The International Society for Orthodox Church Music
The Fifth International Conference on Orthodox Church Music
“Church Music and Icons: Windows to Heaven”
University of Eastern Finland, in Joensuu, Finland / 3-9 June 2013
The Fifth International Conference on Orthodox Church Music, "Church Music and Icons: Windows to Heaven," will be held at the University of Eastern Finland, in Joensuu, Finland, on 3 - 9 June 2013.
The conference will take place at the School of Theology (Agora Building), Philosophical Faculty, University of Eastern Finland (Yliopistokatu 4, 80101 Joensuu). The conference programme will include a panel discussions, interdisciplinary contributions relating to iconography and hymnography, and an excursion to local Orthodox and Finnish locales.
Tentative Conference Programme
Participants from around the world will gather to present papers and discuss topics relating to the Conference theme. Below is the initial schedule for this year's conference.
All papers will be published as the proceedings of the conference. It is expected that all participants will submit their papers with any necessary corrections and alterations by a deadline to be announced at the conference!
Monday 3rd June
10.00 Opening Welcome Session
Greetings and introductions - Welcome from Fr Ivan Moody, ISOCM board chairman
Book launch - Unity and Variety in Orthodox Music: Theory and Practice. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Orthodox Church Music, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland, 6-12 June 2011
Lunch
13.00 First Session
Alla Generalow (USA): Process in Contemporary Hymnography and Iconography: Fr. Vasilije Sokolovic and his father, St. Budimir of Dobrun
Jaakko Olkinuora (Finland): Hymnography as iconic telling: the Entrance of the Theotokos
Sydney Freedman (Ireland): 'Evidence of the Divine Economy': Christ's Work and Condescension in the Iconography and Hymnograpy of the Bridegroom Services
Coffee
15.00 Second Session
Ivan Moody (Portugal): Mary of Egypt as Opera and Icon
Lisa Radakovich (USA): A Simple Tune: Contemporary Chant Settings of Byzantine Poetry
16.00 Third Session
Bogdan Djakovic (Serbia): Serbian Orthodox Choral Music: last three decades of its revival
Nina Zakharina (Russia): Стихира Успению Богородицы «Егда преставление»: Проблемы реконструкции
18.00 Vespers, Church of St John the Theologian, Orthodox Seminary (Torikatu 41)
19.00 Reception hosted by the Orthodox Church of Finland
Tuesday 4th June
10.00 Fourth Session
Simon Marincak (Slovakia): Liturgical Music of the Eparchy in Mukacevo - References in the Oldest Written Witnesses
Svetlana Kujumdzieva (Bulgaria): An interpretation of the Song of Moses’ miniature depicted in manuscript Vaticanus Graecus 752
Flora Kritikou (Greece): Abbot Sisoes’ lamentation: a composition with iconographical origins
Lunch
13.00 Fifth Session
Achilleas Chaldaiakis (Greece): Illustrating Melodies: Iconographical Instructions into Byzantine Music Theory and Practice
Thomas Apostolopoulos (Greece): Diagrams and “Kanonia” as Visual Representations of Musical Instruments in the Theory of Psaltic Art
Michalis Stroumpakis (Greece): Byzantine Iconography and Byzantine Church Music: two parallel paths
Coffee
15.00 Sixth Session
Dimitrios Balageorgos (Greece): Imaging the Holy Trinity with Words and Music
Vasileios Salteris (Greece): Music as Iconography: the case of a Despoticon Sticheron
Meri Kumbe (Albania): Music through Iconography in Albanian Churches
Coffee
17.45 Concert of Byzantine chanting, conducted by Achilleas Chaldaiakis
19.00 Reception hosted by the city of Joensuu
Wednesday 5th June
10.00 Seventh Session
David Lucs (USA): Introducing children to hymnography through iconography
Panagiotis Panagiotidis (Greece): Hymn and Melody as they are Depicted in the Icons of the Orthodox Church’s Holy Week
Costin Moisil (Romania): A pilgrimage, an icon, and a few songs
Lunch
13.00 Eighth Session
Galina Alexeeva (Russia): New methodological approaches to the analysis of the processes of adaptation of Byzantine art in ancient Russia: singing tradition and liturgical action
Denis Gordeev (Russia): The interpretation of the colours of the clothes in the iconography of the great Theotokos feasts through hymnographic texts
Nektarios Antoniou (Greece): Visual overtones and sound icons: The shared space/topos and common ground of liturgical visions and sonic renderings in the Eastern Orthodox traditions
Coffee
15.00 Ninth Session
Natalia Plotnikova (Russia): Трезвоны иконам Божией Матери в партесном многоголосии (in absentia)
Irina Gerasimova (Belarus/Russia): Ожившая икона Рождества Христова в 8-голосном концерте А. Цибульского "Таинство странное вижу"
Natalia Kostyuk (Ukraine): Общенародное пение в богослужениях ХІХ − первых десятилетий ХХ века (по материалам периодической печати) (in absentia)
16.30 Serbian chant workshop, conducted by Rev. Milos Vesin
18.00 ISOCM General Meeting
Thursday 6th June
10.00 Tenth Session
Katariina Husso (Finland): Tradition re-evaluated: Discourse on Orthodox icons in Finland
Maria Takala-Roszczenko (Finland): The Byzantine "revival" in Finnish Orthodox church music in the 1950-60s
Anna Sander (UK): Musical inspiration and musical imagery in the liturgical visions of Mechtild von Hackeborn of Helfta (1241-1299).
