ABSTRACT
I met Sofía Lampropoúlou (Illustration 9.1) in the summer of 2004 at Ross Daly’s Labyrinth Music School in Houdétsi, Crete (see Chapter 10). Turkish art musicians Ömer Erdoğdular and Necati Çelik had come to give master classes on their instruments, the ney and the ud respectively. Daly had invited Sofía, me, and two other Greek paradosiaká musicians to participate in the concert which would be given by the teachers following the end of their respective seminars. Unlike the rest of us, who took the boat from Piraeus to Heraklio, Sofía arrived from Istanbul. This automatically conferred on her an aura of authority. Having flown with the teachers, she already seemed to have a rapport with them. But, more importantly, she was at the time living in Istanbul, having moved there to take lessons on the kanun.
