City, University of London's Department of Music and Cappella Romana are delighted to present:
‘Women in Sacred Chant: Past and Present'
April 13, 2021: 18.00–19.30 BST, 1:00pm-2:30pm Eastern, and 10:00am-11:30am Pacific via Zoom
A panel discussion celebrating the vocal ensemble Cappella Romana’s release of Hymns of Kassianí<
https://cappellaromana.org/kassiani/>, a recording of newly edited medieval Byzantine chants by the 9th-century composer and poet Kassía. Moderated by Professor Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Brown) and introduced by Professor Alexander Lingas (City and Cappella Romana).
Panelists will explore the role of women — as composers and as performers — in sacred Western and Eastern chant from ancient times to the present day, including music by Kassianí (Kassía) and Hildegard of Bingen. This is a history often marginalized or even disregarded in general histories of Christianity, yet it has been — and continues to be — important to the continuing vitality of sacred music as an art form and as a crucial mode of religious expression.
Registration is free at:
https://city-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2H1Louz0TqyRrORFMmCHvw
For more information, visit
https://cappellaromana.org/women-in-sacred-chant-past-and-present/
Moderator
Susan Ashbrook Harvey is the Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of Religion and History at Brown University, where she is also Director of the Program in Early Cultures. She specializes in Christianity of the Byzantine and Syriac traditions, particularly with respect to women, and to religion and the senses. Her scholarship has included focus on women’s religious singing in the ancient world.
Panellists
Dr. Sevi Mazera-Mamali – Founder and Director (Domestikaina), Ai Adousai women’s Byzantine choir, Volos, Greece; teacher of Byzantine Music.
Photini Downie Robinson – Singer, Cappella Romana; Lambadaria (leader of the “Left Choir”), Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Portland, Oregon; founder and director of YPHOS Voice Studio, Portland, Oregon.
Dr. Anna Song – Assoc. Professor of Music, Music Department Chair, and Director of Choirs, Linfield University, McMinnville, Oregon; Co-Founder and Director, In Mulieribus<
https://inmulieribus.org/> professional female vocal ensemble based in Portland, Oregon.
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Professor Alexander Lingas
Department of Music
School of Arts and Social Sciences
City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom
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