Nikos Andrikos

Andrikos is Assistant Professor of Music Studies at the University of Ioannina. From 2000 to 2004, he participated in the research program Monuments of Ecclesiastical Music directed by Manolis Hatziyakoumis. He lived in Istanbul between 2004 and 2007, serving as a chanter in the first choir of the Ecumenical Patriarchate alongside Archon Protopsaltis Leonidas Asteris.

He began studying Turkish folk music and saz in 2002, training with Periklis Papapetropoulos and later with leading TRT musicians Mehmet Erenler, Yücel Paşmakçı, and Şahin Gültekin. During this period, he was also a guest postgraduate researcher at Haliç University, focusing on Turkish folk idiomatic music.

He completed his PhD at the Ionian University and published the book The Ecclesiastical Music of Smyrna (1800–1922). His research includes extensive anthropological fieldwork in the Northeast Aegean, documenting musicians from Asia Minor and collecting rare archival materials. He has taught at the Department of Folk and Traditional Music (TEI of Epirus) and completed postdoctoral research in 2025 at the University of the Aegean on the Istanbul lute and its pedagogical applications.