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Terms and Conditions
Agreement between User and cappellaromana.org Welcome to cappellaromana.org. The cappellaromana.org website (the “Site”) is comprised of various web pages operated by Cappella Romana (“Cappella Romana”). cappellaromana.org is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the “Terms”). Your use of cappellaromana.org constitutes your agreement to all…
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Cappella Romana returns to Boston with The Byzantine Choral Inheritance
Cappella Romana Returns to Boston WithThe byzantine Choral Inheritance Boston Thursday 16 February 2023, 7:30 P.M.First church, Cambridge Greek Orthodox Music from the old and new worlds From Constantinople to California to Cambridge! Renowned vocal ensemble Cappella Romana will perform The Byzantine Choral Inheritance at First Church in Cambridge, February 16, 7:30pm. Tickets start at…
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Audition for Cappella Romana
Cappella Romana at the Cave of the Apocalypse on the Island of Patmos, 2011 The singers for each Cappella Romana project are chosen from an international pool by the ensemble’s Music Director, Dr. Alexander Lingas, according to the musical demands of the repertoire to be sung. Some programs may feature as few as 4 singers…
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Leadership: Staff and Board
The leadership staff and board of Cappella Romana is comprised of highly talented musicians, artists, professionals, and community members. Get to know us, listen to our recordings, join us at a concert. Mark Powell, Executive Director Mark Powell has served Cappella Romana in multiple capacities, as a singer since 1995, as president of its board…
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Pentecost from the Traditions of Constantinople Program Notes
The J. Paul Getty Villa 17 & 18 May 2014 Cappella Romana Performs Medieval Byzantine Chant Program Pentecost from the Traditions of Constantinople The second part of our program features music for Pentecost, the Sunday fifty days after Easter on which Christians commemorate the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles. The services for…
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Events at City University London
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Louise Gordon, Concerts Manager, +44 (0) 20 7040 8271, louise.gordon.1@city.ac.uk City University Brings ‘Voices of Byzantium’ to London ‘robust and intriguing music’—The Washington Post, 2 DEC. 06‘sung with such strength and commitment’ —Los Angeles Times, 12 DEC. 06 London. [12 February 2009] — In March 2009, the Department of Music at City…
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LIVE IN GREECE Preview
We’ve got a full preview of a track from our upcoming LIVE IN GREECE recording for you today. Take a listen to Frank Desby’s Apolytikion of the Holy Cross via SoundCloud: LIVE IN GREECE Track 7: Apolytikion of the Holy Cross Frank Desby (1922–92) provided much of the impetus in the mid-twentieth century for the…
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Cappella Romana Holy Week in Jerusalem Program Notes – Part Two
Saturday, February 2nd, the day after our (already sold-out) Bing Concert Hall debut, Cappella Romana will perform music composed for 8th and 9th-century celebrations of Holy Week in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher amid the natural acoustics of the Stanford University Memorial Church. Great and Holy Friday in Jerusalem (Part Two) Stanford Memorial Church…
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Cappella Romana 2026–27 Season
Chant Encounters The 2026–27 Season October 16–18, 2026 RACHMANINOFF: ALL NIGHT VIGIL NOVEMBER 13 & 14, 2026 THE TUDOR CHOIR DECEMBER 4–6, 2026 OLD SAINT NICK JANUARY 22 & 23, 2027 EPIPHANY MARCH 5 & 6, 2027 KASSIA MAY 14–16, 2027 TONGUES OF FIRE For 35 years, Cappella Romana has sung the ancient chant traditions…
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Cappella Romana to Perform for Pop-Up Magazine Winter Issue 2019!
A NIGHT OF TRUE STORIES, DOCUMENTARY FILMS, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND RADIO FROM SOME OF OUR FAVORITE WRITERS, PERFORMERS, AND MUSICIANS. UNRECORDED, LIVE ONSTAGE. Cappella Romana, Portland’s professional vocal ensemble dedicated to ancient and modern music of the Christian East and West, will perform at Pop-Up Magazine’s Winter Issue live event. Pop-Up Magazine is self-described as “a…
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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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Rehearsing James MacMillan’s “Videns Dominus”
New Mystics From East & West Our season closes with a program of music by two important modern voices: the Greek Orthodox composer Michael Adamis and Scottish Catholic James MacMillan. The choral works of both composers share a deeply personal quality and a rare devotion to ancient chant: Byzantine for Adamis and Gregorian for MacMillan.…
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