Sofia Giouldouri

Born in Thessaloniki in 2003, Sofia Giouldouri graduated from the Music School of Thessaloniki and the Department of Music Science and Art at the University of Macedonia, where she is currently pursuing her postgraduate studies. Parallelly, she is a Master’s student in the “Ethnomusicology and Music Anthropology” program at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has studied violin and vocals, while in recent years she has also been practicing the lavta. Also, she has participated in specialized ethnographic writing workshops. Within the framework of her

undergraduate thesis project, titled “The dual nature of the instrument maker– performer: An ethnographic field study”, she directed the ethnographic documentary “How the Cypresses Sound”, which marks her debut film.