Lykourgos Angelopoulos
Lykourgos A. Angelopoulos ( Greek Λυκούργος Αγγελόπουλος , * 1941 in Pyrgos ; † May 18, 2014 ) was a Greek Orthodox church musician , musicologist and choirmaster of the Greek Byzantine Choir .
Life
Lykourgos A. Angelopoulos was born in 1941 in the small town of Pyrgos on the Greek peninsula of the Peloponnese .
Lykourgos A. Angelopoulos' career in church music began with studying Byzantine music at the Greek School for "National Music" under the direction of Simon Karas. Angelopoulos also studied law at the Kapodistrias University in Athens .
In 1982 Angelopoulos became the cantor of the first Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. Irene in Athens. Angelopoulos has been the founder and director of the Greek-Byzantine church choir since 1977 and has been a professor in the field of Byzantine music at the Nikos Skalkotas and Philippos Nakas music academies in Athens.
Angelopoulos has been director of the Byzantine Children's Choir in the Archdiocese of Athens since its inception. He was the director of the Byzantine Music Schools in the Dioceses of Ilia , Rethymno and Fthiotida . Since 1998 Angelopoulos has worked as a member of the “Artistic Music Committee”, responsible for the music academies of the Ministry of Education in Greece. From 2005 he became president of "ΚΣΥΜΕ" / "KSYME" (The Center for Research into Contemporary Music) and is a founding member of the " Charter of Regas".
Angelopoulos worked with Athens Radio on program broadcasts of Byzantine music and performed contemporary works by Michalis Adamis , John Tavener , Dimitrios Terzakis , Georgios Kyrakakis , Theodoros Antoniou and Kyriakos Sfetsas .
Lykourgos A. Angelopoulos worked with the research team of Marcel Pérès from France. The scientific activity in the field of church music serves to research the ancient Roman church chant and its influence by the Byzantine church chant and their musical relationship to one another. The collected results are performed and published by the Ensemble Organum , for which Angelopoulos also appeared as lead singer. Angelopoulos participated in eight CD releases, which deal primarily with the Byzantine , Ancient Roman, Ambrosian and other older Western church chants.
Awards
In 1994 Lykourgos A. Angelopoulos was awarded an “Offikion of the Patriarch of Constantinople” ( Archon ) by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople , His Holiness Bartholomew I , and was also appointed First Canto of the Archdiocese of Constantinople. In 2004 the Greek President Konstantinos Stefanopoulos awarded the Phoenix Order . Angelopoulus received further church awards from the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Diodorus , the Orthodox Church of Finland , the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Patras . The Holy Synod of Bishops of Greece honored Lykourgos A. Angelopoulos in 2006 for his church music activities and awarded him the golden cross of the Apostle Paul .
Web links
- Biography (English)
- Short biography (Greek)
- Portrait of Lykourgos A. Angelopoulos and his Greek-Byzantine Choir (Greek)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Angelopoulos, Lykourgos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Αγγελόπουλος, Λυκούργος (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek musicologist and church musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pyrgos , Greece |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 2014 |