Highlights from this year’s summer festival, with a postscript.
August 3, 2025Alice Hardesty
The Protégé Project alum returns for another year of solo and chamber music at CMNW 2025.
August 3, 2025Angela Allen
Now in its fifteenth year, the program nurtures performers and composers already in the midst of their professional careers.
Current and former CMNW protégés Alistair Coleman, Nina Bernat, Viano Quartet, Opus13 performed Bach-inspired music of the 19th and 21st centuries.
August 2, 2025Lorin Wilkerson
From lieder and David Schiff’s evergreen “Gimpel” music to new music inspired by Kian Ravaei’s shuffling iPod.
July 14, 2025Angela Allen
The keyboardist, composer, and mathematician discusses his storied background; his performances of Bach and his own music at this year’s summer festivals; the church he bought in France; and why he never practices.
July 8, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
The composer reflects on the playfulness of Bach, Corelli, and Vivaldi–and their impact on her recent concerto, performed at Oregon Bach Festival and Chamber Music Northwest this summer.
Shunske Sato, violinist and master of Historically Informed Practice, led a wonderfully fresh rendition of Bach’s “six concertos for several instruments” in a collaboration between Chamber Music Northwest and Oregon Bach Festival.
July 6, 2025Angela Allen
CMNW co-directors Soovin Kim and Gloria Chien, mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron, violinist Shunske Sato, harpsichordist Kit Armstrong, and other stellar musicians joined forces to perform Bach, Mendelssohn, and Mahler.
July 3, 2025Daryl Browne
This year’s string of concerts featuring young string players and pianists culminates in two free events this weekend.
June 23, 2025Angela Allen
This year’s festival, “Echoes of Bach,” features a bevy of familiar performers and composers, including several Protégé Project alums, in five weeks of programs that range from Bach and Bottesini to Kian Ravaei and Ethan Soledad.
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.”
