Tag: Alexander Lingas

  • Odes of Repentance Preview with Alexander Lingas

    Odes of Repentance Preview with Alexander Lingas

    Dr. Alexander Lingas gives a quick look at our Odes of Repentance: Arvo Pärt and Galina Grigorjeva concert series (September 29-October 1): Odes of Repentance Seattle Friday 29 SEPTEMBER 2023, 7:30 P.M.St. James Cathedral Portland Saturday 30 SEPTEMBER 2023, 8:00 P.M.St. Mary’s Cathedral Portland SUNDAY 1 OCTOBER 2023, 3:00 P.M.THE MADELEINE PARISH Grigorjeva & Pärt

  • You can help us reach our $25K goal: Just $3K left to go!

    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…

  • Alexander Lingas and the Byzantine Chant Ensemble Make Headlines Around the World

    Alexander Lingas and the Byzantine Chant Ensemble Make Headlines Around the World

    If you weren’t able to watch the Coronation live, or on re-broadcast this weekend, enjoy the clip of Alexander Lingas and the Byzantine Chant Ensemble during the Ceremony: Streaming on Apple Music and more as part of The Official Album of The Coronation: From Greece to the United States and more, Alexander Lingas and the…

  • Alexander Lingas Leads the Byzantine Chant Ensemble in Psalm 71

    Alexander Lingas Leads the Byzantine Chant Ensemble in Psalm 71

    Details of King Charles’ Coronation Service at Westminster Abbey on May 6 have officially been published and provide the context in which Cappella Romana music director Alexander Lingas will lead the Byzantine Chant Ensemble in performance during the ceremony: The Presentation of Regalia Peers from non-Christian faiths and senior Anglican bishops present the regalia. During…

  • Alexander Lingas and Cappella Romana Featured on Greek Radio’s Third Program

    Alexander Lingas and Cappella Romana Featured on Greek Radio’s Third Program

    Greek Radio’s Third Programme show “Egnatia Odos”, hosted by Iannis Dovolos, has broadcast a six-part series featuring a look through Cappella Romana’s complete discography and interviews with Artistic Director Alexander Lingas! Listen to the programs on demand: Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six

  • Alexander Lingas to Lead Byzantine Chant Ensemble for the Coronation at Westminster Abbey

    Alexander Lingas to Lead Byzantine Chant Ensemble for the Coronation at Westminster Abbey

    Dr. Alexander Lingas, founder and music director of Cappella Romana, will lead the Byzantine Chant Ensemble in the Coronation at Westminster Abbey on Saturday, 6 May 2023.  Buckingham Palace recently announced that “at the request of His Majesty, in tribute to his late father His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Greek Orthodox…

  • Cappella Romana at the Maliotis Cultural Center in Boston

    Cappella Romana at the Maliotis Cultural Center in Boston

    Cappella Romana and the Maliotis Cultural Center are collaborating to launch Byzantine Chant: The Received Tradition , A Lesson Book, the long-awaited, comprehensive manual on the psaltic art by John Michael Boyer, Protopsaltis of the Metropolis of San Francisco and our Associate Music Director. The Maliotis Cultural Center is hosting the event in the auditorium…

  • Dr. Alexander Lingas and Dr. Siren Çelik discuss A Byzantine Emperor at King Henry’s Court

    Dr. Alexander Lingas and Dr. Siren Çelik discuss A Byzantine Emperor at King Henry’s Court

    Dr. Alexander Lingas and Dr. Siren Çelik discuss Emperor Manuel II, the Emperor in A Byzantine Emperor at King Henry’s Court: Siren Çelik is Assistant Professor in the History Department, Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Marmara University, Istanbul. She obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham. Her main research interests are Late Byzantine…

  • Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: Music for Easter Sunday

    Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: Music for Easter Sunday

    Welcome to the fourth playlist from the archives of Cappella Romana, we turn to music celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday, a feast called ‘Pascha’ in Greek and Slavonic. As a way of offering you my own seasonal greetings, I am concluding this week’s list with a choral setting of this hymn that…

  • Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: Holy Week 2

    Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: Holy Week 2

    Welcome to the third in a new series of playlists from the archives of Cappella Romana, featuring hymns selected from the Byzantine services of Holy Thursday and Holy Friday. Next week I will be back with Easter music from the archives of Cappella Romana. Meanwhile, please remember that streaming services return very little to their…

  • Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: Holy Week 1

    Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: Holy Week 1

    Welcome to the second episode in this new series of playlists from the archives of Cappella Romana. During this week and the next in 2020, Western and Eastern Christians are journeying through Holy Week – the devotionally intense period from Palm Sunday through Good Friday to Easter Sunday. This year instead of attending or, more…

  • Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: The Akáthistos & Great Lent

    Although the Coronavirus crisis is temporarily preventing our wonderful artists from gathering to sing for you, I will be creating a series of playlists featuring music taken not only from Cappella Romana’s commercially released CDs, but also from our archive of live recordings. This, my first playlist, features selections from two services of the Byzantine…