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Eugenia
Temidis
Eugenia
Temidis is the founder, conductor, and musical director of the Holy
Myrrhbearers Women’s Choir, a diocesan ensemble begun in 1998. Born
in New York City and raised within the Russian-speaking community of
Nyack, NY, she is active as a researcher, arranger, conductor, psalomschik, and educator. Under her leadership, the Holy
Myrrhbearers Women’s Choir regularly sings at special services,
charity events, and concerts throughout the diocese. In July 2008, Ms.
Temidis completed her diploma from the Summer School of Liturgical
Music at the Holy Trinity Seminary in Jordanville, NY. She spent 5
years at the post of choir conductor at the Holy Virgin Protection
Church in Nyack, New York, and continues to guest conduct at various
parishes of the Diocese as well as at the Synodal Cathedral. She also
studies voice at Rockland Conservatory and teaches ensemble singing to
children (including five of her own). Ms. Temidis strives to educate
her singers and audiences, and her skills as a researcher were
highlighted by her lecture on the life of St. Kassia at the 2008
Conference on Women in Orthodoxy in Glen Cove, NY.
As
a student, Ms. Temidis toured the East Coast with the Drew University
Chorale and Madrigal Group under the direction of organist Dr. Lester
Berenbroick. For more
than ten years, she sang with the Russian Choral Society
in New York City for
conductors Vladimir Roudenko, Alexander Ledkovsky, Vladimir Morosan,
and Nikolai Kachanov, performing in Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall, Avery
Fisher Hall, and Philharmonic Hall, as well as on stages in Boston and
Montreal. Ms. Temidis continues to sing with various church choirs,
has been a regular participant in the annual Russian Orthodox Church
Musicians’ Conferences since 1987, and traveled to Moscow with the ROCOR Choir in May,
2007 to sing at services during the historic reunification of the
Russian Church. She is a member of the Synodal
Cathedral Choir in New York City, with which she has sung at a variety
significant services and special events.
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