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Title: Byzantine Chant Workshop
Location: St. Nicholas Ranch
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Description: The Saint John Koukouzelis Institute for Liturgical Arts presents an intensive workshop in Byzantine Chant and Liturgy, to take place at St. Nicholas Ranch and Retreat Center in Dunlap, California, June 14-20.
Start Date: 2009-06-14
End Date: 2009-06-20

The Saint John Koukouzelis Institute for Liturgical Arts www.koukouzelis.org, presents an intensive workshop in Byzantine Chant and Liturgy, to take place at St. Nicholas Ranch and Retreat Center in Dunlap, California, June 14-20.

Students of all levels will spend the week immersed in Byzantine Music and in the liturgical life of the Church. The workshop’s daily schedule includes two instruction sessions, chapel services and a lecture each evening by one of two guest scholars, Archimandrite of the Ecumenical Throne the Very Reverend Ephrem (Lash) from London and Ethnomusicologist Dr. Alexander Khalil from the University of California, San Diego.

Instruction in Byzantine Music and liturgical rubrics, both in the original Greek and in translation, will be directed by John Michael Boyer, Protopsaltis (First Cantor) of the Metropolis of San Francisco, along with Protopsaltis Stelios Kontakiotis of the Shrine to the Mother of God on the island of Tinos, Greece; Dr. Constantine Kokenes from the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Atlanta; and Dr. Alexander Khalil, Protopsaltis of St. Spyridon Church in San Diego.