Greek Byzantine Choir

The Greek Byzantine Choir is a choir specializing in singing traditional Byzantine chant. The choir was founded in 1977 by Lykourgos Angelopoulos (also the director) and is based in Athens, Greece.[1]

The choir has traveled around the world for concerts, participated in music festivals,[2] 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),[3] including the following:[4]

References
  1. See Analogion pages about the choir Archived 2007-06-16 at the Wayback Machine and its followers.
  2. Press-release at the helleniccomserve.com
  3. "liturgica.com". Archived from the original on 2010-12-28. Retrieved 2011-05-05.
  4. Choir's Facebook page


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