The art of Byzantine Music and Nektaria Karantzi in Hollywood
Angel of light. The immersive Theatrical Experience, which is the prequel to the upcoming Hex movie from Parma Records, in which our gifted artist Nektaria Karantzi features with Byzantine hymnody, debuted at the historic Los Angeles Theatre! We are grateful for this very special collaboration with the incredible sound editing of Mark Binder.
Byzantine Music Masterclass with Nektaria Karantzi
A rare opportunity presents itself to learn from the world-leading vocalist, Byzantine Music professor and founder of the Worldwide Association of Women in Byzantine Music, Nektaria Karantzi.
Nektaria has run masterclasses at some of Europe’s most prestigious educational and music centres including the Liszt Academy of Hungary, the Sorbonne University in France and the University of Oviedo in Spain.
In an Australian first, she now brings her Byzantine Ecclesiastical Music Masterclass exclusively to Melbourne’s Hellenic Museum. The three-hour Masterclass has been designed by Nektaria Karantzi to maximise learning for students of all abilities; from curious beginners to advanced Byzantine chanters.
Between East and West Live Performance
In an Australian exclusive concert, the Hellenic Museum brings celebrated international musicians Vassilis Tsabropoulos and Nektaria Karantzi to Melbourne for a one night only, live performance titled Between East and West.
Vassilis Tsabropoulos is a virtuoso pianist, composer and conductor. Nektaria Karantzi is a highly gifted vocalist known for sacred and Byzantine music. Together, they are an inspired musical marriage that results in a transfixing on-stage dialogue between Western musical culture and Eastern tradition.
Off the back of their successful European tour, they will travel from Greece exclusively for the Hellenic Museum's Between East and West three-day celebration of Byzantine food and music, where they will fill the Museum's enchanting courtyard pavilion with mesmerising grand piano and voice over a two hour live performance.
Their performance will be supported by the Holy Trinity Brunswick – Serbian Orthodox Church Choir and, the Psaltries Choir of Melbourne.
Do not miss this rare opportunity to hear these gifted international artists on Australian shores.
Nektaria Karantzi participates in the judging panel of the Orthodox Arts Festival in United Kingdom.
The Orthodox Arts Festival is an annual online event dedicated to Orthodox Christian Arts. The Festival showcases works from known Art disciplines like Iconography, Fine Arts, Photography, Film, Church Music, & Literature. All works reflect Orthodox Christian themes, beliefs, culture and values.
The event is Blessed & supported by His Eminence Archbishop of Thyateira & Great Britain Nikitas and the Brotherhood of the Orthodox Mission Abroad.
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New CD Release: BYZANTINE
A collection of Byzantine ecclesiastic hymns in Greek by Nektaria Karantzi, the distinguished female chanter, whose works are widely recognized in the sacred art of Byzantine music. The album includes ancient hymns, from the early Christian period, such as “Gladsome Light” and “Christ is Risen”, hymns dedicated to the Theotokos -a repertoire to which Karantzi has centered her research in recent years- hymns of Great Lent and Holy Week, such as the well-known “They stripped me of my garments” and “Today, He hangs on the Cross”, as well as apolytikia for two significant recent Saints of the Orthodox Christian world, Saint Nektarios, Bishop of Pentapolis, and Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia, of whom Nektaria was a spiritual child. It includes also the famous «Kyrie Eleison» («Lord have mercy»), composed by the monks of Mount Athos, performed in Greek, Romanian, Russian and Polish. The hymns are a cappella and without the accompaniment of a Byzantine Isokratima (Ison), conveyed in their simplest form, revealing the overwhelming power of the solitary voice of prayer. The album presents ancient hymns and poems of Saint Hymnographers of the 2nd to 9th centuries in musical compositions of the great teachers of psaltic art of the 18th and 19th centuries (Petros Peloponnesios or Lampadarios, Georgios Redestinos), as well as musical arrangements and explanations of more recent great teachers of the 20th and 21st centuries (Athanassios Karamanis, Charilaos Taliadoros etc.), based on the classic works of Byzantine ecclesiastical music. The «Byzantine» produced by the acclaimed pianist, conductor and composer Vassilis Tsabropoulos for MSO Records – Musica Sacra Series, distributed by Challenge Records (https://bit.ly/3A4Ykuu). The album is also available on all digital music stores, music platforms and streaming services. It includes booklet with information about the works (hymnographers, melodists, liturgical place in orthodox Christian worship services) and lyrics in English language.
Nektaria Karantzi will appear in three Byzantine Music Concerts, to the Hungarian audience in collaboration with the famous St. Ephraim Male Choir. (Copy)
Nektaria Karantzi will appear in three Byzantine Music Concerts, to the Hungarian audience in collaboration with the famous St. Ephraim Male Choir.
Szombathely (2 October),
Budapest (3 October)
Debrecen (4 October)
Nektaria Karantzi will appear in three Byzantine Music Concerts, to the Hungarian audience in collaboration with the famous St. Ephraim Male Choir. (Copy) (Copy)
Nektaria Karantzi will appear in three Byzantine Music Concerts, to the Hungarian audience in collaboration with the famous St. Ephraim Male Choir.
Szombathely (2 October),
Budapest (3 October)
Debrecen (4 October)
Nektaria Karantzi will appear in three Byzantine Music Concerts, to the Hungarian audience in collaboration with the famous St. Ephraim Male Choir.
Nektaria Karantzi will appear in three Byzantine Music Concerts, to the Hungarian audience in collaboration with the famous St. Ephraim Male Choir.
Szombathely (2 October),
Budapest (3 October)
Debrecen (4 October)
Nektaria receives an award from the International Church Music Festival of Hajnówka in Poland!
Nektaria Karantzi received the "Special award for her outstanding services in expanding and cultivating the chanting tradition of the Eastern Church and the high artistic level of female performance of Byzantine chanting".
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International Church Music Festival, Poland
Nektaria Karantzi will perform at two a Cappella concerts in Poland:
18/9 at 6pm, Warsaw
19/9 at 6pm, Bialystok
International Church Music Festival, Poland
Nektaria Karantzi will perform at two a Cappella concerts in Poland:
18/9 at 6pm, Warsaw
19/9 at 6pm, Bialystok