SUMMER SOLSTICE SERIES PRESENTED ONLINE BY
PIANIST DANIEL VNUKOWSKI JUNE 16 – 26, 2021

Artistic Director of Collingwood Summer Music Festival Daniel Vnukowski will host Summer Solstice Series this month. The four-part concert series will include Celebrating Robert Burns with R.H. Thomson and Mr. Vnukowski (June 16, 7 p.m. EDT); a Schubert solo piano recital by Mr. Vnukowski (June 19, 3 p.m. EDT); In The Footsteps of Chopin, a discussion with Dr. Alan Walker and Mr. Vnukowski (June 23, 7 p.m. EDT); and, finally, Mr. Vnukowski in a Chopin solo piano recital (June 26, 3 p.m. EDT).

A highlight of the series is the third event In the Footsteps of Chopin, a 50-minute virtual discussion on Wednesday, June 23 at 7 p.m. EDT, featuring the eminently distinguished musicologist Dr. Alan Walker. Mr. Vnukowski and Dr. Walker will be following in the footsteps of Chopin and covering important topics such as aesthetics, Polish vernacular, and interpretation as the tail-end of the composing process.

The Wednesday events are free, but require an RSVP and will be followed by a live Q & A that invites participants to ask questions. The Saturday events are $12 + tax.

Details: https://collingwoodfestival.com/summer-solstice/

My Favorite Mass: Epic movements from the great masses
Ralph Nelson, Guest Clinician
Monday June 21, 7:00 p.m. PDT
Visit http://www.pschoir.org to learn more

Conductor Ralph Nelson leads many different choral groups – both children and adults – in the Portland, Oregon area. On any given day, he literally works with singers ages 8 to 100. Named 2011 “Teaching Artist of the Year” in Oregon (by Young Audiences of Oregon), Nelson is in demand as a choral director and an artist-in-residence throughout the Portland, Oregon area.

Nelson grew up in Maryland and earned his bachelor degree in music at Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he studied with Pulitzer-Prize winner composer Lewis Spratlan. Subsequently, he studied composition and conducting with Nadia Boulanger and Annette Dieudonné in France. In 2008 he was a student of Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival in Eugene, Oregon.

Nelson is the founding conductor and music director of the Bach Cantata Choir. He conducts five programs per year with this organization – featuring 50+ singers and a professional orchestra. To date the Bach Cantata Choir has performed 75 of the 250 cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as other major Bach works including the Mass in B Minor and the Christmas Oratorio.

In addition to composing and teaching in the public schools, Nelson is also Choir Director of the oldest Swedish Lutheran church on the West Coast – First Immanuel Lutheran Church in Portland and Director of the Holladay Park Plaza Singers – a wonderful group of 40 senior citizens.

SUMMER SOLSTICE SERIES PRESENTED ONLINE BY
PIANIST DANIEL VNUKOWSKI JUNE 16 – 26, 2021

Artistic Director of Collingwood Summer Music Festival Daniel Vnukowski will host Summer Solstice Series this month. The four-part concert series will include Celebrating Robert Burns with R.H. Thomson and Mr. Vnukowski (June 16, 7 p.m. EDT); a Schubert solo piano recital by Mr. Vnukowski (June 19, 3 p.m. EDT); In The Footsteps of Chopin, a discussion with Dr. Alan Walker and Mr. Vnukowski (June 23, 7 p.m. EDT); and, finally, Mr. Vnukowski in a Chopin solo piano recital (June 26, 3 p.m. EDT).

A highlight of the series is the third event In the Footsteps of Chopin, a 50-minute virtual discussion on Wednesday, June 23 at 7 p.m. EDT, featuring the eminently distinguished musicologist Dr. Alan Walker. Mr. Vnukowski and Dr. Walker will be following in the footsteps of Chopin and covering important topics such as aesthetics, Polish vernacular, and interpretation as the tail-end of the composing process.

The Wednesday events are free, but require an RSVP and will be followed by a live Q & A that invites participants to ask questions. The Saturday events are $12 + tax.

Details: https://collingwoodfestival.com/summer-solstice/

SUMMER SOLSTICE SERIES PRESENTED ONLINE BY
PIANIST DANIEL VNUKOWSKI JUNE 16 – 26, 2021

Artistic Director of Collingwood Summer Music Festival Daniel Vnukowski will host Summer Solstice Series this month. The four-part concert series will include Celebrating Robert Burns with R.H. Thomson and Mr. Vnukowski (June 16, 7 p.m. EDT); a Schubert solo piano recital by Mr. Vnukowski (June 19, 3 p.m. EDT); In The Footsteps of Chopin, a discussion with Dr. Alan Walker and Mr. Vnukowski (June 23, 7 p.m. EDT); and, finally, Mr. Vnukowski in a Chopin solo piano recital (June 26, 3 p.m. EDT).

A highlight of the series is the third event In the Footsteps of Chopin, a 50-minute virtual discussion on Wednesday, June 23 at 7 p.m. EDT, featuring the eminently distinguished musicologist Dr. Alan Walker. Mr. Vnukowski and Dr. Walker will be following in the footsteps of Chopin and covering important topics such as aesthetics, Polish vernacular, and interpretation as the tail-end of the composing process.

The Wednesday events are free, but require an RSVP and will be followed by a live Q & A that invites participants to ask questions. The Saturday events are $12 + tax.

