Concerts
Season 2023-2024
Season 2022-2023
Season 2021-2022
Season 2019-2020
Due to the unfortunate events of Covid-19, our March Concert has been postponed indefinitely. We are hoping to reschedule this concert for some time later this year, but we will update the information here once we are sure.
Season 2018-2019
Thursday, May 2, 7:30 pm
Psaltikon — The Day of the Resurrection (Byzantine Chant)
Psaltikon, the critically acclaimed Boston-based Byzantine chant ensemble directed by Spyridon Antonopoulos, will present a program of celebratory chants for Pascha from Medieval Byzantium. Sponsored by the Department of Music, the Office of the College Chaplains, and the Department of Classics. An event of the 175th Anniversary of the College.
Free and open to the public.
Medieval Byzantine Chant for Pascha:
The Day of Resurrection
DAY OF RESURRECTION is a program of awe-inspiring psalmody from the Byzantine East that includes the Kontakion of Pascha by St. Romanos the Melodist (6th century), the Paschal Canon by Saint John of Damascus (8th c.), and virtuosic compositions by masters of the Byzantine imperial court, including John Kladas (1380-1420) and Manuel Chrysaphes (1430-1470). Day of Resurrection was recorded by Psaltikon in 2016 in Boston, presenting for the first time in the modern era the soundscape of the services of the Resurrection as they may have been heard in medieval Byzantium and its periphery.
Season 2017-2018
Mediterranean Spaces: An interactive performance at the Museum of Fine Arts
Participants will embark on an interactive exploration of the MFA’s collection of Mediterranean art, enhanced by the music that once enlivened the original spaces, sung by Psaltikon.
Thursday, October 14, 7pm: Museum of Fine Arts. Tickets and more info here.
Sound and the Sacred: A lecture and demonstration of kalophonic chant at UCLA
As part of an international, multi-disciplinary conference on sacred music and space, Psaltikon’s Director, Dr. Spyridon Antonopoulos, will give a guided performance on Byzantine chant and its relationship to the sacred through performance, composition, and spatial setting.
Saturday, November 18, 4pm: Powell Rotunda at UCLA.
A Byzantine Christmas: Byzantine chant and traditional carols for Christmas and New Year
In collaboration with the Greek Institute, Psaltikon presents its original and eighth annual Byzantine Christmas, a festive concert of Byzantine chant, kalanda (carols), and readings from Greece, the islands, and Asia Minor.
Friday, December 15, 8pm: First Church Cambridge, Cambridge, MA. Get Tickets.
Saturday, December 16, 4pm: St. Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Church, Albany, NY. Get Tickets.
Season 2016-2017
Seventh Annual Byzantine Christmas
Thursday, December 22, 2016
First Church Cambridge,
Cambridge, MA
Saturday, December 17, 2016
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral,
Portland, OR
Friday, December 16, 2016
St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church,
Seattle, WA
Six Days before the Passover
Thursday, March 30. 7:30pm
St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church
102 Russell St, Worcester, MA 01609
Evening Lights in Miklagård
Wednesday, May 24. 6:00pm
Museum Gustavianum
Uppsala University, Sweden
Friday, May 26. 7:30pm
Sankt Thomas Kyrke
Copenhagen, Denmark
Season 2015-2016
The Psalmody of Creation
Newton Festival of the Arts
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Newton Cultural Center at City Hall
Six Days before the Passover: Byzantine Chant of Holy Week
Friday, April 22, 2016
First Church Cambridge
11 Garden St.
Cambridge, MA
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall
7pm, Lecture; 8pm, Concert
College of the Holy Cross,
1 College Street,
Worcester, MA 01610
Sixth Annual Byzantine Christmas
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
First Church Cambridge
11 Garden St.
Cambridge, MA
Season 2014-2015
The Dawn and the Spring
May 7, 2015
St. John the Baptist Hellenic Orthodox Church,
Boston, MA
May 3, 2015
Annmary Brown Memorial,
Brown University,
Providence, RI
Fifth Annual Byzantine Christmas
December 22, 2014
First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden St.
Cambridge, MA
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