Post Event Press Release
The Mostly Orthros 2010 Byzantine Chant & Folk Music Festival was organized by the Axion Estin Foundation in collaboration with CUNY-Graduate Center's PhD Program in Ethnomusicology. Other significant collaborators in this year's festival were the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) by supporting Dr. Katy Romanou as Senior Visiting Scholar, The Rev. Peter N. Kyriakos Endowment Fund by underwriting the expenses of the "Great Theory of Music" publication, the National Forum of Greek Orthodox Church Musicians by partially supporting the same publication, and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), by supporting the Greek folk music presentation.
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"...The new recording, Sacred Music of Byzantium, produced by the Axion Estin Foundation, offers a nearly perfect glimpse into a vast and ancient vocal art. The Greek Byzantine Choir under the direction of Lycourgos Angelopoulos displays a technical proficiency and precision that reflects their long years of dedication to the performance of this music..."
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This podcast, produced by the Orthodox Christian Network (OCN) in cooperation with the Axion Estin Foundation and Hellenic Public Radio COSMOS FM 91.5 FM in New York, will feature interviews with specialists and experts in the field of Byzantine Chant. OCN Executive Director Fr. Christopher Metropulos shares: “OCN is proud to announce a new Podcast Channel with the Axion Estin Foundation, a well-known and highly-respected group of chanters and scholars who share the ancient historical music of Orthodoxy with the world.”
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The 2009 elections to the Axion Estin Foundation Board of Trustees were held on April 13, 2009, in New Rochelle. The Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Axion Estin Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered in the state of New York of the United States. Click here for more information.
Axion Estin Launches Educational Video-Podcasts
Thanks to a generous contribution by Axion Estin long-time supporters Mr. & Mrs Dimitrios C. Vissas the Axion Estin Foundation makes publicly available in video podcast form excerpts from the 2008 Axion Estin Symposium on Byzantine Music Education.
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Axion Estin Foundation (AEF) joined forces with the Boston Early Music Festival (click here to visit the site) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (click here to visit the site) in order to bring The Greek Byzantine Choir directed by Lycourgos Angelopoulos to the United States.
Great Theory of Music
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Sacred Music of Byzantium CD
The Greek Byzantine Choir
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