The 8 Tones Crash Course | Dr. Vladimir Morosan - SEPTEMBER 19-21, 2025
We are excited to welcome musicologist and conductor Dr. Vlad Morosan for this weekend crash course in the Eight Tones!
Join us for 3 days of learning the history, form and structure, application of the tones, and most importantly, how to sing the tones. This workshop will teach the tone melodies, harmonies, how to pitch the choir, and how to sing to unpointed text. Leave the weekend with the confidence to return to your church choir ready to sing any tone that comes your way.
Workshop Schedule:
Friday
6:30 - 8:30 pm - Session One
Saturday
9 - 12 pm - Session Two
12 - 1:30 pm - Lunch Provided
1:30 - 3:30 pm - Session Three
4- 6:30 pm - Vigil, Monastery Temple
Sunday
9:10 am - Hours & Divine Liturgy, Monastery Temple
11:30 am - Bagels & Coffee Provided
11:30 - 1 pm - Final Session / Q & A
Registration closes September 10. A discounted student rate is available for any student (ie. high school, college, seminary, etc).
Please note: Lodging and meals (unless otherwise noted in schedule) are not included.
All sessions will be held in the St. Tikhon’s Monastery Music Center (above the monastery bookstore) located at 175 St. Tikhons Rd, Waymart PA 18472. In addition to the workshop sessions, registrants are welcome to attend Divine Services at St. Tikhon’s Monastery for the weekend.
For those traveling for the workshop please visit this page on our website for further details & recommendations.
Feel free to email us with any questions about the workshop or travel plans for the weekend! You can reach our music coordinator, Amy, at: admin@stmarts.org.
We are excited to welcome musicologist and conductor Dr. Vlad Morosan for this weekend crash course in the Eight Tones!
Join us for 3 days of learning the history, form and structure, application of the tones, and most importantly, how to sing the tones. This workshop will teach the tone melodies, harmonies, how to pitch the choir, and how to sing to unpointed text. Leave the weekend with the confidence to return to your church choir ready to sing any tone that comes your way.
Workshop Schedule:
Friday
6:30 - 8:30 pm - Session One
Saturday
9 - 12 pm - Session Two
12 - 1:30 pm - Lunch Provided
1:30 - 3:30 pm - Session Three
4- 6:30 pm - Vigil, Monastery Temple
Sunday
9:10 am - Hours & Divine Liturgy, Monastery Temple
11:30 am - Bagels & Coffee Provided
11:30 - 1 pm - Final Session / Q & A
Registration closes September 10. A discounted student rate is available for any student (ie. high school, college, seminary, etc).
Please note: Lodging and meals (unless otherwise noted in schedule) are not included.
All sessions will be held in the St. Tikhon’s Monastery Music Center (above the monastery bookstore) located at 175 St. Tikhons Rd, Waymart PA 18472. In addition to the workshop sessions, registrants are welcome to attend Divine Services at St. Tikhon’s Monastery for the weekend.
For those traveling for the workshop please visit this page on our website for further details & recommendations.
Feel free to email us with any questions about the workshop or travel plans for the weekend! You can reach our music coordinator, Amy, at: admin@stmarts.org.
We are excited to welcome musicologist and conductor Dr. Vlad Morosan for this weekend crash course in the Eight Tones!
Join us for 3 days of learning the history, form and structure, application of the tones, and most importantly, how to sing the tones. This workshop will teach the tone melodies, harmonies, how to pitch the choir, and how to sing to unpointed text. Leave the weekend with the confidence to return to your church choir ready to sing any tone that comes your way.
Workshop Schedule:
Friday
6:30 - 8:30 pm - Session One
Saturday
9 - 12 pm - Session Two
12 - 1:30 pm - Lunch Provided
1:30 - 3:30 pm - Session Three
4- 6:30 pm - Vigil, Monastery Temple
Sunday
9:10 am - Hours & Divine Liturgy, Monastery Temple
11:30 am - Bagels & Coffee Provided
11:30 - 1 pm - Final Session / Q & A
Registration closes September 10. A discounted student rate is available for any student (ie. high school, college, seminary, etc).
Please note: Lodging and meals (unless otherwise noted in schedule) are not included.
All sessions will be held in the St. Tikhon’s Monastery Music Center (above the monastery bookstore) located at 175 St. Tikhons Rd, Waymart PA 18472. In addition to the workshop sessions, registrants are welcome to attend Divine Services at St. Tikhon’s Monastery for the weekend.
For those traveling for the workshop please visit this page on our website for further details & recommendations.
Feel free to email us with any questions about the workshop or travel plans for the weekend! You can reach our music coordinator, Amy, at: admin@stmarts.org.
My thoughts have been along the lines of recognizing and exploring the Eight Tones as the "Core" substance of our Orthodox liturgical singing… In so many ways they lie at the very center of what we do as church singers -- using them as the means to present, to proclaim, to bring to the attention of the Lord (in the heavenly realm) and to the worshipping assembly (in the earthly realm) that vast kaleidoscopic array of liturgical texts that constitute our various cycles of worship, and to do so in a systematic, organized fashion.
— Dr. Vladimir Morosan
About our instructor —
Dr. Vladimir Morosan, Founder and President of Musica Russica, is one of the leading experts outside Russia in the fields of Russian choral music and Orthodox liturgical music. After completing his undergraduate degree in music at Occidental College, in Los Angeles, California, he received his masters and doctoral degrees in choral music and musicology from the University of Illinois. Combining his Russian heritage with an abiding love for choral music, he undertook groundbreaking research in Europe and the former Soviet Union under the auspices of fellowships from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, IREX/Fulbright-Hays Exchange Program, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In the process, he compiled one of the largest and most complete reference collections of Russian choral scores, which became the basis for the ongoing series, Monuments of Russian Sacred Music, published by Musica Russica. His book Choral Performance in Pre-Revolutionary Russia (1986) is considered the definitive study of this topic.
Vladimir Morosan is Founder and Artistic Director of Archangel Voices, a professional-level choral ensemble dedicated to producing CDs of Orthodox liturgical music in English. He is also the composer and editor of numerous choral arrangements, chiefly for Orthodox liturgical use, and the Program Director of The Rudder, an internet radio program that airs on the Orthodox Christian Network. He serves as consultant to the music department of the Orthodox Church in America, and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Patriarch Tikhon Russian-American Music Institute (PaTRAM).