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Previous Work

The Axion Estin Foundation (AEF) completed four years of continuous weekly programming in New York public radio (2002-2006 on WNYE 91.5 COSMOS FM), which allowed AEF to present to wide audiences basic information on Byzantine music, including the most important fact: that Byzantine music is a living tradition, one which never stopped to evolve and manifest itself through the centuries. During the weekly programs, AEF developed partnerships with a long list of those involved in the field, including musicologists, choir members, performers, soloists, music historians, and students. AEFís presentation of the efforts of this wealth of scholars who actively work on Byzantine music has helped to produce an increasingly educated and demanding audience for Byzantine music in America.

In January of 2006, AEF successfully presented its first Byzantine Music conference. The conference’s goal was to identify the most appropriate Byzantine Music teaching methodologies for universities, as well as at schools of Greek Orthodox theology and to church members.  The rare eclectic mix of international participants, who are based in England, Greece as well as the United States, included professors, musicians, psalti and priests. His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of the Greek Orthodox Church of America actively participated in the conference by addressing conference participants, as well as by celebrating the Sunday Orthros and Divine Liturgy, which provided an experience rare in America: a complete hierarchical liturgy with authentic antiphonal Byzantine chanting.

One of the most impressive outcomes of AEF's last conference is the collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art in organizing the return engagement of The Greek Byzantine Choir at the museum.