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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.
The first of CMNW’s Wednesday night new music concerts brought composer trio umama womama to Alberta Rose Theatre.
In which we consider the meanings of music with a Fresh Air Fest, a Columbia Riverkeeper composer-in-residence, a pair of rowdy rock concerts, and a sampling of Chamber Music Northwest.
A recent OBF/CMNW concert presented Bach’s great choral work alongside its contemporary competitors.
A report from within the one-day festival of new music, hosted this year at Portland State University.
NMG 2023 acknowledged loss and celebrated recovery with concerts indoors and outside.
Pianist Hunter Noack’s wandering combination of classical music and natural beauty is reaching new audiences in new places.
One of the first concerts of this year’s summer festival tore down the house with music by Schubert and Fauré.
The skeleton celebrants of Mysti Krewe of Nimbus bring a sweet New Orleans flavor to Portland’s annual outdoor bash of the blues.
The blues festival, a downtown summer highlight since 1988, lays down its groove through July Fourth. Photographer Joe Cantrell captures Saturday’s opening-day action.
Hurtling into Fourth of July weekend and the height of summer with Waterfront Blues Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Oregon Bach Festival, and The Thesis.
“Out There Jazz Suite” transmutes Hillsboro sculptures into a recording, a multimedia concert, and a community collaboration.
The Emerson String Quartet’s longtime violist, performing at Chamber Music Northwest and the Oregon Bach Festival on its final tour, discusses the group’s history and its decision to retire.
The Music Critics Association of North America chooses ArtsWatch writers Angela Allen as secretary and James Bash as treasurer.
The vocal ensemble partnered with Indigenous artists for a rained-in festival at Lewis & Clark’s Agnes Flanagan Chapel.
This year’s five-week festival, commencing this weekend, highlights the relationship between two art forms.
An interview with the mezzo soprano, performing this weekend and next week in the first round of Chamber Music Northwest concerts.
In “Pacific Waters” at the Corvallis Arts Center, students composed works for strings to go with Mary Frisbee Johnson’s water sketches.
Yoko and Jon Greeney talk about the development of their new mobile music venue, hitting the road this summer with shows featuring Charlie Brown III and Lo Steele, Andy Akiho, and more.
The Asian-American singer recently shone in Huang Ruo’s “Bound” with Seattle Opera and “Rusalka” with Portland Opera.
The Oregon composer organization blended works by its members with works by the mercurial Hungarian.
Festivals large and small with Resonance Ensemble, Makrokosmos Project, New Music Gathering, Chamber Music Northwest, Brittfest, and more.
Oregon choirs end their first full season in three years with Bach, Ešenvalds, Nancy Ives, Stacey Philipps, Judy Rose, and so much more.
This year’s symposium, in collaboration with the Oregon Bach Festival, features guest artists from Seoul as well as Japanese shakuhachi, Balinese gamelan, and western classical ensemble.
Talking Early and Modern music with the versatile prima soprano.
The vocal ensemble and youth orchestra performed women-centered works by Kareem Roustom and Jessica Meyer.
The Portland company presented a refreshingly inventive birdsong-themed outdoor program at Leach Botanical Garden.
The Portland-based ensemble performs Philip Glass’ science-fiction music drama under the Spruce Goose as the finale to its season exploring the human mind.
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