PSALM Directory Orthodox Liturgical Music Organizations

(Professional associations and performing groups whose focus is primarily Orthodox liturgical music.)

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Capella Romana
3131 NE Glison St
Portland, OR 97232
Phone: 503-236-8202
E-mail: info@capellaromana.org
Website: www.cappellaromana.org
Artistic Director: Alexander Lingas
Executive Director: Mark Powell

Cappella Romana, directed by Dr. Alexander Lingas, is a vocal chamber ensemble dedicated to combining passion with scholarship in its exploration of the musical traditions of the Christian East and West, with emphasis on early and contemporary music. Based in the Northwest, and founded in 1991, its name is derived from the medieval concept of the Roman oikoumene (inhabited world), which included not only “Old” Rome and Western Europe but also “New Rome” (Constantinople) and its commonwealth of Slavic and Syriac countries.

CD Releases: Tikey Zes: Choral Works
When Augustus Reigned

Greek Sacred and Secular Music Society
2020 South Western Avenue
San Pedro, CA 90732
Phone: 310-831-2150
E-mail: Thomas_lappas@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.geocities.com/thomas_lappas
Contact: Thomas B. Lappas

The Society has published several full Liturgies for the Orthodox Church as well as many Orthodox hymns, services, and Greek folk song arrangements by composers such as Frank Desby, Theodore Bogdanos, Steve Cardiasmenos, Neal Desby, Anna Gallos, Nicolas Maragos, and Tikey Zes.

National Forum of Greek Orthodox Church Musicians
Chairperson: Dr. Vicki Pappas
1700 N. Walnut St. #302
Bloomington, IN 47404
Phone: 812-855-8248
Fax: 812-855-9630
E-mail: pappas@indiana.edu
Website: http://www.goarch.org/en/archdiocese/affiliates/nfcm.asp

The National Forum of Greek Orthodox Church Musicians, an organization dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of Greek Orthodox church music, is responsible for the development, recognition, and support of church choir and liturgical music activities. The Forum also serves as the liaison between local church musicians, the diocesan church music federations, and the Archdiocese.

Musical Publications: The Liturgical Guidebook has an extensive directory of resources and musical publications.

Other Publications: Liturgical Guidebook, a comprehensive layout of the hymns to be sung on all Sundays and major feasts.

Serbian Singing Federation
26356 John R Road
Madison Heights, MI 48071
Phone: 248-542-4004
Fax: 248-542-1669
Website: www.serbiansingingfederation.org
President: Shirley Senic
E-mail: nssenic@cogeco.ca

The Serbian Singing Federation is a nonprofit organization, founded for the purpose of organizing, developing, and coordinating the efforts of its member choirs through festivals, conventions, choral workshops, scholarship funds, and recordings. The greatest wealth of the SSF is in its library, comprising the works of 96 Serbian composers with thousands of musical scores. It has been said that the Federation Library is more complete than any Serbian music collection in the world.

The Society of Saint Romanos
c/o Christ the Savior Orthodox Church
933 N. LaSalle St.
Chicago, IL 60610
E-mail: romanos@earthlink.net
Website: www.societyromanos.org
Artistic Director and Conductor: Dr. Peter Jermihov
Conductor, St. Romanos Children’s Choir: Dr. Irina Riazanova

The Society of Saint Romanos, formed in October, 2001, by artistic director Peter Jermihov, holds as its mission the presentation of cultural events of the highest caliber, within a framework and vision of Orthodox Christianity in America. The St. Romanos Cappella is a professional chamber ensemble of singers and instrumentalists devoted to the highest attainable artistic goals. The St. Romanos Children’s Choir, consisting of talented Orthodox singers 8–16 years of age, will begin rehearsing after Labor Day in September 2003.

The Spirit of Orthodoxy Choir
107 Grand Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302
E-mail: carol@spiritoforthodoxy.com
Website: www.spiritoforthodoxy.com
Director: Aleksei Shipovalnikov

The Spirit of Orthodoxy Choir, formerly named the New Jersey Deanery Choir, was established in 1997 under the direction of Aleksei Shipovalnikov. The choir consists of singers from various parishes and jurisdictions who are dedicated to church singing and who desire to be witnesses to the faith through music.

St. Romanos the Melodist Society
10707 Lombardy Road
Silver Spring, MD 20901
Phone: 301-754-3741
Fax: 301-754-0056
E-mail: SaintRomanos@aol.com
Website: www.saintromanos.org
Contact: Fr. George Johnson

The St. Romanos the Melodist Society produces and publishes English language music of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Society produces music in printed and recorded formats, and conducts seminars and workshops on the proper performance of that music. The Society is affiliated with the Holy Apostles Orthodox Church, an English mission parish currently worshipping in Beltsville, Maryland.

Courses of Study: Annual music seminar

Musical Publications: See website

Traveling Treby Russian Orthodox Church Music Society
3 Jockey Ln
New City, NY 10956-6608
Fax: 845-689-3314 (available 24 hrs)
E-mail: info@travelingtreby.org
Website: www.travelingtreby.org
Contact: Rev. Deacon Serge Arlievsky

Traveling Treby was established in September of 1994 as a not-for-profit corporation, as a religious supporting organization of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), providing material, resources, and assistance to church choirs, their directors, members of the clergy, and other participants in order to foster religious worship. Activities include publishing of church music and liturgical texts, producing recordings of church services, church choir conferences, and other performances relating to sacred music of the Russian Orthodox Church, and disseminating educational material, relating to church singing and choir directing, through publications, lectures, recordings, or otherwise.