The Chanting Art Choir of the Thessaloniki Music School was formed in order for the students to study in depth and interpret the music of the Orthodox Church and to deepen experientially on the liturgical rite and the hymnological texts of our cultural Greek traditional musical heritage.
The ensemble participates in worship services (Divine Liturgy, blessing and sanctification services), in school festivities and in digital film productions and recordings of musical material from the Holy Monastery of Constamonitou on Mount Athos and from Cyprus in the framework of European Programmes.
In 2006, the composition of the Hymn to Apostle Paul written by the award-winning writer and mathematician Theodoros Santas and set to music by the choirmaster and music teacher of the Music School of Thessaloniki, Fr. Theodore Tsampatzidis, performed by the blind student of the M.S.Th. Eugenia Xefteri and illustrated by the student Neurokoplis Ioannis, was awarded by the Ministry of Education and the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece.
In 2013, the Choral Art Dance Ensemble of the Thessaloniki Music School won the 1st Prize in a competition of the Metropolis of Thessaloniki for the 100th anniversary of the liberation of Thessaloniki. The distinction concerns the category “Composition-Performance of a musical work”. The award was presented by His Holiness Metropolitan Anthimos of Thessaloniki on Sunday 19-5-2013 at a special event at the Theatre of the Grove of South Switzerland.
The Chant Choir collaborated during the school year 2012-2013 with the school’s orchestra presenting in the first performance an orchestrated setting of the short piece “To the Annunciation” by St. Romanos the Melodist composed by Fr. Theodoros Tsampatzidis and orchestrated by the teacher of the M.S.Th. Mr. K. Kentrotis.
Music teachers: Fr Theodoros Tsampatzidis and Sofia Chasioti (for 2013-4)