The Lost Music of Byzantium, lecture by Alexander Lingas, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland, August 15, 2015, 11:00 am

Alexander Lingas uncovers the lost traditions of Byzantine music. When Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453, sacred Byzantine chant (the eastern sibling of Gregorian chant) was lost and almost forgotten.

Lingas – founder and Artistic Director of Cappella Romana, an ensemble celebrated for its recordings of this repertoire – takes us in search of the sacred music that was heard in Hagia Sophia, the great church built by the Emperor Justinian in the same century in which Canice founded his monastic settlement at Kilkenny.

Tickets: €12/€10