Χορωδίες Βυζαντινής Εκκλησιασιτικής Μουσικής / Byzantine Music Choirs
Note that it is often impossible to correctly classify a choir under one category.
Choirs evolve and change style with time or depending on the repertoire or the artistic
director of the time. With time we will describe the reasons for classifying each
choir and we will put choirs under more than one category. Some categories may disappear
and others will be added. A brief description about choirs in each category below
can be found under each heading.
This list is incomplete. Please submit choirs that are missing.
Patriarchal
The left and right choirs of the Great Church (Ecumenical Patriarchate).
University style
Choirs consisting of academic teachers and students or taught by them.
University Byzantine Choir
(A. Alygizakis, University of Makedonia)
Maistores
Χορωδία Δήμου Ηρακλείου (Καθηγητής Γεώργιος Αμαργιαννάκης) / Choir of Heracleion
City (Prof. Georgios Amargiannakis) [html]
Choir of the Female Monastery of Ormylia (Chalkidiki, Greece)
Choir of the Female Monastery of Pantokratoros (Taou Penteles) Choir of Kykkos Monastery
(Cyprus)
Conservatorium
Choirs representing a movement towards simple, unornamented chanting often
taught at conservatoriums.
Choirs influenced by Thr. Stanitsas' choir
style
Choirs that follow the style of Thrasyvoulos Stanitsas' choir (often identified
by abrupt cuts between musical phrases and/or vertically harmonised isokratema)
Western influenced choirs
Choirs that either are mixed (male/female), or consist of western-trained musicians
or have performed some westernised pieces or sometimes make regular use of western
intervals, have western artistic expression/vocal production or heavily vertically
harmonised isokratema.
Choirs with vertically harmonised and mechanically
amplified isokratema
Choirs where isokratema often sounds like a moving second voice instead of a supporting
discreet drone.
Other/Unsorted
Choirs that either we didn't have time to classify or we don't know which category
to put them yet.
Byzantine Choir (G. Kakoulidis)
Byzantine Choir (P. Kalampakas)
Byzantine Choir (A. Pettas)
Byzantino Echochroma (Patras, N. Pitsioungas) Psaltic Association of Aegialeia
(Aigio, F. Oikonomou)