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Meet Marcel Pérès
2012-2013 Season opener features guest conductor Marcel Pérès conducting “Santiago De Compostela: Medieval Latin Chant for St. James” in his Cappella Romana debut. Meet this celebrated conductor: “Marcel Pérès, perhaps the greatest iconoclast among the early music performers of his generation, challenges his audience to rethink how we hear musical repertories from the tenth to…
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SB at the 2012 Reading and Leeds Festivals
SB is set to perform at The 2012 Reading and Leeds Festivals. The band will hit the main stage at the Reading Festival on Friday, August 24th and the Leeds Festival on Saturday, August 25th.
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Pre-Order LIVE IN GREECE!
Pre-Order Cappella Romana’s new CD: LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California Pre-release sale (not available in stores until August) Order here online. Free Shippingwhen you make a tax-deductible gift ($25 or more) by June 30. * Add your gift in the shopping cart and use the VOUCHER code: freeship.*Applies to all orders of any of our recordings. In September 2011…
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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…
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Live In Greece has a Release Day!
We released our 2012-2013 schedule earlier this week, but perhaps the most exciting part of the 2012-2013 year is the release of our new CD LIVE IN GREECE! And we can finally let you know when you’ll be able to purchase it — August 1, 2012. So save the date, pre-order on Amazon (soon), etc.!…
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Looking Ahead to the 2012-2013 Cappella Romana Season
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be bringing you information on all of the major concerts during Cappella Romana’s 21st Season! Cappella Romana: 21st Season — 2012-2013 November 2012: Santiago de Compostela – Medieval Latin Chant for St. James featuring guest director Marcel Pérès January 2013: Sergei Rachmaninoff – The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom…
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Cappella Romana Oregon Art Beat segment in its entirety on OPB
The May 10th Oregon Art Beat segment is now available for your viewing in its entirety on the OPB website, and you can watch it right here (the CR segment begins around 8:12): Watch May 10, 2012 on PBS. See more from Oregon Art Beat.
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The Oregonian highlights 2013 Regensburg Festival Appearance
The Oregonian highlights Cappella Romana’s upcoming trip to Regensburg, Germany for the Tage Alter Musik Festival in 2013: “Cappella Romana, the small Portland choir devoted to old and new Orthodox music, has been invited to a prestigious early music festival in Regensburg, Germany. They will perform May 17, 2013, making their German debut. Cappella Romana…
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Leitourgeia ka Qurbana review of Angelic Light: Music from Eastern Cathedrals
Richard Barrett of the Leitourgeia ka Qurbana: Contra den Zeitgeist reviews Angelic Light: Music from Eastern Cathedrals: “The compilation Angelic Light: Music from Eastern Cathedrals is … a demonstration that you actually can just write gorgeouspsounding Western music for Orthodox texts… “There’s an awful lot to like about this recording; it’s a great sampling of…
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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…
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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…
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