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Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia Featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition
Sam Harnett spoke with NPR’s Scott Simon this Saturday (February 22, 2020) about our Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia project and recording on NPR’s Weekend Edition! Listen on-demand now: Amazon Apple Music Spotify YouTube Music Qobuz Primephonic ArkivMusic Cappella Romana
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Venice in the East Debuts at in the Top 10 on the Billboard Chart!
Our new Venice in the East: Renaissance Crete and Cyprus recording has debuted at #10 on the Billboard Traditional Classical Albums chart! Thank you to all of you who pre-ordered, purchased, streamed, and shared this recording! Get it Today! Amazon Apple Music ArkivMusic Spotify YouTube Music Cappella Romana
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Cappella Romana to Receive $15,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
San Francisco, Calif.—National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2019. Included in this announcement is an Art Works grant of $15,000 to Cappella Romana to support its ongoing concert series in
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Why Is There Water Dripping down My Face? A Night at Pop-Up Magazine.
“my whole body shivered and the tears started up.” Review from the Stranger, Seattle: Still, it wasn’t just the sad stories that triggered crying. Sam Harnett brought along the Cappella Romana choir, a vocal ensemble based in Portland that sings ancient religious chants. The singers were brilliant on their own, but then Harnett told us
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Northwest Focus Spotlight!
Seattle’s KING FM is highlighting Cappella Romana on the Northwest Focus program Monday-Thursday this week (5/6-5/9/2019). Date Time Music Monday, May 6 8:07pm Attinen: Saata, oi Kristus Tuesday, May 7 9:20pm Plousiadenos: Kontakion for St. Thomas Aquinas Wednesday, May 8 9:04pm Tragodistes: O Great and Most Sacred Pascha Thursday, May 9 8:02pm Zes: Introit to
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Ave Maria: Program Notes
Josquin des Prez and Heinrich Isaac were two Renaissance composers with two quite different characters, in music and in life. We know what Isaac’s signature looked like because he dutifully signed the account books as a musical servant of the Emperor Maximilian. We know what Josquin’s signature looked like because he carved it (not at
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KING FM Northwest Focus features Lost Treasures of Armenia
In the lead up to our Lost Treasures of Armenia series, Seattle’s KING FM will be previewing the performance on the Northwest Focus program Monday-Thursday this week (1/14-17/2019). Date Time Music Monday, January 14 9:19pm Adamis: Radiant Cloud Tuesday, January 15 8:00pm Dufay: Lamentatio Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae Wed, January 16 9:19pm Zes: Cherubic Hymn
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Oregon Arts Watch Review for “A Song of Creation”
Cappella Romana’s performance…was an electrifying, bristlingly intense superabundance of laser-beam monody and…florid counterpoint in the Eastern Orthodox style. … Here, the modern music was a vivid variety of sacred choral music by contemporary composers Matthew Arndt, John Michael Boyer, Alexander Khalil, Kurt Sander, Richard Toensing, and Tikey Zes. The six composers, according to the program,
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KING FM Northwest Focus features They Are At Rest
In the lead up to our They Are At Rest series, Seattle’s KING FM will be previewing the performance on the Northwest Focus program Monday-Thursday of next week (11/5-8/2018). Date Time Music Monday, November 5 8:08pm Parry: Songs of Farewell – There is an old belief Tuesday, November 6 8:02pm Parry: Songs of Farewell
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The History of the Remembrance Poppy
During Cappella Romana’s They Are At Rest performances in Seattle (Nov. 9) and Portland (Nov. 11), the singers will be wearing poppies supplied by the American Legion – and will make them available to audience members – so we thought we’d look back at the “History of the Poppy” as set out by the Royal
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Cappella Romana and Third Angle New Music share historic downtown workspace
PORTLAND, OR— The sounds of music, from medieval chant to math rock, are ringing out from a single set of offices in the Gus J. Solomon U.S. Courthouse in Portland, Oregon. Third Angle New Music is delighted to announce that it has established its new office in the top floor of the former courthouse, subleased
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KING FM Northwest Focus features Heaven and Earth: The Song of Creation
In the lead up to our Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation series, Seattle’s KING FM will be previewing the performance on the Northwest Focus program on Wednesday and Thursday of this week (10/10-11/2018). Date Time Music Wednesday, October 10 9:30pm Tikey Zes: Cherubic Hymn (from The Divine Liturgy) Thursday, October 11 8:29pm
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