Director – Adrian Sîrbu (Romania)
Singers:
Dragoș-Gabriel Chelariu
Emanuel-Marcel Marin
Ștefan Mihalcea
Sebastian Socol
Constantin-Nichifor Hrestic
Adrian Florea
Ioan Dulgheriu
Andrei Crețu
Andrei-Vlăduț Costin
Ionuț Copăcel
Valentin-Florin Atodiresei

BYZANTION is an academic choir of Byzantine music based in Iași, Romania, functioning with the blessing of His Eminence Teofan, Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bukovina, and under the auspices of the “George Enescu” University of Arts in Iași. The choir is represented by the Byzantion Cultural Association.

Since 1997, the choir has given numerous concerts in Greece, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, UK, Poland, Slovenia, Russia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Mount Athos, and Romania, taking part in major sacred music festivals, including: Musica Divina – Warsow, Discanto Festival – Trento, Rencontres Musicales de Vézelay, Rencontres Médiévales de Thoronet, La spiritualité de Torino, Les chansons de nos racines – Jaroslaw, Atlantis du Nord – Olsztyn, Les amis de Santorini, Willibrord 658 – 2008, Przemysl, Pontigny, Plock, Summer School Orthodox Music Festival – St. Petersburg, Brixner Initiative Musik und Kirsche “Drama und Liturgie” – Bressanone, Archaion Kallos – Prague, Song of Our Roots – Jaroslaw, Euroasia Festival – Yekaterinburg and many others. In addition, the choir’s members participate every year in various patronal feasts of Romanian and Greek monastic establishments on Mount Athos, as well as in international symposia.

Under the direct guidance of Maestro Lykourgos Angelopoulos (†), Archon Protopsaltes of the Archdiocese of Constantinople and professor at the Athens State Conservatory, Byzantion has recorded 16 audio albums to date. The choir’s mission is to promote the Byzantine music of the Holy Fathers of the Eastern Church in the Western world and to convey the beauty of sacred monody, a millennia-old tradition marked by complexity, austerity, and the absence of theatricality and excess. In this way, its work seeks to reveal, as fully as possible, the musical image of what the Romanian historian Nicolae Iorga called “Byzantium after Byzantium.”