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Alicia MARAVELIA:   Although a recognized Egyptologist (PhD in the University of Limoges, 2004) and Astronomer (PhD in the University of Athens, 1997), with an initial BSc in Physics (University of Thessaloniki, 1988), Founder and Director of the Hellenic Institute of Egyptology, Co-Ordinator of three Research Projects and prolific author of more than 150 papers, books and reviews, she is also very fond of Music and the History of Music. She has studied Byzantine Music in Thessaloniki and Athens and wrote a book of Propria ( Akolouthia ) to honor the memory of Saint Alice/Alexandra of Russia (the Passion-Bearer). She specializes in the enharmonion genos of the Oktoechos and is very interested in the relations and interactions of the Arabic and Ottoman Maqam  with the various modes (echoi ) of Byzantine Music.   

Prof. Dr. Erhan Özden was born in Erzurum, Turkiye. He graduated from the Department of Music Sciences at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Atatürk University in 2001. He taught courses in "Turkish Music Theory" and "Ney" at the same faculty. During this period, he performed ney (a Turkish wind instrument) at the TRT Erzurum Radio Turkish Music Choir. He completed his doctoral studies at the Institute of Social Sciences, Marmara University. He participated in various concerts and academic activities both domestically and abroad (Germany, Denmark, France, Georgia, England, Sweden, Italy, Kosovo, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Egypt, Romania, Greece). He taught various courses in the fields of "Music in Ottoman Archives" and "Turkish Music Theory" at Istanbul University, Department of Turkish Religious Music. He was involved in the music curriculum development work carried out by the Board of Education and Discipline. A prolific artist and academic, he has many albums and books. He is a faculty member at Istanbul University State Conservatory, Department of Turkish Music. Prof. Dr. Erhan Özden, who was appointed as the Rector of Ankara University of Music and Fine Arts by the Presidential Decision No. 2022/229, published in the Official Gazette No. 31855 on June 3, 2022, has been continuing his duties since that date. Email: erhan.ozden@mgu.edu.tr ORCID: 0000-0002-2768-6204

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Dr. Mehmet Alan completed his undergraduate education in the Department of Music Education at Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Education, in 1986. He earned his master's degree in 2012 in the Department of Turkish Music at Haliç University, Institute of Social Sciences. He completed his Proficiency in Art education in 2018 in the Department of Turkish Music at Haliç University, Institute of Social Sciences. His areas of study include Turkish Folk Music, Turkish Art Music, Vocal Music, Jazz Music, Music History, Ethnomusicology, Music Education and Music Teaching Methods, and Contemporary Art. Selected academic works include:

Alan, M. (2024). The examination of the Kurdî (Phrygian) mode structure in Turkish music children's songs. Turkish Music Journal, 4(1), 57-64.
Alan, M., and Gürgen, İ. (2023). Contribution of folk songs to the language skills of primary school students within the scope of qualified teacher training programs. Journal for the Interdisciplinary Art and Education, 4(2), 83-90.
Alan, M. (2023). The examination of the workbooks on "bağlama" teaching within the scope of systematic exercises. 2nd International Rast Music Congress (IRMC), Antalya. January 14-15th. e-ISBN Proceedings Book: 978-605-06640-8-9.
Alan, M. (2021). BONA Turkish Music Scales-Sequencing Exercises. Yurtrenkleri Publishing, Ankara. ISBN:978-975-8303-90-8. (Published in 2021).
Institution: Anadolu University, Faculty of Education, Department of Basic Education, Music Teaching, Eskişehir, Turkey
E-mail: mehmeta@anadolu.edu.tr
ORCID: 0000-0002-1821-4870

Pooyan Azadeh was born in Iran in 1979. He has been playing the piano since his childhood, directed choirs since he was twelve and can already look back on ten years of university teaching experience. He studied classical European and classical Persian music (BA), as well as piano (MA) at the Teheran Academy of Arts and participated in master classes with Prof. Paul Gulda at the Bayreuth Festival of Young Artists in Germany.

His performance as pianist in the concert, “From Orient to Hollywood” in 2010, where he, as the first Persian pianist in Europe, played the second piano concert of Aminollah Hosseins, has earned him special attention among German music circles. As pianist, he received numerous awards and honours at competitions. Persian piano notation (Morteza Mahjoobi's notation) was registered as a National Cultural Heritage of Iran (UNESCO) in 2013 by Pooyan Azadeh.

Since 2007, he has been a full PhD scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He worked as Asst. Professor at Martin-Luther-University Musical Institute in Germany. He got his doctoral degree from the same university, Martin Luther University in Germany, with great honor "Magna Cum Laude" in January 2015.

