Evangelia Chaldæaki is an ethnomusicologist and teacher of folk music with a focus on Greek-language singing traditions and many years of experience. Her compositions, performed by herself and other artists, as well as recordings with the choir she has been conducting for the past twelve consecutive years, have been independently released on digital platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube).

Her articles on topics related to Greek, Turkish, and Ottoman music and culture have been published in academic journals, and she has also presented at conferences, given lectures, and received awards for her work.

She works as an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Music Studies at the University of Ioannina and previously taught in the corresponding department at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as in the Master’s Program “Ethnomusicology and Music Practice” at the same institution, teaching Greek folk and traditional singing as well as other courses related to the Greek folk music tradition. She holds a Ph.D. from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens with the dissertation “Folk Music in Turkish- and Greek-Language Music Collections of the Late Ottoman Period: Folk Culture and Intercommunal Relations,” which is forthcoming from Herodotus Publications. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Turkish Language, Literature, and History and her master’s degree in Folklore and Folk Culture from the same institution. Her master’s thesis, “K. A. Psachos and His Contribution to the Documentation and Study of Greek Folk Songs,” has been published by the Athens Conservatory and Edition Orpheus.

She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Music Studies at the University of Ioannina. Until recently, she was a research associate at the Orient-Institut Istanbul for the DFG research project “Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae,” focusing on the inclusion of sources from Rum musicians in this project.