As part of our mission, PaTRAM Institute wishes to share the beauty and enjoyment of Orthodox Ch...
As part of our mission, PaTRAM Institute wishes to share the beauty and enjoyment of Orthodox Choral Music with the world! Our goal is to produce the highest quality, professional recordings of sacred choral treasures, sung in their most authentic and prayerful form. We wish for our CDs to serve as inspirational models to which parish choirs can aspire and to bring comfort, joy and peace, through music, to humanity.
To achieve our goals and vision, we have brought together the best professional and amateur choristers, highly esteemed conductors, and have partnered with multi-Grammy Award winning production company, Soundmirror, multi-Grammy winning recording label, Reference Recordings and our new partner, multi-Grammy winning recording label, Chandos Records. In just a few short years, PaTRAM Institute choirs have received two Grammy nominations and earned a place amongst the world’s greatest choral ensembles. For the first time, Orthodox music has come to the forefront of the world stage.
PaTRAM Institute is committed to sharing the gift of timeless, sacred masterpieces with many generations to come.
Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff’s birth (1873-1943), PaTRAM Institute invites you to experience the sublime beauty of his choral tour de force, the All-Night Vigil, as adapted and performed by the PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, a GRAMMY®-nominated ensemble. Composed in 1915, this masterpiece offers the listener a sublime sense of spiritual transcendence that is all the more remarkable given the turmoil and anguish that surrounded Rachmaninoff that year: World War I raged, and Russia teetered on the brink of the Bolshevik Revolution. The Vigil is a traditional Russian Orthodox evening worship service. Combining the offices of Vespers and Matins, it is celebrated on evenings in advance of Sundays and major feast days. Rachmaninoff’s setting of 15 fixed texts principally relies on traditional chant melodies and ingeniously elevates a strict Slavic ethos to a majestic expression of faith.
More Honourable than the Cherubim
The unique program of More Honourable than the Cherubim is selected from a vast array of hymns, which have inspired composers and comforted the hearts of the faithful in times of both celebration and tribulation. The Grammy award nominated PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, comprised of 56 vocalists, hailing from five countries, with an unprecedented nine octavists, coalesced in an inspired collaboration of orthodox faith and sacred music for worship. The choir achieved a sound so deeply beautiful and moving, that local residents huddled outside the recording venue and on balconies of adjacent buildings in hopes of hearing the heavenly and exquisite music coming from inside the church.
Blessed Art Thou among Women
Comprised of the works of many great Russian composers, all celebrating the theme of Russian Orthodox hymns dedicated to the Holy Theotokos, Blessed Art Thou among Women is performed by the Grammy award nominated PaTRAM Institute Singers™, a professional group of Russian and American male and female vocalists, joined by soloists Glenn Miller (basso profundo), Fotina Naumenko (soprano), Protodeacon Leonid Roschko, and two vocal quartets.
The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Nominated for a Grammy award for Best Choral Performance, The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom features the original work of composer, Dr. Kurt Sander. This landmark album is an English-language recording of Orthodox choral music, beautifully presented in a 2-disc format. Commissioned by PaTRAM Institute, it is the first and only complete setting of the Divine Liturgy in the English language. The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is performed by the PaTRAM Institute Singers™ joined by soloists Evan Bravos, Keven Keys, Protodeacon Vadim Gan, Glenn Miller, and Daniel Shirley. This new choral masterpiece was recorded under the magnificently frescoed, soaring cupolas of New Gracanica Church at the New Gracanica Serbian Orthodox Monastery outside Chicago.
Teach Me Thy Statutes
PaTRAM Institute™ came to the forefront of the world stage by earning its first Grammy nomination in 2019 in the category of Best Choral Performance for the Teach Me Thy Statutes album. The CD also garnered MusicWeb International’s 2018 Recording of the Year award. Teach Me Thy Statutes features the work of famed Russian composer, Pavel Chesnokov and represents some of the Orthodox world’s greatest music. The PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, comprised of 42 Russian and American singers, with a massive bass section, collaborated to immerse the listener into the authentic Russian monastic style of singing.
