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.
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 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 14, 2025Daryl Browne
Music about pilgrimages, codices, bells, peace, and love abound at concerts throughout May.
April 30, 2025Daryl Browne
A month’s worth of choral music in one weekend, from the multi-choir CONNECTED event and the return of Ēriks Ešenvalds with Oregon Repertory Singers to Festival Chorale Oregon’s Bach-Rutter pairing and Oregon Bach Festival’s “Musicking Festival.”
April 9, 2025Daryl Browne
Also this month: Requiems, lamentations, yelling, Alzheimer’s stories, and more.
March 27, 2025Daryl Browne
Iconic Portland LGBTQ+ Music Communities share the stage.
March 19, 2025Daryl Browne
From Bach Cantata Choirs “kinda-sorta Lenten concert” and Couperin’s “Ténèbrae” with In Mulieribus to Portland Gay Men’s Chorus in collaboration with Portland Lesbian Choir and Bridging Voices.
March 13, 2025Daryl Browne
The 40th anniversary of the National Association for Music Education’s annual celebration finds Oregon choirs, orchestras, arts organizations and schools embracing this year’s MIOS theme, “United Through Music.”
March 11, 2025James Bash
The choir's "Canon for Racial Recognition" entered fascinating musical and cultural territory with its deft blend of sounds from different yet complementary traditions.
March 5, 2025Daryl Browne
Three Willamette Valley choirs are just hitting their stride as they grow with and for their communities.
February 19, 2025Daryl Browne
Elliott and the duo Ringdown–aka Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee Parpan–joined Resonance for a “Choir Grrrl” program of music by Elliott, Shaw, Judy A. Rose, Renée Favand-See, and Mari Esabel Valverde.
February 18, 2025Daryl Browne
From Cappella Romana’s “Canon for Racial Reconciliation” and Resonance Ensemble singing Margaret Bonds with Orchestra Nova Northwest to IWD concerts featuring In Mulieribus, Aurora Chorus, Portland Symphonic Girlchoir, and the six women of Song Suffragettes PNW.
January 21, 2025Daryl Browne
From the newly formed A Notion, A Scream to Bach Cantata Choir’s SuperBach Sunday.
January 7, 2025Daryl Browne
After the holiday rush, Oregon choirs launch into another busy new year.
December 19, 2024Daryl Browne
In which the “Messiah” was performed.
December 10, 2024Daryl Browne
The long-running All Classical program Thursdays @ Three opens its next season this week with Doyle’s former choir, Choral Arts Ensemble.
December 4, 2024Daryl Browne
In which Maestro Perkins meets with Cappella Romana.
The harpsichordist and choral scholar discusses the importance of drama, universality and libretto in his upcoming performances of the beloved holiday oratorio.
December 3, 2024Daryl Browne
The Oregon choral group hosted the seven strong, all Black composer collective for a Sunday of commissions, premieres, and future classics.
November 26, 2024Daryl Browne
From multiple “Messiahs” and “Magnificats” to music from around the world, Oregon’s humongous choral family gets into the holiday spirit.
November 6, 2024Daryl Browne
Fall concerts and revels; choral music for films; the first stirrings of Christmas.
October 31, 2024Daryl Browne
Cappella Romana hosts the Belgian vocal and period instrument ensemble in their Pacific Northwest debut.
October 7, 2024Daryl Browne
Maddalena Casulana, Margaret Bonds, Uģis Prauliņš, chants for St. Demetrios, and three “Homegrown” composers–Sydney Guillaume, Stacey Philipps, and Joan Szymko–find their way onto Oregon choral programs this month.
September 24, 2024Daryl Browne
Listening forward to choral seasons which “educate, enrich, honor, confront, and uplift.”
September 11, 2024Daryl Browne
Every singer in Oregon gets back to work, with music ranging from local to ancient.
August 29, 2024Lorin Wilkerson
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.
August 5, 2024Amanda Waldroupe
Tuomi’s impact as a singer, conductor, educator, and advocate has been felt by generations of students from all over the world.
July 31, 2024Daryl Browne
This year’s festival features a variety of choral concerts and lectures, most of them free, at churches around Portland.
July 18, 2024Lorin Wilkerson
A warm, synaesthetic performance of “Symphony of Psalms” preceded the multi-media “The Planets,” both under Alevtina Ioffe’s commanding direction, at OBF 2024.
