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ISOCM Conferences

The Second International Conference on Orthodox Church Music

“Composing and Chanting in the Orthodox Church”
Joensuu, Finland / 4 - 10 June 2007


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4th June 2007, Monday

Arrivals, registration / Orthodox Seminary

18:00 Vespers at the Church of St John the Theologian
Torikatu 41
Rev. Father Rauno Pietarinen
Cantor: Anneli Pietarinen

19:00 Dinner at the Orthodox Seminary

5th June, Tuesday

9:30 Official opening session
Nikea Auditorium, H30, Agora Building, Faculty of Theology
Official welcoming speeches

Professor Teuvo Pohjolainen
Vice Rector, University of Joensuu

Professor Petri Piiroinen
Faculty of Theology, University of Joensuu

His Eminence Archbishop Leo
Orthodox Church of Finland

Professor Hilkka Seppälä
Faculty of Theology, University of Joensuu

Ivan Moody
Chairman of ISOCM

Book launch:
The Traditions of Orthodox Music,
Proceedings of the
First International Conference on Orthodox Church Music
Joensuu, Finland, 13 - 19 June 2005

Introduction of participants

11:30 Lunch

13:00 First session: Byzantine Chant I

Fr Spiridon Antoniou
The composition and psalmody of the Communion Hymns

Hilkka Seppälä
Singing into flames of fire. A remembrance from the Martyr Church

Christiana Demetriou
Composing and Chanting during the Venetian Period in Cyprus

15:30 Second session: Chant in Russia

Svetlana Poliakova
Russian manuscripts of the 12th - 13th century as witnesses of the celebration of the Triodion Cycle

Albina Kruchinina
O dvukh tipakh sluzhb russkim prepodobnym svyatym

Melitina Makarovskaya
Znamenny raspev kak sistema pevcheskogo myshleniya

18:00 Memorial service for Archon Protopsaltes Nikolaos Nikolaides (d. 2006)

19:00 Reception at the University of Joensuu

6th June, Wednesday

09:30 Third session: The Byzantine Tradition II

Nicolae Gheorghita
The Byzantine Chant in the Romanian Principalities during the Phanariotic Period

Ardian Ahmedaja
Byzantine Chant in Arbërëshe churches

Gabriela Ocneanu
Evstatie’s Cherubic Hymn in Mode III Authentic in the 16th Century Putna Anthologies

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Fourth session: Chant and Composition in Finland

Jaakko Olkinuora
The Adaptation of Byzantine Chant into Finnish

Wilhelmiina Virolainen
Presenting Leonid Bashmakov, a Finnish composer

Timo Ruottinen
Finnish Orthodox church music: Three generations of contemporary
composers - Our musical iconography

16:00 Fifth session: Old Rite Chant

Nikita Simmons
Vocal techniques of Russian Old-Believer Singing

18:30 Vespers

19:00 Reception at the Town Hall of Joensuu

7th June, Thursday

09:30 Sixth session: Chant in the Balkans

Bogdan Djakovic
The modern traditionalist Milivoje M. Crvcanin (1892-1978) - a portrait of a priest, diplomat and composert

Stefan Harkov
Breitkopf’s influence: A Balkan way of musical publishing

Sara Peno
The Liturgical Typikon as a Source for Medieval Chanting Practice

11:30 Lunch

13:00 Seventh session: Composition and Adaptation

James Chater
Unity or uniformity? How important is a unified translation?

Oleksandr Kozarenko
Tserkovnaya monodiya v sovremennom kompozitorskom tvorchestve Ukrainy

Jopi Harri
Principles of harmonization in eastern Slavic chant

16:00 Eighth session: Georgian Chant

John Graham
Divergent Chant Traditions in Modern Caucasus Georgia:
An Examination of the Earliest Recordings and the Influence of Western Choral Practice

Free night

8th June, Friday

09:30 Ninth session

Alexander Lingas
Title to be confirmed

Achilleas Chaldaiakis
The figures of composer and chanter in Greek psaltic art

Traian Ocneanu
Romanian Schools of Eastern Chant
and Their Role in Shaping and Transmitting Orthodox Chanting Traditions to the Northern Slavs

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Tenth session

Jeffers Engelhardt
Every Bird has its own song”:
Congregational singing and the making of Estonian Orthodoxy, 1840s-1940s

Ivan Moody
The idea of canonicity in Orthodox liturgical singing

15:00 Annual Meeting of the International Society of Orthodox Church Music (ISOCM)

Elections

18:00 Choral Concert in the Lutheran Church of Joensuu

20:30 Reception at the Regional Council of North Karelia

9th June, Saturday

09:00 Departure by bus to Lintula Convent

10:00 Visit to Lintula Convent

Coffee

12:30 Departure by bus to Valamo Monastery

13:00 Moleben

14:00 Guided tour of Valamo Monastery, Museum and Lay Academy

15:00 Lunch

18:00 Vigil at the Church of the Transfiguration, Valamo Monastery

22:00 Departure by bus to Joensuu 

10th June, Sunday

10:00 Divine Liturgy at the Church of St Nicholas, Joensuu

11:45 Lunch

Departures