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“He led with his heart, and what a huge, open heart it was!”: The leader of Portland Chamber Orchestra and the Siletz Bay Music Festival leaves a giant gap among musicians and friends.
Authentic music making and memories highlighted the recent PSCO concert “Authentic Self,” which featured music by Mozart alongside works by Florence Beatrice Price, Gerald Finzi, Joaquín Turina, and more.
Tackling apocalypse and perseverance with the local consort of professional and amateur musicians.
The Portland production of the doomsaying contemporary opera balanced farce and gloom.
Another year, another symphony season. Join our Puzzlemaster-in-Residence Daryl Browne as she conducts you through the musical highlights with this month’s crossword puzzle.
Choirs all over Oregon and Southwest Washington celebrate the close of summer programs and the beginning of fall concerts.
As summer’s end draws near and a new arts season approaches, some Oregon music institutions are welcoming new leadership, while others have suffered losses.
The trio of violinist Inés Voglar Belgique, cellist-composer Nancy Ives, and pianist Susan DeWitt Smith performed music by Tomáš Svoboda, Ernest Bloch, David Schiff, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Ives.
An intimate, experiential report from the long-running Happy Valley campout music festival.
Patience, attention to detail, and years of experience are big factors in this niche profession.
Working hard with Renegade Opera, Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival, Cascadia Composers, Lose Yr Mind Fest, Ural Thomas, Amenta “Yawa” Abioto, and more.
Musician/educator Mary-Sue Tobin premieres new music based on classroom experiences as she joins musicians Alan Jones, Darrell Grant, Domo Branch, and others at the 10th Annual Montavilla Jazz Festival.
Local production of Nico Muhly’s opera brings complex emotions and conflicting points of view to Lincoln Hall.
Renegade Opera’s artistic director, Danielle Jagelski, talks about the company’s beginnings, its approach to opera, and its upcoming production, “Adam’s Run.”
Mobile venue SoundsTruck NW hosted an improv-based concert co-sponsored by IRCO and Montavilla Jazz.
A conversation with the Nasalrod bassist and DIY label chief.
The singer and guitarist performed a sizzling set of jazz standards and pop classics at Portland’s struggling jazz club.
Organizers say this weekend’s show aims not only to feature local and regional bands, but also to draw national bands to the city’s growing music scene.
The new-music flutist joins an extensive roster of musicians at four concerts on the coast.
OrpheusPDX’s production of American composer Nico Muhly’s contemporary chamber opera explores women’s complicated relationship with their religion — and each other.
As the festival winds up, a pair of concerts at Archery Summit and Sokol Blosser wineries create a tasty blend of new and old sounds.
The Cascadia Composers founder leaves a legacy in music and more.
“How Can You Own the Sky? A Symphonic Poem Honoring Native Wisdom” tells the story of the forced march of Native Americans from the Rogue Valley to the Coast.
In the first of two summer productions, OrpheusPDX staged a gender-bent version of “Il Re Pastore.”
The fourth in the festival’s new music series featured new-but-not-too-new music by Alistair Coleman, Aiden Kane and Kian Ravaei, performed by the Viano Quartet.
Moments to remember from this year’s festival of chamber music.
A conversation with the Protégé Project composer.
Remembering David Bernstein, Tomáš Svoboda, and Metallica. A vinyl celebration of Roselit Bone, Spoon Benders, The Shivas, and Møtrick. Joe Kye sings about grandma.
The absurd quest for immortality was explored in a world premiere at Chamber Music Northwest.
This year’s festival features a commemorative wine, named and bottled in honor of composer-in-residence Kareem Roustom, paired with music by Roustom, Hawa Diabaté, Caroline Shaw, Kenji Bunch, and Beethoven.
Time for Three, Anne Akiko Meyers, and Orli Shaham headline the newly-minted festival in downtown Vancouver.
The concert of mostly new and contemporary music featured Amelia Lukas performing Deena T. Grossman and Tania Léon; Anthony McGill, Gloria Chien, and Catalyst Quartet performing Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Brahms; and music by pianist-composer Stewart Goodyear.
Six flutists performed music by the esteemed Oregon composer.
The warhorse-at-a-winery production featured students from the festival’s Young Artists Showcase–and a last minute replacement.
On a balmy July evening on a Beaverton farm, The Concerts at the Barn kicked off their summer season. For audience and musicians alike, the sights and sounds were delicious.
Long-running festival celebrates four centuries of Byrd with concerts, recitals, lectures, and more.
Quest for the divine receives evocative hybrid treatment in David Ludwig and Katie Ford’s “contemporary monodrama.”
A Q&A with Roustom, composer-in-residence for this year’s Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival.
The passing of Cascadia founder David Bernstein, and other leadership transitions.
Last Wednesday’s concert in the Armory–the second-to-last in Chamber Music Northwest’s series of midweek new music programs–presented young-people-friendly music by Magnus Lindberg, Patrick Castillo, Lembit Beecher, and Edvard Bagdasaryan.
The second of Chamber Music Northwest’s new-music themed concerts presented multi-composer miniatures for string quartet alongside music by Goodyear, James Lee III, and Adolphus Hailstork.
The composer-performer flute-viola-harp trio premiered their own music alongside R. Murray Schafer’s similarly Debussy-influenced trio.
The long-running and beloved string quartet made two Portland stops on their farewell tour, performing with Gloria Chien and David Shifrin for CMNW.
The Oregon Bach Festival’s choral education program, now in its 25th year, celebrated last week with a performance of Penderecki’s “Credo.”
The mobile venue hosted a performance of music by Andy Akiho alongside French and Japanese composers.
The ninth annual day-long new music festival at PICA featured music by Crumb and Takemitsu alongside a clutch of Pacific Northwest composers that included Adams, Bunch, Johanson, Miksch, Svoboda, and Volness.
The Oregon wine country music festival’s Young Artists program is helping young opera singers get a leg up on their careers.
Oregon poet S. Renee Mitchell opened a concert of Schubert and Bolcom songs performed by Susanna Phillips alongside instrumental works by Schumann and Brahms.
Bobby Bermea talks with the Portland rising star of stage and song about her musical passion and her new album, “Happy Girl.”
Organizers say tickets are going fast for the event, which will feature the Irish band Dervish and Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas as headliners.
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