The ‹Fanari› begins its operation within this September. This is a trial period of at least one month, in which any proposals and observations of the registered users will be evaluated, in order for the website to be shaped, if this is of course deemed necessary.

It is understood that along the way any parameters that arise will be re-examined, that is, the School will be under continuous formation based on the needs of the students and with the aim of its adequate and orderly functionality to the full.

The ‹Fanari› begins its vision of spreading the music of our Church to the ends of the earth with the best omens, since this vision is shared, as can be seen in the relevant interviews and greetings letters, by a number of great Church and Chanting Art personalities, which the ‹Fanari› thanks warmly for their trust.

Prominent among the greetings is the willing blessing of the head of the apostolic Church of Greece, His Beatitude Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, in which the musically trained hierarch refers in a moving way both to the connection of the Chanting Art with the spiritual life and to the chanting tradition of Constantinople, which has always been the treasury of the notorious yphos (“style”), without which the Byzantine Music Notation signs are nothing more than dry bones.

The idea for the creation of the ‹Fanari› emerged from the poet’s verse “The Greeks are a race as old as the world” (Vassilis Michaelidis, The 9th of July 1821 in Nicosia, Cyprus, 18). In order for a people not to be lost, its traditions must not be lost, and in order for this not to happen, someone must preserve them and make them known to the world as much as possible.

An excellent part of the Greek tradition is the music of our Church, given that in its hymns are preserved both the ancient Greek language in its two forms, the classical of Atticism and the Hellenistic New Testament Greek, and the ancient Greek rhythmic and musical tradition of spondee hymns and musical modes.

It is therefore with modest pride that the corpus of the musical services of our Church is handed over to the ends of the earth for the first time, and even according to the chanting tradition of Constantinople, which has always been the treasury of the notorious yphos (“style”).