Dr. Ekaterini Akarepi

Katerina Akarepi is a lecturer at the University of Oklahoma, School of Music, specializing in the musical cultures of the Middle East. She holds a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she wrote her dissertation on “Echoes of Regret in Late Fifteenth/Early Sixteenth Century Chanson.” She also earned a Bachelor of Music with a focus on ethnomusicology from Ionian University in Corfu, Greece. Her current academic interests include cultural sustainability and world music studies.

Recently, she received the Alternative Textbook Grant from OU Libraries (2023) and a Faculty Development Grant from the Israel Institute (2024) to support her general education course on Middle Eastern Music. Her ongoing research project explores the musical traditions of mountainous Dorida in central Greece. Since 2000, her field research in that region has led to the recording of approximately 1,000 folk songs and the documentation of local musical life. Additionally, she has conducted archival research at the Folklore Research Center of the Academy of Athens, studying sound archives.

• Ph.D. in Historical Musicology - State University of New York at Buffalo
• MA in Music History - State University of New York at Buffalo
• BA with emphasis in Ethnomusicology - Ionian University, Greece