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Cascadia Composers is excited to announce the Portland debut performance of dynamic composer, French hornist, and singer David A. Jones, joined by pianist Rebecca Stager.

Come join us for an evening of new vocal and instrumental music by Cascadia Composer members! The program will feature the world premiere of Jones’s Isang Punongkahoy (“A Tree”) for voice and piano, with text by Filipino poet Huseng Batute (José Corazón de Jesús). Jones will also present his Sonata for Horn and Piano and works by Ken Davies, Ryan Hare, Lisa Neher, and Walter Saul.

Tickets are $20 for general admission, $10 for seniors and working artists, and $5 for students. Tickets are available at songsandsonatas.brownpapertickets.com or at the door.

Dr. David A. Jones (b. 1990) is a composer, hornist, and singer based in Salem, Oregon. Through his music, Jones seeks to highlight hidden details and unknown stories. Many of his works engage with artwork from other disciplines, including painting, sculpture, dance, literature, and experimental film. His music has been performed by the Bradley University Symphonic Winds, the Braeburn Brass, the Invoke Quartet, the Prismatic Winds, the Xelana Duo, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Hexnut, and the Nautilus Brass Quintet. Jones holds degrees in composition from Rice University, Brigham Young University, and Brigham Young University-Idaho. He currently teaches at Linn-Benton Community College and Linfield University and is a Tagalog-speaking member of the Translation Advisory Council for the Oregon Secretary of State Elections Division.

Cascadia Composers is a local affiliate of National Association of Composers USA. It offers its members educational enrichment and presentation opportunities through monthly meetings. Members work in virtually every musical genre: chamber music, jazz, choral music, musical theater, electronic and electro-acoustic music, world music and orchestral music. Cascadia Composers’ members include independent professionals, composer/educators and students. Fostering a rich collaboration with local musicians, members share the benefit of being part of a regional community of composers who share common goals and aspirations.

British pianist Murray McLachlan, one of the world’s great piano pedagogues and performers, performs a recital entitled “Masterworks for Keyboard: The Final Sonatas of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven with Chopin’s Ballades.”
This event is part of the PSU Steinway Series, which brings internationally recognized performers and educators to Portland for a weekend of public recitals and master classes each year. Acting as a bridge between world-class stages and the college classroom, the series elevates awareness for PSU’s outstanding music program while providing students and concertgoers with access to a broad spectrum of the highest level professional pianists performing today.

General Public $25; Seniors (+60), Students, OMTA Teachers $10

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.