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Cappella Romana hooks up with Gesualdo 6; Trinity Cathedral hosts St. Olaf College Choir; Paul Winter and Consort perform his “Missa Gaia” with Eugene Concert Choir; Bach Cantata Choir’s “SuperBach Sunday” returns.
As the jukebox musical “Ain’t Too Proud” rolls into town, Misha Berson revels in memories of sweet sounds from the transistor radio as she was growing up near Detroit.
Featuring KayelaJ, Donte Thomas, PDXJazz, Darrell Grant, and the latest edition of long-running hip-hop showcase The Thesis.
New funding program benefits Portland new music organizations, and other news in Oregon music
Seattle Opera produced the Saint-Saëns opera with minimal sets and big voices.
Associate conductor Tham makes a stunning concert hall debut with the Oregon Symphony.
Cappella Romana connects the music of Byzantium and England in their January concert “A Byzantine Emperor at King Henry’s Court,” and sings the “B minor Mass” in Salem with conductor Paul Klemme in February. A cappella music comes to a festival in Bend and a competition in Sherwood.
The Portland writer, hip hop organizer, and activist discusses life as a Black Muslim in Oregon, the foundation of We Out Here Magazine, and monthly hip hop showcase The Thesis.
Composer Sara Graef says her piece strives to express gratitude for the spirit of the 400-acre space, “what was decimated and what has been given back.”
Bored? Tired of aimlessly fiddling around? Maybe it’s time to try your hand at Daryl Browne’s latest crossword puzzle. No strings attached!
FNM’s recent concert at The Old Church celebrated 25 years of the Young Composers Project.
January brings a city-wide music festival, Fear No Music’s “Generations,” a PJCE celebration of women in jazz, and more.
Listening backwards and forwards to the trends and traditions which (we hope) will continue into the next year.
Powers and band performed their eclectic holiday concert for the first time since 2019.
Chamber Music Northwest’s December concert featured the baritone with pianist Gloria Chien, performing some of his favorite storytelling works.
Your guide to making last-minute holiday music plans through the New Year, from Nutcrackers to Pink Martinis.
A conversation with Chicago Symphony principal bassoonist Keith Buncke.
The Eugene orchestra, which accompanies Eugene Ballet’s “Nutcracker” performances again this month, mixes seasoned professionals with aspiring orchestral musicians.
As Portland Baroque Orchestra and the choir Cappella Romana bring Handel’s “Messiah” to vivid life, photographer Joe Cantrell captures the energy and beauty of it all.
“Messiahs,” holiday traditions, Bach, Dickens, and more, performed by Oregon’s finest choral ensembles.
British harpsichordist and early-music champion Julian Perkins will succeed violinist Monica Huggett as artistic director of Portland Baroque Orchestra.
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.
In which we discuss holiday traditions new and old.
Maybelle Community Singers will partner with Aurora Chorus, Bravo Youth Choir, and PSU choirs for a free event at First Christian Church this weekend.
It’s a bout of bouts as PBO’s quest for its next artistic leader goes to the bell.
Dmae Lo Roberts reprises a 2017 podcast interview with the jazz composer, her friend and collaborator, who has died at 64.
Friends and colleagues share memories of the long-time Portland State professor and Oregon’s finest composer.
FNM’s upcoming concert celebrates artistic cooperation and compositional traditions through time and space.
Jazz and world music composer Cherry and contemporary classical composer Svoboda left their marks in Portland and around the world.
The quartet was recently featured in November’s Dvořák Festival, presented in Oregon by Friends of Chamber Music.
Theaters and galleries ramp up for the holidays with a stone-age musical, a new adaptation of Dickens’ classic, art sales, and a Pride Winter Ball.
Portland documentary filmmaker Brian Lindstrom (“Alien Boy,” “Finding Normal”) and co-director Andy Brown discuss their new film about the life and sorrows of ’70s singer Judee Sill.
“Messiah” season is nearly upon us, but the baroque composer wrote hundreds of other works: operas, cantatas, chamber music, and more. How many do you know?
Soweto Gospel Choir brings their “Hope” to Portland; a collaborative barbershop concert in close harmony; a salon in Eugene; the Yuletide concert season begins, from Jenkins’s “Miserere” to Geter’s “Requiem” to Britten’s “Saint Nicolas Cantata” to Rutter’s “Gloria.”
The composer of country hit “My List” says he is proud to be performing in the theater named for his friend, David Ogden Stiers.
The OSO performed Nielsen, Strauss, Stravinsky, and Beethoven alongside new and recent works by Donnacha Dennehy, Gabriella Smith, Lera Auerbach, and Creative Chair Gabriel Kahane.
In which we discuss Niel DePonte’s chair change, Aminé with Oregon Symphony, Caroline Shaw at The Reser, PCSO premieres Nicole Buetti, Cappella Romana premieres Robert Kyr, Young Composers Project alumni with FNM and MYS and PYP, Dvořák galore, and more.
Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra and Brett Deubner perform not one but two world premieres.
Dreams, shadows, delayed premieres, masses, vigils, requiems, organ spooktaculars, and more.
In which we pull up a clutch of Halloween shows, screaming, by the roots.
The conductorless chamber orchestra premiered music by Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman, Carlos Simon, Michael Dudley, and Ricardo Herz.
The married couple talk about making music together and their upcoming concerts with Third Angle at the OMSI Planetarium.
Cappella Romana releases their new creation-themed album; Choral Arts Ensemble shares the music of local composer Sydney Guillaume; Oregon Repertory Singers takes on Joby Talbot’s miraculous ‘Path’; Choro in Schola and PSU support choral education at The Reser; Bach Cantata Choir and Portland Symphonic Choir go to the foundations.
Choral Arts Ensemble prepares a full program of music by Haitian-born Oregon composer Sydney Guillaume.
SFO premieres the latest from John Adams.
Friends of Chamber Music and the Martinů Quartet are offering a deep dive into Dvořák’s life and music, from Bohemia to his time in the United States.
Hatton had led the orchestra for a dozen years. Plus: A memorial concert for PSU’s Mary Hall Kogen, radio raves, more music news.
From YOB to Bewitcher, just in time for Bandcamp Friday.
Fresh octogenarians David Bernstein and Greg Steinke celebrate with “Last Tango in Portland,” a concert of lively music and world premieres.
Fleming and baritone Rod Gilfrey help open a promising symphony season with a musical tale of Georgia O’Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz.
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