Biographies
Adriana Ababi Sirli is a recognized specialist in Byzantine musical studies with in-depth experience. While she was a researcher at the Institute of Art History in Bucharest, she contributed to academic journals and to the volume Anastasimatarion of the series on Byzantine and post-Byzantine musical materials published by the Romanian Academy. Between 1980-1982 she visited the United States on a Fulbright scholarship and was a guest researcher at Dumbarton Oaks Center. In 1993 she earned a Ph.D. degree from La Sorbonne in Byzantine musical studies. Presently she resides in Paris where she continues her academic activities.
Eugenia Popescu-Judetz is a Roumanian ethnomusicologist and art historian affiliated as asociate professor and museum consultant with Duquesne University in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where she has been teaching courses in the folk music and performing arts of Eastern Europe and Turkey. She applied her outstanding ethnomusicological knowledge and philological expertise in Turkish musical writings and performing arts of the Ottoman era to the writing of several monographs and essays on subjects related to the musical literature of the eighteenth century.