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Musical Style and Tradition in American Orthodox Churches: Chant and Polyphony
This webinar, “Musical Style and Tradition in American Orthodox Churches,” was hosted by Fordham University’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center in a co-presentation with Cappella Romana. For centuries differences in musical style – especially the distinction between chant (unadorned melody) and polyphony (music sung in multiple parts) – have served Orthodox Christians as aural badges of…
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Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: Music for Easter Sunday
Welcome to the fourth playlist from the archives of Cappella Romana, we turn to music celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday, a feast called ‘Pascha’ in Greek and Slavonic. As a way of offering you my own seasonal greetings, I am concluding this week’s list with a choral setting of this hymn that…
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Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377) Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame (c. 1360-65) began to attract great interest during the 20th century. It is the first mass composed for four voices with a known composer, and as such, it is widely considered to mark the beginning of a new musical era. In addition, Machaut himself…
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Kassia
Kassia Music for Lent by the World’s Earliest Female Composer Cappella Romana John Michael Boyer, Interim Music Director SEATTLE Fri 5 March 2027, 7:30 PMSt. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church2100 Boyer Ave E Seattle, WA 98112 PORTLAND Sat 6 March 2027, 2:00 PMSt. Mary’s Cathedral1739 NW Couch St Portland, OR 9720 Born in ninth-century Constantinople, Kassia the…
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Sacro Monteverdi: Vox Luminis
Special Guest Concert Sacro Monteverdi Vox Luminis Belgium Lionel MeunierFounder & Director The world-renowned ensemble Vox Luminis from Belgium makes its Pacific Northwest début! Their singers and period instrument ensemble perform rapturous sacred works by Claudio Monteverdi. Monteverdi’s collection Selva morale e spirituale (The Virtuous and Spiritual Forest) forms the trunk of this program. Cappella Romana’s own Mark Powell…
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Cappella Romana Premieres
Access Cappella Romana’s Premieres Program! Discover “a sound world of unique beauty” (Gramophone) with Cappella Romana: music of transcendence. Through our “Premieres Program”, live-recorded videos of Cappella Romana’s 2025-26 Pacific Northwest Season Concerts will be made available for purchase for your on-demand enjoyment. Hope and Light Mystical Chamber Music by Arvo Pärt, Tikey Zes, and…
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Byzantine Christmas: Sun of Justice – Taking the Journey
The ecclesiastical feast day celebrating the Nativity of Jesus Christ – which came to be called simply “Christ’s Mass,” or “Christmas” in English – was added to the calendar in the Eastern Church somewhat later than other major feasts. Originally, Christ’s Nativity and Baptism were celebrated on the same day: Epiphany (January 6). Much has…
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Byrd Ensemble – Spanish Music for the House of Habsburg
SPANISH MUSIC FOR THE HOUSE OF HABSBURG A musical exploration of the Habsburg dynasty, featuring Spanish music written for monarchs Charles V and Philip II PROGRAM Tomás Luis de VICTORIA – Requiem Mass Introitus: Requiem aeternam Kyrie Gradual Offertory Sanctus & Benedictus Agnus Dei I, II & III Communion: Lux aeterna Versa est in luctum…
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Portland Gala Speakers Announced!
RSVP today for A Night on the Aegean! Purchase tickets online or call 503.236.8202 RSVPs welcome as long as space is available or until Sept. 19th Portland Gala Guest Speakers: Fr. John Bakas Dean of the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Los Angeles, CA Founder of Camp AGAPE ‘Kids ‘n Cancer’ program President of the…
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Passion for Life
Passion for Life Steinberg & Gretchaninov, Survivors of the Soviet Regime Cappella RomanaAlexander Lingas, music director Oregon ArtsWatch Preview Banned, buried, and resurrected: Orthodox hymns for Holy Week that survived the Stalinist machine, brought to life in the deeply moving Passion Week settings by Maximilian Steinberg and Alexander Gretchaninov. Cappella Romana’s world premiere of Steinberg’s Passion…
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Ukrainian-American Artist Mary Chomenko Hinckley to Display Artworks at Portland Concert
Mary Chomenko Hinckley, a first generation Ukranian-American, works in bronze, resin, glass, paint and photography. Her investigations create a colorful dialogue between nature and civilization and time and place. She is Portland-based. At the Portland concert of Christmas in Ukraine, you’ll have the chance to see three of her works up-close, including life-size urban coyotes…
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Ivor Gurney: “Since I Believe”
Choir & Organ Magazine has a wonderful feature on the recent publication of Ivor Gurney’s Since I Believe in God the Father Almighty Motet. Cappella Romana is excited to be giving the North American premiere performance on our They Are At Rest series November 9 and 11, 2018: “Composed in June 1925, the motet for…
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