In 2015 Dr. Azadeh founded the first professional piano academy in Iran, Pooyan Piano Institute and since 2018 he founded the first music and art university in east of Iran, Pooyan Art University.

As a first piano professor in Iran with a PhD in music he has taught classical piano at the music faculty of Tehran University of Art since 2015.

Recently his composition for piano is published as a book with the title “Persian Songs & Dances for Piano” by “Bellmann Music Publication” in Germany and his new book  with the title "Playing Scales fluently, New Method of Playing Scales Easily on the Piano" was published by Hofmeister Music Publication in Germany in 2023.

For the first time he organized and established a bachelor major degree for “Persian Piano Music Performance” for Iranian higher education at Pooyan Art University in 2020.

Dr. Pooyan Azadeh is founder of "Intercultural Piano Pedagogy Project" which is an international piano project at Festival Young Artists Bayreuth in Germany since 2010.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ralf M. Jäger (Ph.D. 1993: “Turkish Art Music and its Manuscript Sources from the 19. Century”, Habilitation 1999: “Europe and the Ottoman Empire in Music, ca. 1500 to 1800”) is Professor of Ethnomusicology and European Music History at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.

He started his academic career in 1999 as visiting professor of Musicology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. From 2000 until 2004 he deputized the chair of Musicology at the WWU Münster and from 2005 to 2009 he was Lecturer and Senior Researcher both at the Musicological Department of WWU Münster (since 2008 Professor) and University of Music "Franz Liszt" in Weimar. From 2009 to 2011 Prof. Jäger held the Chair of Ethnomusicology at the Department of Music Research, Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet Würzburg. He has been lecturing in Göttingen, Istanbul, Mainz, Saarbrücken, Zürich and Athens.

Since 1995 Jäger is head of the Dissertationsmeldestelle (Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology) of Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM); 2000 to 2004 he was vice-president of the German national committee of the International Council for Traditional Music; 2002 to 2005 Jäger acted as deputy chair of the study group Ethnomusicology (German Musicological Society). He directed the projects of the GfM in the Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Musikwissenschaft (ViFa Musik).

In 2005 Prof. Jäger was awarded with the “Hendrik Casimir-Karl Ziegler Research Grant” by the North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.

Since 2015 Prof. Jäger is director of the international and interdisciplinary DFG (German Research Foundation) long-term research project “Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO): Critical Editions of Music Manuscripts from the Middle East” which is based in Münster, Bonn, and Istanbul.

Krenar Doli. His education: Master degree, Instituti i Kulturës Popullore (2014); undergraduate, Akademia e Arteve (2007); high school, Hajdar Dushi (1999). Business experience: Teacher at Selman Riza Primary School, (2008), Prishtina University, Institute of Prishtina Albanology, Folklore Programme, Researcher Assistant of Ethnomusicology Sector (2012). Affiliation: Institute of Albanology of Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo E-mail:krenar_doli@hotmail.com ORCID: 0000-0003-1506-6291

Dr. Evangelia Chaldaeaki (Ptychio in Turkish Language, Philology and History, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – 2014; MA in Folklore Studies from the same University – 2017) received her doctorate from the Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2022 with a dissertation titled Folk music in the Turkish and Greek musical collections of late Ottoman era: Popular culture and intercommunal relations (in Greek). She is an experienced researcher and has conducted extensive historical work through archival research. Most of her work concerns archival research around her areas of studies, like Greek and Turkish music, culture and folklore. She holds a Diploma in Byzantine music, while she also teaches singing at the Center of Greek Music “Fivos Anogianakes” and takes part in concerts either as a soloist or with her choir “Fivos Anogianakes”. She is an active musician and a teacher of Greek folk singing. She has been teaching relevant courses at the Centre for Greek Music "Fivos Anogianakis" since 2013, at the Postgraduate Programme "Ethnomusicology and Musical Practice" of the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens since 2023, at the Undergraduate Programme of the same Department during the fall semester of the academic year 2024-2025 and at the Undergraduate Programme of the corresponding Department of the University of Ioannina during the spring semester of the academic year 2023-2024. She has received several distinctions for her work. During the academic year 2015-2016 she was a scholar of the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fund (SYLFF) and between years 2019-2021 of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.). Her master thesis titled K. A. Psachos and his contribution to recording and studying Greek folk songs (in Greek) received the 2018 Kaftantzoglio Award. Also, it was published in 2017 as a monography from Edition Orpheus.