Capela Compostelana was created with the intention to bring back to light the music of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Our performance comes from the use of vocal and instrumental techniques proper to each period and style; this is, to our advice, the right practice to understand and enjoy works so much distant to us in time. In this way, we try to learn, with humility and respect, the practice of those musicians contemporary to them.
The members of the ensemble were trained in the areas of early music and the fate or necessity brought them together in the end of the world, which is Compostela.
Since 1988 Capela Compostelana has performed concerts in Spain, Europe and USA, in prestigious festivals, including: Festival de Vitoria, Via Stellae, Semana de Música Antigua de Estella, Festival Internacional de Deia, Concerts de Música Barroca de Palma, Auditorio de Galicia, Metropolitan of New York, "Festival de Musique Sacree" de San Maló…
Capela Compostelana spends a substantial part of its work to the recovery and promotion of the Spanish Renaissance and Baroque music, with special care to Galician music. In this area Capela Compostelana has released the recordings "José de Vaquedano, Maestro de Capilla de la Catedral de Santiago de Compostela" (Ed. Edigal) and "Villancicos a Santiago" (Ed. Fonti Musicali), with works of one of the most important Master of the Chapel from the “Catedral de Santiago de Compostela”. Capela Compostelana is currently preparing upcoming recordings with Spanish music of this period.
Compostelana Capela pays attention to the recovery of ancient traditions and liturgies from the Cathedral of Santiago, i.e. the Solemn Vespers and Mass of Consecration in the acts of the "Celebration of the Eighth Centenary of the Cathedral of Santiago".
The ensemble collaborates regularly with the “Orfeón Terra a Nosa” and “Capilla Musical de la Catedral de Santiago”.
