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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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