Choir

The Maestors of the Psaltic Art

“The Maestors of the Psaltic Art” is a well-known (since 1983) in the field of Byzantine Musicology Choir of Chanters. The main goals and objectives of this Choir of Chanters are: [a] the study and presentation of the works of the main Byzantine and post-Byzantine composers [b] the morphological study and analysis of the various “types” of composition [c] the general promotion of the Psaltic Art, with scholarly substantiation and skilled technique [d] the chanting of entire divine Services during times of worship.

“The Maestors of the Psaltic Art” have offered, up to now, over four hundred presentations, both in Greece and abroad (Europe, Asia, America and Australia). They have chanted in very famous Music Halls [such as: the “main hall” of the University of Athens, the “Music Hall” of Athens and Thessalonica, the Opera House of Sydney, the “Music Hall” of Seoul, etc.], as well as in a lot of Byzantine Churches [such as: the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, the Ekatontapylianis church on the island of Paros, the church of Apocalypse on Patmos, the basilica of St Mark in Venice, the main monastery of the Meteora, the church of St Lazarus in Larnaca-Cyprus, the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the church of St Andrew in Patra, etc.] and also during various important Services and ceremonies [such as: in Nazareth for the 2000 years since the Annunciation, in Great Hellas-Kalbria and Sikelia for the official pilgrimage of the Ecumanical Patriarch Bartholomaios, in the island of Aegina for the engainia of the beautiful new church of Saint Nectarios, etc.]. In parallel, the “Maestors of the Psaltic Art” chants the divine Servises of “Pannychis” and “Trithecti” each year in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, for the University of Athens community and all the faithful.

“The Maestors of the Psaltic Art” have recorded, up to the present, the following works: Ioannes Koukouzeles [3 records and cassettes], Balasis the priest [2 records], Germanos of New Patras [1 CD], “Apocalypse and Historical Witness 1088-1988” [2 records and cassettes], Meteora Sacra [2 records and cassettes], Mount Athos Composers I [1 CD], “Come, Christ-bearing Peoples” [2 cassettes], Enkainizou-Enkainizou [1 cassette], “Rejoice, O peoples” [1 CD], Beloved Hymns [1 CD], Pannychis [1 CD], Lift Up your Heads, O ye Gates [1 CD], Byzantine and Gregorian Antifons [1 CD], Chant for the God I-II-III [7 CDs], Compositions of K.A.Psachos [1 CD] .