Cappella Romana

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Cappella Romana is a vocal ensemble founded in 1991 in Portland, Oregon. Its name, meaning "Roman Chapel", refers to the medieval Greek concept of the Roman oikoumene (inhabited world), which embraced Rome and Western Europe, as well as the Byzantine Empire of Constantinople ("New Rome") and its Slavic commonwealth centered at Moscow^[1]. It has become especially known for its exploration of Eastern Orthodox vocal music. It has collaborated with notable museum exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ^[2] in New York and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

The ensemble is directed by Alexander Lingas, a musicologist of Byzantine music at City University, London. Guest artists with similar interests regularly appear with the ensemble, including Ivan Moody, Ioannis Arvanitis, and Vladimir Morosan.

It has pioneered the performance of Medieval Byzantine chant and contemporary works related to the Byzantine tradition.