The Greek Byzantine Choir is a choir specializing in singing traditional

Byzantine chant Byzantine music () originally consisted of the songs and hymns composed for the courtly and religious ceremonial of the Byzantine Empire and continued, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in the traditions of the sung Byzantine chant of East ...

. The choir was founded in 1977 by Lykourgos Angelopoulos (1941-2014) and is based in

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Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

. The choir has traveled around the world for concerts, participated in music festivals, and released studio recordings. Being dedicated to religious music, the choir has participated in church services (with an average monastery vigil lasting for about 10 hours of perpetual singing), including the following:Choir's Facebook page
/ref> * Vigils at the Mount Sinai Monastery (1983) *

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(1985) * Mega Spelaion Monastery (1987) *

Vatopedi monastery The Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi (, ) is an Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox monastery on Mount Athos, Greece. The monastery was expanded several times during its history, particularly during the Byzantine period and in the 18t ...

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(1995) * Cathedral of Saint Demetrios in

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(1993) *

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(2000) *

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(2002) *

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(2009) *

Visoki Dečani The Visoki Dečani Monastery is a medieval Serbian Orthodox Christian monastery located near Deçan, Kosovo. It was founded in the first half of the 14th century by Stefan Dečanski, List of Serbian monarchs, King of Serbia. Dečani is by far t ...

(2019)

External links

Official website

References

Performers of Byzantine music Greek choirs Musical groups established in 1977 1977 establishments in Greece {{Greece-band-stub