A beautiful combination: Billy Childs at the 1905
May 10, 2023
The pianist-composer and his touring bandmates performed an early set of new and recent tunes.
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.
Portland Chamber Orchestra premieres the dynamic spoken-word and music collaboration “My Words Are My Sword.”
Music for clarinet and strings by Benny Goodman, Schiff, Schickele, and Mozart in Chamber Music Northwest concert.
PO’s dramatic, harrowing staging of the Pulitzer-winning opera.
PCO commission ‘My Words Are My Sword’ pulls together poetry and music.
Ten days and nights of live music with Diane Schuur, Domo Branch, Mel Brown B-3 Organ Group, Brandee Younger, and more.
Virtuoso pianist performs the complete J.S. Bach ‘Well-Tempered Clavier’ for CMNW at The Old Church.
Young, talented and the future of jazz, they were mentored by Portland music royalty. They learned to bang out “Back at the Chicken Shack,” “Green Dolphin Street” and “Autumn Leaves,” to listen carefully to the jazz greats, to practice diligently and often,
When Jimmy Mak’s disappeared, NoPo’s 1905 arrived – and it’s still Portland’s only all-jazz spot.
Queer-themed Canadian opera makes U.S. premiere at Hampton Opera Center.
A stunning staging with top-notch design and choreography brings Gluck’s 1762 music into a thoroughly contemporary Underworld.
Rock star clarinetist and PCO celebrate Hanukkah with klezmer improvisations and a Wlad Marhulets concerto
CMNW artists-in-residence perform the composer’s chamber works with complementary music by Cage, Machaut, Gesualdo, Verdi, and Beethoven
Vlatkovic, performing with CMNW co-directors Gloria Chien and Soovin Kim, gets a five-minute standing ovation.
The singing’s terrific and the crowd shouted “Bravo!” But the story in Puccini’s 1900 hit can’t keep up with 21st century times.
The opera opens with a new artistic director, a new interim music director, a fresh slate of forward-looking priorities – and an old standby in “Tosca.”
Vanessa Severo’s virtuoso turn onstage joins a rush of Kahlo from the opera to a coming museum show.
New work by Tazewell Thompson and Jeanine Tesori reflects Black experience in America.
Goofing around as a teen, Tines sang operatic-style to his choir-director granddad. “Well,” his grandfather said, “I think you have a voice.”
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