Sotirios (Sam) Chianis was born in Santa Barbara, California in 1926, of Greek immigrant parents. He received his PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of California at Los Angeles and has taught ethnomusicology at several universities, including UCLA, Yale, Colgate and Wesleyan. Since 1968, Chianis has been at Binghamton University (State University of New York) where he initiated a graduate program in ethnomusicology and served as Chair of the Music Department. He began playing the santouri (cimbalom) at a young age and later studied with the renowned Spyros Stamos. Chianis is featured on several commercial recordings, has performed on radio and TV in Athens, Greece and has appeared as a guest artist with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, and other major symphony orchestras. For many years Sotirios served as a studio musician for major television and motion picture studios in Hollywood, California. In 1958, Chianis was invited to Greece by the Folklore and Folk Song Archives of the Academy of Athens (now the Hellenic Folklore Research Center, Academy of Athens) to continue his research on the folk music of Greece. Since 1958, Sotirios has received numerous grants enabling him to undertake field recording expeditions to various islands and mainland regions of Greece in order to collect and preserve the rich and higly diverse indigenous folk music traditions of Greece. Chianis has written extensively on various aspects of Greek folk music. Included among his numerous works are The Vocal and Instrumental Tsamiko of Roumeli and the Peloponnesus (Doctor of Philosophy dissertation). University of California at Los Angeles , 1967, two volumes, 502 pp: «Aspects of Melodic Ornamentation in the Folk Music of Central Greece» Selected Reports, Institute of Ethnomusicology , University of California at Los Angeles, 1960, pp. 89-119. Folk Songs of Mantinea (Region of Arcadia, Peloponnesus), Greece (Berkeley of Los Angeles University of California Press, 1965, 171 pp. «Neohellenic Fok Music», New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London: MacMillan Press, Volume 7, pp. 675-82, 14 col. 1979). « Survival of Greek Folk Music in New York», New York Folklore (Vol. XIV, nos. 3-4 , 1988, pp. 37-48). His forthcoming monumental work in two volumes, Folk Songs of the Central Peloponnesus, Greece (approximately 450 songs in musical notation, original Greek Lyrics with English translations, introductory notes, and including 6 CDs of songs and music selected from his field expeditions) is to be published jointly by the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation, Greece, and the Hellenic Folklore Research Center of the Academy of Athens, Greece.
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