Ivan Moody

Ivan Moody studied at the Universities of London, Joensuu and York. His music has been performed and broadcast all over the world, and has been performed by soloists and ensembles of renown. His largest works are Passion and Resurrection (1992), Revelation (1995), Akathistos Hymn (1998), The Dormition of the Virgin (2003), Passione Popolare (2005), Ossetian Requiem (2005), Moons and Suns (2008), Stabat Mater (2008), Qohelet (2013), Stephans-Weihnacht (2019) and Byzantine Requiem (2022).

As a musicologist, he has published widely on the music of the Balkans and the Iberian Peninsula, and Orthodox sacred music. He has contributed to Grove, MGG, the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology and the Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky. His book, Modernism and Orthodox Spirituality in Contemporary Music, was published in 2014, and he is currently engaged on a number of research projects dealing with music in the Mediterranean and the Balkans. He is a research fellow at Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Musical Aesthetics at Nova University, Lisbon, and a priest of the Orthodox Church.

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