1. health and fitness
2. therapy

4th INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
Creative Arts Interconnection
Paideia - Therapy
Music • Drama • Dance • Visual Art • Movement
Expressive Writing • Playback Theater • Education
Department of Music Studies
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Greece
CHAIR:
Dora Psaltopoulou, Music Psychotherapist,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, EU
>THERAPY
For information visit:
caipt.mus.auth.gr
T: +30 2310 287 818
Conference language: English
Certificates of attendance
CO-CHAIR:
Nikolaos Zafranas, Music Education,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, EU
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Welcome
We are honored to see you at the
4th International Scientific Conference:
Creative Arts Interconnection
Paideia – Therapy,
an opportunity for researchers, educators and
therapists to share and discuss their innovative
practices and research initiatives that advance the
development of arts education and therapies.
For the purposes of this Conference, we received
proposals from academics and practitioners for
papers, posters and workshops to be presented at
this unique and collaborative environment at the
Department of Music Studies, School of Fine Arts,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Greece in 19 – 22 March 2015.
the organising committee
PROGRAM
Pre-Conference Seminar Thursday 19 March 2015 (10:00)
10:00–15:00
Prof. Dorit Amir, DA, CMΤ. ISR
Dora Psaltopoulou, PhD, MA-CMT
Potheini Vaiouli, PhD, BC-MT
Title:
«Music Therapy Clinical
Supervision»
The seminar is addressed
to music therapists and
music therapy trainees
who seek supervision for their
music therapy clinical work.
Thursday 19 March 2015 (17:00)
17:00-18:00 Registration at Upper Floor Foyer
Time
Presenter
Activity
Subject
18:00-20:30 Opening Ceremony Chair: Papadelis Giorgos, PhD, Assoc. Prof. AUTH
18:00-18:30
18:30-20:00
20:00-20:30
Dora Psaltopoulou, PhD, MA-CMT Conference chair welcome speech
Nikos Zafranas, PhD
Conference co-chair welcome speech
Potheini Vaiouli, PhD, BC-MT
Welcome Speech
Prof. Barbarra Hesser,
CMT, LCAT, FAMI. USA
Keynote
Presentation
Reaching Human Potential
Through Music
Prof. Dorit Amir, DA, CMΤ. ISR
Keynote
Presentation
Musicking - a Bridge
Across Borders, Cultures
and People
Presentation
&Music event
Emotion Balance in
Byzantine Music.
The Case of the Oktaechia.
A Music - Educational
Presentation
Music Moments
Maria Alexandru,
PhD, Assoc. Prof. AUTH
Emanouel Giannopoulos,
Lecturer AUTH
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Friday 20 March 2015 (09:00)
Time
Presenter
Activity
Subject
09:00-13:00
Chair: Nikos Zafranas, PhD
09:00-10:00
Yiannis Miralis, Dr.,
Associate Professor of Music
Education & Saxophone.
Keynote
Presentation
(Foyer)
Music Education in the 21st
Century: Current Trends and
Creative Collaborations for an
Engaging Present and a Promising
Future
10:00-11:30
Theodora Voutsa,
Actress, Director, Producer,
Coach. NLD
Keynote
Presentation
(Foyer)
Find Your Voice and ACT on Your
Life
11:30-11:45
Coffee Break
11:45-12:05
Karapanagioti Maria, Teacher,
Choreografer, Dance Therapy
Practitioner
Paper
(Room 8)
Dance Therapy Method Implementation in Mental Health Facilities
12:05-13:00
13:00-14:00
Karapanagioti Maria, Teacher, Workshop
Dance Therapy Class/Workshop in
Choreografer, Dance Therapy
(Room 9)
Structures of Mental Health
Practitioner
Lunch Break
MEET THE EXPERTS & HELLENIC MUSIC PERFORMANCE
14:00-20:00
Chair: Vaiouli Potheini, PhD, MT-BC
14:00-14:30
Marit Moistlik-Tamm, PhD.
Keynote
Presentation
(Room 8)
The Hidden Gem or the Found
Treasure?: Benefits of Starting
Musical Training in Later Life
14:30-14:50
Nikos Zafranas, PhD
Paper
(Room 8)
Restructuring the Young Music
Learner’s Environment for
Increased Learning Results
14:50-15:10
Dr. Xanthoula Dakovanou,
music therapist. FRA
Paper
(Room 8)
Why is Music Important
for Therapy?
A Psychoanalytical Approach
15:10-15:30
Kana Kamitsubo, MT, BC,
music therapist, pianist, music
Educator. JPN
Paper
(Room 8)
“Yes, I Can Learn!”:
Blending Music Therapy
into Music Education
Music, Visual Arts, Photography,
Video, Drama Therapy
CYP
15:30-15:50
EST
Niovi Stavropoulou,
art-therapist
Paper
(Room 8)
Elena Tonikidi, art-therapist
“Psychology-Art” art-therapy
Institute
15:50-16:10
Elena Tonikidi, art-therapist
“Psychology-Art” art-therapy
Institute
Stella Kolyvopoulou,
Psychologist- Psychotherapist
MA, Dance/movement
Psychoherapist
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Paper
(Room 8)
Psychology Art: Society for Mental
Health Assistance, Social Support
& Creativity
Friday 20 March 2015 (16:10)
Time
16:10-16:30
16:30-17:30
17:30-17:50
Presenter
Activity
Subject
Break, Song by Giorgos Psaltopoulos “The Feelings you are Hiding from Me”
Panel
Autistic Spectrum Children: The
Chair of panel:
Significance of the Use of Arts in
Discussion
Dimitrios Zachos
Different Therapeutic Approaches.
