https://www.nektariakarantzi.com/home daily 1.0 2025-01-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4cdb480042634613b51619/8f8e4944-8610-4226-975b-06a3cf6f562c/SCHOOL+FOR+PSALTRIES+%282%29.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4cdb480042634613b51619/1628213885751-IESQ35OQT9FY9I24MZDR/Byzantine.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4cdb480042634613b51619/b427ef3e-3b62-4010-8565-1664255a1b4c/%CE%9A%CE%9F%CE%9B%CE%9F%CE%9A%CE%9F%CE%A4%CE%A1%CE%A9%CE%9D%CE%97%CE%A3_Poster_PreFinal_27-05-24.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4cdb480042634613b51619/1600762683938-RF7K3N05BDTUWAR5PHXJ/MSO+Logo.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4cdb480042634613b51619/1600762661442-QVM3MJE44R9PRQM5DO6G/WIBM+English+Logo.png Home https://www.nektariakarantzi.com/backup daily 0.75 2020-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4cdb480042634613b51619/1600739435292-MGX80DS84G2P76OCPE4N/Nektaria+Karantzi+in+Hungary.jpg Backup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4cdb480042634613b51619/1600738846468-KKE7M5QJ5HF3GX6TO3MF/Nektaria+Karantzi+in+Poland.jpg Backup https://www.nektariakarantzi.com/female-chanter daily 0.75 2023-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4cdb480042634613b51619/1600068004177-JF7WCC5HVJBVE22EM6K4/Nektaria%CE%9B.jpg Female Chanter - Nektaria Karantzi is internationally acclaimed as the most important female chanter in Byzantine ecclesiastical music and the musical tradition of the Mediterranean. Having made a significant impact with her concerts in Europe and discography in Byzantine music, her performances are purely devoted to Byzantine Chant, the Mediterranean primeval musical tradition, and the sacred religious music in Greek, Romanian, Arabic, Russian, Italian, French, Aramaic (the language of Jesus Christ). She has committed her work to the promotion of the art of female chanting and the revival of the ancient Greek term “psaltria”. Karantzi has been invited to run Master Classes from some of the most renowned educational and musical centers in Europe, such as the Liszt Academy in Hungary, the Sorbonne University in France, the University of Oviedo in Spain. She is a unique Greek female performer, actively chanting as a solo chanter in church since she was 9 and, with a discography in Byzantine music since the age of 14. In her first recordings, she accompanied Saint Porphyrios the Kapsokalyvite, a contemporary saint, and with his encouragement, she commenced her studies in Byzantine Music. In the media, Karantzi is mostly referred to as “the one who best represents Byzantine female song today”, “One of the greatest female interpreters of byzantine hymns”, “Soft, deep and magical voice”, “She stands alone on stage, like an ancient Greek priestess and lays out before us the treasures and the secret paths of Heaven”, “an ecumenical artist”, “She can just as easily make her voice cherubic when she sings hymns, but also earthly when she sings traditional songs”. In recent years, many women and young girls have approached Byzantine music, inspired by the work of Nektaria Karantzi. Having as a primary purpose of cultivating and promoting the female art of chanting, in 2013 she founded the first women's association in Byzantine music: "Women in Byzantine Music Worldwide Association”. She also founded and is the director of the women's byzantine choir "Psaltries Choir" with members from all over Greece and abroad. Believing in the importance of the oral tradition and the preservation of traditional musical heritage, as a dominant element of the cultural identity of the people, Karantzi dedicates a large part of her work to teaching both Byzantine ecclesiastical and Greek traditional music in Greece and abroad. Having studied for many years next to one of the greatest singers and teachers of the Greek traditional music, Chronis Aidonidis, she now directs the "Chronis Aidonidis Music School", in Greece. A cycle of integrated courses of the Greek musical tradition is provided, which includes lessons in Byzantine music, the music theory, folklore studies and a large repertoire of traditional songs from Thrace, Asia Minor, Macedonia and the Greek islands, as well as the religious songs from Eastern Thrace, in which Karantzi immersed herself in whilst studying with Chronis Aidonidis. Since her childhood, Karantzi studied western music stating that "a complete musician, in any kind of music, needs a parallel classical music education". She also dedicates part of her work to the dissemination of classical music in Greece, mainly through her responsibility as the president of the "Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra of Athens". 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