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The Third International Conference on Orthodox Church Music, "Church, State and Nation in Orthodox Church Music", was held at the University of Joensuu, Finland, 8 - 14 June 2009.
The Conference took place at the University of Joensuu, Finland. The programme included an excursion to the heartland of Finnish-Karelian Orthodoxy: Ilomantsi.
The web page of the Department of the Orthodox Theology at the University of Joensuu is available at: http://www.joensuu.fi/teoltdk/ortteol/
Official Conference Programme
8th June 2009, Monday
Arrivals, registration / Orthodox Seminary
Auditorium, Theological Faculty, University of Joensuu
10:00 Opening session, Welcome Speeches
Book launch: Composing and Chanting in the Orthodox Church. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Orthodox Church Music. University of Joensuu, Finland. 4-10 June 2007.
Introduction of participants
Lunch
13:00 First session
Serafim Seppälä (Finland):
Music in the Temple of Jerusalem during the time of the Apostles
Hilkka Seppälä (Finland):
St Cecilia (Kikilia): A musical martyr in the Eastern and Western traditions
Break
14:30 Second session
Julia Artamonova (Russia):
Hilandar Obikhod: archaic style of new tunes
Natalia Ramazanova (Russia):
Idei Moskovskoy gosudarsvennosti v cerkovnom penii 16 veka
17:00 Vespers, Church of St John the Theologian
19:00 Reception
9th June 2009, Tuesday
10:00 Third session
Maria Takala-Roszczenko (Finland):
The “Latin” within the “Greek”: the feast of Corpus Christi in the 17th - 18th century Ruthenian practice
Daniel Galadza (Canada):
Sacred choral performance and chant in Galicia (present day Ukraine) 1900-1944
Marcin Abijski (Poland):
The Revival of the Singing Tradition in the Suprasl Monastery of the Annunciation on the basis the Suprasl Irmologion (1598-1601). Analyzing of the Byzantine aspects in the Irmologion
Lunch
13:00 Fourth session
Svetlana Kujumdzieva (Bulgaria):
Studying the Oktoechos: From the Octoechos to the Anastasimatarion
Svetlana Poliakova (Portugal):
A Russian Triodion set of the 12th century: some liturgical aspects
Break
14:30 Fifth session
Emilia Ismael (Mexico):
Report on the Russian Orthodox Church in Mexico and its Current Musical Practice (in absentia)
Melitina Makarovskaya (Russia):
Izuchenie lokal’nyh bogosluzhebno-pevcheskih tradiciy staroveriya
17:00 Vespers
19:00 Reception
10th June 2009, Wednesday
10:00 Sixth session
Zhanna Borovova (Russia):
Bogosluzhebno-pevcheskaya kul’tura staroobryadcev-pomorcev Pribaltiyskogo regiona
Gabriela Ocneanu (Romania):
Title to be announced later (in absentia)
Jopi Harri (Finland):
On the polyphonic chant of Valaam Monastery
Lunch
13:00 Seventh session
Costin Moisil (Romania):
The Making of Romanian National Church Music (1859-1914)
Ivan Moody (UK/Portugal):
Tradition and Creation in Bulgarian Orthodox Church Music: The Work of Petar Dinev
Break
14:30 Eighth session
Vera Carina (Serbia):
The Pancevo Singing Society as part of Serbian Culture
Ardian Ahmedaja (Austria):
Religious Folk Songs as Expression of Cultural Individuality
16:00 Annual meeting of ISOCM
19:00 Reception
11th June 2009, Thursday
10:00 Ninth session
Nina Zakhar’ina (Russia):
The investigation of Russian liturgical chant books in the 17th – 21st century
Galina Alekseeva (Russia):
The Earthly and the Divine in the Soglasnik from the Russian singing alphabet of 17th century, Library of Russian Academy of Science 32.16.18
Lunch
13:00 Tenth session
Albina Kruchinina (Russia):
Cerkovno-pevcheskoe iskusstvo v epohu patriarha Nikona. Mify i real’nost’
Irina Gerasimova (Russia):
The 17th century choral concert ‘Vozshel esi vo cerkov’ by Mikolai Dilecki: tracing the origin and early use (in absentia)
Break
14:30 Eleventh session
Jaakko Olkinuora (Finland):
Archbishop Paul and the Quest for Finnish Orthodox Chant Tradition
Bogdan Djakovic (Serbia):
Rediscovering a Serbian national style: problems in sacred architecture, church art and church music in the late 1930s: the case of the Orthodox choral music of Milenko Zivkovic
17:00 Vespers
19:00 Reception
12th June 2009, Friday
08:00 Divine Liturgy, Church of St John the Theologian, Joensuu
10:00 Twelfth session
Rachel Foulds (UK):
Spiritual Independence or a Cultural Norm? Galina Ustvolskaya and the Znamenny raspev
Inge Kreuz (Germany):
The Anabathmoi in Old Russian Manuscripts and in the Tradition of the Old Believers
Lunch
13:00 Thirteenth session
Sergei Starostenkov, Alexander Davydov (Russia), Veikko Purmonen (Finland):
Bells of the Uspensky Cathedral
Caitlin Beck (USA):
The use of Orthodox church music in the Anglican and Episcopal churches in North America
Break
14:30 Fourteenth session
Petri Nykänen (Finland):
Title to be announced later
Alla Generalow (USA):
‘Finding Asparagus at Christmas’: Nationhood and Russian Identity in the Performance Practice History of Rachmaninoff’s All-night Vigil, Op. 37
17:00 Vespers
Free Night
13th June 2009, Saturday
Excursion to Ilomantsi
Vespers at the Prophet Elijah church, Ilomantsi
Return by bus to Joensuu
14th June 2009, Sunday
10:00 Divine Liturgy at the Church of St Nicholas, Joensuu
11:45 Lunch
Departures
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