Psychoanalyst, Dance
(Room 8)
Movement Psychotherapist
Panelists:
Natassa Yanaca, PhD
Model Friends’ Play: Play Groups
and Social Skills Training for
Children with Asperger Syndrome.
Alexandra Chatzistavrou,
Person-Centered Councellor,
music therapist
Arts - Creativity - Communication
A Person–Centered Approach in
Psychotherapy Through Arts with
Children and Adolescents on the
Autistic Spectrum and Asperger
Syndrome
Karakonstadaki Mariliana,
Theatrologist, Theater
Pedagogist
Dramatic Play as an Intervention
in Friend’s Play to Enhance Social
Communication for Children with
Asperger Syndrome
Angeliki Bitzaraki, MSc Dance Paper
Movement Psychotherapy,
(Room 8)
Group Facilitator (NDI), B. Social
Anthropology
The f *** Space In-between
Stella Kolyvopoulou,
Psychologist- Psychotherapist
MA, Dance/movement
Psychoherapist
Elli Kita, MA, GADTR Sr,
Psychologist / Dance Movement
Psychotherapist
17:50-20:00
Angeliki Bitzaraki, MSc Dance Workshop
Movement Psychotherapy,
(Room 9)
Group Facilitator (NDI), B. Social
Anthropology
The f *** Space In-between
Stella Kolyvopoulou,
Psychologist- Psychotherapist
MA, Dance/movement
Psychoherapist
Elli Kita, MA, GADTR Sr,
Psychologist / Dance Movement
Psychotherapist
17:50-20:00
Dr. Maria Konstantinidou, Phd,
MA, MEd, CDMT, BA in Physical
Education
Eleni Leventi, BA, Diploma in
Prychodrama
Workshop
(Foyer)
The Reflections of my Image!
A Creative Workshop with Dance
Movement Therapy and
Psychodrama
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Saturday Posters 18:30-20:00
Presenter
Subject
Despina Klonari, PhD
Alexis Porfιriadis, Composer
A Preliminary Music Improvisation Study with
Fifth Grade Children
Kefalas Michalis, MA (York), PhD (London),
HonFNAM, BA (Hon) Hum (Open)
Music education for the Elderly in Greece,
Through the Use of Innovative Technologies
Vaiouli Potheini, PhD, MT-BC
Social Communication:
A Music-therapy, Family-centered Intervention
Music Therapy Intervention to Promote Learning
and Emotional Growth
Dora Psaltopoulou, PhD, MA-CMT
A. Arsenopoulou, Psychologist,
drama therapist
S. Kolyvopoulou, PsychologistPsychotherapist MA, Dance/movement
Psychoherapist
E. Chatziioannidou, Psychologist
N. Zilikis, Professor of child & Adolescent
psychiatriy
Self-awareness Through Arts
Dora Psaltopoulou, PhD, MA-CMT
Interconnection Phonic and A-phonic cry
Nikos Zafranas, PhD
Giannis Kioumourtzis
Countering Music Performance Anxiety in Piano
Students: Means, Strategies and Solutions
Saturday 21 March 2015 (09:30)
Time
Presenter
Activity
Chair: Dora Psaltopoulou, PhD, MA-CMT
Subject
09:30-10:30
Andrea M. Cevasco-Trotter,
PhD, MT-BC. USA
Keynote
speech
(Room 8)
Using Music at the Beginning of
Life: Programming Developmentally appropriate Music Interventions
for Premature and Full-term Infant
10:30-10:50
Elissavet Georgiadi, Musician
Music Therapist Dip MP,
AC - PgDip MT, GSMD
Paper
(Room 8)
Enhancement of Social Cognition
of Children with Autism through
the Music
10:50-11:10
Apostolis Laschos, Musician,
Musicologist/Music Educator,
Music Therapist Trainee
Paper
(Room 8)
Music Therapy and Autism:
Meeting the Other through music
Paper
(Room 8)
Creativity and Self - Expression
through Music
09:30-13:30
Dora Psaltopoulou,
PhD, MA-CMT
11:10-11:30
Efi Villou, Music Therapist
Dora Psaltopoulou,
PhD, MA-CMT
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Saturday 21 March 2015 (11:30)
Time
Presenter
Danai Giogiou, BA, MA,
Music-Therapy Diploma
Activity
Paper
(Room 8)
Subject
Making Music Therapy Measurable
(Rating scales in Music Therapy)
12:00-12:40
Dimitrios Zachos
Psychoanalyst, Dance
Movement Psychotherapist
Keynote
speech
(Room 8)
A Direct Access to the Unconscious.
Expressive Movement and Dance in
the Service of the Psychotherapy
12.40-13.00
Sanna Kivijärvi MSc Doctoral
student. FIN
Paper
(Room 8)
Special Music Centre Resonaari
Advancing Educational Equity in
Finland
13:00-13:20
Music Performance by Nikos Zafranas PhD & Yiannis Miralis Dr., Associate Professor
of Music Education & Saxophone
11:30-11:50
A presentation of a wide range of works for saxophone and piano, with a dance-like
character and a cheerful mood, including works by P. Itturalde, M. Shrude, G. Karvellos, J. Naulais and P. di Rivera. With Yiannis Miralis (alto sax) and Nikos Zafranas
(piano).
