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Minnesota Public Radio Features Passion Week!
Classical MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) is featuring recordings for Holy Week, and Thursday will be broadcasting our Passion Week recording on Thursday, April 2 at 10am(Central)/8am (Pacific)! Bookmark www.classicalmpr.org today to stream the broadcast! The name of Maximilian Steinberg (1883-1946) will be a new one to almost all music lovers. As this release from the
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Audiophile Audition Gives Passion Week Five Stars
Audiophile Audition gives Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week a Five-Star review! “[Maximilian Steinberg’s] music is pretty much sunk in obscurity…Until now, that is. … His Op. 13 Passion Week is his seminal work in the genre, actually more a collection of pieces selected from various Holy Week services that could be used outside of the opus
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Steinberg Passion Week Look & Listen
Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week — Behold, The Bridegroom Comes Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week LP A first listen to the Passion Week recording at Echo Audio in Portland: Pre-Order NOW —UPDATE—- Buy The CD & The VINYL Today!
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Help Cappella Romana Make the Billboard Classical Chart
ORDER NOW Our “irresistible” (Audiophile Audition) new album Good Friday in Jerusalem is on sale today (February 10)! We need your help to boost the record to the top of the Billboard Classical Chart. “This is not only Cappella Romana’s 20th recording, but it’s also one of the most compelling,” says Mark Powell, executive director
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Meet Stelios Kontakiotis
Stelios Kontakiotis, principal soloist Stelios Kontakiotis is protopsaltis (first chanter) of the Holy Temple of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary on the sacred island of Tinos, Greece, one of the most prominent pilgrimage sites in Greece. Mr. Kontakiotis was born in Athens and grew up on the island of Amorgos (Cyclades-Greece). He began his
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Congratulations Dr. Spyridon Antonopoulos
All of us at Cappella Romana wish to congratulate Dr. Spyridon Antonopoulos on his being awarded a PhD in Musicology at City University London today. He was advised (with a dissertation on the Byzantine composer and theorist Manuel Chrysaphes) by Cappella Romana’s founder and artistic director Dr. Alexander Lingas, who serves on the faculty at
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Stream “In Procession to the Mount of Olives”
Stream In Procession to the Mount of Olives Antiphon 1 in Mode Plagal 4 from Good Friday In Jerusalem on the Cappella Romana SoundCloud Channel and pre-order from Amazon today! Good Friday in Jerusalem Concert Tickets and Information
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After 35 years, founder Alexander Lingas retires as Music Director of celebrated vocal ensemble Cappella Romana
Founder and Music Director Alexander Lingas will move into a new role as Music Director Emeritus this spring, passing the baton to a new generation while redirecting his focus towards academic work. Dr. Lingas will conduct the final concerts of Cappella Romana’s current season on March 6 and 7, 2026, featuring Maximilian Steinberg’s extraordinary Passion
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Pre-Order Good Friday in Jerusalem NOW
Good Friday in Jerusalem Medieval Byzantine Chant from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Coming February 10, 2015! HELP US CHART THE RECORD by pre-ordering! Pre-Order on Amazon! Produced since 2004 by GRAMMY Award-winning producer Steve Barnett, Cappella Romana performs “music of purity and radiance” (Gramophone) in concerts of “luminous beauty” (Washington Post). Appearances in
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Good Friday in Jerusalem “in hand”
Stock of our February Good Friday in Jerusalem CD is now in hand! Street date for this release is February 10, but you can pre-order on Amazon NOW! Pre-Order on Amazon NOW! Cappella Romana’s latest release is in conjunction with our Good Friday in Jerusalem Concert Series in Seattle and Portland, February 6-8! Hear Medieval
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Alexander Lingas Previews the 2025-26 Season on KOIN AM Extra
The 2025-26 Cappella Romana Season starts October 24 & 26! Artistic Director, Alexander Lingas, joined Portland’s KOIN AM Extra morning show to preview the season and catch you up on everything Cappella Romana has been up to this summer!
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Echoes of the Renaissance – Pre-Concert Talks
Dr. Gil Seeley, music professor emeritus of Lewis and Clark College and of the Oregon Repertory Singers, will give the pre-concert talks for “Echoes of the Renaissance.” He was a classmate of Tikey Zes at the University of Southern California, and also knew Greek American composer and church musician Frank Desby, also a graduate of USC.
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