Ioanida Costache

Ioanida Costache is a violinist, videographer, and scholar. She hails from Milwaukie, Oregon, where her parents landed after immigrating from Bucharest, Romania.

Costache completed her PhD in ethno/musicology at Stanford University in 2021. Her research explores issues of race and ethnicity, performance/construction of identity, cultural memory, trauma, and history as they intersect in Romani musico-oral traditions. From Holocaust songs to communist-era popular music, her work demonstrates that music is deeply imbricated in the project of cultural healing.