Editor

Vladimir Morosan is one of the leading experts in the West in the field of Orthodox liturgical music. He is Founder and President of Musica Russica, a publishing company specializing in the publication and dissemination of Orthodox choral music throughout the Western world. He is also the creator and director of the “Orthodox Sacred Music Reference Library” Project, the largest online library of Orthodox music and reference materials. As Founder and Artistic Director of Archangel Voices, a professional-level choral ensemble, he has recorded six CDs of Orthodox liturgical music in English; he is also the composer and editor of numerous choral arrangements. He serves as Project Lead for music editing and online instruction for the Department of Liturgical Music of the Orthodox Church in America. A tonsured reader in the Orthodox Church, he currently serves as Director of Liturgical Singing at St. Katherine Orthodox Church in Carlsbad, California.

Associate Editor

Dn Harrison Russin is the Prokofiev Assistant Professor of Liturgical Music at St Vladimir’s Seminary, as well as the Director of Music at the Seminary and Associate Dean for Residential Life. Dr Russin has a Ph.D. in historical musicology from Duke University and has published and lectured internationally on medieval and renaissance music. He is also an active church musician, directing three choirs at St Vladimir’s Seminary, and teaching courses in singing, reading, music theory, composition, and conducting. Dn Harrison and his wife Mat. Gabrielle live at St Vladimir’s Seminary in Crestwood, New York.

Associate Editor

Kurt Sander is a composer, Orthodox Church musician, and professor at Northern Kentucky University. Sander’s sacred choral works had been performed by professional ensembles throughout the world including Cappella Romana (Portland), the Kastalsky Choir (Russia), and the Clarion Choir (New York). In 2017, he received a commission by the Patriarch Tikhon Russian-American Music Institute (PaTRAM)  for a new English-language setting of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. The recording of this work was nominated for a Grammy in 2020 under the "Best Choral Album" category. In 2024, a version of this work in Church Slavonic was released by the Moscow-based Canticum Festum.

In addition to his choral compositions, Sander has also acquired notoriety for his chamber and orchestral writing. He was recently named a finalist in the American Prize for his song cycle "Ella's Song" about the life of St. Elizabeth, Grand Duchess of Russia. Other instrumental works have been performed by the Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, the Brasov Philharmonic (Romania), and the St. Petersburg Quartet.

​Sander currently serves as Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Theory and Composition at Northern Kentucky University. He holds degrees in composition from Northwestern University, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Cleveland State University where he studied with Bain Murray, Alan Stout, Rudolph Bubalo, and Andrew Imbrie.

Managing Editor

Mikel Hill is a priest of the Orthodox Church, the managing editor of St. Tikhon’s Monastery Press, and a member of the monastery’s music faculty, for which he teaches music history. He has performed professionally as a tenor in a wide range of ensembles and musical traditions. Before his ordination, Fr Mikel served for many years as a parish choir director and cantor, both in the Antiochian Archdiocese and the OCA. He also enjoys playing piano, organ, violin, cello, viol da gamba, and mandolin. Fr. Mikel is active as a composer of chamber music and recently completed a song cycle for soprano, baritone, piano, cello, and flute. An avid historian of the late Victorian period, Fr. Mikel is completing a monograph on the life and work of the Russian-born American choral conductor Ivan Gorokhov. He is a member of the American Musicological Society and the Society of Christian Scholarship in Music, for which he has presented several papers. Fr Mikel also enjoys fine woodworking, 19th-century literature, traveling to England any chance that comes his way, and a good cup of coffee. Fr. Mikel, his wife Rachel, and their five children have lived at St. Tikhon’s Monastery since 2018.