2024-06-22 18:03:41
The grownup choir Bellevue Presbyterian Church Sanctuary Refrain from the USA will likely be joined by the Blended Choir of the Municipal Conservatory of Ioannina Cantus for a joint live performance within the courtyard of the Byzantine Museum of Ioannina, within the Acropolis of Its Kale.
The live performance will happen on Saturday, June 29, at 8 pm, on the event of the US choir’s tour and go to to Greece for the primary time, carried out by Brennan Michaels.
The Bellevue Presbyterian Church Sanctuary Refrain is predicated, from September to June, and is the principle worship ensemble for the church’s Sanctuary providers. The 80+ member refrain contains numerous ranges of musical capability together with lecturers, college students, instrumentalists and members of the Seattle Opera Refrain. Along with weekly worship, the choir presents choral-orchestral masterpieces and new works, most just lately performing Bernstein’s Psalms and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass. The choir collaborates with native ensembles such because the Brass Band of the Northwest and with skilled musicians from the Seattle Symphony and Pacific Northwest Ballet in Worship ThroughMusic performances and Christmas Eve providers. Additionally they function mentors for the church’s Kids’s Choir program with a complete of 130 choristers. Whereas Sanctuary refers to what they sing, it extra aptly signifies the position this work performs within the hearts of its members.
The Blended Choir of the Municipal Conservatory of Ioannina Cantus arose from former members of the youngsters’s choir of Anatoli Ioannina, who in October 2006, beneath the steering of Konstantina Milia, created an ensemble specialised for younger voices. The aim of the vocal ensemble Cantus is to spotlight choral singing via the paths of previous and fashionable vocal music. He has collaborated with the Hellenic-Swedish Affiliation of Ioannina (2006-07) within the established celebration of Santa Lucia and with the Society of Writers and Writers of Epirus, singing poetry set to music in a poetry night of Ioannina poets entitled “Lyric Cotton”. He has introduced, for the primary time, poetry by Nikiforos Vrettakos set to music by Panagiotis Konstantakopoulos. He has additionally partnered with the Symphony of the Municipal Conservatory of Ioannito, the Philharmonic of the Municipality of Ioannito, the virtuoso guitarist Panagiotis Margaris. and so forth. From 2019, it was fashioned right into a combined choir of the Municipal Conservatory of Ioannina with the participation of greater than 40 choristers. He has participated in main productions along with the Symphony Orchestra of the Municipal Conservatory (Kata Mattheion Pathi – JS Bach, Gloria – A. Vivaldi, Zorbas – M. Theodorakis, The American – M. Glyniadakis, and so forth.). He has given concert events in Thessaloniki, Patras, Aeginio Pieria, Kozani and Arta.
Penelope Liarostathis will accompany on the piano. Admission to the general public is free.