From A Notion, A Scream’s all Rosephanye Powell concert to Sweet Honey in the Rock with Resonance Ensemble to the return of Super Bach Sunday.
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November 20, 2025Daryl Browne
Gratitude and love, comfort and joy, and all the Messiahs.
November 4, 2025Daryl Browne
Two of Portland’s most respected contemporary musical arts organizations joined forces at Benson Auditorium for their portion of Oregon Symphony’s ongoing “Sounds Like Portland Festival.”
November 4, 2025Lorin Wilkerson
The women’s vocal ensemble sang music by Holst, Pärt, Reich, Carol J. Jones, Joanne Metcalfe, Olivia Sparkhall, and Shruthi Rajasekhar, on texts from Julian of Norwich and the Rig Veda to Pirkei Avot and the Psalms.
October 23, 2025Daryl Browne
From Rose City Renaissance’s latest workshop and the annual Willamette Master Chorus Veterans Day concert to Portland Lesbian Choir’s 40th anniversary season and not one but two Baroque coffee houses.
October 20, 2025Daryl Browne
A brief history of the Ashland choir, from its inception at a pizza parlor through its upcoming season featuring music by Peter Relph, Eric Whitacre, and Rep Singers composer-in-residence Jodi French.
September 25, 2025Daryl Browne
Three longstanding choral organizations lean into community collaboration, recreate a sonic paragon, sing big and bold for Breast Health Awareness and bring the great classics to a wider audience.
September 11, 2025Daryl Browne
Oregon choirs get into medieval scholarship, win barbershop competitions, and sing Robert Kyr for the Green Patriarch.
September 10, 2025Naomi LaViolette
Composer and pianist Naomi LaViolette reflects on her friendship with the esteemed choral composer.
August 28, 2025Daryl Browne
But do choral seasons ever end, really?
August 5, 2025Amanda Waldroupe
Traveling to Prague, Krakow and Budapest, the polyphonic vocal ensemble performed Byrd, Palestrina and Gregorian chant.
July 31, 2025Daryl Browne
The long-running early music festival focuses on its namesake’s successor, Orlando Gibbons, alongside masses by Byrd and Victoria, lectures from scholar Kerry McCarthy, and a tribute to recently departed WBF lecturer William Mahrt.
July 28, 2025Amy Adams
OBF artistic partner Craig Hella Johnson and guest pianist Awadagin Pratt combined music by Samuel Barber, Jesse Montgomery, Arvo Pärt and Vaughan Williams.
July 27, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
The choral superstar and OBF artistic partner led the OBF chorus and modern orchestra – along with a few hundred surprise guests – through a heartfelt performance of his exquisitely crafted “fusion oratorio.”
July 24, 2025Daryl Browne
Two OBF concerts, two venues – Mt. Angel Abbey and Beall Hall – and two totally distinct choral experiences with their own triumphs and challenges.
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.
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.
