Ninth International Conference on Orthodox Church Music:
“Church Music and Topography:
City, Village, and Monastery”
Online / 7–11 June 2021
Organizers:
The International Society of Orthodox Church Music
Conference Programme
Changes to the programme are possible! Last updated 9 June 2021
Time zone: EEST (UTC+3)
Abstract Book (pdf)
Technical information (pdf)
Monday 7 June
10.00–10.45 Opening ceremony
Opening addresses
Dr Maria Takala-Roszczenko, Assistant Professor of Church Music, UEF
Very Rev. Dr Ivan Moody, Chairman of ISOCM
Technical introduction to sessions and virtual coffee breaks
10.45–11.00 Break
11.00–13.00 First Session / Chair: Maria Alexandru
11.00–11.30 Serafim Seppälä: Centre of the Earth in Patristic and Liturgical Understanding
11.30–12.00 Fr Damaskinos (Olkinuora) of Xenophontos: Moral Allegories in Byzantine Hymnography on Temples and Churches
12.00–12.30 Presentation cancelled, opportunity for discussion
12.30–13.00 Harri Huovinen: Participation in Psalmody and Church Membership in Cyril of Jerusalem
13.00–14.00 Break
14.00–15.30 Second Session / Chair: Costin Moisil
14.00–14.30 Nina-Maria Wanek: Geography in Psalms: Hagiosophitikon Settings of Psalms 1 and 3
14.30–15.00 Catalin Cernatescu: The musical tradition of the Epitaphios Threnos in the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Era
15.00–15.30 Presentation cancelled, opportunity for discussion
15.30–16.00 Virtual Coffee Break (What's this?)
16.00–16.45 Keynote Presentation I / Host: Fr Ivan Moody
Daniel Galadza: Sacred Topography and Hymnography for Holy Week in Jerusalem in Codex Hagios Stavros gr. 43 (AD 1122)
18.00–19.15 Concert (Joensuu)
Ilkka Heinonen and Vladimir Belov: Echoes of Karelian Saints
Tuesday 8 June
10.00–11.30 Third Session / Chair: Ruth Alison Kolosova
10.00–10.30 Gregory Myers: The Ritual Comings and Goings of the Medieval Slavs: Stational Liturgical Action and Music
10.30–11.00 Victoria Legkikh: Rejoice the City of Murom
11.00–11.30 Study Group for Byzantine Musical Palaeography “Chrysorrhemon” (School of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): ‘The Place’ of the ‘Uncircumscribed’: Thoughts on Hymns and Troparia for the Most Holy Theotokos from Various Local Traditions through the Centuries
11.30–12.00 Break
12.00–13.30 Fourth Session / Chair: Svetlana Zvereva
12.00–12.30 Aleksandr Andreev: Sources for the Study of the Reform of Hierarchical Services in Moscow in the 17th Century
12.30–13.00 Robert Galbraith and James Cook: Novgorod as a Major Singing City and Strochny Polyphony
13.00–13.30 Elena Chernova: The All-Night Vigil in Early Russian Demestvenny Polyphony. Presentation of the Edition Project
13.30–14.30 Break
14.30–15.30 Fifth Session / Chair: Alexander Khalil
14.30–15.00 Tuuli Lukkala: Place and locality in the soundscapes of Orthodox worship in Finland
15.00–15.30 Vinay Thomas: Musicking and Chorality in the Malankara Orthodox Church
15.30–16.00 Virtual Coffee Break (What's this?)
16.00–16.45 Keynote Presentation II / Host: Fr Ivan Moody
Bissera V. Pentcheva: Eternal Victory: Byzantine Territorial Expansion and Constantinopolitan Liturgical Splendor at Hosios Loukas (Steiris, Greece)
18.00 Vespers (Church of St John the Theologian, Joensuu (Finland))
Wednesday 9 June
10.00–11.30 Sixth Session / Chair: Flora Kritikou
10.00–10.30 Panteleimon Zafiris: The Chanting Tradition of the Theological School of Halki. An Unknown Music Tradition of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarchate
10.30–11.00 Girolamo Garofalo: Father Lorenzo Tardo (1883-1967) and the “re-discovery” of Byzantine chant in the Monastery “San Nilo” of Grottaferrata (Rome, Italy)
11.00–11.30 Evangelia Spyrakou: On the Historically Informed Performance of Psaltic Art: Old Believers’ rituals as source material for understanding functions of byzantine chorós
11.30–12.00 Break
12.00–13.30 Seventh Session / Chair: James Chater
12.00–12.30 Pavlos Kordis: A Musical Ikon in New York City: Dino Anagnost conducts John Tavener. Tavener's unknown concert in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Anagnost's musical legacy
12.30–13.00 Fr Ivan Moody: Exile: Space and Memory in the Music of Giya Kancheli
13.00–13.30 Ivana Medić: Music Inspired by Serbian Orthodox Monasteries
13.30–14.30 Break
14.30–15.00 Virtual Coffee Break (What's this?)
