Staff profile
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Job title: Reader
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Dept: Music and Performing Arts
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Tel: 01227 767700 ext 3082
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Campus: Canterbury
Dr Eva Mantzourani
BA(Hons), MMus, MMus, PhD
Reader in Musicology
Eva Mantzourani is a musicologist who specialises in both Music Analysis and Musicology, and has a particular interest in the music of the Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas.
Eva was born in Greece where she studied music at the Hellenic Conservatoire and the Macedonian Conservatoire. She was awarded diplomas in theory, advanced harmony, counterpoint, fugue, orchestration and piano (soloist). She read Musicology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1985–1990) and graduated with a BA (Hons). Following her undergraduate studies in Greece, she won, after competition, a three-year scholarship from the Academy of Athens to pursue postgraduate music studies in England. This resulted in a MMus in Music Theory and Analysis from Goldsmiths College, University of London (1991).
She subsequently undertook doctoral research in the twelve-note music of the composer Nikos Skalkottas, and was awarded a PhD by King's College, University of London (1999) (Doctoral dissertation on Nikos Skalkottas: A Biographical Study and an Investigation of his Twelve-Note Compositional Processes). A scholarship from the Greek Michelis Foundation supported a further MMus in Historical Musicology at Goldsmiths College, which she obtained with Distinction (2000). From 2000 to 2002 she worked at Goldsmiths College on an AHRB-funded research project “The Transformation of Concert Life in London, 1880–1914”. Concurrently, she was an Edison Fellow at the National Sound Archive of the British Library, researching historical recordings of London-based performers and orchestras. From 2001 to 2007 she was an Associate Lecturer at the Open University.
Eva joined Canterbury Christ Church University in 2002, and became a Reader in Musicology in 2011. From 2008 to 2011 she was Programme Director for the BMus, BA/BSc programmes. Her teaching covers a variety of analytical and historical topics, including tonal music studies, analysis for performers and composers, musicology, and topics within contemporary music scholarship and cultural studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has designed several modules in Theory, Analysis, Musicology, Research Methods, and Research Projects, and co-ordinates the delivery of an integrated music research programme at postgraduate level (MMus, MPhil/PhD). She supervises Independent Study projects at both undergraduate and MMus levels, and several PhD research students.
She conceived, established and organises the department’s annual international conference the topic of which mirrors each year’s theme of the long-established Sounds New Contemporary Music Festival, which is closely affiliated to Christ Church.
Eva’s research interests are wide ranging and cover both music analysis and historical musicology. She is internationally recognised as an expert in the music of the composer Nikos Skalkottas (1904–1949), as well as the musical and socio-cultural contexts in which her research is located. She has given papers at conferences in UK, Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Russia and Ireland, and has published work on both musicological topics and the music of Skalkottas. Her monograph The Life and Twelve-Note Music of Nikos Skalkottas (supported by research leave from Christ Church and the AHRC) will be published by Ashgate in December 2011 (ISBN 978-0-7546-5310-3).
She is on the international editorial board for the American music journal ex-tempore and a member of four international learned societies – Society for Music Analysis, Royal Musical Association, American Musicological Society, and International Musicological Society. She has been on the selection committees of, and chaired panels at, several national and international conferences.
Full details of Eva Mantzourani’s publications and other scholarly contributions can be found here|.
She welcomes the opportunity to supervise research students at MMus and PhD levels across a variety of subjects, particularly those relating to analysis and performance, musicological topics, and Greek art music.
Current PhD students:
Eleni Keventsidou: ‘Max Reger “Dissonance Writer, Retired Consonance Writer”: A study of musical structure and an interpretation of his Variations on an original theme Op.73 (1903)’
Peter Bowman: ‘Dazzled by the Colours: Microtonality and the Recorder’ (second supervisor)
Michelle Castelletti: ‘The re-creation of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony in the tradition of re-orchestrating large-scale late-Romantic works for smaller ensembles’ (second supervisor)
Frances Jones: ‘The Influence of Rustic Alphorn Players on the Classical Composer’ (second supervisor)