Fri., Sep 10 (Portland); Sat., Sep 11 (Seattle)
Media Vita: In the Midst of Life
Guy Protheroe from London makes his Cappella Romana debut, featuring John Sheppard's monumental "Media vita in morte sumus" ("In the midst of life we are in death"). St. Thomas Aquinas was said to have been moved to tears by these sublime words.

Sat., Nov 6 (Portland); Sun., Nov 7 (Seattle)
The Bodiless Powers: Angelic Song in Byzantine Chant
The Orthodox East has always viewed its earthly music-making as a living icon of angelic praise. John Michael Boyer will lead the men of Cappella Romana in a program of traditional Byzantine music expressing in song the angels' mediation between the earthly and the divine.

Fri., Jan. 7 (Portland); Sat., Jan 8 (Seattle)
Baroque Christmas in Russia and Ukraine
Slavic music expert Mark Bailey from Yale University returns with a program of native Slavic chants and extravagant Baroque motets for Christmastide - opening on Christmas Day in the Slavic Calendar (Jan. 7 in the modern calendar)

Sat., Apr. 2 (Portland); Sun., Apr 3 (Seattle)
Ivan Moody: The Akáthistos Hymn
Inaugurating our 20th Anniversary.   Father Moody's 1998 setting of the Akathistos Hymn, composed specially for Cappella Romana, weaves beloved Greek melodies into Russian choral textures as it progresses from reverent contemplation to ecstatic transcendence.

Sat, 6 Mar through Sun, 7 Mar 2010
Yale Russian Chorus: The Slavic Spirit
Conducted by Mark Bailey, the Yale Russian Chorus is a tenor-bass a cappella choral ensemble from Yale University specializing in Slavic choral music. Founded in 1953, the YRC is recognized as one of the world’s premier ensembles of Slavic music today.

Fri, 12 Feb through Sat, 13 Feb 2010
Stevan Hristic: Requiem
Cappella favorite Ivan Moody--composer, conductor and Orthodox priest--returns with a Serbian program featuring a major work by Stevan Hristić, whose music taps his Serbian roots, especially in his moving choral masterpiece Opelo, or Requiem.

Fri, 8 Jan through Sat, 9 Jan 2010
A Byzantine Christmas
The virtuoso Byzantine cantor from Athens Achilleas Chaldeakis makes his Cappella Romana directing debut in a program of Byzantine chants for the Christmas season, including ecstatic verses from the Polyeleos for Christmas.

Fri, 6 Nov through Sun, 15 Nov 2009
Renaissance Encounters: Greek East and Latin West
The Renaissance was fed by encounters, both real and imagined, between Western Europeans and Greeks. Hear how Byzantine and Latin musicians of the 15th and 16th centuries captured these cultural meetings in music.   With appearances at Princeton University, Yale University, and the New York series Music Before 1800.

Fri, 7 Aug through Mon, 10 Aug 2009
Arvo Pärt: Odes of Repentance
Cappella Romana offers a selection of Arvo Pärt's English and Slavonic works including Triodion and excerpts of his monumental Kanon Pokajanen. With performances at MusicFest Vancouver and on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada.

Sunday, May 10
A Time for Life
A Time for Life is a bold new work by Robert Kyr that explores one of contemporary society's most critical issues: living in harmony with the environment. World-renowned early music ensemble Medieval Strings joins Cappella Romana for this program.

Monday, May 4, 2009
Byzantium in Rome (Sacramento)
Cappella Romana Vocal Ensemble, Byzantine chant soloists
Alexander Lingas, Artistic Director A breathtaking presentation of Medieval Byzantine Chant sung from manuscripts produced at the Abbey of Grottaferrata in the suburban hills of Rome, which has operated continuously in the Byzantine rite since its founding in 1004, fifty years before the Great Schism. This presentation also bears unique witness to music sung in Constantinople before the Crusader sack of 1204.

Sunday, May 3, 2009
Byzantium in Rome (Stanford)
Cappella Romana Vocal Ensemble, Byzantine chant soloists
Alexander Lingas, Artistic Director A breathtaking presentation of Medieval Byzantine Chant sung from manuscripts produced at the Abbey of Grottaferrata in the suburban hills of Rome, which has operated continuously in the Byzantine rite since its founding in 1004, fifty years before the Great Schism. This presentation also bears unique witness to music sung in Constantinople before the Crusader sack of 1204.

1 May (Portland), 2 May (Seattle), 2009
Byzantium in Rome
Cappella Romana Vocal Ensemble, Byzantine chant soloists
Alexander Lingas, Artistic Director A breathtaking presentation of Medieval Byzantine Chant sung from manuscripts produced at the Abbey of Grottaferrata in the suburban hills of Rome, which has operated continuously in the Byzantine rite since its founding in 1004, fifty years before the Great Schism. This presentation also bears unique witness to music sung in Constantinople before the Crusader sack of 1204.