The Greek Byzantine Choir is a choir specializing in singing traditional Byzantine chant. The choir was founded in 1977 by Lykourgos Angelopoulos (1941-2014) 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)
• Bethlehem (2000)
• Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe (2002)
• Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv (2009)
• Visoki Dečani (2019)

References

External links

• Official website