Through decades of transitions, the 100-year-old space in Northeast Portland has remained at the heart of the community, even while navigating financial challenges, a pandemic, and even ghosts.
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June 11, 2025Daryl Browne
The choral conductor, composer, and educator discusses her life’s work, upcoming recording project with Portland Symphonic Choir, and the “baddies” who have helped and inspired her along the way.
June 11, 2025Charles Rose
The ensemble's final show of the school year featured several student compositions and Harrison's microtonal masterpiece "Suite for Violin and American Gamelan."
June 10, 2025Alice Hardesty
The Oregon composer and “Star Trek” actor, both Japanese-American, partnered with Chamber Music Northwest to present their collaborative work for strings, percussion, piano, and narration.
June 5, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
Britt Music & Arts Festival, In A Landscape, Oregon Bach Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Makrokosmos Project–plus “Celilo Falls,” esperanza spalding, two from Cascadia Composers, and the return of “Bird Songs of Opera.”
June 5, 2025Daryl Browne
LOoP stages another winning production of the beloved English duo’s “precious nonsense.”
June 4, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
Over a decade later, the composer – best known for his work with Opera Theater Oregon – revisits his score for the Filmusik staging of the Turkish cult film, playing for three performances this month in a House of Scordatura revival at Hollywood Theatre.
June 4, 2025David Bates
Seminar students combine synthesized and acoustic music to accompany stories ranging from a rite of spring to a rocket-piloting dog.
May 31, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
The multimedia project – now in an expanded form with fresh orchestration, new photographs, and a plethora of Native American art and artifacts – comes to The Schnitz the first weekend of June.
May 30, 2025Brett Campbell
Forest Grove High School music program’s 10th anniversary concert Saturday celebrates mariachi’s growing presence in Oregon schools.
May 29, 2025Daryl Browne
From Craig Hella Johnson’s “Considering Matthew Shepard” to a reconstruction of Bach’s “St. Markus Passion” to a balletic “Carmina Burana,” and plenty more.
May 29, 2025Charles Rose
Portland Youth Philharmonic’s advanced chamber group closed the season in collaboration with Iranian musicians.
May 27, 2025Daryl Browne
A favorite choral/orchestral work is performed without the orchestra. A favorite literary work set to music trips up the tongue. One choir stages opera, another surfs the radio waves in search of their voice. Portland’s oldest community choir ends their season by offering space to the some local choral creatives.
May 26, 2025James Bash
For the 12th year, a merry band of roving Oregon Symphony musicians spills out of the concert hall and into churches, libraries, community centers and book stores, taking their music to the places where the people are.
May 23, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
Diversifying and demystifying the Oregon School of Composition with FNM’s “Locally Sourced Sounds” season.
May 22, 2025James Bash
PO’s setting of Verdi’s Shakespearean palimpsest transferred the beloved opera to a 1980s country club, swimming pool and all.
May 22, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
One of the three existing replica sets of Harrison’s just-intoned metallophones is on loan to PSU, and will be showcased June 1 in a performance of “Suite for Violin and American Gamelan.”
May 21, 2025Charles Rose
In the concert "Found Sounds," composers and players discover percussive possibilities by whacking and smacking all sorts of everyday non-instruments.
May 17, 2025Charles Rose
Flutists Zach Galatis and Alicia DiDontano Paulsen took center stage in a concert of impressionist music by the two composers, one Oregonian and one Japanese-French.
May 17, 2025Jim Flint
The Jazz in the Vineyard series brings guitarists Mimi Fox and Derek Gripper, plus the Marcos Silva Quintet, to Ashland's Grizzly Peak Winery stage beginning May 25.
May 16, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
The composer lays out the history, mission, and philosophy of the OBFCS, now in its 30th year bringing together composer-performers.
May 15, 2025James Bash
PYP performed music by Robert Schumann, Valerie Coleman, Ruth Gipps, and Dmitri Shostakovich’s "Piano Concerto No. 2" with pianist Hansen Berrett.
May 14, 2025Brett Campbell
The Portland Youth Philharmonic’s chamber orchestra performs new music by composers from around the world — and in Portland.
May 14, 2025Daryl Browne
Music about pilgrimages, codices, bells, peace, and love abound at concerts throughout May.
May 12, 2025Jim Flint
The symphony needed a truly grand piano. A stunning Steinway D in a New York high-rise needed to spread its wings. Now in Oregon, the big bird prepares for its debut at Medford’s Craterian Theater in a week-long "Pianopalooza."
May 8, 2025Charles Rose
The local musicians advocacy group has started a survey to help with students and instructors opposing PCC's proposal to end their MSA program.
May 8, 2025Daryl Browne
The long-running program connects new mothers with local songwriters, Oregon Symphony musicians, and social service organizations.
May 7, 2025Lorin Wilkerson
Portland State University’s opera program presented a pair of strikingly different productions of “Suor Angelica” and “Gianni Schicchi.”
May 6, 2025Lynn Darroch
The bassist and guitarist renew a partnership that helped shape Portland’s jazz in the 1970s and ‘80s.
May 2, 2025Lorin Wilkerson
The fourth in FNM’s season-long commitment to Oregon composers showcased music for piano, strings, and electronics by William Campbell, Ravi Kittappa, Caroline L. Miller, Kirsten Volness, and Anwyn Willette.
