About
The Archdiocesan Choir of Washington D.C. was formed in February of 2022 with the encouragement and blessing of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America. While the choir is a ministry of the Archdiocese of Washington, the ensemble is made up of singers from numerous jurisdictions. In addition to singing for liturgical services and events, they present concerts with the goal of sharing the beauty and richness of our Orthodox faith through music.
The choir provides musical and liturgical education while creating opportunities for fellowship for local Orthodox Christians. We welcome singers high school age and up. All skill levels are welcome!
Our Conductor
Juliana is the Conductor and Artistic Director for the Archdiocesan Choir of Washington, D.C.She received her education from Westminster Choir College where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with dual Bachelor of Music degrees in Music Education and Musical Theater. She studied conducting with Dr. Joe Miller, and sang with the Westminster Symphonic Choir. She has participated in master class conducting workshops with Rollo Dilworth, Rodney Eichenberger and Christopher Aspaas. During her time at Westminster, she conducted the choir at Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox mission in Princeton, NJ. She continues this work today as the choral director at All Saints of America Orthodox Church in Alexandria, VA and loves the opportunity to bring the musicianship and skills of the choral world into the church setting. She has presented talks and workshops on sight reading, sound building and conducting techniques at state education and church conferences and was a featured conductor at the International Symposium of Orthodox Church Musicians Conference in 2016 and 2018. She has taught as a guest lecturer and conductor at both St. Tikhon’s and St. Vladimir’s Seminaries and routinely leads church workshops on conducting and musicianship skills. She is the choral director at Fairfax High School in Virginia and has taught music across all ages in Fairfax County Public Schools. She believes strongly in the importance of beautiful, healthy singing in choirs of all skill levels and ages.