Music & Arts

Sacred music, Grammy-nominated recordings, and Broadway

With his wife Katya, Alex Lukianov supports Orthodox choral music and the performing arts as a founder, producer, and singer.

PaTRAM Institute

Preserving and performing Orthodox sacred choral music

With his wife Katya, Lukianov’s involvement in sacred music has developed into a substantial organizational commitment. In 2013, he co-founded the Patriarch Tikhon Russian-American Music Institute, widely known as PaTRAM. He serves as its board chairman.

The institute supports Orthodox liturgical singing in English and Church Slavonic through education, training for singers and choir directors, recordings, and performances.

His contributions extend beyond the chairman’s title. In an interview about PaTRAM, Katya described his responsibilities as including strategic planning, selecting recording and concert venues, organizing choirs, coordinating events, and fundraising. She contributes to artistic planning and repertoire, making the institute an expression of their complementary interests.

Gold-covered lectern and lit candles inside an Orthodox church

Recognition from the Recording Academy

2019

Grammy nomination · Best Choral Performance

Chesnokov: Teach Me Thy Statutes

PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, Vladimir Gorbik, conductor.

2020

Grammy nomination · Best Choral Performance

Sander: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

PaTRAM Institute Singers, Peter Jermihov, conductor.

As a singer and producer

On the recordings, and behind them

Executive producer

Three Grammy-nominated albums

The Lukianovs were executive producers on three Grammy-nominated albums.

Singer

Basso profundo

Credited as a basso profundo singer on all of PaTRAM’s recordings, and as a soloist on Blessed Art Thou Among Women.

Most recently

Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil

A soloist on PaTRAM’s Male Choir arrangement of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil.

Tony

2010 · Best Musical

Broadway and philanthropy

Supporting the performing arts

His interests also extend to Broadway. Alex and Katya were among the producers of Memphis, winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best Musical.

Through the Lukianov Family Foundation, the couple has also supported church life and the performing arts. Their shared interests in Orthodox worship, choral music, and the performing arts have become important features of their philanthropic work.

Get in touch

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