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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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Cappella Romana Tours
Cappella Romana On Tour Experience Cappella Romana Performances in a City Near You Traditional to experimental. Transcendent majesty to profound intimacy. Concert experiences unlike any others. Upcoming Concerts Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia in Vancouver, BC 3 Oct 2025 @ 7:30PM St. George Greek Orthodox 4500 Arbutus St, Vancouver Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia in
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About Cappella Romana
Mission The mission of the vocal ensemble Cappella Romana is to experience and understand the transcendent beauty of the sacred music of the Christian East and West, especially of Byzantium, cultivating this rich cultural heritage and sharing it worldwide. Vision Cappella Romana transforms hearts and minds through encounters with the sacred musical inheritance of the
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Meet Robert Kyr
Photo taken from “Peace Work” (Portland Monthly)Photo by Stuart Mullenberg Tomorrow (Friday, May 18th), Cappella Romana will kick off the weekend’s Be Radiant, O Peoples! series, and will be premiering works based around the Easter Canon of St. John of Damascus from contemporary composers. One of these works is by the prolific composer Robert Kyr,
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Cappella Romana Returns to Europe
Cappella Romana returns to Ireland and the Netherlands this month, first to make two recordings in Ireland and then to give the festival finale concert at The Utrecht Early Music Festival, Netherlands. The ensemble will first gather under the auspices of the Limerick Early Music Festival to film a concert for showing at the Iași
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Keeping Up with the Venetians — Part Two
Keeping Up With The Venetians Continued from Part One Program Notes for Venetian Baroque: Galuppi + Vivaldi + Bortniansky Galuppi further exceeded his contractual duties by teaching composition to some of the Cappella singers. One such singer was the Ukrainian Dmitro (or more commonly Dmitry) Bortniansky. When Galuppi left St. Petersburg in 1769, he took
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Singer Spotlight: Kerry McCarthy
Our Singer Spotlight series continues with alto Kerry McCarthy! How did you first start performing with Cappella Romana? My first time singing with Cappella was in fall 1994, when I was a student at Reed College. They were doing a big concert of Tchaikovsky and Kastalsky. I loved it and I’ve been around ever since.
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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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Psaltikon: The Day of Resurrection
The Historical Development of Easter The celebration of Easter (i.e., Pascha) for Orthodox Christians commences on Saturday morning with a Vesperal Liturgy that comprises psalms, hymns, and Old Testament readings, followed by the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. Pascha is formally inaugurated several hours later, at midnight, in a rush of blazing candles, exuberant
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Christmas in Ukraine
Khrïstos razhdayetsia! Slavite yeho! Christ is born! Glorify Him! When Cappella Romana invited me to prepare this concert “Christmas in Ukraine,” a wealth of musical memories came into my imagination. Since I am of Ukrainian descent, I felt instant inspiration and also a sense of responsibility. How can I represent the many centuries of Ukraine’s sacred
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Cappella Romana Receives Oregon Cultural Trust Grant For Performances And Recording of Works by Composer Michael Adamis
As part of the Oregon Cultural Trust’s record $2.6 million in grants to Oregon partners, coalitions and organization, Cappella Romana has been awarded $16,285 to support concerts in Oregon and a recording of choral works by Greek composer Michael Adamis. From the Oregon Cultural Trust: Salem, Ore. — Statewide cultural organizations will receive a record
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Ivan Moody: From Darkness to Light
The From Darkness to Light programme is a journey in more than one sense. Firstly, it takes us from spiritual darkness (the condition which is cured, according to Orthodox Christian tradition, by metanoia, a change of heart) to light, the radiance of the Resurrection of Christ, by which mankind is made new. Secondly, it takes
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