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Canon for Racial Reconciliation
Isaac Cates & Nicholas Reeves Canon for Racial Reconciliation Cappella Romana Isaac Cates & Anthony MaglioneGuest Conductors Experience a groundbreaking fusion of traditions with the Pacific Northwest première of the complete Canon for Racial Reconciliation for choir and gospel instrument ensemble. Isaac Cates (Gospel music) and Nicholas Reeves (Orthodox music) co-composed an unforgettable score to African American
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Lusitano: Black Composers of the Renaissance
Marian Consort Sings Lusitano: Black Composer of the Renaissance The Marian Consort United Kingdom Rory McCleeryFounder & Director Embark on a journey to 16th-century Portugal with music by Vicente Lusitano (1520–1561), the first published Black composer. The Marian Consort (UK) is the world’s leading ensemble for the music of Lusitano, led by Alexander Lingas’s good friend Rory
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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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AllMusic Reviews Good Friday In Jerusalem
AllMusic.com’s James Manheim has a new review for our Good Friday In Jerusalem release! “It takes a good deal of scholarly effort to reconstruct a program like this from manuscripts in various places (some are Armenian) and at various levels of notational detail. The result, though, is spectacular. The chants were sung (if this reconstruction
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Pre-Order LIVE IN GREECE!
Pre-Order Cappella Romana’s new CD: LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California Pre-release sale (not available in stores until August) Order here online. Free Shippingwhen you make a tax-deductible gift ($25 or more) by June 30. * Add your gift in the shopping cart and use the VOUCHER code: freeship.*Applies to all orders of any of our recordings. In September 2011
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Pre-Order Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia TODAY!
Cappella Romana’s highly anticipated recording, Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia: Medieval Byzantine Chant, is coming out on November 29! Pre-order your copy today, and help put this record on the Billboard Classical Charts. You can also add the recording to your Wishlist, and make sure to share it with your friends! Pre-Order and Help Put
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Pre-Order Our Venice in the East Recording Today!
Cappella Romana’s next recording Venice in the East will be released on August 30! Pre-order your copy today, and help put this record on the Billboard Classical Charts. You can also add the recording to your Wishlist, and make sure to share it with your friends! Pre-Order and Help Put us on the Charts! Venice
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Portland Gala Speakers Announced!
RSVP today for A Night on the Aegean! Purchase tickets online or call 503.236.8202 RSVPs welcome as long as space is available or until Sept. 19th Portland Gala Guest Speakers: Fr. John Bakas Dean of the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Los Angeles, CA Founder of Camp AGAPE ‘Kids ‘n Cancer’ program President of the
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Free Book When You Order Two or More CDs!
Special Offer for Cappella Romana Fans: FREE BOOK on Byzantine Hmnography with your order of 2 CDs or more! Sacred Songs: Studies in Byzantine Hymnography by Eva Catafygiotu Topping LOOK INSIDE the book (PDF of sample pages) “Eva Topping’s book brings together seventeen important studies which examine in careful detail the rich bounty of Byzantine
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Byzantine Christmas: Sun of Justice – Taking the Journey
The ecclesiastical feast day celebrating the Nativity of Jesus Christ – which came to be called simply “Christ’s Mass,” or “Christmas” in English – was added to the calendar in the Eastern Church somewhat later than other major feasts. Originally, Christ’s Nativity and Baptism were celebrated on the same day: Epiphany (January 6). Much has
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Cappella Romana presents: The Arvo Pärt Festival
The first-ever festival in North America dedicated to the music of Estonian Orthodox composer Arvo Pärt will take place February 5 – 12, 2017 in Portland, Oregon, presented by the Northwest’s leading professional chamber choir, Cappella Romana. Arvo Pärt is the most performed living composer in the world. Full information. The Arvo Pärt Festival features
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Good Friday In Jerusalem Liner Notes
In the year 637 AD the orthodox Christian Patriarch Sophronios (d. 638) surrendered Byzantine Jerusalem to the Arab Caliph Umar, inaugurating a period of Muslim rule in the Holy City that would last until its conquest by Latin Crusaders in 1099. Although subject to tribute, Jerusalem’s Christian inhabitants retained the right to continue celebrating both
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