Maria Alexandru

Maria Alexandru (native in Bucharest) studied Music Education, Musicology, Byzantine Studies and Latin in Bucharest, Bonn, Copenhagen (PhD, 2000), and Greece (Byzantine chant, post-doc and kanonaki courses). She got scholarships from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Since 2002 she is teaching Byzantine Music at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (today as an associate professor). She participated in more than 80 congresses and gave conferences and masterclasses in different countries. Her work comprises 4 books, more than 50 articles and different recordings, translations into Romanian and editorial work on Conference Proceedings, books and the on-line journal Series Musicologica Balcanica. She is responsible of the Study Group for Palaeography of Byzantine Music Chrysorrhemon (since 2007) and the ensemble Psaltira (since 2019) both belonging to the School of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and she conducts the female Byzantine Choir “St Anysia” belonging since 2017 to the Greek Society for Music Education. She is a member of the International Musicological Society and other musical associations, as well as chair of the IMS-Study Group for Music of the Christian East and Orient, and she got different distinctions.
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