The PaTRAM™ SINGER SPOTLIGHT SERIES Continues!

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This week we introduce Daniel Shirley, tenor, who appears on the PaTRAM Institute Singers’ GRAMMY-nominated recording of Kurt Sander’s “The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom” and on their “Blessed Art Thou among Women” CD. Daniel has performed as a soloist with opera companies and symphony orchestras across the United States and Europe. He serves as Assistant Professor of Vocal Studies at the ECU School of Music in Greenville, North Carolina, where he directs ECU Opera Theater. He and his wife Caitlin have three small children, and he says they have located Goldfish crackers in nearly every imaginable location in their home.

 

Please enjoy this wonderful audio clip of Daniel singing an excerpt from “Danksagung an den Bach (Die Schöne Müllerin, D795: no. 4”, by Franz Shubert and accompanied by Eric Stellrecht on piano.

PaTRAM Institute™ Announces Agreement With New Record Label

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PaTRAM Institute™ is proud to announce it has entered into an agreement with Chandos, a long-established Grammy Award winning classical record company. Beginning with PaTRAM Institute’s most recent CD recording, “More Honorable Than the Cherubim”, Chandos will be handling the release of this recording, later this year, as well as future PaTRAM™ recordings.

Alex Lukianov, Chairman and Founder of PaTRAM Institute commented, “we are very excited about our newly formed association with Chandos Records, one of the foremost classical labels in the world. We are certain that this partnership will further PaTRAM’s goal of bringing more beautiful orthodox liturgical music recorded in unique venues to an even larger audience.”

Ralph Couzens, Managing Director of Chandos, stated, “Chandos Records is proud to announce the signing of the PaTRAM Institute Male Choir™ to its roster of artists. We have been looking, for some time, to find the ideal chorus to record this very neglected (on disc) genre of sacred music from the Russian Orthodox Church and are pleased to say that the PaTRAM choir(s) is the one. The first disc is already planned for release late this summer and with more projects being planned for 2022 we cannot wait to get this wonderful PaTRAM sound onto the market.”

We look forward to a long and prosperous relationship with Chandos and, together, bring the amazing beauty of Orthodox sacred choral music to the widest global audience possible.

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It’s our pleasure to introduce Katie Boardman, soprano, who appears on the PaTRAM Institute Singers’ GRAMMY-nominated recording of Kurt Sander’s “The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom”. She has recently performed with the Rose Ensemble, the Boston Camerata, Red Shift Choir, the St. Tikhon’s Choir and was a Voces8 US Scholar in 2019-20. A native of Wisconsin, she grew to love music at the Madison Early Music Festival and holds a degree in Historical Performance from Boston University. Katie maintains an active voice teaching studio online.

Please enjoy this wonderful video clip with Katie singing an excerpt from “Amor dormiglione”, by Barbara Strozzi.