The Eugene-based quartet partners with the violist-composer-polymath for a week of shows featuring “our Oregonian superstar” alongside Haydn and Brahms.
The popular music critic joined up with the classical chamber collective for an evening of readings and live musical examples.
The 3A artistic director’s solo flute show featured new music–including commissioned works by two Oregon composers–and a multimedia aura of spiritual mystery.
45||’s four-venue evening sprawled across Mississippi Avenue in North Portland, featuring: singer-songwriters Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk; clarinetists James Shields, Mark Dubac, and new executive director Lisa Lipton, plus violinist and outgoing ED Ron Blessinger; the all-star jazz trio of John Nastos, Clay Giberson, and Christopher Brown; the North Pole Cello Sextet; and some fancy footwork.
The local opera company’s Artists in Conversation Festival featured Samantha Rose Williams’ interview-based staged song cycle and music by Oregon composer Lisa Neher.
Final three shows of 3A’s intimate series featured performances by Branic Howard, Yawa, and Methods Body.
The latest of OSO Creative Chair Gabriel Kahane’s Open Music Series concerts featured music by Kahane, Sam Adams, Andy Akiho, Julius Eastman, Reena Esmail, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, and Julia Wolfe.
The local composer assembled a cast of artists and musicians for an environmentally conscious arts and culture festival.
The author and violinist discussed and demonstrated literature and music at the latest of 3A’s Listening Labs.
Tackling apocalypse and perseverance with the local consort of professional and amateur musicians.
The fourth in the festival’s new music series featured new-but-not-too-new music by Alistair Coleman, Aiden Kane and Kian Ravaei, performed by the Viano Quartet.
Six flutists performed music by the esteemed Oregon composer.
Last Wednesday’s concert in the Armory–the second-to-last in Chamber Music Northwest’s series of midweek new music programs–presented young-people-friendly music by Magnus Lindberg, Patrick Castillo, Lembit Beecher, and Edvard Bagdasaryan.
The ninth annual day-long new music festival at PICA featured music by Crumb and Takemitsu alongside a clutch of Pacific Northwest composers that included Adams, Bunch, Johanson, Miksch, Svoboda, and Volness.
The first of CMNW’s Wednesday night new music concerts brought composer trio umama womama to Alberta Rose Theatre.
A report from within the one-day festival of new music, hosted this year at Portland State University.
New music, new music, and other new music. Also: old music.
January brings a city-wide music festival, Fear No Music’s “Generations,” a PJCE celebration of women in jazz, and more.
In which we discuss holiday traditions new and old.
In which we discuss Niel DePonte’s chair change, Aminé with Oregon Symphony, Caroline Shaw at The Reser, PCSO premieres Nicole Buetti, Cappella Romana premieres Robert Kyr, Young Composers Project alumni with FNM and MYS and PYP, Dvořák galore, and more.
Classical mainstays move into their seasons, a choir dissents, new music sounds out, electronica and rock get experimental, plus jazz and post-punk.
The beloved Happy Valley festival returns.
Waterfront festivals, touring jazz giants, and local musicians transmute summer into fall.
CMNW’s New@Night series closed with location-inspired music by Eleanor Alberga, Vijay Iyer, David Schiff, and Dana Wilson.
The annual mini-festival of contemporary music celebrated its eighth year with five hours of music at PICA, featuring compositions from across Latin America.
Keep keeping your fingers crossed for an Augustful of festivals, from jazz to loopers to hip-hop.
The Pulitzer-nominated piece for percussion drew an epic crowd to CMNW’s penultimate New@Night concert.
With the titular “Moonshot” string quartet off the program, CMNW’s third New@Night features solo and duo works by Chris Rogerson, David Ludwig, and “grand old man of Turkish music” Ahmet Adnan Saygun.
Chamber Music Northwest’s contemporary music series continues in The Armory’s lobby, showcasing Zlatomir Fung, Viano Quartet, and two performers from CMNW’s Young Artists Institute.
Summer brings sunny festivals to Oregon ears: Chamber Music Northwest inside, Cathedral Park Jazz Festival outside, and more.
The first of CMNW’s New@Night concerts featured music by Jessie Montgomery, Kenji Bunch, Fred Sherry, and Du Yun.
Earth days, green days, Russian music, new music.
Change in the weather, change in the sound: The Oregon music scene begins to thaw and stretch its muscles.
Festivals galore hope to postpone postponement, offering live music and merch
MusicWatch Monthly: November brings a wave of sounds (and don’t forget Halloween and Day of the Dead).
David Danzmayr’s inaugural in-person season opens with Mahler, Bunch, Gabriela Lena Frank, and the massive “Constellation” sound system; Open Music finally commences at The Old Church
Symphonies, concerti, chamber collabs, extra-curricular improv, progressive jazz, and Zoomer B.S.
The new musical drama from Third Angle delves into gentrification and its cost to Black communities.
Exploring the Canadian composer’s contributions to acoustic ecology and the politics of noise
September attempts to get “real” with symphonies, operas, ‘90s bands
Charles Rose soaks up the sights, sounds & ideas of this year’s new-music festival, where women ruled.
It’s a busy August of album-release shows, neighborhood concerts, a renamed synth library, Hip Hop Week & more.
Third Angle is coming out swinging for the return to live music, kicking off on July 11 at Topaz Farm with the three mini concerts of Fresh Air Fest. It was a much-needed retreat up to Sauvie Island for a midsummer Sunday
In the opening remarks at last week’s Makrokosmos festival, pianist and co-Artistic-Director Saar Ahuvia said, “live music is finally back.” That is true, with an asterisk.
Since the pandemic shutdown, the classical ensemble’s hit the ground running with 50-plus streamed shows.
The Oregon Symphony’s new artistic leader talks about rage, suffering, authenticity, Mahler, and Metallica.
Charles Rose talks with the Oregon Symphony’s new music director about what’s to come.
As vaccination rates rise and infection rates fall, Oregon’s music world starts to take to the great outdoors.
With vaccines on the rise, the Oregon Symphony plans a fall return to the Schnitz – and has more news.
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