Events

On December 2, 2011, at the Fondazione Cini (Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore), will take place the Study Day The Byzantine chant in Italy between written and oral tradition (second edition of the series “Voice and sound of prayer”). At the Study Day, sponsored by the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies directed by Prof. Giovanni Giuriati, Italian and foreign scholars will participate: August Mauro, Maria Alexandru, Ioannis Arvanitis, Donatella Bucca, Girolamo Garofalo, Sandra Martani, Papàs Jani Pecoraro, Christian Troelsgaard. It is a scientific event of particular importance because, until now, analogous scientific initiatives focused entirely on the study of Byzantine music codices preserved in Italian libraries had been never promoted.

At the end of the Study Day will take place a concert of the choir Aghiopolitis of Athens, directed by Ioannis Arvanitis: a very skilled singer and a scholar internationally renown. Also the concert will be a unique and extremely innovative event, since it also will focus on the ancient Byzantine musical sources kept at Italian libraries. In particular, some chants taken from codices written in Sicily in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries stored at the Regional Library of the Messina’s University (Sicily) will be of exceptional interest, because, after almost a thousand years of silence, these chants will be replayed for the first time as a world premiere.