The Sixth International Conference on Orthodox Church Music “Creating Liturgically: Hymnography and Music” Joensuu, Finland / 8–14 June 2015

University of Eastern Finland, School of Theology Agora AT100 (Yliopistokatu 4, Joensuu)

Monday 8th June 10.00 Opening ceremony Opening addresses Book launch, Church Music and Icons: Windows to Heaven. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland, 3‐9 June 2013

12.30 First Session 1. Mary Cunningham (United Kingdom): Dialogue in Byzantine Homilies and Hymns: The Human Encounter with Divine Truth 2. Ivan Moody (Portugal): Liturgy and Cubism 3. Hilkka Seppälä (Sweden): The Union of Word and Image in Orthodox Liturgical Tradition 4. Alexander Lingas (United Kingdom): Hymnography with(out) Music as Scripture and Prayer

15.00 Second Session 1. Roman Hurko (Canada): The Composition of Sacred Music in the Eastern Church Tradition 2. Lisa Radakovich Holsberg (USA): The Liturgy Outside the Liturgy: Sacred Music and Creating Liturgically Outside the Church Building 3. Richard Barrett (USA): The Psalm 103 Project: A Collaborative Orthodox Composition in Progress 4. Christopher Ashbaugh (USA): Liturgy as Looking‐glass: a Modern Evangelical Pilgrimage

18.00 Vespers, Church of St John the Theologian, Orthodox Seminary 19.00 Reception hosted by the Orthodox Church of Finland

Tuesday 9th June

9.30 Third Session 1. Victoria Legkikh (Germany): To a question about the heritage of , a 16th‐century hymnographer 2. Svetlana Kujumdzieva (Bulgaria): The Rila Musical Manuscripts: A Tool for Reconstruction of Music History 3. Simon Marincak (Slovakia): Transmission of Byzantine Melodies into Slavic World from Selected Sources

4. Jopi Harri (Finland): Revising the Historiography of Church Music, or Myths and How to Debunk Them

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13.00 Fourth Session 1. Martin Nygaard Hansen‐Chernetskiy (Sweden): title to be announced later 2. Tuuli Lukkala (Finland): Adapting Znamenny chant to other languages – rules, methods, and experiences 3. Vladimir Morosan (USA): A Collaborative Open‐Source Database of Znamenny Chant Formulae

15.00 Fifth Session 1. Marios Christou (Czech Republic): Development and motivic elaboration in the third mode Kratema of st. John Koukouzelis ‐ A western form? 2. Dimitris Balageorgos: Music and words from the liturgical tradition of Jerusalem 3. Flora Kritikou (Greece): The challenge of writing new poetry and music: the case of Manuel Chrysaphes new stichera idiomela

16.30 Workshop – Byzantine Chant, Achilleas Chaldaiakis 19.00 Concert – Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Lutheran Church of Joensuu

Wednesday 10th June

9.30 Sixth Session 1. John Reves (): In You O Full of Grace all Creations Rejoices: the Frescoes of the Studite Lavra of the Dormition of the Theotokos at Univ as a Synthesis of Image and Hymnography in Interwar Galicia 2. Alexandru Prelipcean (Romania): title to be announced later 3. Hieromonk Mikael (Finland): title to be announced later 4. Alexandru Ionita (Romania): Old Wine in New Wineskins: Romans 9‐11 as Potential Biblical Source for the Holy Week Services

13.00 Seventh Session 1. Maria Takala‐Roszczenko (Finland): The Italo‐Byzantine roots of the Ruthenian hymnography for the feast of the Holy Eucharist 2. Natalia Plotnikova (): Рукописные редакции концертов Н. Дилецкого: вопросы авторской атрибуции [Manuscript redactions of N. Diletskiy’s concerts: questions of authorship] 3. Irina Gerasimova (Russia): title to be announced later 4. Daniel Galadza (Canada/Austria): Johann von Gardner's Arrangements of Western Ukrainian Chants (short presentation)

