The William Byrd Festival

06/05/2024

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This Sunday at St. Patrick's Church! O SACRUM CONVIVIUM: Music in Honor of the Blessed Sacrament Sunday, June 9, 4pm  Tickets HERE Join Cantores in Ecclesia on Sunday, June 9th for a special afternoo

05/23/2024

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Concert Sunday June 9 at St. Patrick's Thank you! We are grateful to all who attended our 'Byrd at the Vineyard' fundraising event at Lady Hill Winery! Sarah Wright took some great photos that can be

04/29/2024

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James O'Donnell Portland Concert May 12 This Sunday! Click HERE for tickets! (No ticketing fees) A Benefit Event for the 25th Annual William Byrd Festival Sunday, May 5, 5:30 pm LADY HILL WINERY Colu

04/10/2024

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Tickets on sale now A Benefit Event for the 25th Annual William Byrd Festival May 5, 2024 5:30 pm LADY HILL WINERY Columban Hall 8400 Champoeg Rd NE St. Paul, OR 97137 Advanced tickets: $75 This year

03/22/2024

Thanks so much to Daryl Browne and ArtsWatch for this lovely preview of our concert!

Please join us for ATTENDE DOMINE: A Lenten Journey this Sunday at 7 pm at St. Patrick Catholic Church! 🎶

Choral offerings from Bach chorales to world peace to Sweet Honey in the Rock.

02/10/2024

I spy with my little eye….. Mark Williams! We’re grateful to have Mark here for a short visit here in Portland! This means we’re already getting ready for this year’s 25th annual William Byrd Festival! It’s a big year and we’ll have big things planned- so stay tuned! Mark will be providing the organ music for the 11am Dominican Rite Mass on Sunday, February 11 at Holy Rosary-

02/09/2024

Please join us on February 14, at Holy Rosary for Ash Wednesday. We will be singing Palestrina’s Missa Emendemus in Melina-
Note: Dominican Rite distribution and imposition of ashes is BEFORE mass

12/23/2023

Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas with Byrd’s Offertory Motet for Christmas Day from our 2023 William Byrd Festival!

Byrd's Offertory Motet for Christmas DayRecorded at the 2023 William Byrd FestivalPortland, ORConducted by Blake Applegate

12/23/2023

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Video: Byrd Christmas Motet Merry Christmas from Cantores! Dear friends, It was heartwarming to see so many in attendance at our Winter Wonderland fundraiser event this past weekend. It meant a great

12/05/2023

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New Website and Video Celebrate 40 years of Cantores in Ecclesia Visit our new website! cantoresinecclesia.org Tickets available HERE ! This year marks the 40th anniversary of Cantores in Ecclesia! Jo

10/30/2023

Please join us this week as we sing some beautiful Victoria for All Saints and All Souls

10/17/2023

Tomorrow night! The men of Cantores in Ecclesia will sing Jacobus de Merle’s Missa Regina Coeli at 7pm for the Feast of St. Luke, reception follows

09/12/2023

After a little break following the end of the festival- cantores returns to Holy Rosary on Thursday, Sept 14 at 7pm for the Exaltation of the Holy Cross! Singing Victoria’s Missa Quarti Toni

08/18/2023

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Saturday Lecture by Dr. Kerry McCarthy | Byrd's Mass for Five Voices The William Byrd Festival FINAL CONCERT This Sunday! ‘Anniversary – marking 400 years since the death of William Byrd’ Tickets stil

08/16/2023

“And Byrd’s do sing-Byrd’s Music At Home” directed by Dr. Ross Duffin featuring the Byrd Festival Consort- TONIGHT at 7pm, at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church!

08/13/2023

TOMORROW 4:15pm at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral- Mark Williams will give a recital entitled “Anniversaries” performing music by Byrd, Mendelssohn, Wagner and more! Don’t miss it!

08/13/2023

TOMORROW- William Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices at 11am at Holy Rosary celebrating the external solemnity of St. Dominic

08/09/2023

SATURDAY 8/12: PUBLIC LECTURE:
Dr. Katie Bank will be giving a lectured entitled “Byrd’s Visual World” at 11 am in Aquinas Hall at Holy Rosary Church.
She is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Birmingham. Please welcome Dr. Katie Bank to the William Byrd Festival! We are thrilled you’re here!

08/09/2023

TONIGHT! 7pm at Kempton Hall at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
Don’t miss it.

Please welcome Will Dawes, of Stile Antico, to the William Byrd Festival! He will lead a choral workshop this Wednesday, 8/9 at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral’s Kempton Hall exploring “How do musicians decide what is best when it comes to interpreting the music of William Byrd?” Be sure to attend!

08/09/2023

Rehearsing for Evensong conducted by the director of the festival, .blake

08/07/2023

Please welcome Will Dawes, of Stile Antico, to the William Byrd Festival! He will lead a choral workshop this Wednesday, 8/9 at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral’s Kempton Hall exploring “How do musicians decide what is best when it comes to interpreting the music of William Byrd?” Be sure to attend!

08/06/2023

Tonight at 8pm- enjoy The William Byrd Festival singing a Compline service.

08/06/2023

08/04/2023

We are looking forward to launching our 24th Annual William Byrd Festival tonight with our Opening Concert: ‘Byrd Gradualia - An illustrated recital with Kerry McCarthy’ at 7:30 pm at St. Patrick’s Church, followed by a courtyard reception!

Here’s a rehearsal snippet from Byrd’s O Magnum mysterium.

08/04/2023

Many thanks to for having the William Byrd Consort on their Thursdays @ 3 program! We hope you tuned in to hear a preview of the festival. Check our stories for a link to the archive so you can listen in. We saw many friends in the studio, and big thanks to for catching some pictures for us- it was wonderful to see you! Tonight is the opening concert for the festival- don’t miss it!

08/03/2023

From our time - a lovely preview of the festival!

08/03/2023

Listen live Thursday at 3pm on

08/03/2023

Tune in to All Classical’s Thursdays @ Three program tomorrow for a William Byrd Festival preview!

August 3, 2023: Host Christa Wessel welcomes the Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival and the William Byrd Festival to the Roger O. Doyle performance studio. Megumi Stohs Lewis and Sasha Callahan, violins; Charles Noble and Bradley Ottesen, violas; and Leo Eguchi, cello will represent the Wi...

07/29/2023

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Friday, Aug. 4: Byrd Gradualia – An illustrated recital with Kerry McCarthy   William Byrd Festival Opening Concert Friday, August 4, 7:30pm St. Patrick's Catholic Church 1623 NW 19th Ave, Portland, O

07/29/2023

Full list of services, concerts, lectures and workshops!