MUSIC PROGRAM DIRECTOR
CONDUCTING, CHORAL METHODS, MUSICIANSHIP, CHOIR DIRECTOR

Juliana Woodill is the Music Program Director at St. Tikhon’s Monastery in South Canaan, Pennsylvania. She oversees music residents, conducts the Mixed Choir and the Women’s Choir, and teaches courses in conducting, choral methods, the eight tones, and musicianship. She is regularly invited to lead workshops and training programs for churches and dioceses, and teaches conducting at the Summer Music Institute hosted by St. Vladimir’s Seminary. 

Juliana was the founding artistic director and conductor of the Archdiocesan Choir in Washington, D.C. She also led the choir for many years at All Saints of America Orthodox Church and before that, St. John the Theologian Orthodox Mission, both in northern Virginia. She loves bringing the artistry, musicianship, and vocal technique of the choral tradition into the life of the Church. Prior to her work at St. Tikhon’s Monastery, she also taught public school for 17 years across all ages, kindergarten through high school. She has presented lectures and workshops on sight-reading, ensemble sound development, and conducting techniques at both educational and church conferences. She was also a featured conductor at the International Symposium of Orthodox Church Musicians conferences in 2016 and 2018. 

She earned dual Bachelor of Music degrees in Music Education and Musical Theater from Westminster Choir College, graduating summa cum laude. While at Westminster, she studied conducting with Dr. Joe Miller and performed with the Westminster Symphonic Choir.

Education —

Bachelor of Music in Music Education, Westminster

Bachelor of Music in Musical Theater, Westminster

ORDER OF SERVICES, 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, CHOIR DIRECTOR

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