2018 Church Music Symposium

The 2018 Pan-Orthodox Music Symposium

“Orthodox Liturgical Music:

Ancient & Modern Creativity”

Minneapolis, Minnesota / 20-24 June 2018

Conference Schedule

The ISOCM's 2018 Pan-Orthodox Music Symposium will take place at

St. Mary's Orthodox Cathedral, 1629 and 1701 NE 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55413.

Wednesday 20 June 2018

Arrivals and check-in at the Days Hotel

5:00 - 9:00 pm Symposium Registration

(at the cathedral's parish center)

7:00 - 8:30 pm Welcome Reception
(in the cathedral's parish center dining room)

Thursday 21 June 2018

6:00 - 8:30 am Breakfast (at the hotel)

8:00 am Symposium Registration (at St Mary's Cathedral)

8:45 am Opening Prayers
Welcome and Introductions by the Symposium Committee

9:15 am 1st Rehearsal Session (Vigil)

10:30 am Session I:

Oleh Harkavyy, "Liturgical Music as a Dynamic System"

Priest Silouan Rolando, "Stifling Creativity: Problems Born out of the Promulgation of the 1907 Tserkovnoje Prostopinije"

Harrison Russin, "Organs in Orthodox Worship: Debate and Identity"

12 noon Lunch

1:10 pm Practicum I:

John Michael Boyer, "Byzantine Chant for Congregational Singing 2: Lent & Holy Week"

2:20 pm Session II:

Dr. Kamal Kadar,"Intertwining Between the Byzantine music and Arabic language in the Church of Antioch: The Role of Protopsaltis Mitri El Murr (1880-1969)"

Richard Breaux, "Cultural Retention and Assimilation through the Recorded Sounds of the Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church in United States, 1915-1965"

3:30 pm 2nd Rehearsal Session (Liturgy)

5:15 pm Dinner

6:30 pm Paul Barnes, "Love, Death, and Resurrection in the Musical Vision of Philip Glass, Franz Liszt, and Ancient Chant"

Friday 22 June 2018

6:00 - 8:30 am Breakfast (at the hotel)

9:00 am 3rd Rehearsal Session (Liturgy)

11:00 am Session III:

Paige Lush, "Practical Considerations for the Choir Director in Getting the Most out of PreSonus' Notion"

11:45 am Lunch

12:50 pm Session IV:

Zhanna Lehmann, "A Bridge Between the Past and the Present: Musical Realization of an Ancient Poem Adam's Lament in the Penitential Psalms of Alfred Schnittke"

1:30 pm Session V:

Paul Kappanadze, "An Abbreviated Eirmologion"

Vladimir Morosan, "Antiphonal Psalmody in the Divine Liturgy"

Samuel Herron, "Anglophone Byzantine Chant and Communal Discernment:

The Influence of the 19th Century Reforms on English-Language Composition"

2:45 pm Practicum II:
Amy Hogg, "Byzantine Beginnings: Innovative Pedagogy for Byzantine Chant"

3:45 pm 4th Rehearsal Session (Vigil)

5:30 pm Return to Hotel and free evening in Minneapolis

5:30 pm Dinner (optional)

7:00 pm Richard Barrett, "Masterworks, Misunderstandings, and Making Do in Anglophone Byzantine Chant, 1892-2018"

Choir Performance by YPHOS, directed by John Michael Boyer

Saturday 23 June 2018