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School Curriculum

01.
CHURCH
MUSIC

Our primary and clear goal at School is training of chanters in a traditional way. Central role in this process of learning to chant is played by participating in the church and the analogion. There the students will consolidate and test what they have learned in classes.

02.
TRADITIONAL
MUSIC

Traditional music is by definition the music that is handed down from word of mouth, from generation to generation. It is usually not penned by a named composer but by anonymous people. It is born by the people, formed…

03.
PREP MUSIC
EDUCATION

It is scientifically proven that music engagement during preschool age has multiple benefits in children’s development: they get familiarity with music, learn the first simple, but basic, musical concepts, contributing thus to their mental health and the development…

Online courses

The School, addressing the needs of its students in Greece and abroad and taking advantage of the possibilities offered by modern technology, offers distance learning courses as well. For more details contact us.

Our Blog

Welcome to the blog of the School!

Here you can find collected articles about chanting as well as traditional music and many other interesting things. So, we welcome you and wish you happy…browsing!

Latest Posts

"…we rejoiced with exceeding great joy because of your effort which is inspired of God and pleasing to God, for the sake of the Godly-inspired Byzantine Music. Congratulations on all your effort! Byzantine music is divinely inspired , therefore it must be graciously preserved for centuries. Unfortunately now in our last years, Byzantine music amongst others is under attack, but God has His own providence. Therefore what you do is worthy of praise , and your rewards will be a lot by the Lord."

"I congratulate once again Konstantinos Fotopoulos and Konstantinos Bousdekis for their work on the spread and dissemination of our ancestral Byzantine music , to the young people here and through them for the sake of the generations to come. All will thus honors the sacred Analogion."

From my humble experience I trust our young children in your School, because I have found out that you have formed a musical style absolutely compatible with the humble and mournfulness style of our orthodox divinely inspired worship, as well as with our Church’s modest magnificence. Listening the children your voice and your teaching, they are imbued with the thin and conpunctioning grace of her unique music of our Worship, that is Byzantine music also with the divine-human wealth of its meanings.

[…] Now those who are “in heavenly chambers” and all the" very many places in the house of the Father” will have the opportunity to listen with all of us “who remain" our own Patriarchal Chanting Tradition. This was taught by holy men and through the Holy Mysteries transfers the believers to the knowledge of God and eternal life!

We who understand and support in all, we who are “in the Athens Music Lovers’ Association of Constantinople”, wish all of us every blessing from above and power in your work that is pleasing to God.