ABOUT US
The Mission of the Axion Estin Foundation (AEF)
Axion Estin Foundation's mission is to promote the appreciation, education and employment of Byzantine music in North America. The Foundation seeks to stimulate attention and study of this art form through its unique network between the large constituency of Greek academics and musicians and their North American counterparts in Byzantine music and beyond. The Foundation realizes this mission through conferences, education programs, research initiatives, and publications, and strives to engage and educate an increasingly diverse international audience through its cultural partnerships. A related goal is to institutionalize the teaching of Byzantine music at the university level by establishing a program in Byzantine Music Studies. AEF believes that the momentum generated by a series of successful symposiums on Byzantine music education in the New York area will be helpful in achieving that goal.
Through its first conference in 2006, as through its public radio programming during the past years, AEF aimed to create a community of friends of Byzantine Music in the U.S. This community is open and welcoming, growing and demanding, and most importantly one that does not impose any barriers to newcomers - religious or other. One of the most impressive outcomes of AEF's 2006 conference is the collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art in organizing the return engagement of The Greek Byzantine Choir at the museum. Based on the progress so far with its first conference, it is safe to assume that AEF's next symposium will generate even more significant and long-lasting results.
Trustees and Officers
Angelo Lampousis |
Director Ph.D., Adjunct Assistant Professor, CUNY-Hunter College & CUNY-City College |
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Panayotis Mavromatis for more information |
Secretary Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Director of Music Theory at the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development of New York University. |
Demetri Papacostas |
Treasurer Senior Market Specialist, Bloomberg |
Dn. John Mamangakis |
Assistant Secretary Vice President at Sound Shore Medical Center in New Rochelle, New York. |
Cynthia Herzegovitch |
Assistant Treasurer Payroll Manager, The Doe Fund |
Vasileios Marinis |
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Christian Art and Architecture, Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University |
Reverend Father Nicholas Anctil |
Presiding Priest of Holy Trinity Church, New Rochelle. |
Zachary Marantis |
Legal Advisor |
Nicholas A. Lyras |
Member |
James Vyssas |
President of Parma Tile Member |
Charles Calomiris |
Honorary Member Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a Professor at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs |
Joseph Pantginis |
Honorary Member Ph.D., Senior Biotechnology Analyst |
Theodore Brakatselos |
Honorary Member Financial Representative with Northwestern Mutual |
Taso Lazarakis |
Honorary member |
Legal Status
The Axion Estin Foundation (AEF), Inc. (AEF) was
incorporated in November 2005 pursuant to the
Not-for-Profits Corporation Law of the State of New
York.