Details: https://collingwoodfestival.com/summer-solstice/

Portland Baroque Orchestra presents the final concert of our 20-21 Season: Mozart’s piano quartets, starring 8 PBO musicians and a gorgeous replica of Mozart’s own fortepiano. Don’t miss the largest PBO ensemble in over a year!

This is a FREE LIVESTREAM via Great Arts. Period. Online premiere on YouTube

This performance, like all of PBO’s 20-21 Season, is presented through Great Arts. Period., an admission-free digital concert hall. Check out more performances at GreatArtsPeriod.org.

AT-HOME: Opening Night with East Coast Chamber Orchestra

After a year without concerts, Chamber Music Northwest’s Summer Festival roars back into the concert hall with a jubilant celebration of music! The captivating energy of the conductorless East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) has made them audience favorites wherever they play. Joined by new CMNW Artistic Directors Gloria Chien and Soovin Kim, ECCO kicks off the festival with an evening of exhilarating chamber orchestra masterpieces by Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky.

Online Virtual Concert
Premieres Thursday, 7/15 • 7:30 pm PT
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AT-HOME: The Exuberance of ECCO & Jupiter Quartet

The lush and powerful tone of the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) is featured in these colorful works never before performed at CMNW. The ensemble’s versatility is on full display in the wide range of compositional styles on this program. The Jupiter String Quartet joins as soloists in Jessie Montgomery’s scintillating Banner for quartet and orchestra.

Online Virtual Concert
Premieres Saturday, 7/17 • 7:30 pm PT
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AT-HOME: Premiering A Song by Mahler

In this unique union of music and theatre by Marc Neikrug, a celebrated concert singer struggles with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Adjusting to this reality and its progression, she and her husband (also her accompanist) connect on this emotional journey through music. Starring Jennifer Johnson Cano and Kelly Markgraf, featuring David Shifrin with the FLUX Quartet, and directed by Doug Fitch. Co-commissioned by CMNW with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, La Jolla, Lake Champlain, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festivals.

Online Virtual Concert
Premieres Tuesday, 7/20 • 7:30 pm PT
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AT-HOME: Sounds of Brilliance & Unity

Artistic Director Emeritus and luminary clarinetist David Shifrin opens the concert with Weber’s show-stopping Clarinet Quintet. Some of CMNW’s and Oregon’s most beloved musicians perform Jeff Scott’s rag Startin’ Sumthin’, Valerie Coleman’s uplifting Umoja (Unity), and Aaron Copland’s sublime Appalachian Spring suite to complete the ebullient evening.

Online Virtual Concert
Premieres Thursday, 7/22 • 7:30 pm PT
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AT-HOME: Premiering Vesper Flight & Les Adieux

In a program of captivating works, a host of magnificent musicians present world premieres by two leading composers: Kenji Bunch’s beautiful Vesper Flight for flutist Tara Helen O’Connor, and the much-anticipated premiere of David Ludwig’s Les Adieux concerto, commissioned by CMNW to honor Artistic Director Emeritus, David Shifrin. The celebratory week concludes with the irrepressible joy of Mozart’s Viola Quintet in C Major.

Online Virtual Concert
Premieres Saturday, 7/24 • 7:30 pm PT
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AT-HOME: Visionary Quintets Revealed

The Dover Quartet, former Protégés and one of the CMNW audience’s favorite ensembles, returns for thrilling works with two of the world’s great virtuoso pianists: Marc-André Hamelin and Matan Porat. Porat premieres his own CMNW-commissioned quintet, and Hamelin illuminates Leo Ornstein’s monumental quintet.

Online Virtual Concert
Premieres Thursday, 7/29 • 7:30 pm PT
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AT-HOME: Sonic Kaleidoscope: Sax, Guitar & Percussion

Two Grammy Award winners, saxophonist Branford Marsalis and guitarist Jason Vieaux, team up for their Summer Festival debuts performing the world premiere of an exciting CMNW commission by American composer Pierre Jalbert. The folk idiom of Béla Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, the most dramatic work of this summer festival, caps this memorable program full of wide-ranging instrumental colors and ensembles.

Online Virtual Concert
Premieres Saturday, 7/31 • 7:30 pm PT
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AT-HOME: Reflecting upon Classics

The internationally renowned Brentano String Quartet begin their tenure as CMNW’s 2021-22 Artists-in-Residence merging their “luxuriously warm sound and yearning lyricism” (The New York Times) with the dark expression of Haydn and Barber on the first half of this program. The Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio, consisting of CMNW Artistic Directors Gloria Chien and Soovin Kim, and Paul Watkins of the Emerson Quartet, makes its CMNW debut with Brahms’s glorious C major piano trio.

Online Virtual Concert
Premieres Thursday, 8/5 • 7:30 pm PT
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AT-HOME: Festival Finale: A Journey Into the Light

Our 2021 Festival Finale is a fitting testament to the trials and tribulations of the past 18 months, a collective journey of reflection — and now rejoicing. Bass-baritone Davóne Tines performs his groundbreaking exploration of the Mass woven through Western European, African American, and 21st-century traditions. As the grand finale, the Brentano String Quartet and cellist Paul Watkins perform Schubert’s profound Cello Quintet — one of the most inspiring chamber works ever composed.

Online Virtual Concert
Premieres Saturday, 8/7 • 7:30 pm PT
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