Classical Community
Beaverton Chamber Symphony
The Beaverton Chamber Symphony is made up of amateur musicians who share a love of serious music and the desire to perform it.
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Led by Huw Edwards, CSO is dedicated to presenting the highest quality performances of standard, worthy but rarely performed, and new orchestral repertoire.
Hillsboro Symphony Orchestra
Founded in the spring of 2001 by Mike Graves, Morgan Brown, and Barbara Hanson, HSO provides an opportunity for local amateur musicians to play in an orchestral setting and to enrich the musical environment of our communities.
Metro Arts Inc.
MetroArts Inc is an educational organization dedicated to promoting life-long learning for everyone through the arts. We believe that every person is creative, has something to offer our culture, and deserves the opportunity to know that experience.
Metropolitan Youth Symphony
The Metropolitan Youth Symphony is a non-profit youth musical group consisting of ten different performing groups totaling approximately 500 young musicians from six years through college.
The Old Church
The Old Church is no longer a home to any one congregation, but is lovingly preserved as a historic venue for concerts, conferences, exhibitions, weddings, and other events.
Oregon Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra
The Oregon Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra is a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering diverse musical education, to providing the community with inspired musical performances and to provide entertainment as an outreach to all ages to promote musical experience and appreciation
Oregon Sinfonietta
The Oregon Sinfonietta, now in its 36th season and conducted by Dr. Donald Lawrence Appert, is a community orchestra that draws together musicians from the greater Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington metropolitan area.
Oregon Symphonic Band
The Oregon Symphonic Band (OSB) is Oregon’s premier symphonic band. Formed in 1988, the award-winning band is comprised of 65 brass, wind and percussion players, all volunteering to play together for their love of music. These players are some of the Portland-area’s finest amateur and professional musicians. Each year the band plays three concert series, playing a range of music from marches to jazz, orchestral transcriptions and Broadway show tunes, to contemporary band literature.
Oregon Symphony
The Oregon Symphony provides varied music of the highest artistic standards to an audience of more than 300,000 annually, with a strong commitment to engaging as broad a statewide audience as possible.
Pacific Crest Wind Symphony
Since its inception, PCWS has been both an artistic challenge and a labor of love. The ensemble and each of its members have set a standard of musical excellence and continual artistic growth, providing its loyal and ever-expanding audience with exciting musical performances.
Portland Baroque Orchestra
The Portland Baroque Orchestra is dedicated to presenting spirited, authentic interpretations of 17th and 18th century music to a wide audience and, through outreach and dialogue, to educating the community about baroque music: its composers, themes, instruments, and performance practices.
Portland Chamber Orchestra
The Portland Chamber Orchestra is a 38-member ensemble led by world-renown New York conductor Yaacov Bergman, now in his fifth season as music director. The orchestra, founded in 1947 by Finnish composer and conductor Boris Sirpo, has deep-rooted commitment to performances of innovative repertoire, ranging from the baroque through the twenty-first century.
Portland Youth Philharmonic
It is the purpose of the Portland Youth Philharmonic Association to maintain the finest possible youth orchestra in order to inspire and educate young people through performing symphonic music and to provide a cultural asset for the community.
Rose City Chamber Orchestra
The Rose City Chamber Orchestra first came into being in Spring of 1998. A small group of musicians, who felt that their needs were not being met in the greater Portland community, decided to venture out on their own and establish a small chamber orchestra together.
Salem Chamber Orchestra
The Salem Chamber Orchestra, through a partnership between Willamette University and the Salem-Keizer community, enriches the Willamette Valley by promoting classical music that entertains, educates, and provides performance opportunities for Willamette students and area musicians.
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s mission is to enhance the quality of life in our city and region by presenting high-quality performances of classical and popular music to a wide variety of audiences, and offering educational and community programs, while operating in a financially sound manner.