On August 2, 2024, an organ was played for the first time in many years at Jakkima Church in Lahdenpohja, Karelia. In collaboration with the town’s administration and local donors, the ELCIR organized a music program in the City of Angels, an open-air exhibit of wooden angel sculptures. Cordial thanks to Yelena Maleva for the excellent … [Read more...]
Darya Shkurlyatyeva lectures on historical musical instruments at festival in Veliky Novgorod
Darya Shkurlyatyeva (right in the attached photo), director of Mikael Agricola Choir at the Lutheran Church of Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, participated in the 8th Slovisha Festival of Musical Antiquities. On June 14, 2024, Darya gave a paper entitled “The Virsikannel as a Musical Instrument and a Teaching Aid” at a conference which took … [Read more...]
Darya Shkurlyatyeva welcomes group of university students at Vyborg church
Every year, shortly before April 9 when the Finnish church reformer Mikael Agricola (ca. 1510-1557) is commemorated, students from the Higher School of Printing and Media Technologies in St. Petersburg visit Sts. Peter and Paul Lutheran Church in Vyborg. The group of 30 bachelor’s and master’s students were led by Assistant Professor Olga … [Read more...]
ELCIR Easter Music Festival held again at St. Mary
On Saturday April 6, 2024, St. Mary’s Lutheran Church of St. Petersburg hosted the annual ELCIR Easter Music Festival. Participating choirs came from the following ELCIR churches: - Caritas Choir and the church band of St. Mary’s Lutheran, St. Petersburg- Agricola Choir from Sts. Peter and Paul Lutheran, Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast- Choir of St. … [Read more...]
Darya Shkurlyatyeva gives a talk on Luther’s German Mass
On March 1, 2024, ELCIR member Darya Shkurlyatyeva participated in an international researchers’ conference entitled “Medieval Liturgical Monody and Its Historical Perspectives.” Darya gave a paper titled “The German Mass of Martin Luther: Interpretation of Medieval Monody in the Liturgical Practice of Modern Russian Lutheran Congregations. … [Read more...]
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