Gifted athletes: The Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio plays Beethoven
James Bash
March 23, 2024
CMNW’s March mini-fest delivered all of the maestro’s piano trios with elan.
CMNW’s March mini-fest delivered all of the maestro’s piano trios with elan.
Percussion concerts with 45th Parallel and Third Angle; goth and punk and whathaveyou at Mississippi Studios; CMNW’s mini-festival of piano trios; neurologist Larry Sherman with Portland Chamber Orchestra; Christopher Brown Quartet plays “Blackstar.”
Moments to remember from this year’s festival of chamber music.
The concert of mostly new and contemporary music featured Amelia Lukas performing Deena T. Grossman and Tania Léon; Anthony McGill, Gloria Chien, and Catalyst Quartet performing Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Brahms; and music by pianist-composer Stewart Goodyear.
The long-running and beloved string quartet made two Portland stops on their farewell tour, performing with Gloria Chien and David Shifrin for CMNW.
One of the first concerts of this year’s summer festival tore down the house with music by Schubert and Fauré.
This year’s five-week festival, commencing this weekend, highlights the relationship between two art forms.
Festivals large and small with Resonance Ensemble, Makrokosmos Project, New Music Gathering, Chamber Music Northwest, Brittfest, and more.
Chamber Music Northwest’s December concert featured the baritone with pianist Gloria Chien, performing some of his favorite storytelling works.
The summer festival ended with an evocative evening of Strauss and Schoenberg.
Oliver Neubauer and Soovin Kim step in for performances at CMNW’s “Folk Ingenuity” and “Slavic Scenes” concerts.
The 23-year-old cellist’s recent visit to Oregon for Chamber Music Northwest included concerts, a master class, an afternoon with four cellists even younger than him, and “one of the best string recitals” Soovin Kim has ever heard.
Change in the air: Comings, goings, honors, and landmarks on Oregon’s music scene.
Goofing around as a teen, Tines sang operatic-style to his choir-director granddad. “Well,” his grandfather said, “I think you have a voice.”
From world premieres to brilliant performances, highlights of July’s Chamber Music Northwest Festival.
We’re toggling between extremes: mass digital socialization and truly next-level hermit action.
Oregon’s leading classical music public radio station All Classical Portland has launched a brand-new second radio network, for children. The International Children’s Arts Network (ICAN) is a 24-hour radio service and, the station announcement says, is the first of its kind in
Portland’s classical music scene is experiencing a leadership transformation. This season, Third Angle New Music selected Sarah Tiedemann as its artistic director, replacing Ron Blessinger, who had moved over to 45th Parallel Universe as interim artistic director of the now collectively run
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