13:30-14:00
Lunch Break
14:00-21:00
Chair: Vaiouli Potheini, PhD, MT-BC
14:00-15:00 Gerhard Lock, Musicologist and
Keynote
speech
(Room 8)
Consciousness, Error, Intuition
Insights into the Process of
Musical Improvisation
15:00-15:20 Maria Argyriou, PhD, M.Ed,
Paper
(Room 8)
Current positions of International
and European Organizations for
Music Education and their
Dimensions in the Cultural Sector
15:20-15:40
Stergiopoulos Kwstas,
psychoanalyst, psychologist
Paper
(Room 8)
The Art of Fairytale as a Stylobate
of the Psyche
14:00-15:40
Hellenic Playback Theater
Basilis Ploumis, Eleni Leventi,
Natasa Stoimenidou
Workshop
(Foyer)
“The Celebration of the Personal
Story”
15:40-16:15
Coffee Break
16:15-17:15
Peter Jampel Dr., MT-BC, LCAT.
USA
Keynote
speech
(Room 8)
Celebrating Inclusion: Music and
Therapy in Community Settings
17:15-17:35
Pelina Evangelou,
Music Therapist
Paper
(Room 8)
Community Music Therapy:
“When a Song Begins”
17:35-17:55
Rama Cousik, PhD. USA
Paper
(Room 8)
You Should Sing All Your Lectures:
Popular Music To Teach Education
Courses
17:55-18:15
Andrea Cevasco-Trotter, PhD,
MT-BC. USA
Paper
(Room 8)
Utilizing Music with the Aging
PopulationCourses
Composer. EST
Greek Association of Primary
Music Teachers (GAPMET)
MEET THE EXPERTS
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Saturday 21 March 2015 (18:15)
Time
18:15-18:30
Presenter
Coffee Break
18:30-20:00
Join the workshop or meet the artists of the painting exhibition
20:00
Activity
MEET THE EXPERTS
Subject
Dimitrios Zachos,
Psychoanalyst, Dance
Movement Psychotherapist
Experiential
workshop 1
(Room 9)
Beyond words: a 2hours dance
movement psychotherapy experiential workshop.
Julia Morozova-Van Steenis,
Dance / movement
psychotherapist. RU
Experiential
workshop 2
(Room 8)
“Dancing Spirals” - a Multimodal
Creative Journey to the Self at the
Places of Power
Music play
(Upper floor
foyer)
Damn You Migration with All the
Poisons You Have
Music Moments
Polytropo
Sunday 22 March 2015 (09:30)
Time
Presenter
Activity
Subject
09:00-13:10
Chair: Nikos Zafranas, PhD
09:30-10:30
Christos Noulis, PhD(BCU),
MMus(RCM), BMus(Hons)RCM,
ITM ulis,
Keynote
speech
(Room 8)
Somatic Education and Music
Performance: Mind-Body tenets
from Ancient Greece to the
Present Day and their Contribution
to Musicians’ Well-Being
10:30-10:50
Ioanna Petridou, MA,
Psychoanalyst
Paper
(Room 8)
Sublimation in Art - The Example
of Music
10:50-11:50
Dr. Sidiropoulos Christos, PhD,
Psychoanalyst, Psychologist
Keynote
speech
(Room 8)
Music as Enjoyment Wrapped
and as a Dialectical Framework.
A Reference to Misic Therapy
11:50-12:10
Professor Tokmakidis
Konstantinos
Paper
(Room 8)
Group Resonance Therapy:
Movements of Love and Life
Workshop
(Room 8)
The Body as a Vehicle of a
Psychodynamic Support of
Therapy for any Symptom within
a Psychic Structure.
The example of Biodynamics.
Workshop
(Room 9)
Friend’s Play Art
12: 10-13:10 Dr. Mitrou Yiannis, PhD, MSc
Psychoanalyst, Researcher
AUTH
12: 10-13:10
Natassa Yanaca, PhD
13:10-14:00
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Lunch break
Meet the Experts & SOTIR Music Performance
Sunday 22 March 2015 (14:00)
Time
14:00-18:00
Presenter
Activity
Subject
Chair: Dimitrios Zachos Psychoanalyst, Dance Movement Psychotherapist
14:00-15:00
Karapetsas Anargyros,
Panel
PhD, Prof. UTH
(Room 8)
Eirini Rodopi Laskaraki,
PhD Candidate
Apostolos Fotis, PhD Candidate
Dora Psaltopoulou,
PhD, MA-CMT
Evaluating the Relation Between
Musical Abilities and Phonological
Processing in Normal Readers and
Children with Dyslexia
15:00-15:50
Margarita Hatzinassiou, Music
Therapist, MA-NRMT. CHE
Keynote
Presentation
via Skype
(Room 8)
Working Creatively through
“Resistiveness” in NR Approach.
Case presentation.
15:50-16:10
Vaiouli Potheini, PhD, MT-BC
Keynote
Presentation
(Room 8)
Music Therapy, Improvisation, and
Self-Expression for Young Children
with Special Needs.
16:10-16:30
Dora Psaltopoulou
PhD, MA-CMT
Nikos Zafranas PhD
Yiannis Kaminis, BA, MA,
Communication Consultant Psychoanalyst
Paper
(Room 8)
Music Therapy and Psychoanalysis
Open New Paths to Music Teaching
16:30-16:50
Papadelis Giorgos, PhD, Assoc.
Prof. AUTH
Paper
(Room 8)
Listening to Music After a Cochlear Implantation; an Overview of
Recent Research Methodology &
Findings.
