Artist Info: Isaija Srbin

Isaiah the Serb (Serbian: Исаија Србин/Isaija Srbin) was a Serbian Orthodox hieromonk and composer of chants who flourished in the second half of the 15th century. Along with Kir Joakim, Kir Stefan the Serb, Nikola the Serb he faithfully followed Byzantine musical tradition, writing in the late kalophonic style of the 14th and 15th centuries.

Isaiah worked in the Matejče Monastery, near Kumanovo (in modern Macedonia). He was a prolific author of acolouthias (in Old Church Slavonic послѣдованиѥ). [read more...]