Category: Tour
Meet Owen Rees’s ensemble Contrapunctus
Meet upcoming guest conductor Owen Rees’s ensemble Contrapunctus: Coupling powerful interpretations with path-breaking scholarship, Contrapunctus presents music by the best known composers as well as unfamiliar masterpieces. Contrapunctus grew from the vocal ensemble A Capella Portuguesa, in recognition of the group’s broadening repertoire, and its dedication to the music of composers from various nations including…
Owen Rees Conducts David Bednall’s “Welcome All Wonders”
Get a preview of upcoming Eastertide guest-conductor Owen Rees from his recording of composer David Bednall’s new work Welcome All Wonders with The Choir of the Queen’s College, Oxford: Renaissance Easter In Spain and PortugalDirected by Owen Rees (The Queen’s College Oxford, Contrapuntus) Portland:8pm, Friday, April 12, St. Mary’s CathedralTickets Seattle:8pm, Saturday, April 13, Holy…
Looking Ahead – Renaissance Easter in Spain and Portugal
Coming next from Cappella Romana: Owen Rees Renaissance Easter In Spain and PortugalDirected by Owen Rees (The Queen’s College Oxford, Contrapuntus) Experience the feast of the Resurrection through the lens of soaring polyphonic motets by the great Spanish and Portuguese composers Francisco Guerrero, Duarte Lobo, and Tomás Luis de Victoria. Dr. Owen Rees, making his…
Cappella Romana Stanford Residency – This Weekend
This weekend: The Northwest-based vocal ensemble Cappella Romana offers two quite distinct programs and experiences in two venues. At Bing Concert Hall, in collaboration with faculty in Art & Art History and the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Cappella Romana performs Byzantine Chant and contemporary works amid acoustics electronically enhanced to…
Get a look at Bing Concert Hall
February 1st, Cappella Romana will perform in Stanford University’s all-new Bing Concert Hall (just opened this past weekend)! Cappella Romana will perform the “From Constantinople to California” program amid acoustics electronically enhanced to simulate the lush resonances of the ancient Hagia Sophia cathedral in Istanbul, Turkey in collaboration with faculty in Art & Art History and the…
Cappella Romana 21st Season Opener – Santiago De Compostela
Santiago De Compostela: Medieval Latin Chant for St. James Marcel Pèrés Directed by Marcel Pèrés (Ensemble Organum. Moissac, France) Marcel Pèrés makes his Cappella Romana début directing an all-male chant ensemble in a program of medieval Latin hymnody for St. James. The ensemble will sing directly from facsimiles of the Codex Calixtinus, the medieval manuscript…
From Constantinople to California – Program Notes Part Two
The Eastern Roman Empire—commonly called “Byzantium” after the ancient name of its capital Constantinople — not only survived the downfall of Rome by a millennium, but also created a musical tradition that remains both alive and influential today. In From Constantinople to California Cappella Romana will follow this tradition from its medieval origins to contemporary Los…
Concert Program Notes for “From Constantinople to California” Concert Series – Part One
The Eastern Roman Empire—commonly called “Byzantium” after the ancient name of its capital Constantinople — not only survived the downfall of Rome by a millennium, but also created a musical tradition that remains both alive and influential today. In From Constantinople to California Cappella Romana will follow this tradition from its medieval origins to contemporary Los…
From Constantinople to California
Cappella Romana presents their upcoming LIVE IN GREECE recording program in a Memorial Day Weekend Series: Friday, May 25 – 7pmEncino Presbyterian ChurchLos Angeles, CAhttp://firstpresencino.org Saturday, May 26 – 4pmSt. Sophia Greek Orthodox CathedralLos Angeles, CAhttp://dacamera.org Program: PART I Hierarchical Entrance Rite for a Byzantine Divine Liturgy Anon. (c. 1450)1. Introit for Sundays2. Hymn of…
Meet John Vergin
May 18-20 during the Be Radiant, O Peoples! tour, Cappella Romana will premiere a new work by composer John Vergin. John Vergin has more than a history of composition with Cappella Romana — he’s also been a Cappella Romana singer! Cappella Romana’s Christmas recording When Augustus Reigned also featured Cappella Romana performing his music. John…
Be Radiant, O Peoples!
Working under Muslim rule in and around Jerusalem during the 8th century AD, St. John of Damascus—defender of icons, theologian, poet and musician—composed a radiant hymn for Easter Sunday morning, his Paschal Canon. Over the centuries his joyful verses praising the Resurrection of Christ have been adapted to countless languages and musical styles across a…
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