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What we keep, what we leave behind: Protégés unite at the final New@Night of CMNW 2023

August 9, 2023Charles Rose

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.

Midsummer evening treats: Five surprises from CMNW 2023

August 9, 2023Angela Allen

Moments to remember from this year’s festival of chamber music.

2023 in Review: What we heard this year

December 30, 2023Matthew Neil Andrews

A longitudinal study of everything we loved (and a few things we didn’t) in Oregon music this year, and last year, world without end, amen.

Enjoying ‘The Little Things’: Kian Ravaei at CMNW

August 3, 2023Angela Allen

A conversation with the Protégé Project composer.

Bursting with fresh ideas built on familiar styles: CMNW’s ‘Uncovered Voices’

July 30, 2023Lorin Wilkerson

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.

An amber light, burning: ‘The Anchoress’ at CMNW

July 26, 2023James Bash

Quest for the divine receives evocative hybrid treatment in David Ludwig and Katie Ford’s “contemporary monodrama.”

There is a common thread: umama womama at CMNW

July 19, 2023Lorin Wilkerson

The composer-performer flute-viola-harp trio premiered their own music alongside R. Murray Schafer’s similarly Debussy-influenced trio.

The determination to move forward: CMNW makes serious and hopeful music with a poetic vibe

July 11, 2023James Bash

Oregon poet S. Renee Mitchell opened a concert of Schubert and Bolcom songs performed by Susanna Phillips alongside instrumental works by Schumann and Brahms.

SoundsTruck NW nominated for SXSW Innovation Award; Kalmar sues Cleveland Institute of Music

February 1, 2024James Bash

The mobile venue is a South By Southwest finalist; the former Oregon Symphony conductor's CIM saga continues.

‘Performance is 100 percent integrated with movement’: Violist Paul Laraia and the Catalyst Quartet at The Old Church

December 4, 2023Angela Allen

The Grammy-nominated quartet’s “¡Viva la Música!” program November 30 (part of their CMNW residency) made the most of the group’s Latin roots, featuring music by Paquito D’Rivera and Astor Piazzolla alongside Ravel, Gershwin, and Shaw.

‘Wiggle! Waggle! Wobble!’: Fred Child, Wang Jie, and Third Sound ‘Blame the Obituary’

August 1, 2023James Bash

The absurd quest for immortality was explored in a world premiere at Chamber Music Northwest.

Twitchy energy: New@Night number three

July 25, 2023Charles Rose

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.

Their edgier sides: New@Night with Catalyst Quartet, Stewart Goodyear, and Anthony McGill

July 19, 2023Angela Allen

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.

A fitting end: Emerson Quartet finales raise the roof twice with bittersweet gusto

July 18, 2023James Bash

The long-running and beloved string quartet made two Portland stops on their farewell tour, performing with Gloria Chien and David Shifrin for CMNW.

Fluid harmonies: New@Night, week one

July 7, 2023Charles Rose

The first of CMNW’s Wednesday night new music concerts brought composer trio umama womama to Alberta Rose Theatre.

Germany’s Got Talent, Leipzig 1723 edition: Framing Bach’s ‘Magnificat’

July 5, 2023Daryl Browne

A recent OBF/CMNW concert presented Bach’s great choral work alongside its contemporary competitors.

With or without words – the topic of love permeates Chamber Music Northwest concert

July 5, 2023James Bash

One of the first concerts of this year’s summer festival tore down the house with music by Schubert and Fauré.

The Oregon School of Composition: A snapshot, circa early 2025

January 23, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews

Upcoming concerts feature Oregon composers performed by Fear No Music, Resonance Ensemble, 45th Parallel Universe, and Delgani String Quartet.

2024 in Review: The story of music – listening back, again

December 26, 2024Matthew Neil Andrews

Following the theme of an intensely musical Oregon year, from parties to studios.

TOC Portland: A new song for an old institution

December 14, 2024Brett Campbell

The venue formerly known as The Old Church Concert Hall reimagines and expands its mission to provide greater support to its home community.

MusicWatch Monthly: Contentment’s numbing trap

November 5, 2024Matthew Neil Andrews

“The Raven,” Witch Mountain, Shaw vs. Shaw, 45th Parallel’s Angel, Hannah Penn’s “Shakespeare Songs,” Ginette DePreist at Oregon Historical Society, and plenty more.

Sounding together: A season’s guide to Oregon orchestras (part two, Around the State)

October 3, 2024Matthew Neil Andrews

Choice selections, from Beaverton to Rogue Valley to Newport and everything in between.

LaJoie Theatre adds new jewel to the Chehalem Cultural Center crown

September 26, 2024David Bates

This month’s opening of the 250-seat theater makes the Newberg cultural hub one of the largest in the state, as well as an example of the “everything-for-everyone” center that thrives in smaller Oregon cities.

Music is music, you can’t be too precious about it: Chamber Music Northwest’s New@Night series featuring Caroline Shaw, Kyle Rivera and Jörg Widmann

August 27, 2024Charles Rose

CMNW 2024’s new music series spotlighted living composers with fine performances and pre-concert talks with the composers.

MusicWatch Monthly: All summer long, music festivals in Willamette Valley, Sunriver, and Siletz Bay

August 1, 2024Matthew Neil Andrews

Also: Fear No Music throws down the gauntlet, announcing an all-local composer season to come.

A poetic powerhouse: Nina Bernat at Chamber Music Northwest

July 16, 2024James Bash

CMNW protégé artist doubles down on the double bass with gusto.

Nurturing nature: Sarah Kirkland Snider’s “Mass” and the ongoing future of the Oregon Bach Festival

July 10, 2024Daryl Browne

OBF artistic partner Craig Hella Johnson conducted a concert of new, old, and revitalized choral music.

John Luther Adams: Become Nature

July 10, 2024Brett Campbell

Chamber Music Northwest and the Oregon Bach Festival present the world premiere of a new work for percussion ensemble by one of the most lauded living American composers

Feast of all: Makrokosmos Project, Chamber Music Northwest, Oregon Bach Festival

June 20, 2024Matthew Neil Andrews

The end of June heralds the tenth iteration of DUO Stephanie & Saar’s modernist microfest, the 54th year of the much-loved CMNW, and another relatively Bach-light but nevertheless lovely OBF.

MusicWatch Monthly: Summer is a’coming in, sing loud, seasons end

June 6, 2024Matthew Neil Andrews

Resonance Ensemble celebrates fifteen years, In Medio Choir sings Randall Thompson and Judy A. Rose, Oregon Symphony plays Beethoven’s Tenth, Britt Music & Arts Festival warms up, and In A Landscape gets rolling.