University of Edinburgh

Alumna, Music

Arts, Culture and Environment

Thesis Title: Adolphe Sax's Brasswind Production with a Focus on Saxhorns and Related Instruments

About

Eugenia was born in Greece where she studied Musicology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2001). During her undergraduate studies she researched the history of wind bands of Thessaloniki.
In 2005 she completed a Masters of Music in Organology at the University of Edinburgh. During her Masters studies, among others, she completed a research project regarding the history of the City of Edinburgh Brass Band which led to the publication of the relevant book in 2006 by the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments. During the same period she curated a temprorary exhibition in the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, funded by the Scottish Museums Council, with instruments of the City Band and relevant archival material.
Eugenia completed doctorate studies in Edinburgh under the supervision of Arnold Myers and Darryl Martin. Her thesis subject was the brasswind production of the maker Adolphe Sax with a focus on saxhorns, saxotrombas and relevant instruments made by Sax and other makers.
She has conducted research in numerous archives and private and public collections of musical instruments in Europe and the United States. She has presented papers in conferences focusing on the study of musical instruments and has published articles in relevant journals. Eugenia has been involved in various projects in the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments and has worked as a consultant for the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.
Among her distinctions should be noted the Terence Pamplin Award for Organology and Musicology (2006), awarded by the Worshipful Company of Musicians (London), the Frederick R. Selch Award (2008) for the best student paper awarded during the 37th meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society in Calgary, Canada, and the Clifford Bevan Award for Excellence in Research (2010) awarded by the International Tuba and Euphonium Association for the publication of her article "The Saxotromba: fact or fiction?" in the Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society.

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