Unspeakably sad yet somehow uplifting: San Francisco Opera’s ‘Omar’
November 28, 2023
The Pulitzer-winning opera by Rhiannon Giddens & Michael Abels makes its way across the country.
The Pulitzer-winning opera by Rhiannon Giddens & Michael Abels makes its way across the country.
The bassist (en route to Curtis Institute of Music) and guest conductor (on loan from Metropolitan Youth Symphony) presented a shining concert curated by late PCO director Yaacov Bergman.
Financial difficulties for the 1905, which has just gone out of business, raise larger questions about the history and future of jazz in Portland.
PO kept its sixth production of the 238-year-old Mozart opera fresh with superb singing, tight conducting, agile staging, and new, historically-informed costumes.
SO staged the Handel opera with six singers (including one countertenor), modern set design, and haute couture costuming.
The electric jazz trio will perform at the Portland night club in October.
“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.
From Portland’s museums and galleries to the Guggenheim and Whitney to Amsterdam, Australia, Berlin and beyond, Angela Allen focuses her camera on people interacting with art.
Local production of Nico Muhly’s opera brings complex emotions and conflicting points of view to Lincoln Hall.
Mobile venue SoundsTruck NW hosted an improv-based concert co-sponsored by IRCO and Montavilla Jazz.
The singer and guitarist performed a sizzling set of jazz standards and pop classics at Portland’s struggling jazz club.
In the first of two summer productions, OrpheusPDX staged a gender-bent version of “Il Re Pastore.”
Moments to remember from this year’s festival of chamber music.
A conversation with the Protégé Project composer.
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.
The warhorse-at-a-winery production featured students from the festival’s Young Artists Showcase–and a last minute replacement.
A Q&A with Roustom, composer-in-residence for this year’s Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival.
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 Asian-American singer recently shone in Huang Ruo’s “Bound” with Seattle Opera and “Rusalka” with Portland Opera.
The pianist-composer and his touring bandmates performed an early set of new and recent tunes.
The Cuban-born keyboardist and Senegalese kora player returned to Oregon for another popular concert of high musical energy.
CQ concert for CMNW at The Old Church featured Fanny Mendelssohn, Germaine Tailleferre, and short works by several contemporary composers.
The Canadian jazz singer performed selections from her new album “Spark Bird” at the Portland jazz club.
Local flutist Amelia Lukas curated and performed a multi-media benefit concert celebrating Ukrainian heritage.
The story of Mukhtar Mai completes its Portland run with performances March 24 and 26.
Seattle Opera premieres a newly-commissioned opera based on the novel by Afghan-American novelist Khaled Hosseini.
Neither snow nor Covid could cool this year’s jazz festival.
The violist-comedian joined Kenji Bunch at The Old Church for a concert of music and jokes.
The Reser hosted a nearly sold-out multimedia Valentine’s Day presentation with scientist Larry Sherman, singer Naomi LaViolette, and Portland Chamber Orchestra.
The star cellist enraptured a crowded church performing Bach’s complete cello suite cycle for CMNW.
Seattle Opera produced the Saint-Saëns opera with minimal sets and big voices.
FNM’s Legacies 1 concert followed a throughline backwards, from YCP composer Nathan Campbell and Ukrainian-Swiss composer Victoria Poleva past Schnittke and Mahler to Brahms and Wieck-Schumann.
The conductorless chamber orchestra premiered music by Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman, Carlos Simon, Michael Dudley, and Ricardo Herz.
SFO premieres the latest from John Adams.
The show, now open at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, presents food-related works from Schnitzer’s impressive collection. The result is a sumptuous feast (for the eyes).
Singer and Aquilon Music Festival founder Anton Belov joins with seven-string guitar duo for a series of Romani, Jewish, and Eastern European folk music concerts.
Multi-week Siletz Bay Music Festival brings classical, jazz, hip-hop, and a relaxed vibe to Lincoln City Cultural Center.
OrpheusPDX closes its inaugural season with chills and goosebumps.
A consideration of Chamber Music Northwest’s five-week summer festival.
New opera company OrpheusPDX debuts at Lincoln Hall with a magnificent new production of the Monteverdi classic.
The sax quartet and virtuoso pianist joined forces for a surprising CMNW concert.
Wine valley festival pairs old world and contemporary music.
An exchange with the Indian-American composer, featured recently at Chamber Music Northwest and set to return next month as this year’s Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival composer-in-residence.
The young composer, whose music was featured on a string of recent concerts at Chamber Music Northwest, discusses his formative musical moments.
The 23-year-old cellist’s recent visit to Oregon for Chamber Music Northwest included concerts, a master class, an afternoon with four cellists even younger than him, and “one of the best string recitals” Soovin Kim has ever heard.
Collaboration among Joe Cantrell, Ed Edmo, and Nancy Ives continues Portland Chamber Orchestra’s championing of new music.
Schiff’s latest, a tribute to the esteemed runner, was premiered by the Eugene Symphony.
The retired Reed College composition professor’s “Prefontaine” and “Vineyard Rhythms” come to Eugene and Portland.
FNM performs music by Asian and Asian-American composers at The Old Church.
The restless wind quintet’s blissful concert featured new music co-commissioned by CMNW, OBF, and Anima Mundi.
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