Nikolaos Mantzaros and the Emergence of a Greek Composer (Durrell Studies 5)

Konstantinos Kardamis is a musicologist and Associate Professor in the Music Department at the Ionian University, Corfu, where he is also Director of the Hellenic Music Research Laboratory. A member of the Greek Committee for the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, he has been the Curator of the Archive and the Museum of the Corfu Philharmonic Society since 2003. He has worked in collaboration with Oxford University Press, the Megaron Athens concert hall, the Greek Composers Union, the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group and the Durrell School of Corfu. His published books, papers and articles mainly concern Neo-Hellenic music, with particular focus on the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as opera and musical theatre. His research interests also include band music and the interaction of music, society and politics.