Byzantine Music School
Featuring a New In-Person Beginner Class
Weekly on Thursdays from 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Fall 2025 Term: September 18 to November 13
Winter 2026 Term: January 8 to February 26 (Final Schedule TBD)
What is Byzantine music?
Known as the Psaltic Art, it’s an ancient form of music chanted at church services. This living tradition offers hymns with the closest melodies to those heard by our Lord Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and many saints. Its nuanced structure promotes the uplifting of spirit, supports the focus of prayer and elicits inner peace. Recommended for all faithful as a blessed method to meditate and experience the presence of God in their hearts.
Join the program and learn to:
a) Chant in both Greek and English
b) Read from Byzantine musical scores
c) Learn the typikon, or rubrics, for services
Registration fee of $200
- includes tuition and textbook Byzantine Chant: The Received Tradition - A Lesson Book.
Space is limited, please register to ensure your enrollment.
Register below or scan the QR:
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BEGINNER I - FALL TERM 2025
PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
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Date |
Time |
Description |
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Sept 18, Thurs |
6:30 PM - 8 PM |
Intro to Byzantine Chant |
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Sept 25, Thur |
6:30 PM - 8 PM |
Theory - Lesson I & Vocal Technique |
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Oct 2, Thurs |
6:30 PM - 8 PM |
Theory - Lesson II |
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Oct 9, Thurs |
6:30 PM - 8 PM |
Theory - Lesson III |
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Oct 16, Thurs |
6:30 PM - 8 PM |
Theory - Lesson IV & Typikon I |
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Oct 23, Thurs |
6:30 PM - 8 PM |
Theory - Lesson V & Typikon II |
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Oct 30, Thurs |
OFF |
N/A |
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Nov 6, Thurs |
6:30 PM - 8 PM |
Typikon III, Special Topics & Review |
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Nov 13, Thurs |
6:30 PM - 8 PM |
Capstones - Individual & Choral |
Beginner II -Winter Term 2026 dates and detail to be finalized at a later date
“For when the Holy Spirit saw that mankind was ill-inclined toward virtue and that we were heedless of the righteous life because of our inclination to pleasure, what did he do? He blended the delight of melody with doctrine in order that through the pleasantness and softness of the sound we might unawares receive what was useful in the words, according to the practice of the physicians, who, when they give the more bitter draughts to the sick, often smear the lip of the cup with honey.”
~St. Basil the Great