A RETREAT on ORTHODOX CHURCH MUSIC featuring RICHARD BARRETT, Liturgical Musician and Scholar, Artistic Director of the St. John of Damascus Society
SCHEDULE:
10am DIVINE LITURGY, commemorating St. Theodore the Soldier and the Miracle of the Koliva (Sung by Mr. Barrett)
11:30am LENTEN POTLUCK LUNCH (bring a dish to share!)
12pm FIRST TALK: “Psalterion as pulpit: The privilege, craft, and discipline of Orthodox liturgical song”
1pm-6pm BREAK FOR THE AFTERNOON
6pm GREAT VESPERS
7pm SECOND TALK: “Mingling prophecy with melody: the ethos of Orthodox liturgical music.” (Lenten refreshments will be served during this talk)
While the talks will be edifying for all, all choir members, chanters and readers are especially encouraged to attend!
Biographical information on Richard Barrett:
Richard Barrett is an Orthodox church musician, choral singer and scholar, as well as the Artistic Director of the St. John of Damascus Society, which supports the performance and dissemination of Orthodox liturgical and para-liturgical music. He has been the cantor and choir director at All Saints Orthodox Church in Bloomington, Indiana, since 2005, and he has served as an invited clinician and singer in parishes throughout the Midwest, also singing regularly with several prestigious choral and operatic ensembles. He has has presented papers at the International Conference on Patristic Studies at the University of Oxford and the Patristic Symposium of the Georges Florovsky Society at Princeton University. He holds a B.Mus. in vocal performance and an M.A. in Ancient History from Indiana University, where he is completing a Ph.D. focusing on civic devotions to the Mother of God in the Late Antique Roman world and an additional concentration in Modern Greek studies. He has studied voice with Dennis Kruse, Erich Parce, and Dale Moore, and pursued specialized study of Byzantine chant with Ioannis Arvanitis and John Michael Boyer. Publications include essays on Orthodox musical topics in AGAIN Magazine and scholarly articles in journals such as the Greek Orthodox Theological Review (forthcoming) and The Journal of Early Christian Studies (forthcoming). He has been married to Megan Barrett since 2001, and they have one child (forthcoming).