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Getty Museum Rehearsals at St. Sophia Cathedral
Have a look and listen to Cappella Romana’s rehearsal day at St. Sophia Cathedral in LA before the weekend’s Byzantine Chant performances at The Getty Museum: https://cappellaromana.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Video-May-15-12-22-27-PM.mp4
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Cappella Romana to be featured on OPB’s Oregon Art Beat
Mark your calendars for Thursday, May 10th! Cappella Romana will be featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Oregon Art Beat at 8pm (PDT). Take a look at a previous appearance by the ensemble on OPB: For more information visit http://www.opb.org/programs/artbeat/!
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Oregon Arts Watch Reviews Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil
Oregon ArtsWatch critic Bob Hicks attended Sunday’s All-Night Vigil concert at St. Mary’s Cathedral and took a visit to an undiscovered country: “And that, it struck me, gets to the true meaning of “classic”: not a time period or a signifier of something ancient and therefore not quite relevant, but something that remains young and…
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5-Star Blu-Ray Review for Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia
Blu-Ray.com gives our Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia Blu-Ray/CD a Five-Star Rating in a review by Jeffrey Kauffman: I’m fortunate to live in Portland, Oregon, where Cappella Romana is based, and I can tell you from personal experience their live concerts are often amazing, even if they’re not, as in this instance, absolutely drenched in…
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Why Is There Water Dripping down My Face? A Night at Pop-Up Magazine.
“my whole body shivered and the tears started up.” Review from the Stranger, Seattle: Still, it wasn’t just the sad stories that triggered crying. Sam Harnett brought along the Cappella Romana choir, a vocal ensemble based in Portland that sings ancient religious chants. The singers were brilliant on their own, but then Harnett told us…
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Northwest Focus Spotlight!
Seattle’s KING FM is highlighting Cappella Romana on the Northwest Focus program Monday-Thursday this week (5/6-5/9/2019). Date Time Music Monday, May 6 8:07pm Attinen: Saata, oi Kristus Tuesday, May 7 9:20pm Plousiadenos: Kontakion for St. Thomas Aquinas Wednesday, May 8 9:04pm Tragodistes: O Great and Most Sacred Pascha Thursday, May 9 8:02pm Zes: Introit to…
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Psaltikon Sings the 9th Ode of the Paschal Canon
Psaltikon is presented by Cappella Romana this May. Click here for more information. Psaltikon: The Day of Resurrection Cappella Romana presents Psaltikon, the Boston-based Byzantine chant ensemble directed by Spyridon Antonopoulos, for a program of celebratory Byzantine chants for Pascha from Medieval Byzantium. Experience the Eastern sibling of Gregorian Chant: Medieval Byzantine Chant, for Easter (Pascha).…
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KING FM Northwest Focus features Lost Treasures of Armenia
In the lead up to our Lost Treasures of Armenia series, Seattle’s KING FM will be previewing the performance on the Northwest Focus program Monday-Thursday this week (1/14-17/2019). Date Time Music Monday, January 14 9:19pm Adamis: Radiant Cloud Tuesday, January 15 8:00pm Dufay: Lamentatio Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae Wed, January 16 9:19pm Zes: Cherubic Hymn…
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Christmas in Ukraine is “a breath of life”
Oregon ArtsWatch‘s Friderike Heuer reviewed the Portland performance of Christmas in Ukraine. “The superb vocal ensemble’s ‘Christmas in Ukraine’ was ancient and modern and a breath of life… Cappella Romana opened its 2018/19 season announcement with the words, “Prepare to be engaged, moved, and inspired.” Consider it done. You could add “an occasional “made breathless” by the sheer beauty of the…
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Cappella Romana Joins PBO for Handel’s Messiah
December 7-10, 2018, Cappella Romana joins Portland Baroque Orchestra in Portland’s only annual production of Handel’s Messiah on period instruments. The performance will feature guest-director and harpsichordist Desmond Earley, soprano Miriam Allan, mezzo-soprano Laura Beckel Thoreson, tenor Nils Neubert, and bass-baritone William Gaunt. Learn more at PBO.org
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The SunBreak Reviews “They Are At Rest”
Portland’s Cappella Romana stepped away from its usual programming of Orthodox chant Friday night to sing a concert of music remembering the Armistice of 1918 and what it meant to the survivors. This was not by any means a rejoicing for the Armistice, but nor was it one of sorrow and anguish for the dead and wounded…Rather it was…
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Oregon Arts Watch Review for “A Song of Creation”
Cappella Romana’s performance…was an electrifying, bristlingly intense superabundance of laser-beam monody and…florid counterpoint in the Eastern Orthodox style. … Here, the modern music was a vivid variety of sacred choral music by contemporary composers Matthew Arndt, John Michael Boyer, Alexander Khalil, Kurt Sander, Richard Toensing, and Tikey Zes. The six composers, according to the program,…
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