Nicholas Pantelopoulos

Nicholas Pantelopoulos

Certified Instructor, Co-director


Studied Byzantine music with several teachers, in Greece and in Canada. Studied with Michalis Mimaros (student of Theodosius Georgiadis), Athanasios Paivanas (student of Thrasyvoulos Stanitsas), and Mattheos Andreou (student of Emmanuel Vamvoudakis). Under the supervision of Athanasios Paivanas, He was awarded with a diploma in Byzantine Music, issued by the government of Greece (Ministry of Culture).

He has participated in choirs in Greece, and in Canada. Has taught Byzantine Music at the Hellenic Center of Greek Studies and has given private lessons at home.

In April 2016, he organized a three-day Master Class in Byzantine Ecclesiastical Music, hosted by the Montreal Center of Greek Studies, inviting Athanasios Paivanas as a guest speaker to present and analyze, in detail, compositions of master composers of the 17th, 18th up to the 20th C.

Since 2016, he was co-founder, coordinator and prime certified teacher at the School of Ecclesiastical Music of Montreal, under the auspices of the Holy Orthodox Metropolis of Toronto, now, Archdiocese of Canada, Ecumenical Patriarchate.

He was instrumental in the coordination and execution of two major events and seminars held by the School of Ecclesiastical Music of Montreal, “Patriarchal Octoechos –The Ways of Ecclesiastical Music of the Church of Constantinople”, held in 2019, and “Patriarchal Octoechos ’23 –Let Us Rise”, held in 2023.

He is the first cantor of the Greek parish of the Dormition of the Theotokos (Koimisis tis Theotokou), Montreal, since 2013.

Born in Montreal, studied and graduated in Architectural Technology, Vanier College. Travelled to Greece and graduated with a diploma in Theology from the Kapodistrian University of Athens. Back in Canada, graduated with a Master of Arts in Orthodox Theology from the University of Sherbrooke (QC).