Kostas Chardas PhD (Surrey), MMus (Lon), BMus (AUTh), PG Cert (Trinity)
Kostas is an Associate Professor of Systematic Musicology at the Department of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research and educational areas: music theory and analysis, 20th- and 21st-century music, Greek music, theoretical approaches to musical performance, Greek pop/rock. He is the author of articles for Grove Music Online and has published in Greek and English (for Benaki Museum, Cambridge Scholar Press, Bloomsbury Publishing, Routledge, among others). He has given lectures for the Programme in Hellenic Studies of the Columbia University and the Harvard Summer Programme in Greece.
Kostas is also an active pianist. He has given concerts in Greece, U.S.A., England and elsewhere. He has recorded 3 CDs: for Naxos (music by Y. A. Papaioannou), Irida Classical (music by Y. Sicilianos) and Centaur Records (music by American composers for flute and piano).