{"id":5183,"date":"2023-11-04T18:37:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T22:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synodalschool.com\/?page_id=5183"},"modified":"2023-11-04T18:46:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T22:46:37","slug":"fekula-peter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/synodalschool.com\/2023\/about-sslm\/faculty\/fekula-peter\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Fekula"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"5183\" class=\"elementor elementor-5183\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c8ddeb6 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"c8ddeb6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6a5337e\" data-id=\"6a5337e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-feefb6c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"feefb6c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Peter Fekula<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bf985cd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bf985cd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1882479\" data-id=\"1882479\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b606eeb\" data-id=\"b606eeb\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-57c5dbb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"57c5dbb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5186 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/synodalschool.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/fekula-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Fekula\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synodalschool.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/fekula-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/synodalschool.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/fekula-768x927.jpg 768w, https:\/\/synodalschool.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/fekula.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><p>Peter Fekula has been a choral director for over 40 years. He obtained his musical training at the Mannes School in New York and at Harvard University where he studied choral performance and early music with Jameson Marvin and was Assistant Conductor of the Harvard Glee Club. He was the Choral Director at the Synodal Cathedral of the Russian Church Abroad in New York City from 2005 to 2019.<\/p><p>He is a member of the Liturgical Music Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and was one of the organizers of the very first Church Music Seminar, held in Glen Cove, NY in 1987, an event that has since blossomed into the Church Music Conferences held annually in the United States and Canada. He is on the faculty of the Synodal Summer School of Liturgical Music.<\/p><p>Along with Protopriest Matthew Williams, Peter co-authored the Order of Divine Services published by the St. John of Kronstadt Press. For a period of over 10 years, he edited the Annual Typicon published by St. John of Kronstadt Press. He was involved in the re-edition of the\u00a0<em>Sputnik Psalomshchika<\/em>\u00a0(<em>Church Singer\u2019s Companion<\/em>) by the St. Job of Pochaev Press and the publishing of the English translation of Johann von Gardner\u2019s monograph on square notation.<\/p><p>Peter was the conductor of the choir that traveled from the US to Moscow, Russia and sang antiphonally, together with the Choir of the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, at Christ the Savior Cathedral during the Hierarchal Divine Liturgy served on the Great Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord, May 17, 2007, at which the Act of Canonical Communion was signed, reuniting ROCOR and the Moscow Patriarchate.<\/p><p>Peter is the musical director of the Slavonic Cappella Ensemble in New York City, a choir dedicated to the performance of Russian sacred and secular choral music. 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