Announcing Cappella Romana’s 2023-24 Season

Cappella Romana is pleased to announce its 32nd Annual Season in Portland and Seattle. The 2023-24 Season offers concert experiences unlike any others. Under the leadership of Music Director and Founder Alexander Lingas, this season will span from traditional to experimental, from transcendent majesty to profound intimacy and tenderness. This is music that can change your life. This music is for you.

Season highlights include music by one of the most important female composers of Orthodox music, Galina Grigorjeva, with music by her fellow Estonian Arvo Pärt. You’ll be swept away by Byzantine masterpieces from Asia Minor and enjoy a festive Christmas concert during the Twelve Days of Christmas! The Tallis Scholars return to our series with spectacular music from Renaissance England. And in February, during Black History Month, we are launching a new annual event, Black Voices in Orthodox Music, to explore the compelling and surprising relationships between African American and Orthodox sacred musical culture. 

This season, Cappella Romana offers all new Flex Passes rather than the traditional subscription in order to simplify our offerings to make attending as easy as possible. You can choose any concerts you like–even repeat concerts if you prefer.

This powerful music is for you. ODES OF
REPENTANCE Cappella Romana opens its 32nd season with music for healing, for growth – for transformation. Featuring the North American premiere of Vespers by Ukrainian-Estonian composer Galina Grigorjeva and the transcendent Kanon of Repentance by Arvo Pärt. TICKETS & INFORMATION Sept 29, 30 Oct 1 This music of survival is for you. OUT OF THE ASHES OF SMYRNA The refugees of the 1922 burning of Smyrna (İzmir) brought Asia Minor’s traditions of Byzantine chant to Greece and all over the world. This memory of what was lost echoes today in these chants, infused with irrepressible exuberance and eternal hope. Tickets & Information NOV 10, 11, 12 This Christmas concert is for you. THE TWELVE DAYS OF
CHRISTMAS
IN THE EAST Cappella Romana celebrates the season in a joyful program of chants, hymns, and carols of Christmastide from the Eastern Orthodox tradition. From medieval Byzantine chant to new choral works by contemporary composers. Tickets & Information DEC 29 & 30 This music of “bright sadness” is for you. HOW SWEET
THE SOUND African American composers, poets, and hymnographers join Cappella Romana, Derrick McDuffey & Kingdom Sound to explore the links between African American and Orthodox sacred music. From Orthodox hymns based on African American spirituals to a jazz- and Gospel-infused Vespers. Tickets & Information FEB 9, 10 This music of magnificence is for you. IN YOU, O WOMAN
FULL OF GRACE The faithful have venerated the Virgin Mary through song since the earliest days of Christianity, and ancient and modern composers from the Greek and Slavic traditions alike join all generations in calling her the blessed Mother of God. Tickets & Information MAR 8, 9, 10 TALLIS
SCHOLARS This music of transcendence is for you. The world-renowned Tallis Scholars return to our series with resplendent choral music for Lent and Easter from Renaissance masters. Tallis’ and Byrd’s settings for the Passion and Resurrection come alive through the ensemble’s peerless artistry. Tickets & Information APR 18, 19 A UKRAINIAN
WEDDING Join Us. This music is for you. Cappella Romana presents a benefit concert to make possible a new recording of the A Ukrainian Wedding program to be released in 2025. Tickets & Information MAY 17–19