16:50-17:10
Break
17:00-18:00
Closing Ceremony (Foyer)
Time
Presenter
Subject
Peter Jampel
“Community Music Therapy Interventions”
Dr. MT-BC, LCAT, USA The seminar is addressed to everyone who is interested in
learning innovative ways of using music as therapy, and
music in therapy to address specific issues in settings of:
10:00-17:00
Meet the Experts, Tango Performance
Hellenic Play Back Theater
• Psychology-Psychiatric Units • Hospitals
• Psychotherapy-Psychoanalysis • Health Units
• Rehabilitation Centers
• Schools-Music schools
• Nursing homes
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> Chair
Dr. Dora Psaltopoulou,
PhD, MA-CMT,
Music Psychotherapist, Lecturer,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr. Dora Psaltopoulou is a lecturer at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th-GR).
She is certified music therapist CMT (AMTA), holds a Ph.D (A.U.Th-GR) and a MA
(NYU, NY-USA).
She has completed her psychoanalytic training in Freudian, Lacanian approach. Since 1992,
she has pioneered Music Therapy in Greece, and founded the Music Therapy Center of
Thessaloniki.
Her clinical work includes neurosis, psychosis, autism, and community music therapy. Since 1996,
she has been a primary trainer and director at her private master’s level Music Therapy training
program. She is a research assistant at the Adolescent Unit of the 3rd Psychiatric Clinic (University Hospital AHEPA), at the Institution of Chronic Illnesses (Trikala) and many other institutions.
She organizes conferences and seminars, presents her work in national and international
congresses.She is member of editorial boards of the scientific reviews.
She is founding and professional member at relevant associations.
> Co-chair
Dr. Nikolaos Zafranas,
PhD, MA, BA, Music Education, Lecturer,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Nikolaos Zafranas was born in Thessaloniki. He received his BA and MA in Piano Performance
from the University of Music, Graz, Austria, and his PhD in Music Education from Brunel University, London, UK. He is author of several articles on various music education topics and of the
book “Effects of music instruction on cognitive abilities of young children”, Lambert Academic
Publishing, 2010. As an artist, he is the recipient of several distinctions and awards in Greece
and elsewhere. His performances include recitals and chamber music concerts in many European
countries and in North America. He has recorded for the television and radio and can be heard
in solo and chamber music works on 2 CDs. He is a founding member of the “Piandaemonium”
ensemble and of the “Transcription Ensemble”. Besides piano performance, research interests
include cognitive development and music education as well as preschool music education. He is
currently Lecturer of Music Education at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Organising Committee
•Dora Psaltopoulou,
PhD, MA-CMT, Music Psychotherapist, Lecturer, AUTH
•Sanna Kivijarvi, MSc, Doctoral student
•Nikolaos Zafranas, PhD, MA, BA, Music Education, Lecturer, AUTH
•Christos Noulis, PhD (BCU), MMus (RCM), BMus (Hons), RCM, ITM
•Dimitrios Adamos, PhD, MSc, Senior Teaching and Research Fellow AUTH
•Giorgos Papadelis, PhD,
Associate Professor AUTH
•Maria Alexandru, PhD, Associate
Professor AUTH
•Sofia Tsopani, Information and
Library Management, MArts, AUTH
•Aristoula Arsenopoulou, Psychologist,
Drama Therapist
•Potheini Vaiouli, PhD, MT-BC
•Pelina Evangelou, Music Therapist
•Margarita Hatzinassiou, Music Therapist, MA-NRMT
•Anthi Malouta, Music Therapist, MA
•Dimitrios Zachos, Group & Family
Psychoanalyst, Dance Movement
Psychotherapist
Scientific Committee
•Dora Psaltopoulou, PhD, MA-CMT,
Music Psychotherapist, Lecturer, AUTH
•Nikolaos Zafranas, PhD, MA, BA, Music Education, Lecturer, AUTH
•Peter Jampel, Dr., PMT-BC, LCAT
•Sanna Kivijarvi, MSc, Doctoral student
•Gerhard Lock, Musicologist and Composer
•Dimitrios Adamos, PhD, MSc, Senior Teaching and Research Fellow AUTH
•Marit Moistlik-Tamm, PhD
•Andrea Cevasco-Trotter, PhD, MT-BC
•Dimitrios Zachos, Group & Family
Psychoanalyst, Dance Movement
Psychotherapist
•Christos Noulis, PhD (BCU), MMus (RCM), •Maria Alexandru, PhD, Associate Professor BMus (Hons), RCM, ITM
AUTH
•Giorgos Papadelis, PhD, Associate
Professor AUTH
•Prof. Dorit Amir, DA, CMΤ
•Prof. Natassa Economidou-Stavrou
•Prof. Barbarra Hesser, CMT, LCAT, FAMI
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Keynote Presenters
> Keynote Presenter
Prof. Barbarra Hesser
CMT, LCAT, FAMI
Barbara Hesser is Director of the Music Therapy program at New York University. In this capacity she coordinates the Master’s and Doctoral Degree programs, is the Program Director of the
Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Center, and is the program liaison for Guided Imagery and Music
(GIM) Training. In addition to her teaching responsibilities at NYU, she has given courses, workshops
and lectures in many countries throughout the world.
Professionally, Professor Hesser served the American Association for Music Therapy (AAMT) as
President, Vice President, Co-Chairman of the Education and Training Committee, Editor of the first
AAMT journal Music Therapy and as a member of the Editorial Board of that journal for 15 years. She
was also a member of the Commission on Education and Training for the American Music Therapy
Association (AMTA). She has served as a founding member and Publicity Chairman of the World
Federation of Music Therapy. Among her publications, she has co-authored the “Essential Competencies for the Practice of Music Therapy” which has been used by AAMT, CAMT and now the AMTA
as a document for standards of education and training in the profession.Professor Hesser maintains
a music therapy private practice, and is a Fellow in Guided Imagery and Music (GIM). She is a Board
Member and Vice President of Creative Arts as a Global Resource, Inc. In this capacity she is one of
the directors of the “Music as a Global Resource Initiative”, an initiative in collaboration with the International Council for Caring Communities (ICCC), UN Habitat and other UN partners and Co-Editor
of Music as a Global Resource Compendium: Solutions for Social and Economic Issues, 3rd Edition
recently released in January 2011.
