Kaul Auditorium
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Portland, OR 97202
Reed College
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june
24jun8:00 pmOpening Night: Poetry in MusicChamber Music NorthwestLive or Recorded:Live Event
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Poetry and music, two of the most evocative art forms, are often intertwined to create an interdisciplinary experience called art song. German, English, and Persian poetry are the inspirations for
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Poetry and music, two of the most evocative art forms, are often intertwined to create an interdisciplinary experience called art song. German, English, and Persian poetry are the inspirations for songs by Johannes Brahms and world premiere songs by CMNW Protégé composer Kian Ravaei. Both composers added obligato string instruments to add color to the traditional voice and piano in art songs. The program is capped by one of Brahms’s grandest and most glorious works of all, his second Piano Quartet. Mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron returns to CMNW after her dazzling performances last summer, poetic pianist Ieva Jokūbavičiūtė makes her CMNW debut, and brilliant string players Benjamin Beilman, Hsin-Yun Huang, and Peter Stumpf celebrate the opening of the 2023 festival.
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(Saturday) 8:00 pm PST
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Kaul Auditorium
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Portland, OR 97202
july
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Inspired by Bach’s 1723 move to Leipzig, the “imaginative and spontaneous” (The New York Times) Jos van Veldhoven leads the Oregon Bach Festival Period Orchestra and Chamber Chorus through a
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Inspired by Bach’s 1723 move to Leipzig, the “imaginative and spontaneous” (The New York Times) Jos van Veldhoven leads the Oregon Bach Festival Period Orchestra and Chamber Chorus through a Baroque-era musical journey. Beginning with movements from Telemann’s celebratory nautical oratorio “Hamburg Admiralty Music,” the program includes cantatas from Graupner and Bach, and concludes with the joyous and transformative Bach Magnificat.
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(Saturday) 8:00 pm PST
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Kaul Auditorium
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Portland, OR 97202
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On this program of four master composers of song, Metropolitan Opera star soprano Susanna Phillips performs works by Franz Schubert and William Bolcom that feature instrumental virtuosity as well. Bolcom’s
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On this program of four master composers of song, Metropolitan Opera star soprano Susanna Phillips performs works by Franz Schubert and William Bolcom that feature instrumental virtuosity as well. Bolcom’s moving song cycle, Let Evening Come, is set to poems by Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Kenyon. Schubert’s The Shepherd on the Rock and Johannes Brahms’s dramatic trio, two of the greatest clarinet chamber masterpieces, are given voice by legendary CMNW Artistic Director Emeritus David Shifrin.
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(Monday) 8:00 pm PST
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Kaul Auditorium
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Portland, OR 97202
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Hailed by Time Magazine as “America’s Greatest Quartet,” the nine-time Grammy Award-winning Emerson Quartet graces CMNW’s stage one last time in their farewell season. This not-to-be-missed evening features the full span of
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Hailed by Time Magazine as “America’s Greatest Quartet,” the nine-time Grammy Award-winning Emerson Quartet graces CMNW’s stage one last time in their farewell season. This not-to-be-missed evening features the full span of the Emerson’s signature musical mastery: a West Coast premiere by Sarah Kirkland Snider, a thrilling Bartók quartet from their first Grammy recording, and a momentous final collaboration with the equally lauded clarinetist David Shifrin, in Brahms’s last and perhaps greatest chamber ensemble work.
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(Thursday) 8:00 pm PST
Location
Kaul Auditorium
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Portland, OR 97202
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The Emerson Quartet’s powerful tone, extraordinary exploration of repertoire, and longevity have made it the most acclaimed chamber ensemble in the world. After 17 appearances over a span of 30
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The Emerson Quartet’s powerful tone, extraordinary exploration of repertoire, and longevity have made it the most acclaimed chamber ensemble in the world. After 17 appearances over a span of 30 years, this is their final unforgettable performance at Chamber Music Northwest. There is no better grand finale than Beethoven’s cathartic Opus 131 quartet, one of the most transcendent pieces in music history. CMNW Artistic Director Gloria Chien salutes and celebrates the Emersons, joining them in Robert Schumann’s irrepressibly joyous piano quintet.
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(Saturday) 8:00 pm PST
Location
Kaul Auditorium
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Portland, OR 97202
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Three years in the making, be among the first to hear the exciting West Coast debut of this powerhouse composer collective and stunning ensemble of performers. CMNW favorites, flutist Valerie
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Three years in the making, be among the first to hear the exciting West Coast debut of this powerhouse composer collective and stunning ensemble of performers. CMNW favorites, flutist Valerie Coleman, violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama, and harpist Han Lash came together to create umama womama, a unique three-composer trio, to help us celebrate our 50th anniversary season. Postponed by the pandemic, this incredible trio of beloved musicians and their music will finally be unleashed!
