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Cappella Romana Premieres
Access Cappella Romana’s Premieres Program! Discover “a sound world of unique beauty” (Gramophone) with Cappella Romana: music of transcendence. Through our “Premieres Program”, live-recorded videos of Cappella Romana’s 2025-26 Pacific Northwest Season Concerts will be made available for purchase for your on-demand enjoyment. Hope and Light Mystical Chamber Music by Arvo Pärt, Tikey Zes, and
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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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Classical Voice North America Reviews Passion Week Premiere
Seattle critic, Philippa Kiraly, has a fantastic feature and review of our recent World Premiere performance of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week in Classical Voice North America: “Sometimes it sounded stern or foreboding, sober or somber, at other times brighter and joyful, or hypnotic, peaceful, and uplifting, or solemn and reverential, even exalted in Great Saturday’s
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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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Language in American Orthodox Music: Liturgical and Pastoral Perspectives
Please join us for a webinar on “Language in American Orthodox Music: Liturgical and Pastoral Perspectives” hosted by Fordham University’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center in a co-presentation with Cappella Romana. It has often been asserted that it is the tradition of the Orthodox Church to worship in the local language. Yet the historical reality has been
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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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Arctic Light is coming
(Now Father) Ivan Moody rehearsing Cappella Romana in January 2006. ARCTIC LIGHT: FINNISH ORTHODOX MUSIC Fr. Ivan Moody, guest director Mikko Sidoroff (b. 1985), Panihida (excerpts), KerubiveisuBoris Jakubov (1894-1923), Ehtooveisu (Phos hilaron)Pekka Attinen (1885-1956), Kerubiveisu no.3Leonid Bashmakov (b. 1927), Pääsiäissunnuntain Iikossi (Paschal Ikos), Pääsiäisen Eksapostilaari No.2 (Paschal Exaposilarion)Timo Ruottinen (b. 1947), Pyhä Jumala, AlkupsalmiIvan Moody
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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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Arctic Light on Performance Today
Before we send out our next e-newsletter (about our next live concerts of music from Cyprus), I wanted to let you know that part of our recent program Arctic Light (January 2008) will be broadcast this Friday on the nationally syndicated radio program Performance Today, in honor of Orthodox Holy Week (Orthodox Pascha, or Easter,
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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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Meet Richard Toensing
May 18-20 during the Be Radiant, O Peoples! tour, Cappella Romana will premiere a new work by composer Richard Toensing. Richard Toensing is not a new composer to Cappella Romana fans, however, as we released the recording Kontakion On The Nativity & Carols By Richard Toensing in 2008. Kontakion On The Nativity & Carols By
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Leitourgeia ka Qurbana review of Angelic Light: Music from Eastern Cathedrals
Richard Barrett of the Leitourgeia ka Qurbana: Contra den Zeitgeist reviews Angelic Light: Music from Eastern Cathedrals: “The compilation Angelic Light: Music from Eastern Cathedrals is … a demonstration that you actually can just write gorgeouspsounding Western music for Orthodox texts… “There’s an awful lot to like about this recording; it’s a great sampling of
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