Lunch
13.00 Eleventh Session
Yuliya Artamonova (Russia): Melismatic hymn to Iosif Volotsky form Eparchial collection
Svetlana Poliakova (Portugal): Russian Studite Sticheraria: some remarks on their Palestinian origins
Gregory Myers (Canada): Archbishop John of Novgorod, a Miraculous Icon and the Singing of a Kontakion
Coffee
15.00 Twelfth Session
Jopi Harri (Finland): In search of the Theology of Orthodox Church Music
Fr. Ionut Gabriel Nastasă (Romania): Unpublished Testimony About Church Music at Văratic Monastery (First Half of the XXth Century)
16.00 Serbian chant workshop, conducted by Rev. Milos Vesin
18.00 Vespers
19.00 Reception
Friday 7th June
10.00 Thirteenth Session
Evan Freeman (USA): Beyond Style as a Criterion of Orthodoxy: Orthodox Iconatrophy in the Writings of Florensky, Ouspensky, and Kontoglou, and Suggestions for a New Orthodox Iconology
Gregory Ealy (USA): Teaching and Tradition: Singing the Bakhmetev and Kievan Obikhods in English
Girolamo Garofalo (Italy) The Byzantine chant of the Arbëresh (the Sicilian-Albanian minority) of Sicily: a Greek-Byzantine musical island inside an Italian island
Lunch
13.00 Fourteenth Session
Aleksey Gudkov (Russia): Снедая свиток: мотив творческой инициации в иконографии прп. Романа Сладкопевца
Grammenos Karanos (USA): Poetic and Musical Imagery in Kalophonic Heirmoi to the Theotokos (in absentia)
Coffee
14.30 Fifteenth Session
Daniel Galadza (Canada): "Open your mouth and attract the Spirit": Participation in the Icon of Worship
Melita Mudri-Zubacz (Canada): Liturgical Song as an Aural Icon: Towards a Theology of Sound and Participation
15.30 Serbian chant workshop, conducted by Rev. Milos Vesin
18.00 Concert of Georgian chanting: Me Rustveli
Saturday 8th June
Excursion to Lintula monastery
Excursion to New Valaam monastery, Heinävesi
Sunday 9th June
10.00 Liturgy at St Nicholas Church, Orthodox parish of Joensuu
Departures
Languages
The language of the conference will be English.
Translation into English will be provided for papers presented in Russian or Greek.
Conference venue and programme
The conference will take place at the School of Theology (Agora Building), Philosophical Faculty, University of Eastern Finland (Yliopistokatu 4, 80101 Joensuu). Accommodation will be provided within walking distance from the venue. Free transport from the Joensuu airport or railway station to the hotel will be provided on request.
On-line Registration
Registration is now closed.
Participants
A list of current registrants is available here.
Stay in touch!
It is also possible to sign up by e-mail or by letter using any of the following addresses:
Maria Takala-Roszczenko, takalam@gmail.com
Rev. Ivan Moody, ivan.moody@uef.fi
Petri Nykänen, petri.nykanen@uef.fi
ISOCM / Petri Nykänen, School of Theology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Eastern Finland, P.O.Box 101, 80101 Joensuu, Finland (Europe)
The web page of the School of Theology at the University of Eastern Finland is available at: http://www.uef.fi/filtdk/teologian-osasto
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