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(Monday) 8:00 pm PST
Location
Kaul Auditorium
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Portland, OR 97202
15jul8:00 pmUNCOVERED VoicesChamber Music Northwest 2023 Summer FestivalLive or Recorded:Live Event
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Special musical partnerships from critically acclaimed albums headline this program. Artistic Director Gloria Chien and heralded clarinetist Anthony McGill are longtime recital partners, and the exhilarating F Minor sonata was
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Special musical partnerships from critically acclaimed albums headline this program. Artistic Director Gloria Chien and heralded clarinetist Anthony McGill are longtime recital partners, and the exhilarating F Minor sonata was part of their recording of the Brahms clarinet sonatas. McGill joins the Catalyst Quartet in the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor quintet that is part of UNCOVERED—the Catalyst’s multi-volume spotlight on previously overlooked Black composers. Sensational pianist and composer Stewart Goodyear also premieres his The Torment of Marsyas, with beloved Portland flutist Amelia Lukas.
Time
(Saturday) 8:00 pm PST
Location
Kaul Auditorium
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Portland, OR 97202
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Rarely in one concert will you experience a string quartet with piano, a saxophone quartet, a Renaissance band, and a poetic monodrama! Set to poetry by Portland native Katie Ford, The
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Rarely in one concert will you experience a string quartet with piano, a saxophone quartet, a Renaissance band, and a poetic monodrama! Set to poetry by Portland native Katie Ford, The Anchoress combines ancient and modern instruments with the human voice to explore the medieval mystic tradition called anchorism—with the remarkably expressive Hyunah Yu inhabiting the role of the Anchoress. CMNW Protégé alums, the Kenari Quartet, perform Quantum Shift, “an 8-minute virtuosic powerhouse” for saxophones. Pianist Stewart Goodyear and the Catalyst Quartet also UNCOVER Florence Price’s lively Piano Quintet.
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(Monday) 8:00 pm PST
Location
Kaul Auditorium
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Portland, OR 97202
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Vienna, one of the European musical capitals of the 18th to 20th centuries, was the home for some of the most important composers in history. At the heart of the
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Vienna, one of the European musical capitals of the 18th to 20th centuries, was the home for some of the most important composers in history. At the heart of the First Viennese School of composition was the iconic Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and two of his divinely beautiful works bookend this program that feature Artistic Directors Gloria Chien and Soovin Kim. The revolutionary Second Viennese School is represented by Anton Webern’s hair-raising quintet transcription of Arnold Schoenberg’s first Chamber Symphony, played by the “Pierrot ensemble” Third Sound—a dynamic instrumental combination of violin, cello, flute, clarinet, and piano that sounds like a small orchestra.
Time
(Saturday) 8:00 pm - 12:09 am PST
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Kaul Auditorium
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Portland, OR 97202
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Music can be an extraordinary expression of personal suffering, loneliness, loss, and ultimately triumph. The wild colors of Alexander Scriabin’s brilliant third piano sonata, the penetrating soulfulness of the folk
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Music can be an extraordinary expression of personal suffering, loneliness, loss, and ultimately triumph. The wild colors of Alexander Scriabin’s brilliant third piano sonata, the penetrating soulfulness of the folk songs of the great Armenian priest Komitas, and the symphonic scale of Richard Strauss’s chamber music make this the most wide-ranging concert of the summer festival. Chinese-American composer Wang Jie’s world premiere for Pierrot ensemble and narrator, Blame the Obituary, is simultaneously a whimsical, comical, and bleak musical picture of life during the trying last few years. Wang Jie’s husband and host of the radio show Performance Today, Fred Child, narrates with pathos and self-deprecating humor.
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(Monday) 4:00 pm PST
Location
Kaul Auditorium
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Portland, OR 97202
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Our festival finale is an exciting celebration of the vitality of American music from the turn of the 20th century until today: native and folk influences in Antonín Dvořák, New
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Our festival finale is an exciting celebration of the vitality of American music from the turn of the 20th century until today: native and folk influences in Antonín Dvořák, New England church hymns and popular tunes in Charles Ives, traditional Romanticism in Amy Beach, and modern-day lyricism in Chris Rogerson. The sensational Fleur Barron, who opened the festival, returns to close the summer in a beautiful world premiere work by Rogerson, and the dynamic South African pianist Anton Nel makes his CMNW debut in Beach’s ravishing Piano Quintet.
Time
(Friday) 8:00 pm PST
Location
Kaul Auditorium
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Portland, OR 97202
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Our festival finale is an exciting celebration of the vitality of American music from the turn of the 20th century until today: native and folk influences in Antonín Dvořák, New
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Our festival finale is an exciting celebration of the vitality of American music from the turn of the 20th century until today: native and folk influences in Antonín Dvořák, New England church hymns and popular tunes in Charles Ives, traditional Romanticism in Amy Beach, and modern-day lyricism in Chris Rogerson. The sensational Fleur Barron, who opened the festival, returns to close the summer in a beautiful world premiere work by Rogerson, and the dynamic South African pianist Anton Nel makes his CMNW debut in Beach’s ravishing Piano Quintet.
Time
(Saturday) 8:00 pm PST
Location
Kaul Auditorium
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Portland, OR 97202