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12.09.2023

15 church musicians graduate from ELCIR Cantor Course

From August 21-27, 2023, the ELCIR Theological Institute in Koltushi, Leningrad Oblast, held the 4th and final class & exam period of the Cantor Course. Fifteen students attended class and took exams, making it the biggest class of church musicians in the Institute’s history.
 
The course’s main topics were the musical setting of the Sacraments and occasional services, the use of ethnographic material in worship practice, using music with children and directing a children’s choir, and the role of music in the diaconal ministry.
 
On August 21 and 22, the class studied the Book of Concord with Sergei Isayev, Cand. Sc. (History). The leitmotif of that session was the Augsburg Confession.
 
On August 23, the course students met with deaconess, theologian and physician Irina Makkonen of St. George’s Lutheran Church in Koltushi, discussing how a cantor can participate in the diaconal ministry and use the youth hymnal as a tool.
 
The students performed a concert at Koltushi Mercy House, a nursing home run by the ELCIR. They used such instruments as domra, kantele, virsikannel, and jouhikko and presented several pieces from The Taiga Mass by Lutheran pastor and ethnographer Arvo Survo.
 
On August 24, the students held a Service of the Word at St. George’s Lutheran Church of Koltushi, according to the order of the children’s worship service. The worship service was presided over by Rev. Ivan Hutter, facilitator of the course’s liturgical workshop. Coming from five of the ELCIR deaneries, the students sang hymns in Russian, Finnish, Mordvin, Buryat, and Tatar. The instruments used for accompaniment included organ, guitar, domra, psalmodicon, flute, jouhikko, mouth harp, and hand bells.
 
On August 26, 2023, the students took an exam in the basics of organ performance. The exam was in the form of a concert at St. George’s Lutheran. The program included music pieces by J. S. Bach, Johann Gottfried Walther, Johann Christian Bach, Johann Pachelbel, Heinrich Wilhelm Stolze, Hans-André Stamm, Charles François Gounod, and others. The second part of the concert was an exam in choir conducting.
 
Congratulations and God’s richest blessings to the 15 cantor course graduates! We pray the cantors continue to stay in touch with each other and play music together as they praise and proclaim our Lord Christ!
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Article by Aleksei Zubtsov / Concerts and Recitals, Diaconia, Karelian Deanery, Mission, Music, Siberian Deanery, St. Petersburg Deanery, Theological Conferences, Theological Institute, Training Seminars, Uralic Deanery, West Ingrian Deanery / Darya Shkurlyatyeva, Dina Korepanova, Irina Makkonen, Koltushi, Konstantin Subbotin, Marina Väisä, Mikhail Levin, Sergei Isayev, St. George's Lutheran Congregation of Koltushi

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