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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…
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