Conference Highlights
The Fourth International Conference on Orthodox Church Music, "Church, State and Nation in Orthodox Church Music," is taking place this week at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland.
The topic of the Conference: "Unity and Variety in Orthodox Music: Theory and Practice," is being addressed during papers presented by participants from around the world.
The Conference programme includes a workshop of Georgian church singing, a concert, and an excursion to local Orthodox and Finnish locales.
Concert
The Conference included a concert on Monday evening.
Additional information
For more information, contact
Fr Ivan Moody (ivan.moody@joensuu.fi)
Maria Takala-Roszczenko (takalam@gmail.com or mtakala@isocm.com)
The Programme of the Conference is available below.
The web page of the School of Theology at the University of Eastern Finland is available at: http://www.uef.fi/filtdk/teologian-osasto
Conference Programme
5th June 2011, Sunday
Arrivals
6th June 2011, Monday
10:00 Opening session
Lunch
13:00 First session, Chair: Christian Troelsgaard and Ivan Moody
Christian Troelsgaard (Denmark):
Chant papyri and the New Jerusalem Tropologion – some early documents on the formation of the Orthodox chant repertories
Serafim Seppälä (Finland):
Existence as a Song? The Mystical Ontology of Singing
Ivan Moody (Portugal):
In Time and Out of Time: Theology in Sofia Gubaidulina's St John Passion and St John Easter
Coffee break
15:00 Second session, Chair: Ivan Moody
Hilkka Seppälä (Finland):
Unity and variety of church music traditions: a theological view
Yulia Artamonova (Russia):
Единство в многообразии. О пении "на подобен" [Unity in variety. Concerning singing “on podoben”]
Simon Marincak (Slovakia):
Notes on the congregational participation in the Eparchy of Mukacevo
18:00 Concert of Orthodox church music, Lutheran Church of Joensuu
Georgian chanters, conducted by John A Graham
Greek chanters, conducted by Achilleas Chaldaiakis
Reception, hosted by the Orthodox Church of Finland
at the
Joensuu Orthodox Seminary
7th June 2011, Tuesday
10:00 Third session, Chair: Achilleas Chaldaiakis
Thomas Apostopoulos (Greece):
Levels of orality in Byzantine music
Flora Kritikou (Greece):
The kalophonic settings of Stichera idiomela in the Byzantine and Cyprian traditions: convergences and divergences
Michael Stroumpakis (Greece):
The interpretative tradition of Hymns in Athonite monasticism. Diversity and unity.
The first approach.
Lunch
13:00 Fourth session, Chair: Nicolae Gheorgita
Dimitrios Balageorgos (Greece):
Unity and variety in Orthodox music: The case of Great Doxology
Evangelia Spyrakou (Greece):
Unity through variety in Christian choral traditions: The case of Byzantine choirs and
the Roman Schola Cantorum
Achilleas Chaldaiakis (Greece):
Singing antiphonally: unity or variety?
Coffee Break
15:00 Workshop of Georgian liturgical chant
Conducted by John A Graham (USA/Georgia)
17:30 Vespers
Reception hosted by the City of Joensuu
at City Hall
8th June 2011, Wednesday
10:00 Fifth session, Chair: David Lucs
John A Graham (USA):
Unsung Melodies: Voice-crossing in Georgian Troparion Chants
Ekaterine Diasamidze (Georgia):
Russian and Georgian Chant: the Phenomenon of their Coexistence in a Russian Orthodox Church in Tbilisi
David Shugliashvili (Georgia):
Similarities and Differences in the Georgian Chant School Traditions
Lunch
13:00 Sixth session, Chair: Bogdan Djakovic
Ivana Perkovic (Serbia):
Musical metaphors and symbols in Serbian liturgical poetry (Srbljak) and hagiography (žitija)
Svetlana Kujumdzieva (Bulgaria):
Music for St. Petka of Tirnovo
Albina Kruchinina (Russia):
Службы соловецким преподобным: общее и индивидуальное [Offices for the Solovetsky ascetics: common and individual] (in absentia)
Coffee
15:00 Seventh session, Chair: Svetlana Kujumdzieva
Nina Zakharina (Russia):
