28        “Inspirational Tempest: A Graduate Design Concert by Chelsea Eng & Laura Serghiou,” Roble Studio, Stanford University
  • 1999    Mar      31        “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University
  • 1999    Jan       23        “SASTA concerts,” Veterans Affairs Hospital, Palo Alto
  • 1999    Jan         6        “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University
  • 1998    Nov       4        “SASTA concerts,” Lytton Gardens, Palo Alto
  • 1998    Sep      30        “Wednesday Noon Recitals,” Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University
  • 1998    May       6        “SASTA concerts,” Veterans Affairs Hospital, Palo Alto
  • 1998    Apr        3        “MusiCircus,” Braun Music Center, Stanford University
  • 1998    Mar      30        “Greek Cultural Night,” Bechtel International Center, Stanford University
  • 1998    Mar      6, 7      inaugural performance of classic ballet class, Roble Studio, Stanford University
  • 1997    Jun         1        “to heed the whisper: a showing of original work in dance, visual art and music,” Roble Studio, Stanford University

 

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  • 1991    Dec        9        Ceremonies Hall, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 1991    May     31        Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 1990    Dec      16        Ceremonies Hall, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 1990    Nov     22        School of Musical Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 1990    Jun         1        Avlaia Theater, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 1989    Nov     16        benefit, Organ Donors Union (Hellenic Society of Nephrology), Avlaia Theater, Thessaloniki, Greece

 

  • other appearances in Thessaloniki and in Northern Greece

 

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BIOS

 

  • “Chrissochoidis, Ilias.”  Who’sWho in America 2005.  2 vols.  New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who’s Who, 2004.  1:815.
  • “Chrissochoidis, Ilias.”  Who’sWho in America 2004.  2 vols.  New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who’s Who, 2003.  1:895.
  • “Chrissochoidis Ilias [Χρυσοχοϊδης Ηλίας].”  In Athanasiadis, Dimitris.  History of Music.  Volume Two: From the Aesthetic Exaggeration and Volume of Baroque to the Structural Variety and Abstraction of the Avant-Garde.  Thessaloniki: Ekdoseis Makedonikou Odeiou, 2000.  836–37 [Gr].
  • “Chrissochoidis Ilias [Χρυσοχοϊδης Ηλίας].”  In Kalogeropoulos, Takis.  Dictionary of Greek Music.  6 vols.  Athens: Gialleli, 1998.  6:630 [Gr].
  • “Chrissochoidis Ilias,” Greek Composers’ Union, online.

 

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CITATIONS

 

  • Donald Burrows, Handel, revised edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 278, 482, 609.
  • Deborah W. Rooke, Handel’s Israelite Oratorio Libretti: Sacred Drama and Biblical Exegesis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 30.
  • Arnold Whittall, “Reforging The ring: origins and new beginnings,” The Musical Times (Spring 2012), 19–39: 19.
  • Hilary Poriss, “Prima Donnas and the Performance of Altruism,” in Rachel Cowgill and Hilary Poriss, eds., The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 42–60: 59.
  • David Coke and Alan Borg, Vauxhall Gardens: A History (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011), 427 (n. 75), 430 (n. 30), 434 (n. 57).
  • Felicity Nussbaum, “Owning Identity: The Eighteenth-Century Actress and Theatrical Property,” in Isabel Karrermann and Anja Müller, eds., Mediating Identities in Eighteenth-Century England (Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011), 71–87: 75.
  • Christian Grüny, “Von der Sprache des Gefühls zum Mittel der Qual: Musik als Folterinstrument,” Musik & Ästhetik 58 (April 2011), 68–83: 68.
  • Michael Suk-Young Chwe, Folk Game Theory: Strategic Analysis in Austen, Hammerstein, and African American Folktales [forthcoming, Princeton University Press], 8, 274–75, 283.
  • John Richard Prescott, “John Stanley, ‘A Miracle of Art and Nature’: The Role of Disability in the Life and Career of a Blind Eighteenth-Century Musician” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2011).
  • Aaron M. Carter-Cohn, “Music of Three Continents: Europe, North America and Africa Recital Document” (M.Mus. in Choral Conducting thesis, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2011).
  • Hans Joachim Marx, ed., Göttinger Händel-Beiträge 13 (2010), 250.
  • An International Handel Bibliography / Internationale Händel-Bibliographie (1959–2009), ed. Hans Joachim Marx (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), 1, 19, 22, 92, 150.
  • Documents: Webster’s Unabridged Bibliography (1939–Modern Times) (San Diego: ICON Group International, 2009), 83.
  • Annette Schellenberg, “‘Esther’: Exegetisch-theologische Beobachtungen zur Rezeption des biblischen Stoffs bei Georg Friedrich Händel,” in Sprachen, Bilder, Klänge: Dimensionen der Theologie im Alten Testament und in seinem Umfeld: Festschrift für Rüdiger Bartelmus zu seinem 65. Geburtstag , ed. Christiane Karrer-Grube, Jutta Krispenz, Thomas Krüger, Christian Rose and Annette Schellenberg (Münster, 2009), 275–93: 278.
  • Minna Rozen, “People of the Book, People of the Sea: Mirror Images of the Soul,” in Homelands and Diasporas: Greek, Jews and Their Migrations, ed. Minna Rozen (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008), 35–81: 342.
  • Hans Joachim Marx, ed., Göttinger Händel-Beiträge 12 (2008), 261.
  • Joseph Darby, “Composition and Recomposition in Handel’s Concerti a due cori: Wind Choirs as Sign and Substance,” in Raoul F. Camus and Bernhard Habla, eds., Kongressbericht Northfield/Minnesota, USA 2006 (Tutzig: Hans Schneider, 2008), 109–20: 109 (n. 1).
  • Lucille Corwin, “Le istitutioni harmoniche of Gioseffo Zarlino, Part 1: A translation with introduction” (Ph.D. dissertation, The City University of New York, 2008), 538.
  • Jennifer Beakes, “The horn parts in Handel’s operas and oratorios and the horn players who performed in these works” (D.M.A. dissertation, City University of New York, 2007), 274.
  • Mary Ann Parker, G. F. Handel: A Guide to Research, 2nd edn (New York and London: Routledge, 2005), 322 (anonymously!).
  • Michael Saffle, Franz Liszt: A Guide to Research, 2nd edn (New York: Routledge, 2004), 403.

 

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