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A musical project “Theophanes Greek and Andrei Rublev: the music, given birth by Light” won the competition of grants for non-profit organizations in the framework of Federal project “Culture” by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

The concert will take place on October 15, 2020 on the stage of a big concert hall “Zaryadye” – the most famous and modern concert hall for classical music performances in Moscow. The oratorios “Theophan Greek and Andrey Rublev” are written by modern Greek composer Savvas Karatzias. The world premiere will be performed by

Moscow Synodal Choir

Conductor : Michael Kotelnikov
Solo Soprano : Anna Polovinkina
Piano : Panayiotis Gogos
Organization: Dmitry Mayakov

The performance will be accompanied by a video based on frescoes and icons of the founders of Russian iconography.

The concert will be organized by Fund of Moscow Synodal choir (director – Dmitry Mayakov) with the support of Russian culture foundation, Department for external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Church – public Council under the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia for the development of Russian church singing, companies Severstal and Unipro.

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Source:www.dimokratiki.gr

A remarkable tribute to the great painter “THEOPHANES THE GREEK”, the work of renowned award-winning composer Savvas Karantzias, was held on Sunday, October 20, 2019 under the auspices of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and with blessings of the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Theodoros V.

His Holiness Theodoros II Patriarch of Alexandria and all of Africa awards the golden medal of The Lion of Saint Mark to the Rhodian composer Savvas Karantzias after the concert and gives a speech about Theophanes the Greek and his 600 years legacy especially in Russia.

The big Russian State channel “Kultura” presented in great words, a tribute to the Greek composer Savvas Karantzias in Moscow. The following report states:

The Synodal Choir of Moscow presented at the Tretyakov Gallery a musical work by a Greek composer Savvas Karantzias entitled “The Theophanes the Greek” dedicated to an outstanding illustrator. The concert performance is included in the program of the Year of Greek Language and Literature in Russia.

“Not much information about Theophanes’ life was saved, but his paintings and murals remained. It gave me the power to write music. I wrote the first notes, incidentally, when I saw Tarkovsky’s film, Andrei Rublev, ”says Savvas Karantzias.

The action begins with the birth of Theophanes the Greek in Constantinople around 1340. His beginning, after the years that he spent in Russia, where he created his great works, painting the temples in Novgorod and Moscow.

By giving an oratorio to the musical minimalism, the band members admit that it is not an easy task to perform.

“This musical language that allows us to immerse ourselves in the spiritual depth and content of this narrative of Theophanes the Greek is, if you will, a musical mural that reveals his work,” explains Alexei Puzakov, head of the Synodal Choir of Moscow.

Mr. Puzakov, during the premiere in the Russian capital, played an unusual role for himself – a reader who used to tell about the life of an illustrator with texts specially translated into Russian.

“We had trouble studying the Greek text, but the composer explained everything to us and we quickly entered the Greek alphabet,” says Mikhail Kotelnikov.

Now the composer is working on an essay for Andrei Rublev. It will be the sequel of the “Theophanes the Greek” oratorio.

20 October 2019
Savvas Karantzias / Athens Academic Youth Choir / Theophanes the Greek
Egypt – Bibliotheca Alexandrina