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Alexandra Balandina
Alexandra Balandina is currently lecturer of ethnomusicology at the Technological Education Institute of Epirus (Greece), in the Faculty of Music Technology, Department of Traditional Music. Her qualifications include BA in Social Anthropology and Social Policy (Panteion University, Greece), MMus and Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology (Goldsmiths College, University of London). She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Iran and former Yugoslavia. She is also a performer; playing on Middle-Eastern percussion instruments such as the bendir (frame drums) and the Iranian tombak (goblet shaped drum). Alexandra has performed with renowned musicians, including Ross Daly and his ensemble Labyrinth, and the Greek–Kurdish–Iranian ensemble Persepolis. Her main areas of research interest are: music censorship, music and politics, organology, performance theory, applied ethnomusicology, social anthropology, Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Balkans.