15.00 Workshop ‐ Byzantine Chant, Achilleas Chaldaiakis

2 16.00 Eighth Session 1. Girolamo Garofalo (Italy): Melodic Formulas and Oral Composition: the Traditional Oktoichos of the Albanians of Sicily 2. Meri Kumbe (Albania/Greece): The Role of Interpreter in the Enrichment and Communication of Psaltic Art’s Tradition. The Case of Albania. 3. Giuseppe Sanfratello (Italy/Denmark): Creative performance in the liturgy: a formulaic melodic language in the Sicilian‐Albanian chant tradition

18.00 Concert – Romanian Chant, Church of St John the Theologian, Orthodox Seminary

Thursday 11th June

9.30 Ninth Session 1. Costin Moisil (Romania): Expecting the Unexpected. Tailoring Chants for the Liturgy of the Faithful 2. Svetlana Polyakova (Portugal): title to be announced later 3. Andrew Mellas (Australia): Feeling Liturgically: Hymnography and Compunction 4. Maria Matsushima (Japan): A short history of Japanese Orthodox Church music. St. Nikolai’s mission and congregational singing

13.00 Tenth Session 1. Fr Jerotej, (): Byzantine church music in Serbia at the turn of the 21st century based on the experience of the monastic community of Kovilj monastery – reawakening, development, problems, reception, contemporaneity and perspective 2. Milorad Marinkovic (Serbia): The Divine Liturgy as a form‐creating principle of new vocal concert music 3. Ionut‐Gabriel Nastasa (Romania): title to be announced later

15.00 Eleventh Session 1. Maria Rizzuto (Italy): The Coptic Liturgical Chant in Italy: Traditional Hymnography and Linguistic Innovation in Rome 2. Alexey Gudkov (Russia): Гимнографические сочинения в творчестве городецкого каллиграфа и художника Ивана Блинова (1872–1944) [Hymnographical works of Ivan Blinov (1872–1944), a calligrapher and artist from Gorodets] 3. Sydney Freedman (Ireland): ‘Every Word is to Glorify Christ’: Liturgical Creation in Svan Religious Folk Song

16.00 Workshop – Byzantine Chant, Achilleas Chaldaiakis 19.00 Reception hosted by the City of Joensuu

3 Friday 12th June

9.30 Twelfth Session 1. Jaakko Olkinuora (Finland): Deciphering the theological dimensions of musical and poetic intertextuality in Byzantine hymnography: the case of the great feasts of the Theotokos 2. Constantin Gordon (Romania): Creating hymnography in today's Romania. The office of Saint Constantin Brancoveanu 3. Emmanouil Doundoulakis (Greece): Unknown contemporary Cretan hymnographers and their unpublished hymns 4. Marko Mäkinen (Finland): title to be announced later

13.00 Thirteenth Session 1. Nicolae Gheorghita (Romania): title to be announced later 2. Denis Gordeev (Russia): Символическая связь богородичнов Октоиха с пророческим и праотеческим рядами иконостаса [The symbolic connection between the Oktoechos Theotokia and the rows of prophets and forefathers in the ] (in absentia) 3. Yulia Artamonova (Russia/Serbia): Thinking Musicologically: Hymnography and Music in Old‐Russian Chant 4. Bogdan Djakovic (Serbia): The treasury of Serbian Chant through the experience of the late bishop Sava Vuković (1930‐2001)

15.00 Fourteenth Session 1. Djuro Živković (Serbia): The Tradition of the Philokalia as compositional inspiration 2. Andrew Summerson (USA/Italy): Petitioning Paradise: the Rhetoric of Repentance in the Lenten Triodion 3. Galina Alexeeva (Russia): Methodological bases of the Adaptation processes of the Orthodox singing culture between different cultures (in absentia) 4. Daniel Galadza (Canada/Austria): Non‐Byzantine Hymns in Greek (short presentation)

16.30 Annual meeting of ISOCM

Saturday 13th June Excursion to Kuopio

Sunday 14th June Divine Liturgy, Church of St Nicholas, Orthodox Parish of Joensuu Departures

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