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Beauty, Knowledge, Transcendence.
With Your Support, Cappella Romana Brings These Things To The World As we mark our 25th Anniversary this year, Cappella Romana is taking bold steps to bring you more of the unusual and beautiful music you love from the sacred traditions of New and Old Rome. And now, we need your help. Would you make
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Mark Powell named as full-time Executive Director
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 10, 2016 Contact: Mark Powell, Executive Director 503-236-8202 / mark@cappellaromana.org Mark Powell Named as Full-Time Executive Director PORTLAND, OR — Cappella Romana’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Powell as its full-time Executive Director effective April 17, 2016. The Board’s action comes with the fullest confidence
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Tallis Scholars
Tallis Scholars Mysteries and Miracles The Tallis ScholarsPeter Phillips, director Experience the wonder of miracles through music that stirs the soul. Tracing the life of Christ, from the mystery of his birth to his radiant resurrection, hear storms calmed and demons cast out in vivid motets. Two of Arvo Pärt’s modern masterpieces complete the program,
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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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Christmas With Cappella
Christmas With Cappella Music for the 12 Days of Christmas A Seattle Times Must-See Holiday Concert! Cappella RomanaAlexander Lingas, music director Let your holiday spirit soar with Cappella Romana’s beloved Christmas concert, featuring selections of Richard Toensing’s moving Kontakion on the Nativity of Christ and music by Kassianí, the earliest female composer whose music survives. Plus
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Hope and Light
Hope and Light Mystical Chamber Music by Arvo Pärt, Tikey Zes, and More Cappella Romana Soloists45th Parallel UniverseAlexander Lingas, music director In Arvo Pärt’s transcendent Stabat Mater and Tikey Zes’s luminous Hymn of Kassianí, voices and strings are united in their mystical vision of compassion and redemption. Other works open a window into the eternal, including
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Living Memories
Living Memories North American Premiere of The Last Anthem By Dimitris Skyllas Cappella Romana45th Parallel UniverseAlexander Lingas, music director The Last Anthem by rising star Dimitris Skyllas gives voice to memories too important to be forgotten. Co-commissioned by Cappella Romana with the İstanbul Festival, The Last Anthem remembers those caught in the “Exchange of Populations” between
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Mass Appeal
Mass Appeal In Collaboration with Portland Youth Philharmonic Cappella RomanaPortland Youth Philharmonic CamerataDavid Hattner, guest conductor Brace yourself for a sonic experience that stirs the soul and lifts the roof. Stravinsky’s Mass is bold, modern, cool—utterly mesmerizing. Bruckner’s Mass answers with lush, soaring harmonies and awe-inspiring grandeur, featuring double choir, reeds, and brass. Performed in collaboration with
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Oregon ArtsWatch: “For prayer, in performance”
Thank you to Daryl Browne and ArtsWatch for the fantastic preview of our Frank La Rocca: Requiem for the Forgotten concert series (March 28-30, 2025): “Two choirs will be on “display” at Cappella Romana’s upcoming concert series on March 28 (in Seattle), and March 29 and 30 (in Portland). The first choir, The Benedict Sixteen, is
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Requiem for the Forgotten
Frank La Rocca (b. 1951) Requiem For The Forgotten with Josef Rheinberger’s Mass for Double Choir DIGITAL PREMIERE Available on-demand now Cappella Romana+ 45th Parallel Universe Richard SparksGuest Conductor Requiem for the Forgotten by Frank La Rocca for choir, organ, and strings commemorates the displaced and the homeless, championing the inherent dignity of every person. The
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Lusitano: Black Composers of the Renaissance
Marian Consort Sings Lusitano: Black Composer of the Renaissance The Marian Consort United Kingdom Rory McCleeryFounder & Director Embark on a journey to 16th-century Portugal with music by Vicente Lusitano (1520–1561), the first published Black composer. The Marian Consort (UK) is the world’s leading ensemble for the music of Lusitano, led by Alexander Lingas’s good friend Rory
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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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