artists in residence

We are thrilled to announce

our artist in residence in spring 2023

Dr. Alexander lingas

Alexander Lingas, music director and founder of Cappella Romana, is a Professor of Music at City, University of London and a Research Fellow of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge (UK). He received his Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from the University of British Columbia. His present work embraces not only historical study but also ethnography and performance. Formerly assistant professor of music history at Arizona State University’s School of Music, Dr. Lingas has also served as a lecturer and advisor for the Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies at the University of Cambridge. His awards include Fulbright and Onassis grants for musical studies with the late cantor Lycourgos Angelopoulos, the British Academy’s Thank-Offering to Britain Fellowship, research leave supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and the St. Romanos the Melodist medallion of the National Forum for Greek Orthodox Church Musicians (USA). Having contributed articles to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies, Dr. Lingas is now completing two monographs: a study of Sunday Matins in the Rite of Hagia Sophia, and a historical introduction to Byzantine Chant for Yale University Press.

Read his CV and explore his publications and recordings.

Past artists in residence

Dr. George Kordis

spring 2022

A world-renowned iconographer, Kordis has the rare distinction for a practicing artist of a complete academic training in theology, with advanced theological degrees from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Boston and the University of Athens, where he was Assistant Professor in Iconography (Theory and Practice). His training as a painter preceded and motivated his move into theology: During the 1980s he worked with the Cypriot master iconographer, Fr Symeon Symeou and also studied painting at The School of Fine Arts at The Museum of Boston from 1987–89, and even while obtaining his doctorate (Athens) in 1991 he continued his studies in painting and engraving under Fotis Mastichiadis. Dr. Kordis has been a visiting professor teaching icon painting courses at Yale University, the University of South Carolina, the University of Bucharest / Department of Orthodox Theology, and Ukraine Pedagogical University, Odessa, while continuing to create major church programs of iconography – including several in the US; see Holy Trinity in Columbia SC and recently, Holy Trinity in Pittsburgh – and panel icons, which have been seen in numerous prominent exhibitions (Yale University, etc.). As well, he is also a prolific author with wide-ranging interests: theory and practice of Orthodox iconography, Fayum mummy portraits, Theophan the Cretan, Andrei Rublev, Fotis Kontoglou, Greek folk art, and many other topics.

Read his full CV and explore his expansive work.