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Elizabeth
Ledkovsky
Elizabeth
Ledkovsky inherited a legacy of liturgical arts and scholarship from
both sides of her family. Her maternal grandmother, Valeria Hoecke,
was the first woman to earn a degree at the Belgrade Theological
Institute and is considered the pre-eminent Slavonic liturgical poet
and linguist of the 20th century. Her grandfather,
Archpriest Paul Hoecke, was a scholar and translator – the first
cleric to officiate at divine services for the Russian Orthodox Church
in German – and was martyred in Stalin’s gulags. Boris Ledkovsky,
the prolific and well-known composer, was also her grandfather, and
Alexander Ledkovsky, founder of one of the Internet’s first on-line
church music libraries, was her father. Both Ledkovsky men were
long-time choirmasters at the Synodal Cathedral, where Ms. Ledkovsky
grew up and still sings regularly, while also continuing her
forebears’ work, creating and publishing digital editions of the
vast collection of handwritten scores amassed by her family and
occasionally arranging hymns to her grandfather’s harmonizations.
Educated at Cornell University and Ithaca College, Ms. Ledkovsky holds
a master’s degree in Communication. Her musical studies include
extensive training in cello and voice. She has been integral to choirs
of various types throughout ROCOR, including five years at the
Syracuse Parish of the Entrance of the Theotokos to the Temple, four
years in the Archbishop’s Choir at the Holy Virgin Cathedral in San
Francisco, and three years as choir leader/psalmoschik at the Maria-Schutz
Parish Church in Berlin, Germany. She has also sung and served in
administrative and board positions for a number of secular choral and
arts organizations, including the Ithaca Community Chorus &
Chamber Singers, the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County,
Chorus America, the San Francisco Choral Society, and the Berlin
Staatsoper Konzertchor. Ms. Ledkovsky is the mother of two young
children who love to sing.
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