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Let My Prayer Arise! Music in the Experience of African American Orthodox Christians
With Fr. Turbo Qualls, Nun Katherine Weston (Fellowship of St. Moses the Black), and Dr. Shawn Wallace (Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at the Ohio State University and Orthodox Christian), and Dr. Peter Bouteneff, Dr. Rob Saler, and Dr. Alexander Lingas. Our panelists discuss the intersection of Orthodox liturgical music traditions and the African American
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Celebrate Pascha! Also In Mulieribus this Sunday!
Happy Pascha: May 5 Cappella Romana sings the opening of Semeron krematai in the medieval melody from Jerusalem, during recording sessions at Stanford University in February, 2013. Σήμερον κρεμᾶται ἐπὶ ξύλου, ὁ ἐν ὕδασι τὴν γῆν κρεμάσας. Today he who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon a TreeHe who is King of
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Timo Nuoranne to Direct Arctic Light in January
Timo Nuoranne from Helsinki Directs Cappella Romana in “Arctic Light: Finnish Orthodox Music” in January 2014 Back by popular demand, this program of sumptuous choral works from the Orthodox Church of Finland was first performed to sold-out audiences in 2008. Timo Nuoranne, a faculty member at the Sibelius Academy of Music in Helsinki and one
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Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: Music for Easter Sunday
Welcome to the fourth playlist from the archives of Cappella Romana, we turn to music celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday, a feast called ‘Pascha’ in Greek and Slavonic. As a way of offering you my own seasonal greetings, I am concluding this week’s list with a choral setting of this hymn that
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Ivan Moody To Give Pre-Concert Lecture
Pre-Concert Talks: Meet Ivan Moody One hour prior to each concert, guest director Ivan Moody will present a brief talk on the program, and will be available to sign his recent book and CDs (a selection will be available for purchase). Rev. Dr. Ivan Moody is one of the world’s leading scholars on Russian composer
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The Hillsboro Tribune Previews The Tudor Choir
The Hillsboro Tribune previews this weekend’s presentation of The Tudor Choir: World-class musicians will grace St. Matthew Catholic Church with choral music when Cappella Romana presents “The Tudor Choir: Music of John Taverner and Nico Muhly.” Under the direction of founder Doug Fullington, Seattle’s Tudor Choir will come to the concert stage for the first
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Peter Michaelides and The Divine Liturgy of John Chrysostom
Cappella Romana will be premiering a new work from Peter Michaelides during the Be Radiant, O Peoples! tour this coming weekend. So in preparation, we wanted to share this review from our 2006 release of Peter Michaelides: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom from AllMusic.com: “Cappella Romana’s Peter Michaelides: The Divine Liturgy of St.
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Theater Byte Gives Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia its Highest Recommendation
“Applying Professor Abel’s sound technology to the fifteen voices of Capella Romana creates an audio experience that few if any listeners will have ever heard. These disembodied voices, evoking the holy spirit of God, seem to come from everywhere and totally envelop the audience. … Put this Blu-ray Disc in your player, and push the
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Sun of Justice: A Two-Fold Offering – Part One
With this two-fold offering of traditional Byzantine Music, we seek to give the listener two distinct yet complementary experiences: first, that of being in a traditional Orthodox church somewhere in the Middle East, wherein one choir sings in Greek and the other in Arabic; and second: that of being in a traditional Orthodox church in
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Meet Bogdan Djaković
Now in his 27th season directing the Choir of St. George’s Cathedral in Novi Sad, Serbia, Bogdan Djaković is one of the world’s leading experts in Serbian Orthodox Choral Music. Bogdan Djaković has established himself as an international director, leading performances in Italy, Great Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Greece, Slovenia, Croatia, Portugal, Switzerland and Sweden.
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Singer Spotlight: David Krueger
This Season, we are launching a new series spotlighting the voices of Cappella Romana to help you get to know the people behind the music. The series will allow our singers to share their history and stories of working with our ensemble as well as what they are working on outside of Cappella Romana. Our
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Oregon Days of Culture feature Cappella Romana Hagia Sophia Performance
Oregon Days of Culture and the Portland Tribune & Community Newspapers have a wonderful feature on the upcoming Stanford Residency concerts and the “Icons of Sound” project highlighting “The Sounds of Hagia Sophia.” Heavenly Experience: Vocal chamber ensemble Cappella Romana performs from Portland to Stanford to Greece “It is said that when the Slavic people
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