Katy Romanou (Kaitē Rōmanou) was born in 1939, Athens and died in May 2020.
She studied at Indiana University where she was granted a Masters degree in musicology and pursued her studies at the University of Athens where she was awarded a Ph.D. in musicology. She was a music critic for the daily newspaper He Kathemerine (1974-1986), and was on the editorial boards of Greek periodicals Musicologia and Polyphonia. She was also a founding member of the Hellenic Musicological Society where she remained active until her death. Katy published extensively in Greek and English and contributed to many publications. She gave lectures on Greek music in the United States of America, at the City University of New York, Yale University, University of Florida at Gainesville and at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. She taught music history and music theory at several conservatories in Greece before holding a professorship chair at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA – Εθνικόν και Καποδιστριακόν Πανεπιστήμιον Αθηνών), and later at the European University of Cyprus (Ευρωπαϊκό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου).
She was always trying to link people together through music and research, especially in her main fields of interest which were Greek music and the Byzantine world. Katy believed in the essential role of the Balkan countries in the shaping of the history of musicology and strongly fought to bind the Balkans to Western music history.
When we met her in Cyprus during a colloquium, we were pleased to discuss with her during the coffee breaks about several musicological issues and we understood at CERMAA how sharp her mind was and how much work she still wanted to achieve. It was with great sadness that we read about her death. Her loss was untimely for all but especially to the world of musicology.
-From the book’s foreword
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Analytical and Interpretative Approach: Yorgo Sicilianos’s Works for Two Pianos |
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Philippos Nakas Conservatory |
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Analytical and Interpretative Approach: Yorgo Sicilianos’s Works for Two Pianos – pp. 19-42 |