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Choirs in Greece
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Armonia Choir of Preveza
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Greek Choir Korais
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Municipality of Kalamaria choirs
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Society of Sparta, Sparta Greece - Established in 1986 we
consist of 3 choirs (a mixed voice choir of approx 40 voices, an all
male sacred music choir with 15 voices, a children's choir with approx
30 voices). We sing in Greek, English, French, German, Italian, Latin
and love every minute of it.
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Phonolites -
We are the Phonolites,
the choir of the Faculty of Sciences, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece. Our funny name is based on the volcanic rock
phonolite. We are a mixed, four-voice choir (SATB) consisting of
about 30 singers mainly of our University. Our repertoire shows a wide
range consisting of Renaissance songs, classical songs, Greek
traditional and modern songs as well as songs from other countries,
Byzantine hymns, hymns from the Orthodox Holy Liturgy etc. The
Phonolites are established in 1998 as the choir of the School of Geology
in order to participate in the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the
School of Geology. Since 2001 the Phonolites became the choir of the
Faculty of Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
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PolyPhonia
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Rosarte
Children’s Choir
was founded in 2008 IN Athens, Greece by the inspired conductor Rosie
Mastrosavva. Rosie Mastrosavva, as a conductor of another choir,
“Children’s Choir of Municipality of Athens”, has gained the first in
Greece’s history golden medal at the 5th Choir Olympics (1st
Category-Children’s Choirs), which took place in Graz during the summer
of 2008. In
Rosarte’s unit belong children from the conductor’s selected
cooperations, as, for example, members of the former Children’s Choir of
E.R.T’s Third Radio Programme (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation),
pupils of public Music Schools (Secondary Education) etc. Rosarte’s
members have got great choir singing experience, taking part in concerts
inside and outside Greece.
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Saint
Alexander's Male Voice Polyphonic Choir (Palaion Faliron)
Saint
Alexander’s Choir was founded by Ioannis Kottoros, Cantor at Saint
Alexander’s Church in Palaion Faliron, Athens, Greece in 1943 and
conducted by him until 2006. However, the existence of a primary form of
the Choir conducted by Agesilaos Papantoniou and then Ioannis Kottoros
in succession is traced in 1930s.
The Choir consists totally of men and performs the choral
part during the Divine Liturgy in Saint Alexander’s Church every Sunday
(10.20 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.) of its operational year, which begins on the
first Sunday of November and lasts until mid-April. Additionally, it
sings the “Hymn by Kassiani” of Holy Wednesday Matins (Sequence of
Bridegroom, Holy Tuesday, approx. 20.30) every two years. The main
feature of the Choir is non-instrumental (a capella) polyphonic music
for male voice, four-part (TTBB) and rarely three-part (TTB), created in
the 19th and 20th centuries by Greek and Russian composers for orthodox
worship ceremonies, e.g. the Divine Liturgy and the Rites of Baptism
(Christening), Wedding, Funeral, etc. Its activity is incorporated in
the 200-year Athenian tradition of Greek polyphonic ecclesiastical music
as one of the last representatives of this particular kind of music. The
regular and honorary members are amateur musicians, who believe in
continuation of the local music tradition expressed through the Athenian
school of polyphonic ecclesiastical music.
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University Byzantine Choir
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The
University Byzantine Choir (U.B.C.) was founded in 1972 by Antonios E.
Alygizakis at the of University of Thessaloniki. The inspiration for
such a choir arose out of the research and educational programme for the
study of Byzantine Music with coursework lessons titled: Tutorial of
Liturgical Studies. The choir consists mainly of university
students, together with well-renowned protopsaltes and university
members. Initially it took part in the weekly liturgical cycle of the
Aristotelian University Chapel, in broadcasted radio programmes and in
many other University cultural activities
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