Zoe N. Margari

Born and raised in Athens. She completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Ethnology and Anthropology at the University of Vincennes-Saint Denis (Paris 8) and studied Kinesiology at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Vincennes-Saint Denis (Paris 8).

She served as a research associate, researcher, and research director in numerous projects at institutions such as the Academy of Athens, the Universities of the Aegean and Crete, and the National Technical University of Athens. In 1999, she began collaborating as a research associate with the Department of Folk and Traditional Music at the University of Applied Sciences of Epirus, and from 2002 until April 2009, she was a member of the institution’s Academic Community. Since 1997, she has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses at higher education institutions and institutes.

In May 2008, she was elected a researcher at the Centre for Research in Greek Folklore of the Academy of Athens.


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Records

This recorded show includes stage performances of carnival songs and other related popular rituals from different areas of Greece, as they were presented at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall on 2003.
This videotaped stage performance, held at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on 2005, includes songs and rituals related to the cycle of the agricultural year,.
This edition aims to convey the spirit of Easter, the Christian feast celebrated amidst the glory and promise of springtime, through the selected rituals of that period of the year and their related sacred songs and tunes.

Concerts

A concert for children performed by children with traditional songs, dances, games and reenactment of folk customs. Twelve children’s groups from Epirus, Kalyvia of Attica, Crete, Karpathos, Olympus, Zefyri of Attica, from Nea Erythraea representing the Asia Minor tradition, Volakas of Drama, Skyros, Larissa, the “Argonauts-Komninoi” from Kallithea, Kozani and […]
A carnival feast at the stage of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall with songs, dances, and customs of the carnival period. In addition to Domna and her collaborators, musicians, singers, dancers and bands from regions of Greece take part, where even today the celebrations and rituals of Carnival maintain their authenticity.
Traditional songs and events that follow the course of the cycle of the year. Starting from the autumn, which marks the beginning of the working and ecclesiastical year, a harvest revival, events of the twelve days of Christmas, Easter festivities, Saint John of Kledon customs, and summer festive events.
An Asia Minor tribute concert. A tribute to the muse of the historical space of the Greek East. Traditional songs from the western coast of Asia Minor, the Sea of Marmara, Constantinople, Pontus and Cappadocia and two Byzantine hymns from the musical tradition of the Orthodox Church.