> Keynote Presenter
Prof. Dorit Amir,
DA, CMΤ
Prof. Dorit Amir is a registered music therapist who lives and works in Israel. She studied music therapy at New York University, USA. In 1982 she founded and has been the head of the MA Music Therapy Program at Bar Ilan University, Israel. Prof. Amir has worked with a rich variety of populations
and supervised music therapists in Israel, New York, Finland, Norway and Greece. She has published
extensively and been a guest lecturer in many countries around the world. Her present research
projects and interests include: qualitative research in music therapy; women, trauma and music
therapy; supervision; and spiritual and multicultural elements in music therapy.
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> Keynote Presenter
Yiannis Miralis Dr.,
Associate Professor of Music
Education & Saxophone
Dr. Yiannis Miralis is Associate Professor of Music Education and Saxophone, Vice Chair of the
Department of Arts and International Relations Coordinator of the School of Arts and Education
Sciences. He has rich and diverse experience in teaching music at all levels (K-12) both in Cyprus
and the USA. He has taught at the University of Cyprus, the Arte Music Academy and the University
of Windsor in Canada. From 2001 to 2004 he served as Assistant Professor of Music Education and
Saxophone at the Lionel Hampton School of Music of the University of Idaho in the USA. He has been
at European University Cyprus (ex Cyprus College) since 2005.
His areas of specialization are focusing on instrumental music education, multicultural music education and world music pedagogy, music education in preschool and primary school and music
teacher training. He is the director of the Symphonic Band of Strovolos Municipality-European University Cyprus and has published articles and book chapters at national and international journals.
Miralis is also an active saxophonist and chamber musician. He has performed various times with
the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, with the Transcontinental, Macedonian and Kommandaria Saxophone Quartets, the Mediterranean Trio, other chamber music groups and the Cyprus Big Band. He
is member of various professional organizations, board member of the European Chamber Music
Teachers’ Association (ECMTA) and president of the Cyprus Saxophone Association.
> Keynote Presenter
Theodora Voutsa,
Actress, Director,
Producer, Coach
Theodora graduated from the French Lycee in Athens, Greece. She received her Sorbonne II diploma
in Economics. She then moved to New York and studied acting and production at Hofstra University
NY. She was the production manager for all productions at Hofstra for three years. She graduated in
1998 and has been working as an actress and in production ever since. She worked as an actress and
production manager in numerous productions at Off Broadway theatres in New York for six years.
Theodora continued her acting studies in Paris, London, Rome and Athens. She moved to Los Angeles where she studied with renowned acting coaches. She then returned to Athens Greece where
she continued her acting career. She starred in six television series in the major television stations,
Mega Channel, ANT1, National Greek Television, and others.
She participated in numerous films including “The Free Diver” directed by Alki David with Adam
Baldwin, Camilla Rutherford and Judd Nelson. In the theatre she has acted in plays by Moliere,
Feydau, Shakespeare, Wilde, Coward, Bellei, many contemporary greek comedies in main stage theatres in Athens. She had the honour to play in Epidaurus, Irodion, and most of the Ancient Theatres
in Greece with the company of the National Theatre of Northern Greece. Theodora has worked as an
actress with some of the most acclaimed and celebrated directors, composers and actors in Greece.
She has been fortunate to be part of the AOB team as production manager for gymnastics for the
OLYMPICS 2004 in Athens Greece. In 2007 she began her studies on Life Coaching. She also studied
with Giota Fasouli “fast growth” and communication. After the completion of her studies she began
her own classes.
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Keynote Presenters
> Keynote Presenter
Marit Moistlik,Tamm PhD
Marit Moistlik-Tamm is a Lecturer in music (solfeggio, harmony, multimedia, special needs) and supervisor of BA and MA theses. Co-organiser of the international conference “The Changing Face of
Music and Art Education Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” (CFMAEYTT, Tallinn University). She is also
an executive director of Riho Päts Centre (Riho Pätsi Keskus, RPK) which provides music teachers,
music students and interested parties with intriguing and actual topics and presenters in its scientific-practical autumn and spring seminars. Marit Moistlik is a Co-founder and coordinating editor of
“CFMAE The Changing Face of Music and Art Education - Interdisciplinary Journal for Music and Art
Pedagogy”. Designer and facilitator of the course *Piano Playing for Everybody’ which is focused on
adult beginners.
> Keynote Presenter
Andrea Cevasco-Trotter,
PhD, MT-BC
Andrea Cevasco is Associate Professor of Music Therapy at The University of Alabama. She obtained
her Bachelor of Music (Music Therapy) from The University of Alabama, a Master of Music Education/
Therapy from The University of Georgia, and Doctorate of Philosophy in Music Education/Therapy
from Florida State University. Prior to attending Florida State University, Dr. Cevasco worked as a
private practice music therapist in Athens, GA, working with all ages and various populations in the
community. She also taught at The University of Georgia, supervising music therapy students in their
clinical work. Dr. Cevasco’s research interests are in the areas of premature infants as well as individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementia, and her research has been published in the
Journal of Music Therapy and Music Therapy Perspectives. She is currently a member of the Editorial
Committee for the Journal of Music Therapy, Exam Committee for the Certification Board for Music
Therapists, and Research Committee for the Southeastern Music Therapy Region of the American
Music Therapy Association.
