The International Society for Orthodox Church Music

The Board of ISOCM, elected in June 2005, re-elected in June 2007

Ivan Moody, England/Portugal

Chairman of the Society

“Composer, conductor and musicologist.  Largest work to date is a complete setting of the Akathistos Hymn in English; recently completed are a Finnish-language Vigil Service and a second ‘cello concerto.  Recent research includes two articles on Bulgarian and Russian church music for the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology.”

Contact: ivan.moody@joensuu.fi

Homepage: www.ivanmoody.co.uk

Svetlana Poliakova, Russia/Portugal

Alexander Lingas, USA/England

Petri Nykänen, Finland

Bogdan Djakovic, Serbia

Maria Takala-Roszczenko, Finland

Secretary of the Society

“I am a doctoral student at the University of Joensuu, specializing in the Ruthenian Orthodox church singing in the 16-17th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. I am currently on scholarship and live in Jyväskylä as the matuszka of Fr Aleksander.”

Contact: mtakala@cc.joensuu.fi