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Singing a Greek traditional song - San ta marmara tis polis
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- country:Greece
- region:Athens
- style(s):A Cappella, Byzantine
- label:not signed
- type:Band
- gender:male
- instrumentation:vocal
- artist posted by:Audiowave
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- ACHILLEUS G. CHALDAEAKES (Conductor)
"The Maestors of the Psaltic Art" is a well-known (since 1983) in the field of Byzantine Musicology Choir of Chanters. The main goals and objectives of this Choir of Chanters are: the study and presentation of the works of the main Byzantine and post-Byzantine composers, the morphological study and analysis of the various "types" of composition, the general promotion of the Psaltic Art, with scholarly substantiation and skilled technique and the chanting of entire divine Services during times of worship.
"The Maestors of the Psaltic Art" have offered, up to now, over four hundred presentations, both in Greece and abroad (Europe, Asia, America and Australia). They have chanted in very famous Music Halls: the Opera House of Sydney, the "Music Hall" of Seoul in Korea, the "main hall" of the University of Athens, the "Music Hall" of Athens and Salonika, as well as in a lot of Byzantine Churches: the basilica of St Mark in Venice, the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, the church of Apocalypse on Patmos, the main monastery of the Meteora, the church of St Lazarus in Larnaca-Cyprus, and also during various important Services and ceremonies such as: in Nazareth for the 2000 years since the Annunciation, in Calabria and Sicilia for the official pilgrimage of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomaios.
"The Maestors of the Psaltic Art" have produced 27 recordings of Byzantine music: Ioannes Koukouzeles, Balasis the priest, Germanos of New Patras, "Apocalypse and Historical Witness 1088-1988", Meteora Sacra, Mount Athos Composers I, "Come, Christ-bearing Peoples", Enkainizou-Enkainizou, "Rejoice, O peoples", Beloved Hymns, Pannychis, Lift Up your Heads, O ye Gates, Byzantine and Gregorian Antifons, Chant for the God I-II-III, Compositions of K.A.Psachos and many more.