15.00–17.00 Workshop / Host: Maria Takala-Roszczenko
John A. Graham: Georgian Chant
17.00 Vespers (Ascension of Our Lord Orthodox Church, Iași (Romania))
Thursday 10 June
11.00–12.30 Eighth Session / Chair: Maria Takala-Roszczenko
11.00–11.30 Jenni-Tuuli Hakkarainen: The Localization of Orthodox Spiritual Songs: Finnish Translations of lyrics
11.30–12.00 Šimon Marinčák: The Zobor Monastery: Early Witness of the Slavonic Music
12.00–12.30 Svetlana Zvereva and George Lapshynov: Pechory and Valaam: Spiritual Oases of the Russia Abroad
12.30–13.30 Break
13.30–15.00 Ninth Session / Chair: Fr Damaskinos (Olkinuora) of Xenophontos
13.30–14.00 Nadezhda Shchepkina and Ekaterina Pletneva: Theta Combinations in the Stichera of the Transfiguration (Case Study of 10-12th Century Greek and Russian Manuscripts)
14.00–14.30 Maria Rizzuto: From Monasteries in Jerusalem and Nazareth to the Ethnomusicological Archive of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome: the Melkite Liturgical Chant in Leo Levi’s research
14.30–15.00 Ekaterine Oniani: On the Preliminary Musical Paleographic Analysis of Greek Codices with Late Byzantine Notation (According to Greek Manuscripts Preserved at the Georgian National Center of Manuscripts)
15.00–15.30 Break
15.30–16.00 Virtual Coffee Break (What's this?)
16.00–16.45 Keynote Presentation III / Host: Fr Ivan Moody
Alexander Khalil: The Chanting of Rev. Hanna Sakkab: a musical topography of time
17.30 Annual meeting of ISOCM
Friday 11 June
10.00–11.30 Tenth Session / Chair: Ivana Medić
10.00–10.30 Ștefan Aurel Ștefan: The presence of Doxastarion of Iacovos Protopsaltes in the Romanian Principalities in the 19th century
10.30–11.00 Maria Takala-Roszczenko: Time of Silence: Reactions of Finnish Orthodox Church Singers to COVID-19
11.00–11.30 Ionuț-Gabriel Nastasă: “Elevation of the Holy Cross” Heirmoi in Romanian Services
11.30–12.00 Break
12.00–13.30 Eleventh Session / Chair: Nina-Maria Wanek
12.00–12.30 Elitza Hristova: Some aspects of the development and promotion of Bulgarian liturgical music (comparative study of the processes in the capital, the village of Novi Han, Saint Panteleimon monastery in Patleina)
12.30–13.00 Tamaz Gabisonia: Christian Themes in Georgian Folk Music
13.00–13.30 Flora Kritikou: Cretan idiosyncrasies in the liturgical chant of the Ionian Islands: tradition, transmission and adaptation
13.30–14.30 Break
14.30–15.30 Twelfth Session / Chair: Fr Ivan Moody
14.30–15.00 Margaret Haig: The sacred encampment: the experiences of young people learning musical tradition
15.00–15.30 Nataša Marjanović: Sound recordings of Serbian church chant in the 20th century: Tangible traces of intangible cultural heritage
15.30–16.00 Virtual Coffee Break (What's this?)
16.00–17.00 Thirteenth Session / Chair: David Lucs
16.00–16.30 Chad Houk: Toward an Understanding of the Role of Digital Technology In Orthodox Life and Practice
16.30–17.00 Jacob Frimenko: Let us attend… Let us commend ourselves, and each other, and all our life unto Christ our God
17.00–17.15 Concluding words / Fr Ivan Moody
18.00 Vespers (St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral, London (UK))