The International Society for Orthodox Church Music

Conference Schedule

The International Conference was held at Charles University in Prague

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Access the proceedings.

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Friday 14th October

10:00 Opening Ceremony and Welcome Addresses

 

Opening of the Conference:

Ivan Moody, Chairman, ISOCM

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prof. PaedDr. Michal Nedělka, Dean

 

Doc. Jana Palkovská, Head of Department – Music Education Department

 

His Eminence, Archbishop Michal of Prague

Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia

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First Session

• Gregorios Anastasiou & Polykarpos Polykarpides
  A short study on the compositions of the ‘mathema’ Anothen oi prophetai, from the “golden age” of kalophonia (14th -15th centuries) as food for thought on the concepts of eponymity, tradition and innovation in Byzantine Music

• Athanasios Delios
  Χριστοῦ τὸν ἱεράρχην: the course of the sticheron from the old (non kalophonic) to the kalophonic melos

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Lunch

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Second Session

• Study Group for Byzantine Musical Palaeography from the School of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  'Traditional innovation’ in Byzantine Chant: the case of kalophonia

• Dimitris Balageorgos
  The Cretan psaltic tradition of 16th - 17th century: a radical and prototype melopoiea of the Great Doxology

• Mena Mark Hanna
  Coptic Chant: Questions of Consistency and Constancy in an Oral Tradition

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Third Session

• Jopi Harri
  How were stichera sung in Valaam?

• Victoria Legkikh
  Services to St Daniel of Moscow: Tradition and a new way of creation

• Mária Prokipčáková
  Irmologia - an innovative means of the transmission of liturgical music in the Carpathian area

• Ionuț Gabriel Nastasă
  Tradition and innovation in Romanian Orthodox chant - "Our Father"

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19:30 Concert
Ars Nova East and West
A dialogue between works by the main representative composers of Ars Nova in the East and West – Guillaume de Machaut, St John Koukouzelis and others.

 

Ensemble Polyfonion, artistic director Igor Angelov
Philokallia ensemble (female voices), artistic director Marios Christou
Soloist: Protopsaltis Grigoris Anastasiou

 

The concert will also present premieres of works by contemporary composers Alkis Baltas and Ivan Moody

 

Church of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Resslova 9a, Prague 2

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Saturday 15th October

Fourth Session

• Marina Luptáková
  Tradition and Traditions in Iconography

• Christopher Ashbaugh
  Joy, Catharsis, and (Eu)Catastrophe

• Sara Peno and Zdravko Peno
  Church Music between Tradition and Innovation: A Study in Canon and Creativity

• Marios Christou
  A Newly discovered manuscript of Bohuslav Martinů on the Byzantine Octoechos

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Lunch

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Fifth Session

• Vasileios Salteris
  Innovation within the Sticherarion during the post-Byzantine era: The contribution of George Prasinos

• Flora Kritikou
  The compositions entitled “dysikon” (Western) and “fragikon” (Frankish): a working hypothesis on potential convergence points of two different traditions

• Michael Stroumpakis
  The Heirmos of the Ninth Ode instead of Axion estin: A new (?) kind of composition during the 19th century.

• Thomas Apostolopoulos
  The theory of musical intervals in the era of the Byzantine maistores

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Coffee

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Sixth Session

• Ivan Moody
  New art and renewed art

• Alexandre Damnianovitch
  The composition Nativity by Alexandre Damnianovicvh

• Bogdan Djaković
  The cotrelation of Western and Eastern elements in Serbian Church Choral Music of the first half of the 20th century

• Predrag Djoković
  Hints of the instrumental music in some sticheras of Serbian Church Chant

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19:00 Reception

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Sunday 16th October 

9.30 Divine Liturgy

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Seventh Session

• Khatuna Managadze
  St Andrew of Crete’s Canon of Repentance and Georgian mediaeval aesthetics and philosophy

• Tamar Ckheidze
  Florid chanting in Georgian liturgical tradition and some parallels with Byzantine Kalophonic style

• Eka Chabashvili
  Different aspects of chants by contemporary Georgian composers as revealed through variations in performance

• Maka Virsaladze
  Nodar Mamisashvili's Passion as an example of mixing old and new elements in 20th -Century Georgian sacred music

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Eighth Session

• Sevi Mazera
  Φως ιλαρόν: an early Christian hymn of the 4th century A.D. Various compositions to the text through the history of ecclesiastical chant and the new composition by Prof. Gregorios Stathis.

• Irina Gerasimova
  Transmission and adaptation of the Greek Cherubic Hymn in the ecclesiastical chanting practice of the Kievan Metropolia and the Moscow Patriarchate at the end of the 17th – beginning of the 18th centuries

• Eugene Kindler
  Chant of chords, organized as homophony

• Haig Utidjian
  Two documentary witnesses to interactions between the Armenian and Greek Orthodox Sacred Musical traditions: an Armenian contrafactum, and a through-composed Paschal Introit

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16:00 Exhibition: The Art of the Armenian Book Through the Ages

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Departures

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