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Pre-Order Sun of Justice: Byzantine Chant for Christmas!
Order Now Sun of Justic: Byzantine Chant for Christmas in Greek, Arabic, and English OPEN FOR PRE-ORDERS! SHIPS ON RELEASE DAY DECEMBER 8, 2017 Cappella Romana Media combines passion with scholarship in its exploration of early and contemporary music of the Christian East and West. A Holiday Record Unlike Any Other Disc 1: Traditional Chants…
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Venice in the North Previews
Preview works on this weekend’s (April 28-30) Venice in the North program with videos from Cappella Romana performances at the 2016 Utrecht Early Music Festival: Venice in the North Cappella Romana first performed “Venice in the North” at the 2016 Early Music Festival in Utrecht (Netherlands). Make your April complete with this remarkable music! An…
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Venice in the North
Following the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the peoples of Russia and Ukraine began to look to the West not only for trading partners, but also for political, intellectual and artistic models. The Westernization of northern Slavic societies rooted in Byzantine traditions of governance and religion accelerated during the tumultuous seventeenth century, which saw…
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Mark Powell: A Passion for Pärt
I was in college in 1988. At some point that year I made one of my reasonably frequent visits to the Tower Records near the Space Needle in Seattle. In the Classical Room (remember those!?) there was some amazing music playing, and I stood in silence not really knowing what I was hearing, but intuitively…
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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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Latin Music in Cyprus
Literary witnesses to the cultivation of music by the French kings of Cyprus are found in a variety of sources, but nearly all of the surviving music associated with the Lusignan court is contained in a single manuscript: Torino Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria J.II.9. This remarkable document was, according to Karl Kügle (2012), evidently copied between…
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Ivan Moody To Give Pre-Concert Lecture
Pre-Concert Talks: Meet Ivan Moody One hour prior to each concert, guest director Ivan Moody will present a brief talk on the program, and will be available to sign his recent book and CDs (a selection will be available for purchase). Rev. Dr. Ivan Moody is one of the world’s leading scholars on Russian composer…
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Steinberg Passion Week a “Landmark Recording”
The Orthodox Arts Journal‘s Benedict Sheehan gives Cappella Romana’s upcoming Maximilian Steinberg Passion Week an absolute rave: “Every so often a record comes along that changes the landscape of choral music.…The work itself is the sort of thing musicologists dream about: a treasure of inestimable musical value, hidden away in some attic or dusty library…
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After 35 years, founder Alexander Lingas retires as Music Director of celebrated vocal ensemble Cappella Romana
Founder and Music Director Alexander Lingas will move into a new role as Music Director Emeritus this spring, passing the baton to a new generation while redirecting his focus towards academic work. Dr. Lingas will conduct the final concerts of Cappella Romana’s current season on March 6 and 7, 2026, featuring Maximilian Steinberg’s extraordinary Passion…
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Echoes of the Renaissance — Program Notes
In his magisterial The Rise of European Music, 1380–1500, Reinhard Strohm traces the development and dissemination of complex styles of music written with multiple voice parts using measured (‘mensural’) notation that enabled precise rhythmic coordination of the voices. By the middle of the fifteenth century the most notable centers for the production of this polyphonic…
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Alexander Lingas Introduces the 2025–26 Season
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 friends The Tallis Scholars.…
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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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