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Spyridon Antonopoulos on Medieval Church Acoustics
The Red Bull Music Academy features an interview with Cappella Romana’s own Dr. Spyridon Antonopoulos and Emma Warren for an exploration of the transcendent impact and contemporary relevance of medieval acoustics: “‘Kalophonic music was more embellished and abstract,’ explains Antonopoulos. ‘There are entire compositions of just syllables. It’s an evolution where music seems to usurp
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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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Smithsonian Magazine Features Icons of Sound
Our “Icons of Sound” concert and collaboration with Stanford University gets a fantastic feature in the Smithsonian Magazine: “Hagia Sophia, a former church and mosque, is an important part of Istanbul’s long history. Who knew its sublime sound could be transferred to Stanford? Twice in the past few years, Stanford scholars and scientists have worked
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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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Cappella Romana on King FM This Week!
Seattle’s Classical King FM 98.1 will feature Cappella Romana recordings this week in the lead up to our Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week concert series in Seattle and Portland! Broadcast Schedule: 8:06pm — Monday, Feb 8: Sticheron (Medieval Byzantine Chant) 8:08pm — Tuesday, Feb 9: Tikey Zes: Introit of Pentecost Tune in at www.king.org Passion Week
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Five Stars for Cyprus from Audiophile Audition!
Audiophile Audition‘s Steven Ritter gives Cyprus: Between Greek East & Latin West a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating! “Hearing this Orthodox and Roman Catholic music side-by-side is quite enlightening. Saturate yourself in either for about an hour and then switch for another hour, and you’ll swear they are the most disparate genres ever. Listen to both, sometimes alternating
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Cappella Romana LIVE on AllClassical Portland
February 4th, 2016, Alexander Lingas will lead seven Capella Romana singers and the award-winning Lee Trio in a LIVE broadcast performance of works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Dmitry Bortniansky, and Maximilian Steinberg during AllClassical FM’s Thursdays @ Three program! All Classical FM Thursdays @ Three: Each week, All Classical Portland presents Thursdays @ Three, live broadcast concerts
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Double Your Year-End Gift!
Great news! Every dollar you give to support Cappella Romana will be DOUBLED by matching funds! Every dollar you donate by midnight, December 31 will double to $2 to support Cappella Romana — until the total fund of $25,000 is matched. That means if you give $50, that’s $100 to cover costs and to keep
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Artslandia Reviews Handel’s Messiah
“…since 2010 the choruses have been sung by Cappella Romana, the city’s finest choir.… Given their long experience with the piece (and a wide range of other music besides), Cappella Romana was unsurprisingly terrific; their performance was a model of Handel performance and worth the price of admission on its own. Within and across sections,
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Two Day Sale!
Today through noon on Thursday, December 17th get 25% Off Sections A & B with coupon code EARLYMUSIC for our Epiphany: Medieval Byzantine & Old Roman Chant performances! This program, which was the first all-chant concert ever given by Cappella Romana (to sold-out audiences in 2001), features Cappella Romana’s specialist ensemble of Byzantine cantors singing
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Expedition Audio Reviews Steinberg: Passion Week!
Paul Ballyk of Expedition Audio has a rave review for our Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week recording! “Passion Week is a profoundly moving composition. From the opening, monophonic tones, it is clear that ancient chant is central to the work’s structure – in fact, all but one of the eleven sections is based directly on a
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Cappella Romana on “Played in Oregon”
Tune in to AllClassical Portland this Sunday, August 30th at 1pm as Brandi Parisi plays excerpts from our 2012 Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil concert on the “Played in Oregon” program in advance of our September 11-13th All-Night Vigil performances! www.allclassical.org Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil: Cappella Romana’s 24th Annual Season opens with Sergei Rachmaninoff’s monumental All-Night Vigil (also
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