Official page of The Cypriot Fiddler, 2026 Grand Prix Winner of a European Heritage Award – Europa Nostra Award (Research category) | Βιωματικές ιστορίες Κυπρίων παραδοσιακών μουσικών στον εικοστό αιώνα The project is made up of three parts: (a) a documentary, completed in April 2016 and made entirely from funds collected through an online crowd-sourcing campaign, (b) a book, which will be publish
ed in Greek (Ο Κύπριος Βιολάρης) in 2022, and (c) a study-guide website. The documentary will become freely available online, upon the book's publication. The Cypriot Fiddler combines ethnographic and documentary methods, bringing together ideas and perspectives from ethnomusicology, life writing, oral and cultural history. The project was based at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, from 2012 to 2019. It has received funding from a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant, as well as from the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Cyprus.
