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]

• Vigils at the Mount Sinai Monastery (1983)
• Cologne (1985)
• Mega Spelaion Monastery (1987)
• Vatopedi monastery Mount Athos (1995)
• Cathedral of Saint Demetrios in Thessaloniki (1993)

References

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Early music ensembles
- A - Aachener Bachverein Academy of Ancient Music Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin American Bach Soloists Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Anonymous 4 Apollo's Fire Artists' Vocal Ensemble A 2 Violes Esgales A Sei Voci Accademia Daniel Accentus Austria Akadêmia Alamire (consort) Alba (medieval music ensemble) Amarcord (ensemble) American Bach Soloists L'Armonia Sonora Ars Musicae de Barcelona Ars Nova (Polish ensemble) Ars Nova Copenhagen Ars Nova Singers Asteria Medievale Atrium Musicae de Madrid Axivil Armonicus Cuatro Les Arts Florissants (ensemble) - B - Bach Collegium Japan Boston Baroque Boston Camerata Brabant Ensemble Blue Heron Renaissance Choir Bornus Consort - C - Cancionero (ensemble) Capilla Flamenca The City Waites Collegium Musicum Concert Spirituel Concerto Italiano Café Zimmermann (ensemble) Camerata Trajectina Cantilena Antiqua Capella de Ministrers Capella Musicale di S. Petronio di Bologna Capella Regia Capilla Peñaflorida Cappella Artemisia Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini Cappella Mediterranea Concerto Palatino Cappella Romana Cardinall's Music Cinquecento (early music group) Chanticleer (ensemble) City of Bath Bach Choir The Clerks Collegium 419 Collegium Musicum 90 Collegium Vocale Gent Collegium 1704 Collegium Marianum Collegium Vocale Bydgoszcz Concentus Musicus Wien The Consort of Musicke La Compagnia del Madrigale Le Concert d'Astrée - D - Deller Consort Dunedin Consort Diabolus in Musica (ensemble) Drolls (Russian early music ensemble) - E - Ensemble Renaissance English Baroque Choir The English Concert English Singers Ensemble Gombert Ex Cathedra Early Opera Company Ensemble Renaissance Ensemble Santenay Early Music Network Egidius Kwartet Ensemble Clément Janequin Ensemble Elyma Ensemble für frühe Musik Augsburg Ensemble Micrologus Ensemble Organum - F - I Fagiolini Freiburger Barockorchester Ficta (early music consort) Five Centuries Ensemble - G - La Grande Chapelle La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy Gothic Voices Groningse Bachvereniging - H - Hespèrion XXI Greek Byzantine Choir Handel and Haydn Society Hilliard Ensemble Huelgas Ensemble His Majesty's Sagbutts & Cornetts Hortus Musicus - I J K - Ibn Báya Ensemble Il Complesso Barocco Irish Baroque Orchestra Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble The King's Singers Das Kleine Konzert - L - Lauda Musicam of Atlanta Lautten Compagney Leonhardt Consort Les Arts Florissants London Classical Players - M - Mala Punica Madrigal (ensemble) Maulbronn Chamber Choir Mediæval Bæbes Melodi Micrologus Monteverdi Choir Magdala (ensemble) Magnificat Baroque Ensemble Modo Antiquo Montreal Baroque Orchestra Music of the Baroque Musica Fiata Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra Música Ficta (Colombian ensemble) Musica Ficta (Danish ensemble) Musica Ficta (Italian ensemble) Musica Ficta (Spanish ensemble) Musica Nova (French ensemble) Musicians of the King's Road Los Músicos de Su Alteza Os Músicos do Tejo - N - The Newberry Consort New York Pro Musica Antiqua Netherlands Bach Society NEVEN Serbian Craftsmen Singing Society New York Collegium New York Polyphony La Nef New Orleans Musica da Camera New York Polyphony New York Pro Musica Nova Lux Ensemble - O - Organum Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique Orlando Consort - P - Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Piffaro Pomerium (early music group) Pro Cantione Antiqua*Profeti della Quinta Pro Musica Antiqua (Brussels) Psallentes La Petite Bande Pantagruel (ensemble) Le Poème Harmonique Prattica Terza Les Paladins (music ensemble) The Parley of Instruments Pera Ensemble Pro Anima Pro Musica Antiqua (Polish ensemble) - Q - Quink Vocal Ensemble Quintetto Vocale Italiano - R - Real Compañía Ópera de Cámara Ricercar Consort The Renaissance Revelers La Capella Reial de Catalunya Ring Around Quartet Rose Ensemble La Reverdie The Royal Wind Music - S - Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Seattle Baroque Orchestra Sequentia Singer Pur Studio der frühen Musik Sacred Heart Choir, Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Schola Cantorum de Venezuela The Scholars (Vocal Group) Seraphic Fire The Sixteen Stile Antico (early music vocal ensemble) Stimmwerck Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal Suspicious Cheese Lords Les Sacqueboutiers Schola Antiqua of New York Schola Antiqua, Madrid Schola Antiqua of Chicago Il Seminario Musicale Sette Voci Sherwood Consort Singer Pur Spielleyt The Sound and The Fury (vocal ensemble) Studio der frühen Musik - T - Texas Early Music Project Tragicomedia Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra The Tallis Scholars The English Concert Taverner Consort and Players Theatre of Voices Trinity Baroque Trio Mediæval - V - La Venexiana Venice Baroque Orchestra Vox Animae Victoria Musicae Les Voix Baroques - W - Waverly Consort Weser Renaissance Westminster Cathedral Choir