MUSICOLOGY
(Musicología)
Review of Theory and Praxis of Music
Athanasios
Zervas
Born in
1959. He is composer, theorist, and saxophonist. He has
written for solo instruments, chamber, orchestral, and vocal ensembles,
electroacoustic music, and music for film, theater, and jazz for small and
large ensembles. He is a specialist in pitch-class set theory, contemporary
music, composition, orchestration, saxophone, and jazz improvisation. His
articles and research papers have been published by the University of Central
Missouri, the University of Macedonia (Greece), the MUSE Institute of Greece,
the Greek Composers Union, the Hellenic Saxophone Association; his
compositions have been published by Jeanne Inc. Dr. Zervas is the editor of
the electronic theory / composition journal mus-e-journal
at www.muse.gr, and the
founder of the Athens Saxophone Quartet. He has recordings with BMG, Centaur,
EMI, FM, Libra, Magni, Mercury / Universal, Aristotelian University Studio. He
holds a Doctorate of Music in Composition and a Master of
Music in Saxophone from Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Chicago State
University, and he is an Associate Professor of Music Theory – Music
Creation at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.