Program
The programme is to be announced soon.
Details
Founded by conductor Teodor Currentzis in 2018 musicAeterna byzantina is meant to rediscover the treasures of Byzantine musical culture, including the ancient Greek church singing. The choir works under tenor Antonios Koutroupis, an alumnus of the vocal department of the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory, and an honorary right-side cantor of the Greek orthodox cathedral of Saint George in Venice.
The choir consists of twelve best graduates of schools of Byzantine music in Greece. Apart from having many-year experience of singing Byzantine chants, each of them has been listening to this music since childhood and has made a step-by-step way to perfection: from a common reader to a right-side cantor, the principal position in a Byzantine choir.
After an acclaimed debut at the Diaghilev Festival in Perm in May 2019, musicAeterna byzantina performed successfully in Vienna, St. Petersburg (Philharmonia, Saint Isaac’s Cathedral), Moscow (Great Hall of the Conservatory), Paris (Théâtre du Châtelet, Sainte Chapelle), Baden-Baden (Festspielhaus), Athens (Megaron), and at Salzburg Festival.
The strategic partner of the musicAeterna byzantina choir is Aksenov Family Foundation. The official partner of the choir is Absolute Insurance.