She was born in Athens on November 1976. Very young she started to take ballet classes and later piano lessons. In 1999 she graduated from the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Athens, where she studied History and Theory of Theatre. During her studies she worked at the Archives of the Greek National Opera (1998-9) and collaborated with the dance periodical En choro. In 2002 she obtained an M.A. of Theatrology and Musicology (Athens University-Ionian University) and started her research on the 19th century musical life in Greece. She is a PhD candidate at the Music Department of the Ionian University. The title of her thesis is "Aspects of Wagnerism in 19th Century Greece". She has published several articles on music, opera and theatre in modern Greece and she is a member of the editorial board of Mousikos Hellenomnemon, the quadrimestrial journal of the Hellenic Music Research Lab of the Ionian University. Since September 2013 she is in charge of the Athens Conservatory Archives.

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