Стихира Успению Богородицы "Егда преставление" в древнерусских и старообрядческих певческих книгах [Sticheron for the feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God “Egda prestavlenie” in ancient Russian and Old-Believer chant books]
Jaakko Olkinuora (Finland):
The Doxastikon of the Aposticha for the feast of the Eisodia: a poetic-musical study
16:30 Workshop of Georgian liturgical chant
18:00 Annual meeting of the ISOCM
Free night
9th June 2011, Thursday
10:00 Eighth session, Chair: Yulia Artamonova
Melitina Makarovskaya (Russia):
О двух богослужебно-певческих традициях в современном поповском старообрядчестве [Concerning two liturgical singing traditions among contemporary Popovcy Old-Believers]
Nicolae Gheorgita (Romania):
Observations on the Technique of Transcription
(έξήγησις) into the New Method of Analytical Music Notation of the Sunday Koinonikon of the 18th Century
Natalia Ramazanova (Russia):
Две ветви старообрядческой книжности в Российской Национальной библиотеке [Two branches of Old-Believer literature in the Russian National Library] (in absentia)
Lunch
13:00 Ninth session, Chair: Ivan Moody
Bogdan Djakovic (Serbia):
The new identities of contemporary Serbian Orthodox church music: The Gypsy Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom by Zoran Mulic (2010)
Ekaterina Sadikova (Russia):
‘Первый среди равных’: регент Свято-Тройцкой Сергиевой Лавры о. Матфей (Мормыль) [‘Primus inter pares’: cantor of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, Archimandrite Matfey (Mormyl’)]
Coffee
14:30 Tenth session, Chair: Svetlana Kujumdzieva
Dmitry Chernyak (Russia):
Опыт прояснения метрики пространного пения в псалмах для употребления за богослужением в Единоверческих православных общинах [Exploration of the metric system of melismatic singing of psalms in liturgical service in the Edinovercy Orthodox parishes]
Ardian Ahmedaja (Austria):
Fan S. Noli and musical practice in the Orthodox Church in Albania
15:30 Workshop of Georgian liturgical chant
17:30 Vespers at St Nicholas church, Kirkkokatu 23
Reception hosted by the Regional Council of North Karelia
10th June 2011, Friday
10:00 Eleventh session, Chair: Maria Takala-Roszczenko
Irina Gerasimova (Russia):
Реквиальная служба Николая Дилецкого: вопросы реконструкции [Requiem by Nikolay Dilecki: questions of reconstruction]
Daniel Galadza (Canada/Italy):
Russia, Ruthenians, and the Russicum: the Life and Work of Ludwig Pichler, S.J.
Natalya Plotnikova (Russia):
"Реквиальная" Служба Божия Василия Титова: открытия и загадки ["Requiem" Divine Liturgy by Vasily Titov: findings and enigmas] (in absentia)
Lunch
13:00 Twelfth session, Chair: Petri Nykänen
Costas Manoras (UK):
The musical traditions of the Choir in the Greek Cathedral St. Sophia London (presented by Theodora Adigun)
Inge Kreuz (Germany):
Centonization in Old Russian Liturgical Chant
Coffee
14:30 Thirteenth session, Chair: Ardian Ahmedaja
Galina Alekseeva (Russia):
Память византийской традиции в русской певческой терминологии (на материале Азбуки XVII века БАН 32.16.18) [Reflection of Byzantine tradition in Russian singing terminology (on the basis of 17th century Azbuka from the Russian Academy of Science Library no. 32.16.18)] (in absentia)
Petri Piiroinen (Finland):
Spiritual songs of the "Vaeltajan laulut" collection in post-war Finland
15:30 Workshop of Georgian liturgical chant
17:30 Vespers
19:00 Conclusion of the Conference
11th June 2011, Saturday
Excursion to Tuupovaara and Ilomantsi
c. 12:30 Visit to the chapel of Christ "Not Made By Hands" in Tuupovaara, coffee
c. 13:45 Visit to the chapel of St Herman of Alaska in Kovero
c. 14:30 Visit to the Rune-singer's house in Parppeinvaara, Ilomantsi, lunch
18:00 Vespers at Prophet Elijah church of Ilomantsi
Visit to the Wine Tower (Hermanni's Winery)
12th June 2011, Sunday
10:00 Divine Liturgy and Vespers (Pentecost)
Church of St Nicholas, Orthodox parish of Joensuu
Lunch at parish hall
Departures
