This Month — Venetian Baroque
7pm, Saturday, March 22 — Portland Art Museum Venetian Baroque: Galuppi + Vivaldi + Bortniansky CAPPELLA ROMANA, PORTLAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA at the PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, conducted by Mark Bailey. Grand scale and rarely heard sacred choral works by Baldassare Galuppi, who was Maestro di Cappella at San Marco in Venice as well as at Catherine…
Fanfare Interviews Robert Kyr
Fanfare Magazine has a grand interview with composer Robert Kyr about his new Cappella Romana CD, A Time For Life. Read an excerpt from the interview, “The Joy of Creation” below and visit the Fanfare Archives for the full piece: Fanfare: A Time for Life is one of a number of your pieces inspired by…
Nerd-Out with Cappella Romana’s Passion Week Concert!
Received via email (and shared with permission): “I’ve had a chance to check out the Cappella Romana website. I studied history focusing on ancient and Jewish history (with a little Medieval European history) in college, so I am completely “nerding-out” over the idea that a choir like this exists! I am definitely planning on attending…
Fanfare Reviews “A Time for Life”
Fanfare Magazine has a new review for our Robert Kyr: A Time for Life release: “This is my first exposure to the music of Robert Kyr (born 1952). I hope it not to be my last. The idea of a pan-religious frame of reference to address man’s ecological concerns is an attractive one, and it…
Cappella Romana Invited to Perform at the Utrecht Early Music Festival
CAPPELLA ROMANA Invited to Perform at the Utrecht Early Music Festival Utrecht, Netherlands, September 2014 Cappella Romana is thrilled to announce that the Festival Oudemuziek (Early Music Festival) in Utrecht, Netherlands, has invited Cappella Romana to appear in this year’s festival on September 7, 2014 (oudemuziek.nl). The program will be “The Fall of Constantinople,” directed…
Fanfare Magazine Reviews Arctic Light
New “Feature Review” in Fanfare Magazine for our latest release, Arctic Light: Finnish Orthodox Music: “The music on this release—all of it a cappella and all polyphonic—includes what is, to these rather novice ears, some of the most adventurous music built on the Orthodox traditions. … One has only to hear the decidedly lush, late-Romantic…
Audiophile Audition calls Tikey Zes: Divine Liturgy a “Recording of the Highest Quality”
In a four-star review, Audiophile Audition calls new release, The Divine Liturgy, “An important … recording of the highest quality.” “Cappella Romana is the foremost ensemble in the United States promoting the heritage of Byzantine chant, and one of the finest in the world as well. … It’s not Super Audio format but it is…
RSVP for FREE Los Angeles Cappella Romana Performance!
Spend an Evening in Los Angeles, California with Cappella Romana! Cappella Romana to perform at the Loyala Marymount University Huffington Ecumenical Institute Loyola Marymount University’s Huffington Ecumenical Institute is hosting a symposium to examine the heritage of East and West liturgical music. Lectures, workshops,worship and fellowship are included in the program. From the Rising of…
Now Available on CD: Arctic Light!
New Release — Arctic Light: Finnish Orthodox Music Directed by the Very Rev. Ivan Moody, composer, Orthodox priest, and professor of church music at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu. While Orthodoxy was the earliest form of Christianity to reach Finland, its music was initially drawn from the rich Slavic tradition, subsequently adapted into the…
New Arctic Light Track on SoundCloud — Paschal Exaposteilarion No. 2
Have a listen to a new track from our Arctic Light recording and Pre-Order before the release on Tuesday! Pre-Order on Amazon!
Fanfare Magazine reviews Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium and Live in Greece!
A double-feature Fanfare review by J.F. Weber features our LIVE IN GREECE and Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium recordings. Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium “The chants for these two services come from a variety of sources in or close to the 14th century, including works by such well-known composers as John Koukouzeles and Manuel Chrysaphes.…
Fanfare Interviews Tikey Zes about his new Divine Liturgy Recording
New interview with Divine Liturgy composer, Tikey Zes by Ronald Grames of Fanfare Magazine: “If one composer stands at the forefront of Greek Orthodox music in America, it would likely be Dr. Tikey Zes…” … RG: So, what is it about music for the Greek Orthodox church that especially appeals to you? TZ: It is…
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