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PSALM Advisory CouncilHis Grace, the Right Reverend BASIL (Essey) His Grace, the Right Reverend BASIL (Essey) was born in 1948 in Monessen, PA. He received a Bachelors degree in Psychology from California State University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Divinity degree from St. Vladimir's Seminary. He served as Instructor of Contemporary Byzantine Chant at that Seminary from 1980-1986 and did research and study at Balamand Monastery of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos in Lebanon, where he contributed to The Liturgikon: The Book of Divine Services for the Priest and Deacon (Antaka Press, 1989, 1994). He was consecrated to the episcopacy with the titular see of Enfeh al-Kourah in north Lebanon. His Grace set the hymnography for the feast of St. Raphael (Hawaweeney) to authentic Byzantine melodies and directed the Byzantine choir that recorded an audio CD of that hymnography. Email: BpBasil@aol.com His Grace, the Right Reverend JOB (Osacky) was born in Chicago, IL, in 1946, ordained to the priesthood in 1973, and elevated to priestmonk at St. Tikhons Monastery in 1982. He was elected Bishop of Hartford and the Diocese of New England in 1983, and in 1992 became Bishop of Chicago, Ruling Bishop of the Diocese of the Midwest, Orthodox Church in America. He completed studies at Northern Illinois University and graduated from St. Tikhons Seminary. He has maintained a life-long interest in liturgical music, having served before ordination as reader and parish choir director at St. John the Baptist Church in Black Lick, PA. His Grace, the Right Reverend BENJAMIN (Peterson) , Bishop of Bekeley, was awarded a Master of Divinity degree and Certificate in Liturgical Music from Saint Vladimir His Grace, the Right Reverend SERAPHIM (Storheim) is the Bishop of Ottawa and the spiritual head of the Archdiocese of Canada, Orthodox Church in America. Born in Alberta of Norwegian and Scottish ancestry, and a convert to Orthodoxy, Bishop Seraphim is the first Canadian-born hierarch in the worldwide Orthodox communion. He was consecrated to the episcopacy in 1987 and has served as an Orthodox priest in Finland; Alberta; North Carolina, USA; and Manitoba. In addition to his service as the arch-pastor of the parishes of his territorially large diocese, Bishop Seraphim also serves as the Secretary of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the OCA and as a member on the bishops level of the North American Roman Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue committee on behalf of the Standing Conference of Canonical Bishops of North America (SCOBA). Email: zoe@ripnet.com Fr. Elias Bitar is pastor of St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Little Falls, NJ, and Instructor of Byzantine Chant and Music at St. Vladimir's Seminary, Crestwood, NY. He has taught Byzantine music for more than 25 years. He was born in Syria in 1948 and attended Balamand Seminary in Lebanon, where he studied religious education, dogmatics, New and Old Testament, and music. He also studied Theology and music in Greece. He received Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from St. Vladimir's Seminary, Crestwood, NY, in 1975 and 2000, respectively. Email: aboona237@aol.com David Drillock is Professor of Liturgical Music, Choir Master, and Chief Financial Officer of St. Vladimir's Seminary, Crestwood, NY. He holds degrees from Columbia University, St. Vladimir's Seminary, and Union Theological Seminary and has served as author and co-author of numerous articles and books on Orthodox liturgical music. As choir director, he has produced 9 CDs and other recordings of sacred music. He serves as facilitator of parish and diocesan choral conducting workshops throughout the United States. Email: dave@svots.edu Helen Breslich Erickson has been a Lecturer in Liturgical Music at St. Vladimir's Seminary since 1974; she teaches choral conducting and participates regularly in the annual Summer Institute of Liturgical Music and Pastoral Practice there. A workshop leader and editor of several volumes of liturgical music published by the SVS Press, she has also written articles on church music that appeared in Young Life and Studies in Eastern Chant (Oxford University Press). She is the author of A Young Persons Guide to the Opera (Silver Burdett). She received her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Radcliffe College in 1965 and her Master of Music degree from the Yale University School of Music in 1969. She is Chair of the Performing Arts Department at Hackley School in Tarrytown, NY. Email (Sept-May): herickson@hackleyschool.org; Email June-Aug: hackleyplac@aol.com Fr. Theodore Heckman is rector of St Marks Church, Wrightstown, PA, and part-time instructor at St. Tikhons Seminary, South Canaan, PA. He was born in 1940 in West Reading, PA, the son of a Lutheran minister. He graduated from West Chester University (PA) School of Music, Lutheran Theological Seminary, and St. Vladimir's Seminary (M.Div, 1967). After service as Director of Music and Religious Education at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, New Britain, CT, he was ordained to the diaconate and then to the priesthood in 1969. He has published five volumes of liturgical music: adaptations into English of traditional