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
11:10 am - Bagels & Coffee In Music Center
12 - 1 pm -Bookstore Presentation / Q&A with Vlad
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
11:10 am - Bagels & Coffee In Music Center
12 - 1 pm -Bookstore Presentation / Q&A with Vlad
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
11:10 am - Bagels & Coffee In Music Center
12 - 1 pm -Bookstore Presentation / Q&A with Vlad
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 —
Vladimir Morosan is the creator and director of the “Orthodox Sacred Music Reference Library” Project (www.orthodoxchoral.org), the largest online library of Orthodox music. As Founder and Artistic Director of Archangel Voices, a professional-level choral ensemble, he has recorded six CDs of Orthodox liturgical music in English; he is also the composer and editor of numerous choral arrangements. He serves as Project Lead for music editing and online instruction for the Department of Liturgical Music of the Orthodox Church in America.A tonsured reader in the Orthodox Church, he currently serves as Director of Liturgical Singing at St. Katherine Orthodox Church in Carlsbad, California.