{"id":248655,"date":"2019-08-20T16:23:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=248655"},"modified":"2019-08-20T16:23:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:23:58","slug":"iasi-byzantine-music-festival-at-its-3rd-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/iasi-byzantine-music-festival-at-its-3rd-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Iasi Byzantine Music Festival at its 3rd edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The 3rd annual edition of Iasi Byzantine Music Festival organized by the Department of Religious Education of the Metropolis of Moldavia and Bucovina will take place from 2nd to 6th of October 2019. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For five days, the city will be the host of well-known national and international choral groups, soloists and researchers from Georgia, Greece, Lebanon, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine and Romania.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the guests of this edition are the Patriarchy Choir of Tbilisi Holy Trinity Cathedral (Tbilisi, Georgia), Nektaria Karantzi, lecturer Evelina Mineva, \u201dRomeiko\u201d Ensemble (Greece), \u201dTheotokos\u201d Orthodox Choir ( Lebanon), \u201dSaint Ephraim\u201d Male Choir (Hungary), \u201dKljuch Razumeniya\u201d Ensemble (Russia), Sergii Radkevich (Ukraine), \u201dTronos\u201d Psaltic Group of the Romanian Patriarchy Cathedral, \u201dRighteous Iosif\u201d Choir of Varatic Monastery, \u201dByzantion\u201d Academic Choir, Fr. Alexandru Grigora\u0219, Byzantine Choir of \u201cChesarie Episcopul\u201d Orthodox Theological Seminary of Buzau, \u201dSaint Hierarch Iosif Naniescu\u201d Choir of \u201cDumitru Staniloae\u201d Faculty of Orthodox Theology of Iasi, and \u201dChivotul\u201d Psaltic Group of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Iasi (Romania).<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s edition is an offering to the Mother of our God, protectress of singers, who\u2019s Holy Protection we feast on the day before the opening date of the festival. Thus, by word and chant, our guests will show us the beauty of a repertoire dedicated to reverently venerate the Most Holy Mother of God.<\/p>\n<p>T<em>he psaltic music is God\u2019s gift for the estranged souls of the people and their companion on the way towards Him. Iasi Byzantine Music Festival is inviting you to follow, as one, the light signals of this way and to learn again to enjoy the blessings of the Lord of all<\/em>\u00a0(Archim. Hrisostom R\u0103d\u0103\u0219anu, president of Iasi Byzantine Music Festival).<\/p>\n<p>The programme of the festival will include four concerts of sacred music that will bring closer to the public the Byzantine and Russian musical traditions and the Georgian polyphonic chant.<\/p>\n<p>The centre of the event will be the Athonite All-Night Vigil in honour of the Holy Protection of the Theotokos. The festival will also include exhibitions and editorial and educational activities such as book launches, an opening conference by Evelina Mineva, lecturer at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, three workshops concerning the old Russian, Georgian and Neo-byzantine music and a workshop on mural painting.<\/p>\n<p>More details regarding the festival and its guests are to be found on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibmf.ro\/en\">event\u2019s website<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/www.ibmf.ro\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Romfea News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3rd annual edition of Iasi Byzantine Music Festival organized by the Department of Religious Education of the Metropolis of Moldavia and Bucovina will take place from 2nd to 6th of October 2019. 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