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San Francisco 2O25-26 Series
San Francisco 2025-26 Series Christmas With Cappella Cappella RomanaAlexander Lingas, music director Sun 4 Jan 2O26, 3:OO PM Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox999 Brotherhood Way, San Francisco Let your holiday spirit soar with Cappella Romana’s beloved Christmas concert, featuring selections of Richard Toensing’s moving Kontakion on the Nativity of Christ and music by Kassianí, the earliest female
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Echoes of the Renaissance — Program Notes
In his magisterial The Rise of European Music, 1380–1500, Reinhard Strohm traces the development and dissemination of complex styles of music written with multiple voice parts using measured (‘mensural’) notation that enabled precise rhythmic coordination of the voices. By the middle of the fifteenth century the most notable centers for the production of this polyphonic
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Tallis Scholars
Tallis Scholars Mysteries and Miracles The Tallis ScholarsPeter Phillips, director Experience the wonder of miracles through music that stirs the soul. Tracing the life of Christ, from the mystery of his birth to his radiant resurrection, hear storms calmed and demons cast out in vivid motets. Two of Arvo Pärt’s modern masterpieces complete the program,
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Passion for Life
Passion for Life Steinberg & Gretchaninov, Survivors of the Soviet Regime Cappella RomanaAlexander Lingas, music director Oregon ArtsWatch Preview Banned, buried, and resurrected: Orthodox hymns for Holy Week that survived the Stalinist machine, brought to life in the deeply moving Passion Week settings by Maximilian Steinberg and Alexander Gretchaninov. Cappella Romana’s world premiere of Steinberg’s Passion
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Christmas With Cappella
Christmas With Cappella Music for the 12 Days of Christmas A Seattle Times Must-See Holiday Concert! Cappella RomanaAlexander Lingas, music director Let your holiday spirit soar with Cappella Romana’s beloved Christmas concert, featuring selections of Richard Toensing’s moving Kontakion on the Nativity of Christ and music by Kassianí, the earliest female composer whose music survives. Plus
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Cappella Romana is hiring!
Open Positions Office Assistant, Part-time Job Title: Office Assistant, Part-timeReports to: Executive DirectorStatus: 20 hrs/week; some up to 30 hrs/week, nonexemptCompensation: c $25/hr based on experienceLocation: In-person, Portland, Oregon (not remote). Description This regularly 20-hour-a-week part-time position will assist Cappella Romana staff with basic office tasks. These include acting as receptionist, printing and mailing tickets, shipping
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Home
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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Sun of Justice on Ancient Faith Radio
John Michael Boyer and John El Massih join the Ancient Faith Radio podcast to talk about the debut PRÓTO release, Sun of Justice! Listen and subscribe at AncientFaith.com http://audio.ancientfaith.com/interviews/afp_2017-12-06.mp3 Order Now Sun of Justice: Byzantine Chant for Christmas in Greek, Arabic, and English Cappella Romana Media combines passion with scholarship in its exploration of early
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Good Friday In Jerusalem Now Available!
Good Friday In Jerusalem Now Available for Purchase and Download Purchase Direct from Cappella Romana Amazon.com Amazon UK iTunes ArkivMusic Stream [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/188154336″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/190282564″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Good Friday In Jerusalem: Medieval Byzantine Chant from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Alexander Lingas, artistic director and soloist;
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Oregonian Classical Blog
David Stabler blogged on his experience of the dress rehearsal for A Time for Life: http://blog.oregonlive.com/classicalmusic/2007/11/i_never_attend_rehearsals_exce.html Music Criticism for Dummies Posted by David Stabler November 01, 2007 11:09AM Categories: News Olivia Bucks One of the rules in “Music Criticism for Dummies,” just below “10 Tricks to Stay Awake at Concerts” and “100 Cliches to Sneak
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Why Is There Water Dripping down My Face? A Night at Pop-Up Magazine.
“my whole body shivered and the tears started up.” Review from the Stranger, Seattle: Still, it wasn’t just the sad stories that triggered crying. Sam Harnett brought along the Cappella Romana choir, a vocal ensemble based in Portland that sings ancient religious chants. The singers were brilliant on their own, but then Harnett told us
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Seattle Machaut Review
“The most visceral part of the recital was simply the experience of hearing this music in a close approximation to its original acoustical and architectural context. What’s more, partaking in Machaut’s Messe reinforces why Medieval music is so fascinating to contemporary composers. Listening to it is rather like listening to a 20th century landmark composition
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