MUSIC PROGRAM DIRECTOR
CONDUCTING, CHORAL TECHNIQUES, MUSIC THEORY, AURAL SKILLS

Juliana is the Conductor and Artistic Director of the Archdiocesan Choir of Washington, D.C. In addition to her work with the Archdiocesan Choir, Juliana has been serving as the choral director at All Saints of America Orthodox Church in Alexandria, Virginia, where she loves bringing the artistry, musicianship, and vocal technique of the choral tradition into the life of the Church.

She presents lectures and workshops on sight-reading, ensemble sound development, and conducting techniques at both educational and church conferences across America. She was also a featured conductor at the International Symposium of Orthodox Church Musicians conferences in 2016 and 2018.

She regularly leads vibrant workshops on conducting and church musicianship across the United States, as well teaching conducting at the Summer Music Institute hosted by St. Vladimir’s Seminary.

She is excited to join the faculty at St. Tikhon's to continue to build a thriving program for Orthodox musicians to beautify worship for the glory of God.  

Education —

Bachelor of Music in Music Education, Westminster

Bachelor of Music in Musical Theater, Westminster

ORDER OF SERVICES, MIXED CHOIR DIRECTOR

Anastasia Kappanadze collaborated in the founding of the St. Tikhon’s Music Program in 2021. She currently teaches a course on the Order of Services and directs the monastery’s Mixed Choir. In the past decade, she has taught music in various New York schools, directed an OCA parish choir while assisting in parishes of different jurisdictions, and performed with several choral groups in the Northeast. Anastasia is particularly interested in the training of current and future generations of Orthodox church musicians in North America. Since starting work at St. Tikhon’s Monastery, she has directed the Women’s Choir and taught liturgical music for St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. She also offers private classes in musicianship to seminary wives and Church Slavonic to seminarians. Outside of St. Tikhon’s, Anastasia is part of the faculty in ROCOR’s Synodal School of Liturgical Music and OCA’s online music classes.

Education —

M.A.T. in Applied Music and Music Teaching, Lehman College

M.M. in Conducting, Bard College Conservatory of Music

B.A. in Music, Bard College

ORTHODOX MUSIC HISTORY

Reader and music director Paul Kappanadze works with both the monastery and seminary communities, singing in and frequently directing the seminary, mixed, and monastic brotherhood choirs. As a historian and liturgist with vast knowledge of Orthodox music, his specialties include adapting and arranging liturgical music and rubrical research for STM Press.

Education —

M.Div. St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary

B.A. in History, Elmira College