Taste of Byzantium Sold Out!
Saturday’s fundraiser concert A Taste of Byzantium has officially sold out, so we wanted to let you know and give you a hearty THANK YOU! For those that are coming, we’re featuring some of the silent auction items on our Facebook Page, so make sure to check back all week! Here are links to a…
More on Ensemble Organum and Marcel Peres
About Ensemble Organum’s last record: Requiem of Divitis (16th century) For thirty years now, the vocal ensemble Organum has slowly but surely, far from the eye of the public at large, pieced together a veritable history of the singing of sacred music. With this new disc, Organum adds yet another layer to the knowledge of…
About Ensemble Organum
We are very excited about our upcoming concert featuring Marcel Pérès, so we wanted to share a little about his own ensemble — Ensemble Organum! The Organum Ensemble was founded in 1982 by Marcel Pérès at Sénanque Abbay (France) and has been supported since 1984 by the Fondation Royaumont. The Ensemble develops programmes which combine…
Oregon Arts Watch Reviews Choral Glory
Photo courtesy of Oregon ArtsWatch Oregon ArtsWatch with a review of our recent collaboration with the Portland Baroque Orchestra — Choral Glory! “It didn’t take long for this new Oregon classical music season to produce the first truly great performance I’ve heard this fall. Friday night’s concert featuring the superb Portland choir Cappella Romana and…
Coming Soon – Santiago De Compostela
We’re only a month away from the start of the 2012-2013 Season as Marcel Pérès makes his Northwest and Cappella Romana debut directing an all-male chant ensemble in a program of medieval latin hymnody for St. James, sung directly from facsimilies of the Codex Calixtinus. This is the medieval manuscript that was only recently recovered…
A “Look” at the Coming Concerts
The scores arrived in the mail today from France for the Vespers of St James program. These photos include the first few bars of the first known composition for three voices, the conductus ‘Congaudeant catholici’ (Let all Catholics rejoice together): All the cool cats (from Greece) are coming to A Taste of Byzantium (this framed…
Oregon Days of Culture feature Cappella Romana Hagia Sophia Performance
Oregon Days of Culture and the Portland Tribune & Community Newspapers have a wonderful feature on the upcoming Stanford Residency concerts and the “Icons of Sound” project highlighting “The Sounds of Hagia Sophia.” Heavenly Experience: Vocal chamber ensemble Cappella Romana performs from Portland to Stanford to Greece “It is said that when the Slavic people…
Last Day for Taste of Byzantium Discount!
Today is the last day to register for the “A Taste of Byzantium and the Sounds of Hagia Sophia” concert at a discount! Register at $100/person today, or $125/person afterwards. Click here to register! Saturday, November 3, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Presenting Stanford University’s Icons of Sound project, a Virtual Performance in 1000 A.D.…
Good Seats Still Available for Choral Glory
Good Seats are still available for Cappella Romana’s concert “Choral Glory” with the Portland Baroque Orchestra! PBO and Cappella Romana join forces again under the direction of Monica Huggett with masterpieces for orchestra and voices by Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. Don’t miss out on this glorious season opening. Get your tickets today! Choral Glory was…
Gapplegate Classical-Modern Reviews LIVE IN GREECE
Grego Applegate Edwards Classical-Modern Music Review Blog features new Cappella Romana release LIVE IN GREECE, and ends with quite the statement: “This is music of endless fascination, performed with impeccable attention to detail. Cappella Romana live up to their reputation as the foremost representatives of the Byzantine choral tradition.” Read the full review on classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.ca…
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