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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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2025-26 Season: It’s About Time Cappella Romana’s 2025–26 season invites you into music that explores the mysteries of time—ancient and modern, eternal and temporal. You’ll first hear the thunder of Bruckner and the energized stasis of Stravinsky as eternal angelic song. Fragile voices of the past pierce the gates of the present moment, sung by
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Women in Sacred Chant: Past and Present
In tandem with the album launch for “Hymns of Kassianí,” this panel highlighted two dimensions of women’s contributions to Christian sacred music: as composers and as performers (singers). This history has been often marginalized or even disregarded in general histories of Christianity, yet it has been – and continues to be– important to the continuing
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Music from Mt. Sinai: Recorded!
Cappella Romana’s program “Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium” was recorded last week, from August 20 through August 25, in the extraordinary acoustics of Holy Rosary Church in West Seattle. Alexander Lingas (center) led a nine-member ensemble in chants from the monastery of St. Catherine at Mt. Sinai in Egypt, featuring music for St. Catherine followed
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NEW Double CD | BYZANTIUM IN ROME: Medieval Byzantine Chant from Grottaferrata
NEW Double CDBYZANTIUM IN ROME: Medieval Byzantine Chant from Grottaferrata Click here to order. Sound samples: Teleutaion Alleluia | Prosomoia for St. Benedict | Kontakion for St. Bartholomew | Communion for Pentecost This release by Cappella Romana is a breathtaking collection of Medieval Byzantine Chant sung from manuscripts made at the Abbey of Grottaferrata in
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Arctic Light rehearsals begin
Fr. Ivan Moody has arrived from Portugal for a week-long residency with Cappella Romana. Here Fr. Ivan is shown conducting Cappella Romana in rehearsal, at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral in its new Hellenic American Cultural Center. (http://www.hellenicamericancc.org/)
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Pre concert speakers
Pre-Concert Talks on CYPRUS | Two speakers: Dr. Harry Anastasiou (Portland); Dr. Alexander Lingas (Seattle) Talks are at 7:00pm, prior to the concerts PORTLAND: Cyprus: a tapestry of culturesBy Dr. Harry Anastasiou Dr. Harry Anastasiou will deliver a presentation focusing on the Mediterranean Island of Cyprus from the perspective of its rich and complex history,
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Pre-Order LIVE IN GREECE!
Pre-Order Cappella Romana’s new CD: LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California Pre-release sale (not available in stores until August) Order here online. Free Shippingwhen you make a tax-deductible gift ($25 or more) by June 30. * Add your gift in the shopping cart and use the VOUCHER code: freeship.*Applies to all orders of any of our recordings. In September 2011
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Meet Marcel Pérès
2012-2013 Season opener features guest conductor Marcel Pérès conducting “Santiago De Compostela: Medieval Latin Chant for St. James” in his Cappella Romana debut. Meet this celebrated conductor: “Marcel Pérès, perhaps the greatest iconoclast among the early music performers of his generation, challenges his audience to rethink how we hear musical repertories from the tenth to
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LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California – Part Four
As we approach the release of LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California, we’ll be sharing some excerpts from the liner notes to give you a bit of background into the programming of this recording. Part One Part Two Part Three III – Liturgical Choral Music in the Greek Orthodox Churches of the western United
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None For The Worse features Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom
Thanks to the None for the Worse blog for these kind words on our recording The Divine Liturgy of our Father Among the Saints John Chrysostom: “If you are looking for an English audio version of the Orthodox Church’s Divine Liturgy, then look no further than Cappella Romana’s The Divine Liturgy of our Father Among
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Cappella Romana Remembers September 11 – Lament for the Fall of Constantinople
Cappella Romana remembers September 11th From the Seattle Post-Intelligncer in January 2002: Alexander Lingas, founder and music director of Cappella Romana, has a keen ear for music and its historical and cultural context. Over the past decade, that kind of approach has taken the small vocal ensemble, and its growing audience, over many centuries and
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