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Bishop Romanos Al Hannat

ACADEMIC RANK:          ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF BYZANTINE MUSIC (Since 2014)

FACULTY:                        ST JOHN OF DAMASCUS INSTITUTE OF THEOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF BALAMAND

 

ADDRESS:                 Balamand Monastery, Koura, Lebanon

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EDUCATION

2005               Bachelor of Theology

University of Balamand, Lebanon

2004               Diploma of Byzantine Music (with Excellence)

Ethniko Odio, Athens, Greece

2011               Ph.D. in Byzantine Music (with Excellence)

Aristotelian University of Thessalonica, Greece

Dissertation: The Byzantine Music in the Liturgical Practices in the Patriarchate of Antioch in the Twentieth Century.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2014-present  Master of Theology

THEO373: Approaches to the Study of Church Hymnology and Byzantine Music                         (3cr. 45 hrs.)

 

2014-present  Bachelor of Theology

-   THEO206: Church Music I                                        (4cr. 90 hrs.)

-   THEO273: Church Music II                                       (4cr. 90 hrs.)

 

2017-present  Supervision of MTh:

-   Julia Tsyganok “Analyzing of Arabic Pascha Canon” Finished 2019

-   Suliman Abou Hannoud “still working”

 

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

2019   Manuscript 104 of Balamand. Patriarchal Monastery of our Lady of Balamand Publications, 2019.

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES (PEER REVIEWED)

2021   “The First Use of the Arabic Language in Church Music, Nikiforos Kandoniaris, Protodeacon of the Antiochian See” (in Arabic). Annals of St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology, vol. 12 (Under Print).

                       

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS        

2020   “Ecclesiastical Music in Antioch A Quick Glance into the Trilingual Tradition” (In English). Musical and Cultural Osmoses in the Balkans Conference, National University of Music Bucharest, Romania, 2019 (Under Print).

2017   “Protomartis and Isapostolo St. Thekla and the Patriarchal Monastery Maaloula, Folk and Manuscript Tradition” (in Greek). Fourth International Conference of Cypriot Hagiology, Konstandia, Cyprus. 2017

2009   “The Deferential Transactions of the Mode and Problem for the Understanding of Musical Spaces.” Fourth International Music Conference, Athens, Greece, 2009. (in Greek)

 

TRANSLATIONS

2019               Elder Joseph the Hesychast. Translated from Greek to Arabic.

2008               Byzantine Music in the Arabic and Hellenic Language. Book and CD authored by Antonios Aligizakis. Translated from Greek to Arabic & Arabic to Greek.

 

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARIES

2006    International musical conference of choirs, ΔΕΛΤΙΟΤΥΠΟ: Patra, Greece.

2006   Second International Musical Conference, Athens, Greece.

2010   Local Music Conference of the Metropolis of Neapolis, Thessalonica, Greece.

2011   Theological Seminar, University of Regensburg, Germany.

2008-2011 Music Seminars in Aristotelian University of Thessalonica, ΑΠΘ, Greece.

2017   Fourth International Conference of Cypriot Hagiology, Konstandia, Cyprus. Protomartis and Isapostolo St. Thekla and the Patriarchal Monastery “Maaloula”. Folk and Manuscript Tradition.

2018 Hosting the Sixth international Conference of United international Orthodox Dogmatic, “The Theory of Hesychasm of Orthodox Theology. Taking a place in Balamand Patriarchal Monastery.

 

BYZANTINE MUSIC ACTIVITIES

1995-1997 Protopsalti in Church of St. John of Damascus, Damascus, Syria. 

1994-2006 Byzantine Music Teacher in the School of St. George Al Humayrah Patriarchal Monastery, Syria.

1997-2000 Director of the Choir of St. John of Damascus in Damascus with regional conferences in Syria and Lebanon.

2000-2005 Director of the Choir of St. John of Damascus in the Theological Institute of St, John of Damascus, University of Balamand, Lebanon. 

2005-2011 Member in the Choir of Macedonia University, Thessalonica, Greece.

1994- 2006 Director of St. Romanos the Melodist Choir. Published Fourteen Byzantine Music CDs.

 

MUSICAL CONCERTS PARTICIPATION

As a Choir Member:

2000     Concert of Byzantine music in Lemeso - Cyprus, Choir of St. George Al-Humayrah Monastery.

1999     Concert in Cappadocia – Turkey, Choir of St. John of Damascus, Damascus, Syria.

2006     Concert in the International Music Conference of Choirs, Patra, Greece.

As a Choir Director:

1997-2001 Concerts in some cities of Syria, Lebanon and Turkey.

2003   Concerts in Nicosia and Larnaca, Cyprus.

2008   Concert in Drama, Greece.

2010, 2010 and 2011 Educational Concerts in Paris, France; Cologne, Germany; and London, United Kingdom.

 

MUSIC & ECCLESIASTICAL ACTIVITIES AND COMMITTEES 

1988-2000           Member in the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO) in Damascus.

1990-2001           Secretary of Metropolis Bousra Hawran.   

2013                     Secretary in the Patriarchal office.

2014-2015           Director of the Voice of Grace, the Patriarchate of Antioch Radio.

2016-present      Abbot of the Patriarchal Monastery of our Lady of Balamand

2016-present      Member of the Institute Council

2020-present      Coordinator of the Institute of Theology Jubilee Committee

2020-present      Coordinator of the Institute of Theology Research and Publications Committee

2012-present      Participated in several Patriarchal Church delegations

2019                  Member of IMS Study Group “Music of the Christian East and Orient.” This study group was founded in 2019 in Bucharest, Romania. Co-organized by the National University of Music Bucharest, and the International Musicological Society-Regional Association for the Study of Music of the Balkans.

2020                     Member of music committee in University of Thessalonica ΑΠΘ, in Byzantine music department.

2021                     Synodal Publications Committee Member.


LANGUAGES 

Arabic, English, Greek and German.  

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