ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"> <title>kotronakis - musicology</title> <style type="text/css"> .h_mnu_01{ width:100%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; } .h_mnu_01 ul{ margin: 0; padding: 0; float: center; width: 100%; background: #000000; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 0; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: #000000; border-right-color: #000000; border-bottom-color: #000000; border-left-color: #000000 } .h_mnu_01 ul li{ display: inline; } .h_mnu_01 ul li a{ float: center; color: #C0C0C0; padding: 5px 10px; text-decoration: none; border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #000000; } .h_mnu_01 ul li a:visited{ color: #C0C0C0; } .h_mnu_01 ul li a:hover, .h_mnu_01 ul li .selected{ color: #000000 !important; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; background: #808080; } </style> </head> <body style="background-position: center top; background-attachment: fixed; background-repeat: repeat; background-image: url(classicalguitari20-3-09.jpg);"> <center> <table style="width: 880px; height: 182px; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" border="6" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 230px; height: 58px;" border-right="0pt" colspan="1" rowspan="2"><br> <img style="position: absolute; top: 3px; width: 267px; " alt="Dimitris Kotronakis" src="P4111037d.gif" align="top"> </td> <td style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) -moz-use-text-color; border-left: 3pt none; vertical-align: top; width: 650px; height: 134px; background-color: #b8580e; "> <div style="margin-left: 560px;"></div> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br> <div style="margin-left: 33px; margin-top: -10px;"><img style="width: 450px; height: auto;" alt="" src="dimitriskotronakis3.gif" align="middle"> <br> </div> <div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: 99px; color: rgb(51, 102, 102); height: 54px; position: absolute; top: 36px; letter-spacing: -3.3pt;" id="title">Musicology</div> <div style="margin-left: 515px; position: absolute; top: 18px;"> <img style=" height: 100px; position: absolute; top: 16px;" alt="" src="dancing_guitars.gif"></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 650px; height: 58px;"> <div id="g_description"> <div style="text-align: center;" class="h_mnu_01"> <center> <div class="h_mnu_01"><div style="line-height:23px"> <ul> <center> <li><a href="home2.html"><font size="2">home</font></a></li> <li><a href="biography.html"><font size="2">biography</font></a></li> <li><a href="recordings.html"><font size="2">recordings</font></a></li> <li><a href="reviews.html"><font size="2">reviews</font></a></li> <li><a href="presskit.html"><font size="2">press kit</font></a></li> <li><a href="news.html"><font size="2">news</font></a></li> <li><a href="repertoire.html"><font size="2">repertoire</font></a></li> <li><a href="videos.html"><font size="2">videos</font></a> </li> <br> <li><a href="tourdates.html"><font size="2">tour dates</font></a></li> <li><a href="guestbook.html"><font size="2">guest book</font></a></li> <li><a href="photos.html"><font size="2">photos</font></a></li> <li><a href="musicology.html"><font size="2">musicology</font></a></li> <li><a href="collaborations.html"><font size="2">collaborations</font></a></li> <li><a href="links.html"><font size="2">links</font></a></li> <li><a href="contact.html"><font size="2">contact</font></a> </li> </center> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br> <br> <div id="Layer1" style="position:relative; visibility:inherit; width:690px; z-index:2"> <table style="width: 690px; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; opacity: 0.8; filter:Alpha(opacity=80); background-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); border-top: solid 2px #000; border-bottom: solid 2px #000; border-left: solid 2px #000; border-right: solid 2px #000;" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 290px; float: right;" alt="Abstract Guitar, by Paul Brent" src="Abstract Guitar by Paul Brent.jpg" hspace="2"> <span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Century Gothic; font-style: normal; color: white;"><align= "left"><text-indent="36.0pt"> The main musicological occupation of Dimitris Kotronakis is his doctorate thesis for the Faculty of Music Studies, of the University of Athens, with subject:  Greek guitar composers of the twentieth century . His supervising professor is Ion Zotos.<br><br> So far, his research has produced considerable results: approximately 200 Greek composers and about 1200 musical compositions, 50 of which are concertos for guitar and orchestra.<br><br> Another important work was the assiduous research of the personal archives of Kyriakos Tzortzinakis, 18 years after his death.<br><br> At the same time, he is engaged on the study of three guitarist personalities of the Greek Diaspora, who excelled as guitarists, composers and teachers in the past, but few people know that they were of Greek origin. The Greek - Italian Michalis Avlonitis (Miguel Abloniz, Kairo/Egypt 1917 - Aqui Terme/Italy 2001), the Greek - Italian Alexandros Chatziioanou (Alexandre Lagoya, Alexandria/Egypt 1929 - Soisy-sous-Montmorency 1999) and the Greek emigrant Sophocles Papas (Sopiki-Epirus/Greece 1893 - Alexandria - Virginia/USA 1986).</span> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <br> <center> <table style=" width: 720px; height: 40px; text-align: center; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; background-color: #b8580e; opacity: 0.7; filter:Alpha(opacity=70);" border="4" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="middle"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left"> <a href="mousikologia.html"> <img src="ellinikisimaia4.gif" alt="greek version" style="border: 0px solid ; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 190px; width: 33px; " hspace="10"></a> <font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>&copy; Dimitris Kotronakis <img style="" src="guitarrista.gif" align="middle" height="22" width="22">2008</b> </span></font> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </center> </body> </html>