Wolfson alum wins European Heritage Award for research project “The Cypriot Fiddler”

Dr Nicoletta Demetriou, former Research Fellow in Ethnomusicology and Life Writing at Wolfson between 2012 and 2019, has recently received the 2026 Europa Nostra European Heritage Award. Her latest research project “The Cypriot Fiddler” received the award in the category of Research. Wolfson College as well as the Oxford Centre for Life Writing, based at Wolfson College, were the project’s academic home during Demetriou’s time at the University of Oxford.

“The Cypriot Fiddler” is a long-term ethnographic research project documenting the life stories of some of the last surviving traditional musicians of Cyprus. Bringing together ethnomusicology, oral history and oral-visual research, the project documents a professional group that has largely disappeared.

The jury lauded the project for its sustained, bottom-up approach, as well as its ability to encourage a new generation to value traditional musical expression.

Read more about the poject in the press release and on the project homepage.