Orthodox chants. Peter Jermihov was born in Chicago of Russian émigré parents and first conducted a church choir at age 12. He graduated from Chicago Musical College and received the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in choral music and conducting from the University of Illinois. He studied at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory as a Fulbright-Hays Fellow and subsequently was invited to conduct the country's top ensembles. He has served as Director of Choral Activities at several state universities and private colleges. He is Reader and Choir Director at Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago. His articles and editions appear in The Choral Journal, International Choral Bulletin, and the publications of Musica Russica, Inc. Email: pjermihov@sbcglobal.net Fr. George Johnson is pastor of Holy Apostles mission parish in Beltsville, MD. He was born in 1948 into a devout Baptist household. At age 18 he turned to the Episcopal Church due to musical and liturgical issues. He and his family discovered and converted to Orthodoxy in 1987, chiefly inspired by the example of the Russian New Martyrs. He served as choir director at St. John the Baptist Cathedral (ROCOR) in Washington, DC and was ordained Deacon in 1993 and Priest a year later. He has hosted and supported annual ROCM choir conferences in 1998-2000. He and his matushka Deborah have founded the St. Romanos Society, dedicated to publishing English settings using traditional Russian chant. Email: GeorgeJohnson@kp.org Marina Ledkovsky Professor (Emerita) of Slavic Languages and Literature, Barnard College, Columbia University, is the author of The Other Turgenev: From Romanticism to Symbolism (1973), co-author of the Dictionary of Russian Women Writers (1994), and of two anthologies of women's writings in Russian and English. She has contributed numerous articles, reviews, and chapters in books and journals on themes including religious philosophy and Russian Orthodox ecclesiastical music. Lately she has been concentrating on notable émigré composers of Russian Orthodox sacred music and on family history. Most recently she has been engaged in editing, annotating, and writing the introduction to the translation from English to Russian of the memoirs of Nicolas Nabokov (1903-1978), first cousin of Vladimir, and a noted musicologist, composer and champion of the Congress for Freedom of Culture during the darkest totalitarian years behind the Iron Curtain. Email: marinaledkovsky@optonline.net Alexander Lingas is Assistant Professor of Music History at Arizona State University's School of Music and a Fellow of the University of Oxfords European Humanities Research Centre. He holds the Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from the University of British Columbia and a BA in Music Composition and Russian from Portland (OR) State University. His active research interests include the music and liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church from Late Antiquity to the present, the performance practice of Early Music, and the construction of national identity through music in contemporary Eastern Europe. Dr. Lingas has composed Orthodox Church music and has served as a cantor in churches in the United States and in Oxford. He is the Music Director of the professional vocal ensemble Cappella Romana. Email: Alexander.Lingas@asu.edu Fr. Lawrence Margitich is pastor of the Protection of the Virgin/St. Seraphim parish in Santa Rosa, CA. He has a Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, where he studied guitar performance and orchestral conducting (1980) and a Master of Divinity Degree from St. Vladimir's Seminary (1984), where he was also ecclesiarch for two years. He served as choir director at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Boston, MA, where, with Fr. Stephen Meholick and Fr. Michael Carney, he researched and set Special Melodies in English. After moving to California in 1985, and his subsequent ordinations to the diaconate and priesthood, he has continued his work of setting chant in English, particularly Znameny melodies. Email: lmargitich@aol.com Fr. Stephen Meholick is rector of St. Nicholas Church in San Anselmo, CA. He was born in 1952 in northwestern Pennsylvania. As a young boy he served as apprentice to Cantor Peter Kennis, who learned Ruthenian (Carpatho-Russian) Plainchant at St. Nicholas Monastery in Mukechevo. While attending Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, he lived with Mitred Archpriest Vitaly Sahaidakovsky and studied podobny or Special Melodies as sung at the Pochaev Lavra in Volhynia. He was ordained deacon in 1975 at St. Tikhons Monastery and assumed the position of Seminary Choir Director and Lecturer in Liturgics and Church Slavonic. He received his Masters Degree from Marywood College, Scranton, PA. In 1979 he was ordained to the priesthood and assigned to Cumberland, RI. While serving in New England he was appointed Chairman of the Diocesan Music Commission and worked with longtime cliros-mate, His Grace, Bishop Job. Email: svnikolay@aol.com Paul Meyendorff is the Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at St. Vladimir's Seminary, Crestwood, NY. He was educated at Trinity College (CT), St. Vladimir's Seminary, and the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN (Ph.D., 1987). He has served as Visiting/Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Yale University, and Drew University and is author of 3 books and numerous articles on liturgical worship. He is co-chairman of the OCA Department of Worship and a co-founder and member of the Common English Translation Liturgical Commission of the Standing Conference of Orthodox Bishops in America. Email: pmeyendorff@juno.com Ivan Moody composer, writer, editor, conductor, and teacher, was born in London in 1964. He studied composition at London University and privately with Sir John Tavener. Eastern liturgical chant and the spirituality of the Orthodox chant influence his music, and he has studied Orthodox theology through the continuing education center of the University of Joensuu, Finland. His music has been performed and broadcast widely in Europe, the USA, Japan, and South America. His oratorio, Passion and Resurrection, based on Orthodox liturgical texts, is being performed in the USA, Canada, and Great Britain during 2002 and 2003. Walter G. Obleschuk is a founding member of PSALM, Inc. and serves as Resource Editor of PSALM Notes. A graduate of West Chester University in Pennsylvania with a degree in Music History and Theory, he has directed church choirs for more than 20 years. His numerous compositions and arrangements of Orthodox Church music have been widely disseminated. He serves as Chair of the Liturgical Music Ministries for the Orthodox Church in America. He is Choir Director at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Boston, Massachusetts, and is the founder and Musical Director of Holy Trinity Chorale. Email: wobles@rcn.com Hieromonk Johah (Paffhausen) is abbot of the Monastery of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco in Point Reyes Station, CA. He received Master of Divinity and Master of Theology and Dogmatics degrees from St. Vladimir's Seminary and was a member of the St. Vladimir's Octet in 1987. He has done doctoral work at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. He directed choirs at St. Mary Magdalene Church in New York City and St. Nicholas Church in Saratoga, CA. He has sung with choirs at Donskoy Monastery in Moscow; at Valaam Todvorye in St. Petersburg under Igor Ushakov; and at Valaam with Fr. German, the director of the popular Valaam recordings. Nikola Resanovic has worked extensively with the sacred chant of the Serbian Orthodox Church and has composed several volumes of choral liturgical music based on Serbian chant. Born in Derby, England, in 1955, he is of Serbian heritage and has lived in the United States as a naturalized citizen since 1966. He is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music (Doctor of Musical Arts), where he studied composition with Donald Erb. His instrumental works have been performed throughout the United States and Europe and in Israel and China. He lives in Akron, Ohio, and is Professor of Music at the University of Akron School of Music, where, in addition to directing the Schools Electronic Music Facility, which he designed and implemented, he teaches Music Theory and Composition. Emaiil: nr2@uakron.edu Nicholas Schidlovsky, PhD, PSALM Board member, is a chant historian and author of leading publications on the study of early Christian music. He holds a graduate degree from Princeton University in Historical Musicology. Specializing in a broad spectrum of liturgical traditions from medieval Latin to Byzantine-Greek and early Slavic, he is published in academic journals and is an advocate of new research in the music of the Old Believers and Russian chant. His most recent contribution is the publication of an early Slavic Sticherarion as Volume 12 of the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae series of manuscript editions (Copenhagen: 2000). As an active church singer and musician, he was the founding director of "The Chant and Choral Arts Seminar"(Princeton, New Jersey, 2000) and has spearheaded other initiatives on behalf of music and worship in modern-day Orthodox usage, with emphasis on the traditions of canonical chant. Email: nschidlovsky@rider.edu Fr. John Shimchick is pastor of the Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross, Medford, NJ, and Editor of Jacobs Well, a publication of the OCA NY-NJ Diocese. He graduated from Concordia College, Bronxville, NY, and received a Master of Divinity Degree from St. Vladimir's Seminary, Crestwood, NY (1980), where he served as Ecclesiarch for 3 years and directed the choir and traveling octet. He is Chairman of the NY-NJ Diocesan Department of Music and an occasional composer/arranger of liturgical music. Email: frjs@aol.com Jessica Suchy-Pilalis, hieropsalti and specialist in the history, theory, and practice of Byzantine music, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY (M.A., Music Theory). She is certified by both the State and Church of Greece and holds diplomas with highest honors from two Greek conservatories. She is Associate Professor at The Crane School of Music, State University of New York Potsdam. She has presented numerous lectures and workshops to professional music conferences, women studies seminars, Hellenic cultural organizations, and Orthodox Church groups across the United States. Email: Suchyjr@potsdam.edu |
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