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The composer and artistic director discusses the roots and reasons of the new music organization’s organically audacious upcoming season.
Every singer in Oregon gets back to work, with music ranging from local to ancient.
Jazzy clarinet concerto and a tribute to Celilo Falls closed out this year’s festival on the Oregon Coast.
The artist-run, Portland-based record label gives Oregon musicians the vehicle to share their diverse sounds worldwide.
A rant; a proposal; a consideration of the latest from Deena T. Grossman and E. Ellison.
Talking about growing up with gospel and hip-hop, composing string quartets and opera, playing tuba, and the spontaneity of composition with this year’s WVCMF composer-in-residence.
Young stagescraft specialists get intensive on-the-job training through the mentorship program, which helps fill a need for a skilled workforce and guarantee a future for performing arts.
45th Parallel Universe’s Garden Parties, Renegade Opera’s “Batman,” Deena T. Grossman’s new album, Fear No Music’s Oregonic season, and orchestras all over the state.
The experimental opera “Te Moana Meridian,” premiering at PICA’s TBA Fest, is also a push to decolonialize the Prime Meridian and shift it to international waters in the Pacific Ocean.
A slice of the recently-concluded festival, featuring Ross W. Duffin’s union of Byrd’s music with poetry by Sir Philip Sidney and Cantores In Ecclesia singing music of modern British composers alongside Byrd’s.
A Portland writer turns to the harp to ease her fears and endure “the gloom of a life put on pause.”
CMNW 2024’s new music series spotlighted living composers with fine performances and pre-concert talks with the composers.
Critic at large samples the music festival where concerts are first class and free!
This year’s festival will feature performances by Julana Torres, Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble, Jasnam Daya Singh, Christopher Brown, Randy Porter, Sound Creation Trio, Matt Mayhall, Noah Simpson, Nicole Glover, Adriana Wagner, Dan Balmer, Kerry Politzer, and more.
The dark, haunting opera starred Lisa Marie Rogali and Madeline Ross in a setting of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale.
Recent reports about opera, classical radio, choral achievements, young artists on the rise, and other Oregon arts news.
Test your knowledge of even more composers in this follow-up to July’s “American Composers” crossword puzzle.
SBMF director Yaacov “Yaki” Bergman mentored and collaborated with Sun for decades, making the pianist an ideal successor in the festival’s twelfth season.
Katherine Whyte, Hannah Penn, and Douglas Williams shone in the English Baroque composer’s colorful, Italian-drenched opera.
The frequent ArtsWatch contributor, who has died at 83, was also a quiet, generous advocate for Oregon arts and a role model for continuing creativity to the very end.
The two-week residential summer camps offer a unique opportunity for young creatives to advance their artistic interests while connecting with other talented youth.
Tuomi’s impact as a singer, conductor, educator, and advocate has been felt by generations of students from all over the world.
Pianist-composer Goodyear, flutist Lukas, pianist Mun, and hornist Vlatkovič joined forces with CMNW co-artistic directors Gloria Chien and Soovin Kim for a pair of July chamber music concerts at Reed College’s Kaul Auditorium.
Also: Fear No Music throws down the gauntlet, announcing an all-local composer season to come.
This year’s festival features a variety of choral concerts and lectures, most of them free, at churches around Portland.
The Protégé Project string quartet performed Mozart and Grieg at Lincoln Recital Hall for CMNW 2024.
The Portland opera company’s annual pair of productions–David Hertzberg’s “The Rose Elf” and Handel’s “Acis, Galatea, & Polyphemus”—pit natural love against human villainy.
Vlautin discusses the real-life inspiration behind the book, the beauty of disappearing into songs, and why unsuccessful musicians keep chasing their dreams.
CMNW co-commissioned the venerated American composer’s “conversation” for violin and percussion quartet.
The percussion quartet, whom Adams considers “the foremost interpreters of my music,” dazzled a surround-sound audience at Kaul Auditorium before repeating the feat at Oregon Bach Festival.
Test your knowledge of famous American composers in this July crossword puzzle.
The one-day modernist music festival continues to justify the words of George Crumb, performing music that “depends for its very existence on a type of pioneer performer” by Juri Seo, Steve Reich, Terry Longshore, and Crumb’s “Makrokosmos” in its four-part entirety.
Celebrating International Listening Day, recalling the evocative soundscape of a pastoral Oregon childhood
A warm, synaesthetic performance of “Symphony of Psalms” preceded the multi-media “The Planets,” both under Alevtina Ioffe’s commanding direction, at OBF 2024.
The choral composer and conductor, artist-in-residence at this year’s OBF, performed his radiant “The Sacred Veil,” a collaboration with Charles Anthony Silvestri in memory of Silvestri’s late wife.
CMNW protégé artist doubles down on the double bass with gusto.
The reigning king of organ performed J.S. alongside Damien Geter, Lowell Liebermann, and Saint-Saëns.
The intensive education program for talented string players from around the world includes performances throughout the community, including free showcases, pop-ups around town, and a new mobile concert stage.
OBF artistic partner Craig Hella Johnson conducted a concert of new, old, and revitalized choral music.
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
CMNW keeps things fresh as its Beethoven-themed 2024 Summer Festival opens.
Portland’s four-day blues bash at Tom McCall Waterfront Park beats the heat — and photographer Joe Cantrell catches the sights and sounds and free-flowing joy of it all.
On the opening day of the Waterfront Blues Festival, photographer Joe Cantrell captures the sights and sounds from the stages to the crowd to the fireworks.
Tips for staying cool during yet another apocalyptic heat wave while enjoying the best in Oregon music.
LOoP’s debut, a charming production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s fairy opera.
The company brings its comic operettas to downtown Portland and Hillsboro.
This summer’s OBF in Eugene features artistic partners Jos van Veldhoven and Craig Hella Johnson; visiting artist-in-residence Eric Whitacre; Bach specialist John Butt; Anton Armstrong, Therees Hibbard and the young singers of the Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy; and plenty more.
A new degree program at PSU by Darrell Grant and Suzanne Savaria will be the only one of its kind in the country.
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.
The Portland choir celebrated its “third official year” with the Thompson classic “The Peaceable Kingdom” and a commissioned companion piece from Portland composer and educator Rose.
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