> Keynote Presenter
Margarita Hatzinassiou,
Music Therapist,
MA-NRMT
Margarita Hatzinassiou is a music therapist, composer, songwriter and pianist. She studied classical
piano and advanced theory in Athens and completed her classical studies at Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. After the completion of the post graduate program in music Therapy at Music College in
Thessaloniki with Dr. Dora Psaltopoulou, Margarita continued her advanced studies in music therapy
at NYU where she received her Master of Arts in 2012. She is a certificated Nordoff Robbins music
therapist and has worked mostly with children and adults with multiple disabilities.
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> Keynote Presenter
Peter Jampel, Dr. MT-BC,
LCAT
Peter Jampel has been associated with the Baltic Street Music Therapy Program of South Beach
Psychiatric Center since 1973. Formerly the director of day treatment services of this community
mental health center, he is currently a consultant and the director of research at this facility. His
clinical background in community music therapy includes working for Florence Tyson at the Creative
Arts Rehab Center (CARC). Baltic Street has been the recipient of a grant from the Tyson Fund for the
past five years.
Dr. Jampel has been an adjunct faculty member in the Music therapy Program since 1983 and currently holds the rank of Adjunct Associate Professor. He also holds a faculty position at Touro College
where he teaches courses on Music and Creativity and an Introduction to Music Therapy to a predominantly Orthodox Jewish student population. He has guest lectured in many universities in the United
States and abroad.
Dr. Jampel is the former President of the American Association for Music Therapy, Chair and Conference Chair for the National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapy Associations (NCATA), Chair of the NYS
Creative Arts therapy Coalition and Founding Chair of the Brooklyn Creative Arts Therapy Committee
of the Brooklyn Mental Health Council. Presently he serves on the Board of Directors of Creative Arts
as a Global Resource and is an associate editor of Music as a Global Resource (MAGR) Compendium.
> Keynote Presenter
Dr. Christos Noulis,
PhD(BCU), MMus(RCM),
BMus(Hons) RCM, ITM
Christos Noulis holds a First Class BMus(Hons)RCM, a DipRCM and a MMus from the Royal College
of Music where he was an “Exhibition” and “Leverhulme Trust” scholar. His doctoral research at
BCU, Birmingham Conservatoire was a seven-year project which examined the effects of Somatic
Education on Piano Performance. He is also a certified instructor in the Alexander Technique (ITM),
the Pilates method, Yoga Therapy and Biomechanics. He is an official member of Performing Arts
Medicine Association.
He has taught Somatics for Musicians© in more than one hundred workshops in France, Greece and
the UK and in numerous conservatoires and music schools in Greece. He has lectured in conferences
such as the “1st and 2nd International Congress for Music Medicine”, the “International Conference in
Biomechanics”, the “Musicians’ Benevolent Congress”, EEME, ISME, TOWER, CEDEFOP, the National
Opera Studio and the Onassis Foundation.
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Keynote Presenters
> Keynote Presenter
Dimitrios Zachos,
Psychoanalyst,
Dance Movement
Psychotherapist
Dimitrios Zachos has completed his Master degree in Dance Movement Psychotherapy at City University - Laban Centre for Movement and Dance (London, UK), in 1995. Also, he has completed a
5 years psychoanalytic training in group Analysis & family Therapy. For almost 20 years he has
worked in private practice as well as at psychiatric institutions and special schools. His therapeutic
approach is a psychoanalytic / psychodynamic one. Currently, he works mainly in private practice
and he sees his clients individually as well as in groups. He also works with families where he
encourages all the family members to be involved in play, movement interaction and symbolic expression. Since 1999, he has been running annually, a foundation course in Dance Movement Psychotherapy, a
movement observation and analysis course (Laban, kestenberg, Davis) as well as a training course
on Veronica Sherborne’s developmental movement experiences for children.
He also offer supervision to dance movement therapists, arts therapists, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and family therapists who want to integrate some DMT techniques in their practice.
Furthermore, he is a faculty member of the Inspirees Institute for Creative Arts Therapy, China.
He is a full member of the Group Analytic Society, London, UK and the The Hellenic Society of Group
Analysis & Family Therapy
> Keynote Presenter
Dr.Christos Sidiropoulos,
Psychologist,
Psychoanalyst
Christos Sidiropoulos is psychologist, psychoanalyst, Dr. of the University of Strasbourg. Founding
member of the Group of Thessaloniki of the European School of Psychoanalysis in 1992 and since
2002 president of Freudian Association of Northern Greece, former Principal Director PSCN.G. for the
disabled in M.R. and behavioral disorders. His studies include Theology (Thessaloniki), Psychology
and Clinical Psychology DESS (Paris V -Sorbonne), Philosophy (Paris).
In his PhD thesis, -New psychoanalytic perspective on the Oedipus and possessiveness application
in Christology and Triadology -: “Man Jesus and the Trinitarian principle” opens new perspectives in
psychoanalysis, theology, linguistics, etc.
He has participated in many conferences, with suggestions such as: “Subject! Subject, where
are you? “,” Psychoanalysis and orthodox doctrine “,” The body image in children with autism, “”
Same-otherness “,” The logical time of the unconscious, “Expression or treatment? (Fine Arts Education Conference), “The concept of evil”, “Comments on ‘natural occurrence’ of W. Seitter», while
he organizes the psychoanalytic seminars, and conferences of F.A.N.G.
