Evi Nika-Sampson

Evi Nika-Sampson was born in Athens. After her music apprenticeship at the National Conservatory in Athens, she studied musicology, theatre studies, and German literature at the University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München), where she was awarded the MA in 1983 and the PhD in 1989. During her studies she got a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Since then, she has taught musicology at the University of Crete and at the department of theatre studies of the University of Patras. She is Professor of Historical Musicology at the School of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has also actively participated in many institutions and councils in Greece, assuming, among others, the presidency of the recently founded Hellenic Musicological Society (since 2012). Her research interests focus on specific topics in Western music history, on the genres of opera and music theatre in the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as on issues concerning Greek art music.