CONTRIBUTIONS

ALEXANDER LINGAS

Dr. Alexander Lingas will assist Lycourgos Angelopoulos in his three-day workshop entitled "Building a Byzantine Choir". Dr. Lingas will translate the sessions from Greek to English and offer brief background information if necessary.

Dr. Alexander Lingas is currently a Lecturer in Music at the Department of Music of City University, London, England.

He received his B.A. in Music (Composition) and Russian Language from Portland State University, and his PhD in Historical Musicology from the University of British Columbia. A Fellow of the University of Oxford’s European Humanities Research Centre since 1997, Dr. Lingas was previously Assistant Professor of Music History at Arizona State University’s School of Music (2001–05) and British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Oxford University’s St. Peter’s College (1998–2001).

His awards include Fulbright and Onassis grants for musical studies in Greece with noted cantor Lycourgos Angelopoulos, a Junior Fellowship in Byzantine Studies at Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., and a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for theological study in Oxford under Bishop Kallistos (Ware).

From 2003–2004 Dr. Lingas resided in Princeton, New Jersey as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Historical Studies and as an NEH Area Studies Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies.  Dr Lingas has spoken on British, Greek and Irish national radio and has been a guest lecturer at such institutions as Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music, the Institute for Orthodox Christiant Studies in Cambridge, and the Liszt Academy in Budapest.

He has contributed numerous articles to reference works, including the New Grove Dictionary of Music, The Oxford Companion to Music, and Einaudi’s Enciclopedia della musica. His scholarly articles on Byzantine music treat a broad range of topics ranging chronologically from Late Antiquity to the present. His forthcoming projects include a study of Sunday Matins in the rite of Hagia Sophia for Ashgate Publishing and a general introduction to Byzantine chant for the Yale University Press.

He is also active as a singer and conductor. He is the Artistic Director of Cappella Romana (www.cappellaromana.org), an American vocal ensemble he founded in 1991 that specializes in the early and contemporary music of the Orthodox Church. With Cappella he has recorded 9 CDs and made many broadcasts and tours, including appearances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. He has also served the Orthodox Church for over twenty years as a cantor, choir director, and composer.