From: sounni.ali@gmail.com   
      
   Fresh off their GRAMMY nomination for their CD, Teach Me Thy Statutes, and   
   their newly released CD, The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, the PaTRAM   
   Institute will record their next CD in Saratov, Russia, this summer. The new   
   CD, entitled More    
   Honorable Than the Cherubim, is a compendium of hymns to the Theotokos by   
   various composers, which will be sung by a fifty-six-member male choir. The   
   singers hail from Russia, Serbia, North America, and Australia.    
   RAMMY-nominated Maestro Vladimir Gorbik    
   will conduct the choir, which will include an unprecedented ten octavists,   
   with baritone Michail Davydov as the featured soloist. On August 22nd, 2019,   
   the choir will perform their repertoire in concert at the Saratov Conservatory.   
      
   The PaTRAM Institute Male Choir will be in Saratov for rehearsals and the   
   recording of the new CD from August 20th-26th, 2019. The CD will be recorded   
   at St. Nicholas Monastery by multi-GRAMMY Award-winning production company   
   Sound Mirror. Sound Mirror    
   has received more than one hundred GRAMMY Awards and nominations for their   
   body of work. PaTRAM is thrilled to be working with them again to create a   
   professional quality CD that brings the beauty of Russian choral music to a   
   Western audience. Reference    
   Recordings, a multi-GRAMMY Award-winning record label based in San Francisco,   
   will print and distribute the completed CD.   
      
   With the special permission and blessing of Metropolitan Hilarion, First   
   Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, the Kursk Root Icon   
   of the Mother of God, considered by the Orthodox Church to be wonderworking,   
   will also be traveling    
   with the choir, accompanied by Bishop Nicholas of Manhattan. The icon will be   
   in Saratov, Russia, from August 20th-28th, 2019, including during services for   
   the feast of the Dormition. On the evening of August 20th, the PaTRAM   
   Institute Male Choir will    
   be singing near Holy Protection Cathedral to greet the icon as it arrives in   
   Saratov.   
      
   PaTRAM will hold a press conference regarding this special project on   
   Thursday, August 22nd, at the Saratov Conservatory at 5pm before the concert,   
   and include a question and answer period with Alex Lukianov, co-founder and   
   CEO of PaTRAM, and Maestro    
   Vladimir Gorbik and Katya Lukianov, co-founders of PaTRAM.   
      
   Alexis Lukianov, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of PaTRAM Institute said, "This   
   is the next step for our organization. We are trying to replicate our success   
   from our earlier CDs, but with different composers and prayers. Originally, we   
   had planned to    
   focus on just one composer for this next recording. But once we realized the   
   incredible blessing of the icon traveling with us, we decided to change the   
   repertoire to be comprised of hymns to the Theotokos to honor the Mother of   
   God and to appropriately    
   celebrate the feast of the Dormition right after our recording."   
      
   PaTRAM's GRAMMY-nominated CD Teach Me Thy Statutes was recorded in Russia in   
   2016 and featured both American and Russian singers. Teach Me Thy Statuteswas   
   also named MusicWeb International's 2018 Recording of the Year. PaTRAM's   
   newest CD, The Divine    
   Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, has consistently been in the Top 15 on   
   Amazon's list of Hot New Releases in Opera and Vocal since the CD was released   
   at the end of April. Besides continuing to promote and develop the skills of   
   Orthodox choral singers in    
   North America, PaTRAM also views its work as a landmark opportunity to unite   
   East and West as the organization brings together singers from different   
   countries who share the same language, culture, and beliefs to create   
   beautiful and prayerful music.    
   PaTRAM seeks to broaden its partnerships around the world with the aim of   
   introducing more people to the beauty and power of Russian liturgical music,   
   so that their lives might be transformed through a connection to this ancient   
   and soulful form of    
   worship.   
      
   About PaTRAM (Patriarch Tikhon Russian American Music Institute)   
      
   The mission of the Patriarch Tikhon Russian American Music Institute (PaTRAM)   
   is to cultivate and promote the beauty and spiritual depth of Russian Orthodox   
   liturgical arts in general and choral singing in particular, in both the   
   English and Church    
   Slavonic languages. PaTRAM seeks to utilize rigorous educational programs,   
   distinctive performance events, and the latest technological tools to realize   
   this mission.   
      
   PaTRAM is a non-profit 501-c3 organization in their 6th year of existence and   
   headquartered in Tiburon, CA.   
      
   To learn more visit www.patraminstitute.org   
   Music: http://soundcloud.com/reference-recordings/teach-me-thy-statutes   
      
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