MOIROLÓI | A Lament for the Living

By combining Mozart’s Requiem together with other musical forms of lament, we aim to underline its universal importance and continuing cultural influence in our age. Bringing it together with the Greek moirolói (an antique form of musical lament that is still being practiced), we want to present an extended concert experience, answering the question: how does death sound, not for the dead, but for the living?

MOIROLÓI is drawing inspiration from the danse macabre, the liturgical texts of the Orthodox death service, and the antique Greek moirolόi with its “modern” instrumental and vocal conjugates which are still being played/sung on the mountains of Epirus. The use of vocal isokratis functions as a binding axis of sound between the Catholic and Orthodox liturgy, channeling the ritualistic nature of the Greek moirolói.