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Cappella Romana presents: The Arvo Pärt Festival
The first-ever festival in North America dedicated to the music of Estonian Orthodox composer Arvo Pärt will take place February 5 – 12, 2017 in Portland, Oregon, presented by the Northwest’s leading professional chamber choir, Cappella Romana. Arvo Pärt is the most performed living composer in the world. Full information. The Arvo Pärt Festival features
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A Time for Life — An Introduction
One of the most urgent issues facing the world today is the ecological crisis caused by humanity’s inability to live in harmony with the natural world. My collaboration with Cappella Romana grew out of our mutual concern about this potentially catastrophic situation. After many discussions, I decided to create an environmental oratorio in order to
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Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia Featured in The New York Times
The New York Times has a new article featuring our Icons of Sound: Hagia Sophia Re-Imagined project and Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia recording! See the article, filled with interviews with our project partners from Stanford and our own Alexander Lingas on NYTimes.com: “The Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia,” an album that brings to life
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A Time For Life — Structure
The composite text for A Time for Life was adapted from a wide range of sources that explore the relationship of humanity to nature. The work is structured in three large-scale parts, as follows: Part I: Creation In the first part, the nature of creation is celebrated through praise for the Creator and through rejoicing
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Cappella Romana 2025–26 Season
Save 30% with coupon code ITSTIME when you purchase tickets to three or more concerts this Season! It’s About Time The 2025–26 Season october 24 & 26, 2025 NOVEMBER 14 & 15, 2025 JANUARY 2 & 3, 2026 FEBRUARY 6 & 7, 2026 MARCH 6 & 7, 2026 APRIL 22 & 23, 2026 MASS APPEAL LIVING MEMORIES
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Cappella Romana is hiring!
Open Positions Office Assistant, Part-time Job Title: Office Assistant, Part-timeReports to: Executive DirectorStatus: 20 hrs/week; some up to 30 hrs/week, nonexemptCompensation: c $25/hr based on experienceLocation: In-person, Portland, Oregon (not remote). Description This regularly 20-hour-a-week part-time position will assist Cappella Romana staff with basic office tasks. These include acting as receptionist, printing and mailing tickets, shipping
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Canon for Racial Reconciliation
Isaac Cates & Nicholas Reeves Canon for Racial Reconciliation Cappella Romana Isaac Cates & Anthony MaglioneGuest Conductors Experience a groundbreaking fusion of traditions with the Pacific Northwest première of the complete Canon for Racial Reconciliation for choir and gospel instrument ensemble. Isaac Cates (Gospel music) and Nicholas Reeves (Orthodox music) co-composed an unforgettable score to African American
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Cappella Romana 2025–26 Season
It’s About Time 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
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Coming in May 2014 – A Time for Life
Robert Kyr Robert Kyr: A Time For Life An Environmental Oratorio with Third Angle new Music Ensemble Just after Earth Day (April 22), Cappella Romana reprises the exciting and innovative work by Northwest composer Robert Kyr, A Time for Life, commissioned by Cappella Romana for its premiere in 2007. Kyr’s work is inspired by the
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“Lovely becomes transcendent” – Cappella Romana in Playbill
“Dust particles pumped onto the stage swirl in golden light. The choir intakes breath again, but this time, the reverberation transports the entire audience to Turkey. They sing and it’s 537 A.D. This is what it must have felt like—nearly. Lovely becomes transcendent.” Read the whole review of Cappella Romana in Pop-Up Magazine here. CAPPELLA
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Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week in The New York Times
New York Times critic James R. Oestreich shared that he’d been listening to our Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week recording in the ArtsBeat “Classical Playlist”: “‘Passion Week’…is on a scale with the great sacred works of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, though in a slightly more advanced idiom, and is quite simply beautiful.” —James R. Oestreich, The New
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Remember the World Premiere of A Time for Life
The full-page preview of A Time for Life in the Oregonian back in 2007: Click here for the PDF. And the review:
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