Caroling at Pioneer Courthouse Square
Caroling at Pioneer Courthouse Square: Here a Greek carol from Thrace “Christ is born” (sung in Greek and English for the first verse, and in English thereafter in a translation-in-progress by Mark Powell). With thanks to Ioannis Arvanitis for sharing this carol with us.
Cappella Romana sings Christmas Carols at Pioneer Courthouse Square
Christmas Carols on Wednesday, 10 December Cappella Romana sings at Pioneer Courthouse Square Wednesday, 10 December, 5:00pm Pioneer Courthouse Square: SW 6th & Yamhill FREE Stop by Pioneer Courthouse Square to enjoy a selection of Christmas carols, featuring especially selections by the late Orthodox composer Richard Toensing (recorded on the CD “Kontakion on the Nativity”).…
Handel’s Messiah — Notes by John Butt
Messiah The libretto that the irascible Charles Jennens sent to Handel at some point in the summer of 1741 was not in itself an extraordinary document within the Christian tradition. After all, the Gospels and Epistles already made ample reference to the way in which the New Testament was foretold in the Old, and this tradition…
BBC Radio 4 Features Alexander Lingas
BBC Radio 4 interviews Cappella Romana artistic director Alexander Lingas in the second episode of the series, Byzantium Unearthed, and Cappella Romana can be heard in the opening of the first episode as well as throughout! Click below to listen to Episode Two; Alexander Lingas comes in around 15:00 mark:
The #Unselfie Movement — Adam Steele
Cappella Romana singer Adam Steele, a graduate of Pacific University and Portland State University, recently received a prestigious International Conductors Exchange Program fellowship from the American Choral Director’s Association to represent the art of American choral conducting in Sweden in the Fall of 2015. Adam is one of just two conductors chosen from the NW…
The #Unselfie Movement — Spiro Antonopoulos
Cappella Romana singer Spiro Antonopoulos recently completed his doctoral studies on the fifteenth century composer and theorist Manuel Chrysaphes, working at City University London under the direction of Cappella Romana Artistic Director Dr. Alexander Lingas. This past June Spiro traveled to Thessalonica, Greece for field work on a project titled Bodies and Spirits: Soundscapes of Byzantine Thessaloniki, which…
The #Unselfie Movement — Mark Powell
Cappella Romana singer and executive director Mark Powell and his family share a love for music. Mark holds degrees in music from Seattle Pacific University and the University of Washington, and his wife Brigid Kathleen earned her music education and performance degree at Western Washington University. Brigid teaches music and physical education at Agia Sophia…
The #Unselfie Movement — Maria Karlin
Cappella Romana singer Maria Karlin holds a degree from the University of Oregon. In early October she gave birth to her first child, Stellan! These first few weeks have been “lovely, and exciting, and wild, and tiring, and the most beautiful thing I’ve ever done. He’s already very independent, curious and, of course, vocal!” Maria is the…
The #Unselfie Movement — Kristen Buhler
Cappella Romana singer Kristen Buhler is a graduate of George Fox University and Portland State University. This Fall marks Kristen’s 11th year as an itinerant Teacher of Visually Impaired Students at Northwest Regional ESD in Hillsboro, where she teaches braille, daily living skills, and assistive technology to students aged birth-21. She recently co-authored a national braille…
Cappella Romana Thank You Notes
Cappella Romana Executive Director Mark Powell writes his Thanksgiving Thank You Notes: Join the #GivingTuesday movement by making a gift to Cappella Romana on or before December 2nd. Giving Tuesday, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, is a global movement born in 2012 to shine a light on giving back. It’s a holiday designed to rival Black…
Cappella Romana singer Kerry McCarthy wins major award!
Cappella Romana singer Kerry McCarthy, a graduate of Reed College and Stanford University, recently returned to Portland, OR after 11 years of teaching music history at Duke University. She is known for her work on early English music, and has just been awarded the 2014 ASCAP Nicolas Slonimsky Outstanding Musical Biography Award for her book…
Save the Date — #GivingTuesday
SAVE THE DATE! After Two Days of Shopping, #GivingTuesday is a day to give back December 2nd, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, is Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday is a global movement born in 2012 to shine a light on giving back. Make a gift to Cappella Romana by December 2nd. It is a holiday designed to…
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