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BBC Radio 4 Features Alexander Lingas
BBC Radio 4 interviews Cappella Romana artistic director Alexander Lingas in the second episode of the series, Byzantium Unearthed, and Cappella Romana can be heard in the opening of the first episode as well as throughout! Click below to listen to Episode Two; Alexander Lingas comes in around 15:00 mark:
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The #Unselfie Movement — Adam Steele
Cappella Romana singer Adam Steele, a graduate of Pacific University and Portland State University, recently received a prestigious International Conductors Exchange Program fellowship from the American Choral Director’s Association to represent the art of American choral conducting in Sweden in the Fall of 2015. Adam is one of just two conductors chosen from the NW
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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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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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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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Help Cappella Romana Record “A Ukrainian Wedding”
Cappella Romana is thrilled to invite you to be part of making last season’s acclaimed program, A Ukrainian Wedding, a new recording to for the world to treasure! This weekend, our concerts in Astoria on Friday, May 17, Lincoln City on Saturday, May 18, and in Portland on Sunday, May 19 are fundraisers for the
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Sacred Songs of Serbia — Program Notes: Part One
Sacred Songs of Serbia Serbian Chant and Church Choral Music Serbian chant is a type of monodic music which has remained in use as part of the Church’s liturgy from the time of Cyril and Methodius (the 9th century) to our day. With the granting of the independence to the Serbian Church in 13th century
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Liturgical Singing Seminar this weekend!
This Saturday (October 11) at the Church of the Annunciation, Milwaukie, OR, Cappella Romana favorite Mark Bailey will lead an interactive, full-day seminar/workshop focused on the actualization of music in Orthodox Christian worship so as to “enable a comprehensive and elevated liturgical experience through insightful and skilled leadership and participation.” Guest speakers will include His
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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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