The International Society for Orthodox Church Music

Organizers:
The International Society for Orthodox Church Music 

School of Theology, Philosophical Faculty, University of Eastern Finland

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Conference Schedule

The Tenth International Conference on Orthodox Church Music will be held at the University of Eastern Finland, School of Theology, Agora AT100, Yliopistokatu 4, Joensuu

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Monday 12th June 

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9.30 Opening ceremony

Maria Takala-Roszczenko, Assistant Professor of Church Music, University of Eastern Finland

Ilkka Huhta, Head of the School of Theology, University of Eastern Finland

Very Rev. Ivan Moody, Chairman, ISOCM

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Book launch

Opening of the poster exhibition

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10.00 First Session

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• Stig Simeon Frøyshov (Norway), The Meal Service of the Horologion: History, Meaning and Performance

• Flora Kritikou (Greece), Φάγονται πένητες καὶ ἐμπλησθήσονται καὶ αἰνέσουσι Κύριον: Food Blessings in the Cretan Repertory

• Evangelia Spyrakou (Greece), On the Fasting of the Byzantine Chanter 

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11.30 Lunch

 

13.00 Second Session

• Hieromonk Damaskinos of Xenophontos (Finland/Athos), Heavenly Nourishment in the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple

• Harrison Russin (USA), Identification and Meaning in the Hymnography of Holy Week: Judas and the Mystical Supper

• Andrew Mellas (Australia), ‘The Loaves Gave Birth’: Heavenly Nourishment in the Hymns of St Romanos the Melodist

 

15.00 Coffee

 

15.30 Keynote

Dr Thomas Arentzen (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Eating the Gospel: Between Craving and Disgorging in Romanos the Melodist

 

17.00 Vespers (Church of St John Theologian)

 

18.00 Reception

 

 

Tuesday 13th June 

 

10.00 Third Session

• Margaret Haig (UK), Bringing Christmas Cheer: Carols to Nurture and Witness the Faith

• Maria Rizzuto (Italy), Ritual Plurilingualism and “Food Multilingualism”. Community Practices of the Church of Sant’Alessandro di Comana in Palermo

• Panteleimon Zafiris (Greece/Ireland), The Use of Music in the Monastic Trapeza: From Orthodox Patrology in Practice Today in the Greek Area

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11.30 Lunch

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13.00 Fourth Session

• Protopresbyter Ivan Moody (Portugal), The Troparion of Kassiani: The Figure of the Repentant Woman in the Music of Greek Composers of the 20th Century

• Alex Khalil (Ireland), Eat your words: Orality, Literacy, and Embodied Learning Through Sacred Music

• Sister Sidonia (Freedman) (USA), Stichera, Scents, Stitches, and Self-Emptying: How Christ Nourishes and Cherishes the Church, in Light of Hymnography for the Feast of the Life-Giving Pillar and Georgian Paraliturgical Traditions

 

14.30 Coffee

 

15.00 Fifth Session

• Serafim Seppälä (Finland), The Natural Foundation of the Eight Musical Modes in Bar Hebraeus

• Richard Barrett (USA), The Soundscape of Festal Vespers: An Aural Ethnography of Greek Orthodox Churches in Boston

• Tuuli Lukkala (Finland), Aesthetics in the Soundscapes of Orthodox Worship in Finland

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16.30 Workshop

Conducted by Anna Conomos (UK)

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18.30 Reception

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Wednesday 14th June 

 

8.00 Divine Liturgy

 

9.45 Coffee

 

10.00 Sixth Session

• Harri Huovinen (Finland), Physical and Spiritual Nourishment in the Catechetical Homilies of John Chrysostom

• Nina-Maria Wanek (Austria), The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts as a Unique Path of Spiritual Nourishment

• Karim Guirguis (Canada), Embodied Liturgical Experience as an Extension of Eucharist

 

11.30 Lunch

 

