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Cappella Romana 2025–26 Season
It’s About Time As Founder and Musical Director of the vocal ensemble Cappella Romana, it brings me great joy to introduce It’s About Time, our 2025–2026 season of concerts in the Pacific Northwest. Traversing time and space, we perform music ranging in mood from quiet contemplation to joyful ecstasy, capped off by a return visit from our amazing
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“The Green Patriarch,” Cappella Romana, And a Time For life
Before climate change became a pressing item on the global agenda, signs of human abuse of the natural environment had prompted efforts in religious communities throughout the world to recover spiritually grounded notions of human stewardship within creation. For Orthodox Christianity, this process began in earnest during the second half of the tenure of His
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Arctic Light — This Weekend
Portland 8pm, Fri., Jan. 17, St. Mary’s Cathedral Seattle 8pm, Sat., Jan. 18, St. Joseph’s Parish Arctic Light Back by popular demand, this sumptuous program of choral works from the Orthodox Church of Finland was first performed in 2008. The music marries a shining Northern clarity of sound with the sonic richness of the
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Fanfare Interviews Tikey Zes about his new Divine Liturgy Recording
New interview with Divine Liturgy composer, Tikey Zes by Ronald Grames of Fanfare Magazine: “If one composer stands at the forefront of Greek Orthodox music in America, it would likely be Dr. Tikey Zes…” … RG: So, what is it about music for the Greek Orthodox church that especially appeals to you? TZ: It is
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Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: The Akáthistos & Great Lent
Although the Coronavirus crisis is temporarily preventing our wonderful artists from gathering to sing for you, I will be creating a series of playlists featuring music taken not only from Cappella Romana’s commercially released CDs, but also from our archive of live recordings. This, my first playlist, features selections from two services of the Byzantine
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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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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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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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The History of the Remembrance Poppy
During Cappella Romana’s They Are At Rest performances in Seattle (Nov. 9) and Portland (Nov. 11), the singers will be wearing poppies supplied by the American Legion – and will make them available to audience members – so we thought we’d look back at the “History of the Poppy” as set out by the Royal
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Cappella Romana and Third Angle New Music share historic downtown workspace
PORTLAND, OR— The sounds of music, from medieval chant to math rock, are ringing out from a single set of offices in the Gus J. Solomon U.S. Courthouse in Portland, Oregon. Third Angle New Music is delighted to announce that it has established its new office in the top floor of the former courthouse, subleased
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SWR2 Broadcasts Konstanz Performance
Germany’s SWR2 will broadcast our performance of The Fall of Constantinople in Konstanz this past September. The live broadcast is set for Saturday, January 14th at 7:05pm (GMT+1). You can also listen on demand via the player below:
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#GivingTuesday
After Two Days of Shopping, #GivingTuesday is a day to give back TODAY is #GivingTuesday! Giving Tuesday is a global movement born in 2012 to shine a light on giving back. It is a holiday designed to rival Black Friday and Cyber Monday: a day to focus on what really matters. Join the movement and
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