Fri, 12 Feb through Sat, 13 Feb 2010
Stevan Hristic: Requiem
Cappella favorite Ivan Moody--composer, conductor and Orthodox priest--returns with a Serbian program featuring a major work by Stevan Hristić, whose music taps his Serbian roots, especially in his moving choral masterpiece Opelo, or Requiem.

Sat, 6 Mar through Sun, 7 Mar 2010
Yale Russian Chorus: The Slavic Spirit
Conducted by Mark Bailey, the Yale Russian Chorus is a tenor-bass a cappella choral ensemble from Yale University specializing in Slavic choral music. Founded in 1953, the YRC is recognized as one of the world’s premier ensembles of Slavic music today.

Fri, 8 Jan through Sat, 9 Jan 2010
A Byzantine Christmas
The virtuoso Byzantine cantor from Athens Achilleas Chaldeakis makes his Cappella Romana directing debut in a program of Byzantine chants for the Christmas season, including ecstatic verses from the Polyeleos for Christmas.

Fri, 6 Nov through Sun, 15 Nov 2009
Renaissance Encounters: Greek East and Latin West
The Renaissance was fed by encounters, both real and imagined, between Western Europeans and Greeks. Hear how Byzantine and Latin musicians of the 15th and 16th centuries captured these cultural meetings in music.   With appearances at Princeton University, Yale University, and the New York series Music Before 1800.

Fri, 7 Aug through Mon, 10 Aug 2009
Arvo Pärt: Odes of Repentance
Cappella Romana offers a selection of Arvo Pärt's English and Slavonic works including Triodion and excerpts of his monumental Kanon Pokajanen. With performances at MusicFest Vancouver and on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada.

Sunday, May 10
A Time for Life
A Time for Life is a bold new work by Robert Kyr that explores one of contemporary society's most critical issues: living in harmony with the environment. World-renowned early music ensemble Medieval Strings joins Cappella Romana for this program.

Monday, May 4, 2009
Byzantium in Rome (Sacramento)
Cappella Romana Vocal Ensemble, Byzantine chant soloists
Alexander Lingas, Artistic Director A breathtaking presentation of Medieval Byzantine Chant sung from manuscripts produced at the Abbey of Grottaferrata in the suburban hills of Rome, which has operated continuously in the Byzantine rite since its founding in 1004, fifty years before the Great Schism. This presentation also bears unique witness to music sung in Constantinople before the Crusader sack of 1204.

Sunday, May 3, 2009
Byzantium in Rome (Stanford)
Cappella Romana Vocal Ensemble, Byzantine chant soloists
Alexander Lingas, Artistic Director A breathtaking presentation of Medieval Byzantine Chant sung from manuscripts produced at the Abbey of Grottaferrata in the suburban hills of Rome, which has operated continuously in the Byzantine rite since its founding in 1004, fifty years before the Great Schism. This presentation also bears unique witness to music sung in Constantinople before the Crusader sack of 1204.

1 May (Portland), 2 May (Seattle), 2009
Byzantium in Rome
Cappella Romana Vocal Ensemble, Byzantine chant soloists
Alexander Lingas, Artistic Director A breathtaking presentation of Medieval Byzantine Chant sung from manuscripts produced at the Abbey of Grottaferrata in the suburban hills of Rome, which has operated continuously in the Byzantine rite since its founding in 1004, fifty years before the Great Schism. This presentation also bears unique witness to music sung in Constantinople before the Crusader sack of 1204.

Saturday, 21 March 2009, 10:30am
"Divine Liturgy in English" at St Sophia London
The Divine Liturgy in English in Byzantine Chant

Saturday, 21 March 2009, 2:45pm
Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium (London)
Cappella Romana presents virtuosic Byzantine chant from medieval manuscripts held at St Catherine’s Monastery, Mt Sinai, Egypt. Previously sung to sold-out audiences at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, this programme features selections from the Vigil for St Catherine and Byzantium’s only liturgical drama: The Service of the Three Children in the Fiery Furnace

Thursday, 19 March 2009, 7:30pm
Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium (Oxford)
Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium. Previously presented to sold-out audiences at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles—which commissioned the programme for its exhibition ‘Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai’—and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, this programme features selections from the Vigil for St Catherine and Byzantium’s only liturgical drama: The Service of the Three Children in the Fiery Furnace.

Saturday, 28 February 2009 (Portland)
The Concord Ensemble - Guest Ensemble
Soon after Cortez overthrew the Aztec empire in 1521, a radical cultural and religious transformation began in the New World. From liturgical music written in European style, to processionals in the plazas where Spanish, Indian, and African cultures were allowed to mix, the Concord Ensemble will highlight multiple facets of a rich musical heritage.

2 January (Portland), 3 January (Seattle), 2009
Kontakion on the Nativity
Hear the world premiere of The Kontakion on the Nativity by American Orthodox composer Richard Toensing. Written for two choirs and soloists a cappella, this setting of the poem by St. Romanos shines mystical light on a familiar story, told by the Magi and the Virgin Mary. Plus popular Orthodox carols and hymns, including Today the Virgin, and Christ is born. Alexander Lingas conducts.   Pre-concert talk at 7pm with the composer Richard Toensing.

17 October (Portland), 18 October (Seattle), 2008
The Heart of Kiev
Ukraine and its capital Kiev were either the point of origin or the gateway leading to a golden age of choral music for the Orthodox Church in Eastern Europe. Slavic music expert and Ukrainian American Mark Bailey (Yale Russian Chorus, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Seminary) returns to lead a program of Ukrainian sacred masterpieces. His last appearance with Cappella Romana, which The Oregonian called “pure, sumptuous pleasure,” sold out in 2006.   Pre-concert talks at 7pm.

16 May (Portland) & 17 May (Seattle) 2008
Cyprus: Between Greek East and Latin West
To this day, the island of Cyprus stands at a crossroads between East and West. Alexander Lingas leads Cappella Romana in an intrepid exploration of 15th- and 16th-century Cypriot music in both Byzantine and Western styles, including virtuosic ars subtilior music composed for the Royal Court of Cyprus (c. 1308-1432) from the manuscript J.II.9 housed at the University of Turin.

11 Jan (Portland) & 12 Jan (Seattle) 2008
Arctic Light: Orthodox Music from Finland
Composer and conductor Ivan Moody returns to direct a program of music only rarely heard outside Finland, music that combines the shining clarity of the northern choral sound with the sonic richness of Russian and Byzantine singing.   Moody was recently named chairman of the International Society for Orthodox Church Music in Joensuu, Finland. Scott Tuomi will give a pre-concert talk at 7pm.