Nikos Molyvas
Nikos Molyvas was born in Stockholm, Sweden and raised in Edessa, Greece. He studied musicology at the Department of Musical Studies, at the Ionian University in Corfu. He gained his MA from the post-graduate programm Public History of the Hellenic Open University. His thesis, “Brass Instruments and Heterophony: Music and ethnic identity in the Edessa region during the Dictatorship”, was the result of field research employing the method of oral history. He holds diplomas in trumpet and in music theory (Fugue).
He teaches trumpet and music theory at a high school level. He has worked as a trumpeter in a broad spectrum of musical settings (traditional Macedonian brass bands, marching bands, studio recordings, theater, film soundtracks and more). He is the recipient of a scholarship in the framework of the MACAUTH project, to write a doctoral thesis on the popular music practices of the slavic speakers of the Central Macedonia region during the Cold War, at the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University (supervisor: Lambros Baltsiotis).