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> Keynote Presenter
Gerhard Lock,
Musicologist and
Composer
Gerhard Lock (*1978) is musicologist and composer, music critic and editor, educator and conference
organizer. He has studied violin in Germany as well as musicology in Germany and Estonia (MA
2004). Currently he is PhD student at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. 2003–2010 he
participated in post schooling events in the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Belgium. He has been main
investigator of two Estonian Research Agency (ETAg) research grants (2006–2008 and 2010–2012).
Since 2006 he works in the Department of Music at the Institute of Fine Arts of Tallinn University
where he is since 2009 also co-organizer of the onference series „The Changing Face of Music and
Art Education/Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow“ (CFMAE/YTT) as well as co-founding editor of the international peer reviewed CFMAE Journal. Among his research fields are music theory and music
history topics as well as interdisciplinary (art, dance), creativity, and improvisation research, and
music education topics (teaching and learning strategies, reflexive positionality). He has presented
and issued a variety of papers and articles in 12 European countries, the USA and Brazil. As composer and musician he uses electro-acoustics, multimedia as well as improvisation. Since 2003 he
collaborates with several artists and dancers, since 2010 he is part of the Hiiumaa Dance Festival,
since 2012 member of the interdisciplinary art group LAIK. He recently has been issued by publishers like Laaber (Grundlagen der Musik, 2014), Helbling (EAS series European Perspectives on Music
Education 3, 2014), Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Ciurlionis 100, 2013), Pfau (Goethe
Institute project „Soundexchange“, 2012) as well as the international peer reviewed Journal „Culture and Psychology“ (2011).
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Presenters
•Maria Alexandru, PhD, Associate
Professor AUTH
•Maria Argyriou, PhD, M.Ed, Greek
Association of Primary Music Teachers (GAPMET)
•Stella Kolyvopoulou, Psychologist Psychotherapist, MA Dance/Movement Psychoherapist
•Elli Kita, MA, GADTR SR, Psychologist/
Dance/Movement Psychotherapist
•Angeliki Bitzaraki, MSc Dance Movement •Dr. Maria Konstantinidou, PhD, MA, MEd, Psychotherapy, Group Facilitator (NDI), B. CDMT, BA in Physical Education
Social Anthropology
•Apostolis Laschos, Musician,
•Alexandra Chatzistavrou, Person Musicologist/Music Educator, Music
Centered Councellor, Music Therapist
Therapist Trainee
•Dr. Xanthoula Dakovanou, Music Therapist
•Eirini Rodopi Laskaraki, PhD Candidate
•Rama Cousik, PhD
•Eleni Leventi, BA, Diploma in Prychodrama
•Pelina Evangelou, Music Therapist
•Yiannis Mitrou, PhD, MSc, Psychoanalyst, •Apostolos Fotis, PhD Candidate
Researcher AUTH
•Elissavet Georgiadi, Musician, Music
•Julia Morozova-Van Steenis
Therapist Dip MP, AC - PgDip MT, GSMD
•Emanouel Giannopoulos, Lecturer AUTH
•Danai Giogiou, BA, MA, Music-Therapy
Diploma
•Giorgos Papadelis, PhD, Associate
Professor AUTH
•Ioanna Petridou, MA, Psychoanalyst
•Kana Kamitsubo, MT, BC, Music Therapist, •Alexis Porfιriadis, Composer
Pianist, Music Educator
•Niovi Stavropoulou, Art-therapist
•Mariliana Karakonstadaki, Theatrologist, Theater Pedagogist
•Kwstas Stergiopoulos, Psychoanalyst, Pcsychologist
•Maria Karapanagioti, Teacher,
Choreografer, Dance Therapy Practitioner
•Professor Konstantinos Tokmakidis
•Anargyros Karapetsas, PhD, Professor UTH
•Elena Tonikidi, Art-therapist
“Psychology-Art” art-therapy Institute
•Michalis Kefalas, MA (York), PhD (London), •Elitsa Velikova, Expressive therapist
HonFNAM, BA (Hon) Hum (Open)
& Psychologist
•Sanna Kivijärvi, MSc Doctoral student
•Efi Villou, Music Therapist
•Despina Klonari, PhD
•Natassa Yanaca, PhD
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Music
Moments
THURSDAY 19 ΜARCH / 20:00
with the team of Maria Alexandru, Phd, Assoc. Prof. AUTH
& Emanouel Giannopoulos, Lecturer AUTH
Hellenic music
Performance
FRIDAY 20 ΜARCH / 13:00
Manos Kokkonis - Vocals
Antonia Vasileiadou - Vocals
Panayiotis Kotsampas - Bouzouki
Risel Mix - Quitar
Aggelos Poimenidis - Piano
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Music
Moments
SATURDAY 21 ΜARCH / 13:00
With Yiannis Miralis (alto sax)
& Nikos Zafranas (piano)
A presentation of a wide range of works for
saxophone and piano, with a dance-like character and a cheerful mood, including works by
P. Itturalde, M. Shrude, G. Karvellos, J. Naulais
and P. di Rivera.
Polytropo
SATURDAY 21 ΜARCH / 20:00
MUSIC STUDIES DEPARTMENT
ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI
Music Teaching, stage editing and supervising: Jannis Kaϊmakis
Organizing committee and director assistants: Golessi Athanassia,
Michail Dorothea, Nesseri Maria, Parri-Nika Dimitra, Papastrati Daphne,
Dodoulou Valassia.
Starring (as they appear on stage):Michail Dorothea, Klotsotira Lia,
Klotsotira Addrianna, Vassilikoudis Aggelos. Ney, double flute,
back pipe: Kaϊmakis Jannis. Percussion: Pappas Kostas, Kalathakis Nikos.
Photography, musical instruments maker: Aktsoglou Paulos
Lighting, technical support: Pappas Kostas.
