From theory to chant, this workshop is a hands-on journey through Orthodox vocal traditions
The workshop will begin with a brief introduction to the concepts behind Eastern music theory. From there, we’ll focus on Orthodox vocal traditions, exploring regional styles across Greece, the Balkans, Ukraine, Lebanon, and the US. You will learn how to listen to and sing Byzantine chants, practice targeted vocal exercises to master ornamentation, and sing specific songs together as a group and individually.
The workshop is led by Silva Morasten.
About the Archaion Kallos festival:
Once again, the Philokallia association invites you to the Archaion Kallos International Festival of Orthodox Music. Do not miss this beautiful spiritual and musical experience. In its literal sense, the Greek expression “archaion kallos” means “ancient beauty,” but in the vocabulary of the Holy Fathers of the Eastern Christian Church, “archaion kallos” speaks of a certain archetype, an “original beauty,” that is to say, the beauty which man beheld in Paradise and which he experienced after Creation. The Philokallia Association (philokallia, a word of Greek origin meaning “love of the beautiful”) gave this name to the first and only festival of Orthodox music in Prague because the association perceives every act in sacred music, whether of composition or interpretation, as a kind of conscious or unconscious search for this pristine beauty, the Archaion Kallos.
The festival is held under the auspices of
the Minister of Culture, Oto Klempíř,
the Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic, H.E. Mr. Dinos Konstantinou,
the Mayor of the Prague 2 Municipal District, Jan Korseska
Important:
- No intermission
- Dress code: casual
- Program subject to change
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