Conference Highlights

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
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