The choir was formed in 1993 and all its members have studied at the St Petersburg Conservatiore of Music. Anatoly Artamonov, the basso profundo, is one of only two singers in St Petersburg able to reach the lowest notes scored in Rachmaninov's Vespers, a 1915 choral work also called All Night Vigil. The director, Jurij Maruk, has led the Novosibirsk Chamber Choir, the Wladimir Minin Choir in Moscow, the Marininski Theatre Sacred Music Choir and the St Petersburg Radio and Television Choir.

Voskresenije, which means resurrection, has performed extensively throughout Russia and also in Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria and the United Kingdom. It first toured the British Isles in 2002.  This year it will perform at least 40 concerts in a British tour lasting to end November.

The performance starts at 7.00pm. Tickets £7 (concessions £5) from 07852 955 294 and on the door.

New Primary teacher appointed

We are pleased to announce that Ms Dimitra Myroforidou has been appointed to our Primary School Saturday morning classes.  Although no stranger to Glasgow, she has only recently become a resident here.  Dimitra's concluded her undergraduate studies in the School of Philosophy at the University of Ioannina, Greece in the Department of History and Archaeology, where she also studied for an MSc in Medieval Studies with a thesis title "Iconography of the italo-cretan icons in 15th and 16th century".  Dimitra will be a valuable addition to our staff complement and we wish her a happy and productive school year for 2010/2011.

Ancient Greek manuscripts go on-line

One of the world's most important caches of Greek manuscripts is going online, part of a growing number of ancient documents to hit the Web in recent years.  The British Library said on Monday 27th September 2010 that it was making more than a quarter of its 1,000 volume-strong collection of handwritten Greek texts available online free of charge, something curators there hope will be a boon to historians, biblical scholars and students of classical Greece alike.

Although the manuscripts — highlights of which include a famous collection of Aesopic fables discovered on Mount Athos in 1844 — have long been available to scholars who made the trip to the British Library's reading rooms, curator Scot McKendrick said their posting to the web was opening antiquity to the entire world.  McKendrick said that London could be an expensive place to spend time poring over the Greek texts' tiny, faded script or picking through hundreds of pages of parchment.  "Not every scholar can afford to come here weeks and months on end," he said. The big attraction of browsing the texts online "is the ability to do it at your own desk whenever you wish to do it — and do it for free as well."

Although millions of books have been made available online in recent years — notably through Google Books' mass scanning program — ancient texts have taken much longer to emerge from the archives.  They don't suffer from the copyright issues complicating efforts to post contemporary works to the Web, but their fragility makes them tough to handle. They have to be carefully cracked open and photographed one page at a time, a process the British Library said typically costs about 1 pound per page.

The library has moved aggressively to put large swathes of its collection online, from 19th-century newspapers to the jewels of its collection — The Lindisfarne Gospels, a selection of Leonardo da Vinci's sketches and the Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest surviving complete copy of the Christian Bible.

The library's Greek manuscript project was funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, which supports Greek-related initiatives in arts and culture.

Another batch of about 250 documents are due to be published online in 2012.

The British Library:http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation: http://www.snf.org