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Cappella Romana is hiring!
Open Positions Office Assistant, Part-time Job Title: Office Assistant, Part-timeReports to: Executive DirectorStatus: 20 hrs/week; some up to 30 hrs/week, nonexemptCompensation: c $25/hr based on experienceLocation: In-person, Portland, Oregon (not remote). Description This regularly 20-hour-a-week part-time position will assist Cappella Romana staff with basic office tasks. These include acting as receptionist, printing and mailing tickets, shipping
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Season guide
Fill out the following short form and we’ll send you Cappella Romana’s 2024-25 guide for great music all season long.
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National Endowment for the Arts Awards Major Grant to Cappella Romana for Black Voices in Orthodox Music
Cappella Romana is thrilled to announce a $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for its Black Voices in Orthodox Music series, which in 2025 will feature the Canon for Racial Reconciliation by Nicholas Reeves and Isaac Cates. This grant is under the NEA’s Grants for Arts Projects, tied with My Voice Music
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Liturgical Singing Seminar this weekend!
This Saturday (October 11) at the Church of the Annunciation, Milwaukie, OR, Cappella Romana favorite Mark Bailey will lead an interactive, full-day seminar/workshop focused on the actualization of music in Orthodox Christian worship so as to “enable a comprehensive and elevated liturgical experience through insightful and skilled leadership and participation.” Guest speakers will include His
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Cappella Romana to sing Divine Liturgy in San Jose
Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, San Jose, CA Sunday, September 28, 10:00am The Divine Liturgy, with music composed by Dr. Tikey Zes (as recorded by Cappella Romana) Under the direction of the composer, Dr. Tikey Zes Following the fundraising event for the PAOI in San Francisco on Saturday night, Cappella Romana will sing the Divine
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Out of the Ashes of Smyrna: The Jewell of Asia Minor
Since the 18th century, the city of Smyrna, on the western shores of Asia Minor, was the most important commercial port in the Eastern Mediterranean. Through the early 20th century, both raw materials for industrial textiles as well as agricultural products were exported from Smyrna to the West. The resulting economic prosperity brought diverse populations
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Acoustics of Hagia Sophia at the Ritz Carlton San Francisco
Cappella Romana is one of the featured artists to perform at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, in a gala on September 27 to raise funds for the Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute at Berkeley. The team from Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) will be providing virtual acoustics for the event,
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The Reviews are in for Odes of Repentance
We are so thankful for everyone who attended our 2023-24 Season Opening Concert, Odes of Repentance! And we can’t wait to see everyone again November 10-12, 2023 as John Michael Boyer leads Out of the Ashes of Smyrna! Coming Next – Arvo Pärt: Odes of Repentance – the album edition!
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Singer Spotlight: Catherine van der Salm
Our Singer Spotlight series continues with soprano Catherine van der Salm! What was your first performance with Cappella Romana? I sang my first concerts with Cappella Romana in November 2006, gorgeous Russian music under the direction of Mark Bailey. What Non-Cappella Romana Projects are you excited to share? I love to sing chamber music and new music!
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You can help us reach our $25K goal: Just $3K left to go!
As a student in 1991, I gathered a group of friends to share the beautiful and transformative musical inheritance of Byzantium. Today, over three decades later, Cappella Romana fulfills this mission on a global scale through performances, recordings, publications, and educational initiatives. None of this would have been possible without the generous financial support of
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#ThrowbackThursday — Fall of Constantinople Gramophone Review
Before this weekend’s presentations of The Fall of Constantinople, here’s a look back at Gramophone Magazine’s review of our recording of this repertoire: “English-speaking audiences commonly associate Greek Orthodox plainchant with the music of John Tavener, whose work draws substantially from its ethos. This recording confronts plainchant with the compositions of another Western composer, albeit
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This Weekend — The Fall of Constantinople!
Fri. 29 August: Seattle Tickets Sat. 30 August: Portland Tickets Concerts at 8pm Pre-concert talks at 7pm Program Notes Preview on Oregon Live Review of the recording in Gramophone Buy the recording from CR, iTunes or Amazon Explore the musical legacy of Byzantium just before the ensemble’s European tour! This program has been performed in
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