Nikos Andrikos

Nikos Andrikos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Music Studies of the University of Ioannina. He lived in Istanbul from 2004 to 2007, working as a chanter in the first choir of the Ecumenical Patriarchate next to Archon Protopsaltis Leonidas Asteris. He has released three albums including his own compositions, which belong to the tradition of Ottoman music in terms of form, style, and melodic-modal behavior. His scientific interests are related to the compositional production in the field of Ecclesiastical and secular-urban music of the late-Ottoman period, as well as the idiomatic-oral dimension of the aforementioned genres. As a musician (lavta, saz, tanbur, vocal) he has given numerous concerts in Greece and abroad.