SPYRIDON ANTONOPOULOS is the Founder and Director of PSALTIKON. He is Honorary Research Fellow at City, University of London, where he obtained his PhD in Musicology in 2015, completing a thesis on the fifteenth-century Constantinopolitan composer and theorist Manuel Chrysaphes. A graduate of Brown University (Music and Classics) and the New England Conservatory (Vocal Performance), he is a regular member of Cappella Romana, with whom he has sung in concerts and festivals across Europe and the US. A student of the late Edward Zambara (NEC) and Robert Dean (Guildhall), he has appeared as tenor soloist in operas and recitals of classical music, in addition to performing with a variety of world music ensembles, in the US and the UK. He has spoken at dozens of international academic conferences and is currently a singer on Stanford’s Icons of Sound project as well as a singer and researcher for UCLA/USC’s Bodies and Spirits: Soundscapes of Medieval Byzantium. These multidisciplinary projects focus on the interplay of sound, space, and liturgy in late medieval churches.