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The #Unselfie Movement — Spiro Antonopoulos
Cappella Romana singer Spiro Antonopoulos recently completed his doctoral studies on the fifteenth century composer and theorist Manuel Chrysaphes, working at City University London under the direction of Cappella Romana Artistic Director Dr. Alexander Lingas. This past June Spiro traveled to Thessalonica, Greece for field work on a project titled Bodies and Spirits: Soundscapes of Byzantine Thessaloniki, which
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The #Unselfie Movement — Mark Powell
Cappella Romana singer and executive director Mark Powell and his family share a love for music. Mark holds degrees in music from Seattle Pacific University and the University of Washington, and his wife Brigid Kathleen earned her music education and performance degree at Western Washington University. Brigid teaches music and physical education at Agia Sophia
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The #Unselfie Movement — Maria Karlin
Cappella Romana singer Maria Karlin holds a degree from the University of Oregon. In early October she gave birth to her first child, Stellan! These first few weeks have been “lovely, and exciting, and wild, and tiring, and the most beautiful thing I’ve ever done. He’s already very independent, curious and, of course, vocal!” Maria is the
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The #Unselfie Movement — Kristen Buhler
Cappella Romana singer Kristen Buhler is a graduate of George Fox University and Portland State University. This Fall marks Kristen’s 11th year as an itinerant Teacher of Visually Impaired Students at Northwest Regional ESD in Hillsboro, where she teaches braille, daily living skills, and assistive technology to students aged birth-21. She recently co-authored a national braille
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Cappella Romana Thank You Notes
Cappella Romana Executive Director Mark Powell writes his Thanksgiving Thank You Notes: Join the #GivingTuesday movement by making a gift to Cappella Romana on or before December 2nd. Giving Tuesday, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, is a global movement born in 2012 to shine a light on giving back. It’s a holiday designed to rival Black
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Cappella Romana singer Kerry McCarthy wins major award!
Cappella Romana singer Kerry McCarthy, a graduate of Reed College and Stanford University, recently returned to Portland, OR after 11 years of teaching music history at Duke University. She is known for her work on early English music, and has just been awarded the 2014 ASCAP Nicolas Slonimsky Outstanding Musical Biography Award for her book
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What’s On Your Analogion? Podcast
Byzantine chant has a rich book and manuscript culture going back a millennium, but English language Byzantine chant books are still a very new thing. What does it take to produce beautiful chant books in a world where electronic devices and loose leaf binders have become the norm in their absence? How do they get
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Sacred Songs of Serbia — Program Notes: Part Two
Sacred Songs of Serbia Serbian Chant and Church Choral Music Part One Polyphonic singing appeared for the first time in Serbian churches in the 1830s as a result of European and Russian influence. The expansion of newly organized Serbian church choirs was enormous and very soon the main problem was the lack of indigenous sacred
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Cappella Romana to sing Divine Liturgy in San Jose
Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, San Jose, CA Sunday, September 28, 10:00am The Divine Liturgy, with music composed by Dr. Tikey Zes (as recorded by Cappella Romana) Under the direction of the composer, Dr. Tikey Zes Following the fundraising event for the PAOI in San Francisco on Saturday night, Cappella Romana will sing the Divine
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Acoustics of Hagia Sophia at the Ritz Carlton San Francisco
Cappella Romana is one of the featured artists to perform at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, in a gala on September 27 to raise funds for the Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute at Berkeley. The team from Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) will be providing virtual acoustics for the event,
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The Reviews are in for Odes of Repentance
We are so thankful for everyone who attended our 2023-24 Season Opening Concert, Odes of Repentance! And we can’t wait to see everyone again November 10-12, 2023 as John Michael Boyer leads Out of the Ashes of Smyrna! Coming Next – Arvo Pärt: Odes of Repentance – the album edition!
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ArtsWatch Reviews Fall of Constantinople
Oregon ArtsWatch reviews the Portland performance of The Fall of Constantinople, saying “Portland vocal ensemble excels in hometown performance before major European festival appearance”: “Just past what the Greeks called ‘dog days of summer,’ Cappella Romana shone like Sirius in our Portland sky. Saturday night the premier choral ensemble presented a thoughtful, dramatic performance of
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