13.00 Seventh Session

• Aleksandr Andreev (Norway), The 17th Century Znamenny Hirmologion: Sources, Principles of Reform, and Place in the Russian Musical Tradition

• Victoria Legkikh (Germany), You Were Praise of Fasting: The Service to St Euthymius

• Marcin Abijski (Poland), The Greek Repertory in Ruthenian Irmologia as a Key to Some Questions of Byzantine Musicology

 

14.30 Coffee

 

15.00 Workshop

Conducted by Anna Conomos (UK)

 

16.40 Annual meeting of the ISOCM

 

Free night

 

 

Thursday 15th June 

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10.00 Eighth Session

• Nina Shultz (USA), Slaviq: An Expression of Native Alaskan Orthodoxy

• Yousef Sawires (Canada), An Evaluation of Protestant-Style Worship During the Distribution of Communion in the Coptic Orthodox Church

• Girolamo Garofalo (Italy), “Flowers and fruits on/for the earth”. Food, Nature’s Rebirth and Spiritual Renewal in the Lazarus Songs among the Albanians of Sicily.

 

11.30 Lunch

 

13.00 Ninth Session

• Svetlana Poliakova (Portugal), The Stichera of the Saturday of Saint Theodore in the Oldest Lenten Manuscripts: at the Crossroads of Traditions

• Donatella Bucca (Italy), Koinonika in Italo-Greek Musical Manuscripts

• Yulia Artamonova (Serbia), Collections of Model Chants (Подобники) as a Cookbook for Chanters

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14.30 Coffee

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15.00 Keynote

Professor Davor Džalto (University College Stockholm, Sweden)

The Material Faith: Orthodoxy, Materiality and Creation

 

18.00 Concert: Echoes of Byzantium in Western Rus

Conducted by Marcin Abiskij (Poland)

 

Friday 16th June 

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10.00 Tenth Session

• Nino Naneishvili (Georgia), Christian Religious Music in Georgia

• Bogdan Đaković (Serbia), The Existence of Orthodox Choirs through the Period of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia – a Case Study of the Serbian Orthodox Priests’ Choir of the Diocese of Bačka (1951–1996)

• Simon Marincak (Slovakia), Is it Possible to Have a Proper Musical Tradition Without Musical Books? The Formation of Chant Tradition in the Carpathians

 

11.30 Lunch

 

13.00 Eleventh Session

• Pavlos Kordis (Greece), Receive the Body of Christ: The Compositional Style and Efficiency of Communion Verses

• Robert Galbraith (UK), Why Did Western Polyphony Appear in Russian Sacred Music in Mid-17th Century?

• Ekaterina Antonenko (INTRADA Vocal Ensemble), Orthodox Church Music of Baldassare Galuppi for the Great Lent and Easter

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14.30 Coffee

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15.00 Twelfth Session

• James Chater (France), Beauty, Worship and Music in the Church

• Margarita Moisejeva (Lithuania), Orthodox Church Music in the Lithuanian Language in the Context of the Socio-political Environment

• Riikka Patrikainen (Finland), Research on Singing Funerals as a Female Cantor in the Orthodox Church of Finland – Why Do We Need Autoethnography in Studies on Orthodoxy?

 

16.30 Conclusion of the academic programme

 

17.00 Vespers (Church of St John the Theologian)

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18.00 Evening of songs

 

 

Saturday 17th June 

 

Excursion, departure from GreenStar Hotel (Torikatu 16)

 

• Lunch at Parppeinpirtti Karelian restaurant

• Rune-singer's house and exhibitions in Parppeinvaara

• Kokonniemi graveyard (the tomb of St John of Sonkajanranta)

• Vespers, Church of the Prophet Elijah of Ilomantsi

• Wine Tower (Hermanni's Winery)

• Return to Joensuu

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Sunday 18th June 

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10.00 Divine Liturgy at the Church of St Nicholas
Orthodox Parish of Joensuu, Kirkkokatu 23

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Departures

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