From Frédéric's site:

"Frédéric Tavernier-Vellas was born in France in 1959. After strong musical studies in classical oboe, with Philippe Pélissier particularly, he directs his research towards singing sacred music, and especially the byzantine music. He went to great masters and interpreters of this music as the father Ioakim Grillis of Patmos, Maximos Fahmé of Aleppo in Syria, and especially Lycourgos Angelopoulos, director of the Byzantine Choir of Greece. He is graduate in Byzantine music from the conservatory Philippos Nakas in Athens. Doctor of philosophy, he also studied the Orthodox theology and he is the author of the blog http://www.theologie-orthodoxe.com. He collaborated with Lycourgos Angelopoulos for writing the book Voices of Byzantium published by Desclée de Brouwer. Member of the ensemble Organum of Marcel Peres Frédéric Tavernier Vellas regularly work with this Choir and make tours throughout the past ten years. After registering, in 2001, a CD devoted to songs by Manos Hadjidakis, "Fotini Zoï", he founded a group dedicated to the repertoire of Asia Rebetiko minor and Piraeus, Ta Limania Xena with which he gave a series of concerts devoted primarily to the repertoire of Marcos Vamvakaris and Vassilis Tsitsanis. He recorded recently in Athens, a new CD on the Dormition of St. John the Theologian whose released was in December 2008. His new CD Le Chant de Byzance was released in november 2009. This CD is produced through association Egéo-Apmh and edited by Label Psalmus."

See also:

myspace.com/frederictaverniervellas
Association pour la Promotion de la Musique Hellénique

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The following recordings were sent by Frédéric and they are from his published CDs. See his home page at greekmusicradio.egeo-apmh.com for more information.