March 6, 2007 - Koukouzelis Institute Receives Grant from Fr. Elias Stephanopoulos Memorial Fund

The Koukouzelis Institute was recently awarded a $500 grant from the Fr. Elias Stephanopoulos Memorial Fund in Portland, Oregon.  The grant was awarded in order to defray the cost of bringing Fr. Ephrem (Lash) to California to serve as Chaplain, Lecturer and Spiritual Advisor for the Institute's Byzantine Chant Workshop at St. Nicholas Ranch this April.

Fr. Elias Stephanopoulos was a great spiritual leader and a lover of Byzantine Music and of the Liturgical life in general.  He feel asleep in the Lord in 1994 from non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.  May his memory be eternal.

July 26, 2006 - SF Chronicle

Director John Michael Boyer recently has been the subject of San Francisco Chronicle Datebook cover story "John Boyer sang before he spoke. Not much has changed -- at 28, he's helping to keep alive a rare form of chant that few can master." (Click Here to Read More)