Group members: Vassilikoudis Aggelos, Golessi Athanassia,
Ioannidou Evridiki, Kalathakis Nikos, Katsavos Stefanos, Klotsotira Lia,
Klotsotira Addrianna, Katsipi Artemis, Markou Andreas, Mastoridou Danae,
Meymaridou Eirini, Michail Dorothea, Nesseri Maria, Dodoulou Valassia,
Parri-Nika Dimitra, Papakyriakou Styliani, Papadaki Fotini, Papastrati Daphne,
Plastara Despoina, Tirta Stella, Tsikalaki Maria, Kaϊmakis Jannis,
Chatzievaggelou Eleni, Pappas Kostas.
«DAMN YOU MIGRATION WITH ALL THE POISONS YOU HAVE»
MUSIC POLYTROPO (Creative Director: Kaϊmakis Jannis, associate professor)
Greek people’s fate has always been connected with
and stigmatized by migration, which until nowadays is
haunting them more than ever. Migration songs exist
all over Greece. For our play we’ve chosen songs from
the Greek areas of Epirus, Macedonia and Thrace.
The main axe, on which the musical play is founded
on, consists of whole theme units’ songs referring to
migration issues:
Unit I:
1. Messa sti mauri thalassa-Inside the black sea (Ierissos-Chalikidiki)
2.N-Ido pera pou perassa-At this dark place I’ve migrated to (Pylaia-Thessaloniki)
3.Damn you migration (East Romilia)
4.Dernes me manem m’dernes me- Mother! You
better bit me than send me to another country (Thrace)
5.Helios otan anatelle- When the sun rose
(Ierissos-Chalikidiki)
6.Yianni mou to mantili sou-My dear Yianni your handkerchief is dirty from your tears (Epeirus)
According to the folk poet the foreign countries are
connected with the following meanings: “huge shame,
at the foreign countries the trees don’t bloom in the
spring time, the birds don’t sing, warm sun is not
shinning”. The woman’s breast becomes paper and
the blood a pen to send a message to the migrated
husband.
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Unit II:
1.Perdika mou painemeni - My praised rock
patridge (Thassos)
2.O Yiorgis kai I Yiorgaina-Yiogos and his wife
(East Romylia)
3.Mauro Chelidoni-Black swallow (Thassos)
In the love song the parents: “Yiorgos and Yiorgaina are
engaging their sun”. The song speaks about the denial of
the first love (family love), which (according to the traditional heritage) is identified with the (painful) migration
to the “world underneath” (meaning death). The black
swallow symbolizes the bad news from the foreign land
whereas the white pigeon is the symbol for the good
news.
Unit III:
1.Mia kori ap toun Elympou- A girl from mount Olympus
(Ierissos-Chalikidiki)
2.Ainte koimisou kori mou- Go to sleep my daughter (Small Asia)
A very old song from Ierisso describes the drama that
migrants live in the foreign land in their search for a
better land and a more fruitful way of life. In this song
migration has the meaning of disgrace, humiliation and
unfair death.
Unit IV:
1.Xenous tha paei stin xenitia- As a stranger he will go to the foreign country (East Romylia)
Life in foreign lands in the folk song is considered to be
worse than death because you may forget the one who
died but being away cast a shadow on one’s life, it takes
her a state of non-existence and to absolute isolation.
o Σωτήρ
SUNDAY 22 ΜARCH / 13:10
Performance:
Movement and improvisation
through the touch of music
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Apostolis Natassa
Laschos Damaskoy
Musician, Musicologist,
Music Therapy trainee.
Psychologist,
Creative Movement Therapist.
SUNDAY 22 ΜARCH / 16:50
Sense
the Tango passion
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Hellenic
Playback
Theater
SUNDAY 22 ΜARCH / 17:00
Playback theatre is an original improvisational form of theatre that is created from
the unique cooperation between the audience, the musicians and the actors.
Playback Theatre creates a ritual space where any story - however ordinary, extraordinary, hidden or difficult - might be told, and immediately made into theatre. And
where each person's uniqueness is honoured while at the same time building and
strengthening our connections to each other as a community of people
It could be said that Playback theatre functions in the realm between psychology and
art. A Playback performance is a unique combination of psychodramatic techniques
and stage action.
The Hellenic Playback group was formed in 2003. Joseph Paradi, trainer from Hungary,
oversaw the group’s training for 16 months. Jonathan Fox and Jo Sallas ( creators of
the original Playback theatre), certified the group’s function according to the ethics
and philosophy of Playback
The “Hellenic Playback Theatre is the first professional Playback theatre group in
Greece, member of International Playback Theater Network (IPTN)
During these 12 years the group has offered 73 unique performances and has organized seminars & training (introduction in this special form of theatre).
The trainning is addressed to adults that desire an unique artistic experience that
through the training procedure they will be able to discover their creativity, personal
awareness, and self-understanding.
Basilis Ploumis
Eleni Leventi
Natasa Stoimenidou
Giannis Sembros
New members:
Evi Xristopoulou
Euthimia Kapageridou
Efi Magoula
Katerina Tzioridou
Maria Konstantinidou
“Restless Nirvana”
Acrylic on Canvas
0,90x1,20m
(Yiannis Kaminis)
Opportunities unfold
in a space between
action and stillness.
Edge Perception
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Art Exhibition by
Yiannis Kaminis / Alexandros Tsamou
20-22 ΜARCH
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“Clean up... Your act”
Oil on panel 30x40 cm
(Alexandros Tsamou)
The drawing is intended
to illustrate the simple everyday
moments.It is our view, that put
limits to our gaze,turning things
around us to artwork.
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