Protopresbyter Valery Lukianov, was the father of PaTRAM™ Institute’s CEO, Alex Lukianov, and a leading voice in the Russian Orthodox church. He reposed to the Lord on May 25th, 2018. This video commemorates the one year anniversary of his passing. Memory Eternal.
Our recent Producers Circle fundraiser in New York was a success! We set a new fundraising record!
Our next recording is entitled, “More Honorable than the Cherubim” and will be recorded in Russia by a 60 voice male choir comprised of North Americans, Australians, Serbians and Russians. We have assembled – for the first time ever 10 Octavists. Maestro Vladimir Gorbik will be conducting and Our Grammy winning partners at Sound Mirror will be engineering and producing the work.
We invite you to be part of our next success story. Please consider sponsoring a singer for the 2019 PaTRAM™ recording. We still have several singers that need sponsors! A donation of $5,000 will provide an opportunity for a non-professional singer to be part of our next recording in Russia. Your gift will cover training, airfare, accommodations, and an unforgettable experience for a deserving singer.
When you become a sponsor, we’ll pair you with a singer and introduce you to them so that they can share updates with you along the way – including from the recording in Saratov! This will give you a rare inside look at what it takes to put together a professional recording of the highest caliber.
And that’s not all! As a sponsor, you’ll also receive a credit on the recording, “More Honorable than the Cherubim.” Who knows – with your help the new CD may even become a Grammy-nominated or Grammy award-winning recording!
Please watch the video below about our Singer Sponsorship opportunity and consider providing the gift of musical excellence to a deserving singer:
If you would like to sponsor a singer, please contact our Executive Director:
Alex Milas, Executive Director of PaTRAM Institute
The score for Kurt Sander’s “The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom” is now available from Musica Russica!
From Music Russica:
“Kurt Sander’s Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom is the first complete setting of the Orthodox Liturgy in English composed in the Slavic choral idiom. Commissioned in 2016 by the Patriarch Tikhon Russian-American Music Institute (PaTRAM™), it follows in the great tradition similar works by Tchaikovsky, Gretchaninoff, and Rachmaninoff. At the same time, Sander’s masterful score breaks new ground: It employs a richness of modal harmony and sonority that places it definitively in the 21st century; it is built upon musical themes that are recognizably “American,” yet have an objective and universal quality to them; and it utilizes those distinctive motives to achieve a degree of thematic unity never previously heard in an Orthodox sacred choral work. In short, this work is a first-rate example of Orthodox liturgical creativity in the present day—achieving a remarkable blend of the traditional and the contemporary.
The release of the published score coincides with a splendid premiere recording by the PaTRAM Institute Singers, under the direction of Peter Jermihov. The choir brings together some of the finest professional vocal talent on the North American continent, singing in the gratifying acoustics of the New Gracanica Serbian Orthodox Monastery near Chicago, and superbly recorded by the multi-Grammy-award-winning firm of Sound Mirror, Blanton Alspaugh, Producer. Both the recording and the score represent a significant milestone not just in the realm of Orthodox liutrgical music, but sacred choral music in general.”
The PaTRAM Institute would like to wish all of our subscribers, patrons and friends a blessed and bright Easter.
