-
Venetian Baroque in March!
Venetian Baroque: Galuppi + Vivaldi + Bortniansky CAPPELLA ROMANA, PORTLAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA at the PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, conducted by Mark Bailey. Grand scale and rarely heard sacred choral works by Baldassare Galuppi, who was Maestro di Cappella at San Marco in Venice as well as at Catherine the Great’s Imperial Chapel in St. Petersburg. Includes…
-
Dr. Achilleas G. Chaldaiakis Leads Cappella Romana in A Patriarch’s Chants This Weekend
This Weekend: A Patriarch’s Chants: Music By +Athanasios V Virtuoso Byzantine cantor from Athens, Dr. Achilleas G. Chaldaiakis returns to conduct Cappella Romana in a program of unusual and never-before-heard Byzantine chants. Dr. Chaldaiakis is associate professor of Byzantine Musicology at the University of Athens and director of the Maestros of the Psaltic Art), an…
-
Get A Patriarch’s Chants Tickets Today!
A Patriarch’s Chants: Music By +ATHANASIOS V Archbishop of Constantinople New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch Guest Director DR. ACHILLEAS G. CHALDAIAKISΠροσκεκλημένος Διευθυντής ΑΧΙΛΛΕΥΣ Γ. ΧΑΛΔΑΙΆΚΗΣMaestros of the Psaltic Art & The University of Athens The virtuoso Byzantine cantor from Athens, Achilleas Chaldaiakis, returns to direct a program of unusual and never-before-heard Byzantine chants by +ATHANASIOS…
-
Free Season Preview!
Free Season Preview Concerts This Sunday, September 8! Season Previews at at Middle Eastern Festival, St. George Orthodox Church This Sunday, 8 September at 2:00pm and 4:30pm Selections from and related to Cappella Romana’s 2013-14 Season: Byzantine Chant Music of Orthodox Finland Russian Orthodox choral works Music for the Environment Also includes selections from the…
-
Save 25% on 2013-2014 Season Subscription Online Today!
Subscribe to the Cappella Romana 2013-2014 Season Online and Save 25%! These past few weeks, we’ve profiled the highlights of the 2013-2014 concert season. Have a look back at the previews here! Join the audience and save up to 25% by subscribing — Now Online! The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood (whose mosaics…
-
Cappella Romana 22nd Season
These past few weeks, we’ve profiled the highlights of the 2013-2014 concert season. Have a look back at the previews here! Join the audience and save up to 25% by subscribing! The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood (whose mosaics are pictured on the right) is unusual in St. Petersburg in that it harkens…
-
Looking Back at A Time For Life
As we look forward to our May 2014 performance of Robert Kyr’s A Time For Life with the Third Angle New Music Ensemble, have a look back at an Oregonian review of our world premiere concert: “During an hour of music, the eight excellent voices of Cappella Romana (sopranos DenBeste and Stephanie Kramer, altos Jo…
-
Coming in May 2014 – A Time for Life
Robert Kyr Robert Kyr: A Time For Life An Environmental Oratorio with Third Angle new Music Ensemble Just after Earth Day (April 22), Cappella Romana reprises the exciting and innovative work by Northwest composer Robert Kyr, A Time for Life, commissioned by Cappella Romana for its premiere in 2007. Kyr’s work is inspired by the…
-
Passion Week composer Maximilian Steinberg
A little about the April 2014 Passion Week composer Maximilian Steinberg Russian composer and teacher, Maximilian Steinberg from the St Petersburg University conservatory in 1908 where his teachers had been Rimsky-Korsakov (composition), Lyadov (harmony) and Glazunov (orchestration). In 1908 he began his teaching career at the conservatory, where he was a teacher of noted students…
-
Coming April 2014 — Passion Week
Passion Week by Maximilian Steinberg Sacred Music in Post-Revolutionary Russia This April, for the first time in recorded history, Cappella Romana presents the last major sacred work composed in Russia before Stalin’s 1932 crackdown: Passion Week by Maximilian Steinberg. You’ll gain insights into Steinberg’s complicated personal history: he was born into a Jewish family in…
-
Preview Arctic Light: Finnish Orthodox Music
Earlier this week, we previewed our upcoming Arctic Light: Finnish Orthodox Music concert, so today, we’re sharing a look back at our past Arctic Light performance under the direction of Ivan Moody: Arctic Light: Finnish Orthodox Music Guest Director Rev. Dr. Ivan Moody Call Today For Tickets & Subscriptions: 503.236.8202 | 800.494.8497 Portland 8pm, Fri.,…
-
Coming January 2014 – Arctic Light: Finnish Orthodox Music
Arctic Light: Finnish Orthodox Music Guest Director Rev. Dr. Ivan Moody This sumptuous program of choral works from the Orthodox Church of Finland was first performed to sold-out audiences in 2007, directed by one of the world’s foremost experts in the repertoire, Rev. Dr. Ivan Moody: composer, Orthodox priest, and professor of Orthodox Church Music…
You must be logged in to post a comment.