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According to the ISOCM constitution, at the annual meeting the chairperson is elected for the term of four years. Other Board members are elected for the term of two years. The Board meets by request of the chairperson, or if he / she is indisposed, of the vice-chairman. Three members present constitute a quorum. If vote is tied, the chairperson's vote is the deciding vote. The name of the Society is written by two members of the Board, the chairman, vice-chairman or the secretary. The current members of the ISOCM Board include: |
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Ivan Moody, Chairman of the Society The Rev. Dr. Ivan Moody is a composer, conductor, and musicologist, and priest of the Greek Orthodox Church. His largest work to date is a complete setting of the Akathistos Hymn in English; other extended works include a series of concertos for piano, 'cello, double-bass and viola. Liturgical music includes a Finnish-language Vigil Service. Research includes a large number of articles and papers on contemporary and early sacred music. Contact Information |
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Ardian Ahmedaja Dr. Ardian Ahmedaja was born in Tiranë, Albania. Since 1991, he has been living in Vienna, Austria where he has studied composition and theory of music (MA 1995), as well as Folk Art and Musical Sciences (PhD 1999). He works as a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. His main research interests include the local music cultures in the Balkans: music and religion, music and minorities, and multipart music in Europe. His field work has been completed in Albania, Croatia, Greece, FYR Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Southern Italy and Sicily. Contact Information |
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Yulia Artamonova Dr. Yulia Artamonova works for the Gnessins’ Russian Academy of Music (RAM) in Moscow as a editor-in-chief of the academic Journal of Musicology “Vestnik RAM” as well as of the RAM website. She is also a senior research fellow. Her academic interests include Orthodox church music, Znamenny Chant, and the singing culture of the Hilandar monastery (Mt Athos). Contact Information |
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David Lucs David Lucs is a choir director and composer in the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), who studied liturgical music and directing at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary. He served as a consultant for the OCA's Department of Liturgical Music, assisting with projects to provide musical settings and resources for parish choir use, he has also served as a parish choir director, and been involved with developing resources for PSALM, a pan-Orthodox music society in North America. His academic research interests include the historical development of liturgical worship and its dialogic structure, which have shaped the style of his compositions for divine services. Contact Information |
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Petri Nykänen, Vice-Chairman of the Society Petri Nykänen is a cantor and choir director who works as a lecturer of Orthodox Church Music at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu. He is also a deacon and serves at the Joensuu Seminary church of St. John the Theologian. He was among the first who studied Orthodox church music (1988-1993) at the Univerisity of Joensuu prior to becoming a cantor. After several years as a cantor, he returned to the same university to begin doctoral studies within the same subject. He has also studied musicology at the University of Jyväskylä and conducting in the Sibelius-Academy. He has served on the board of the Orthodox Cantors of Finland (1995-2004), as a member in the committee for collective bargaining in the Orthodox Church of Finland (1998-2004), and is also a member of the church music section in the Publishing Committee of Orthodox Liturgical Literature (2008-). His dissertation project deals with the methods for adaptating old Russian monodic chant into Finnish liturgical practice. Contact Information |
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Maria Takala-Roszczenko, Secretary of the Society Maria Takala-Roszczenko is a doctoral student at the Theological Faculty of the University of Joensuu, Finland. She studied English and Russian languages (Master of Philosophy 2003) and Orthodox church music (Master of Theology 2005) at the same university. She has also studied at the UMCS of Lublin, Poland. Her publications include articles on the Finnish and Ruthenian church singing traditions, a Finnish guide to the Znamenny notation and a collection of East Slavic Chrismas kolyadki translated into Finnish. Her future dissertation explores the Latin elements in the Eastern-rite liturgical music in the 17th – 18th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. She also works as a cantor in the Finnish Orthodox church. Contact Information |
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