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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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Cappella Romana singer Kerry McCarthy wins major award!
Cappella Romana singer Kerry McCarthy, a graduate of Reed College and Stanford University, recently returned to Portland, OR after 11 years of teaching music history at Duke University. She is known for her work on early English music, and has just been awarded the 2014 ASCAP Nicolas Slonimsky Outstanding Musical Biography Award for her book
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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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Sacred Songs of Serbia — Program Notes: Part Two
Sacred Songs of Serbia Serbian Chant and Church Choral Music Part One Polyphonic singing appeared for the first time in Serbian churches in the 1830s as a result of European and Russian influence. The expansion of newly organized Serbian church choirs was enormous and very soon the main problem was the lack of indigenous sacred
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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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Out of the Ashes of Smyrna: The Jewell of Asia Minor
Since the 18th century, the city of Smyrna, on the western shores of Asia Minor, was the most important commercial port in the Eastern Mediterranean. Through the early 20th century, both raw materials for industrial textiles as well as agricultural products were exported from Smyrna to the West. The resulting economic prosperity brought diverse populations
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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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ArtsWatch Reviews Fall of Constantinople
Oregon ArtsWatch reviews the Portland performance of The Fall of Constantinople, saying “Portland vocal ensemble excels in hometown performance before major European festival appearance”: “Just past what the Greeks called ‘dog days of summer,’ Cappella Romana shone like Sirius in our Portland sky. Saturday night the premier choral ensemble presented a thoughtful, dramatic performance of
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You can help us reach our $25K goal: Just $3K left to go!
As a student in 1991, I gathered a group of friends to share the beautiful and transformative musical inheritance of Byzantium. Today, over three decades later, Cappella Romana fulfills this mission on a global scale through performances, recordings, publications, and educational initiatives. None of this would have been possible without the generous financial support of
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