PaTRAM’s recording of Kurt Sander’s Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom received a three-page feature in the latest issue (Vol 60, No. 9) of the American Choral Directors Association’s Choral Journal:

“The Reference Recordings album, most excellently sung by PaTram Institute Singers under the direction of Peter Jermihov, has garnered two 2020 GRAMMY® nominations, and deservedly so. It is a sublime recording, which expertly marries gorgeous choral performance with majestic, inspiring choral composition. … Sanders provides cohesion to this lengthy work through the inclusion of melodic and harmonic ties, particularly in the important and numerous “great” and “small” litanies. His melodies are finely crafted, and his harmony…sparkles with expertly placed dissonance and consonance. … The entire work exhibits deep fervor and heartfelt faith. It is conservative in its scope and harmonic language, liturgical and worshipful in purpose, yet somehow conveys the freshness of a contemporary composition.”

—Timothy Michael Powell, Choral Journal