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.
July 17, 2024Angela Allen
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.
July 10, 2024Daryl Browne
OBF artistic partner Craig Hella Johnson conducted a concert of new, old, and revitalized choral music.
June 26, 2024Daryl Browne
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.
June 19, 2024Daryl Browne
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.
May 29, 2024Daryl Browne
The choral ensemble workshopped and performed five student compositions in a semester-long mentorship residency culminating in this month’s showcase concert on May 8.
May 22, 2024Daryl Browne
Peaceable Kingdoms, Beethoven’s Ninth (again), 15th and 30th anniversaries, and so much more.
May 16, 2024James Bash
The two choirs, longstanding pillars of Oregon's vital choral scene, wrap up their 50th and 55th anniversary seasons with premieres and music by Pacific Northwest composers.
April 25, 2024Daryl Browne
Two legendary vocal groups united at The Reser for a packed house of enthusiastic fans.
April 18, 2024Daryl Browne
Every singer in Oregon, voices raised for spring.
April 16, 2024Daryl Browne
Central Oregon Mastersingers and Bach Cantata Choir prepare for tour; Oregon Repertory Singers premieres Hazzard’s "Finding Light"; Choral Arts Ensemble performs Sydney Guillaume, Brian Holmes, Dawn Sonntag, Tomáš Svoboda, Patrick Vu.
April 3, 2024Daryl Browne
The Oregon singer-violinist-composer-poet-scholar-storyteller worked with the Camas choirs in cultural and musical workshops, a preview concert and Portland premiere. The entire local artistic team will debut the full work in New York City this May.
March 21, 2024Daryl Browne
Choral offerings from Bach chorales to world peace to Sweet Honey in the Rock.
March 7, 2024Daryl Browne
The famed jazz pianist partnered with the choral ensemble and Portland poet/activist A. Mimi Sei to create “From the Book of Sankofa”; the former Linfield Music Department Chair returns to Oregon for the live premiere of her “Cycles of Eternity,” recorded in 2019.