As a host on All Classical Radio, and an active performer, leader, and advocate in our local community, I’m passionate about connections and collaborations in the arts. I love to explore the creativity that surrounds us, the weird stuff, the cool stuff, the unexpected, and share my conversations with the community that supports everything we do.
It’s a wild and wonderful world of arts here in the Pacific Northwest… I hope you’ll dive into some adventure with me!
Blog Posts by Lisa Lipton
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Lisa Lipton Explores: Portland’s Yelling Choir
All Classical Radio on air host and producer Lisa Lipton chats with flutist Maxx Katz, founder of Portland’s Yelling Choir. Yelling Choir is a femme, women, and nonbinary performance ensemble which reimagines voice, presence, gender, and power. The group has a forward-thinking aesthetic based in contemporary classical music, improvisation, performance art, and social practice. In…
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Lisa Lipton Explores: WindSync + BodyVox + Chamber Music Northwest
All Classical Radio host Lisa Lipton caught up with choreographer Jamey Hampton and bassoonist Kara LaMoure to talk about a collaboration between WindSync, BodyVox, and Chamber Music Northwest, that’s as bold as it is unusual. Musicians and dancers are building a brand-new work together—without ever having met in person. Through Zoom calls, phone conversations, recordings…
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Lisa Lipton Explores: PSU’s ‘Spring Awakening’
All Classical host Lisa Lipton talks with Zach Galatis (Oregon Symphony and Assistant Professor of Flute at Portland State University) about PSU’s first ever full-scale musical production, ‘Spring Awakening.’ Hear more about this milestone production for PSU’s School of Music & Theater and how the creative team is bringing this bold, coming of age show…
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Lisa Lipton Explores: Arnold Schoenberg
For this edition of John Pitman’s Reviews, John has invited All Classical host and producer Lisa Lipton to sit down with Larry Schoenberg, son of composer Arnold Schoenberg. Lisa, along with microtonal composer Richie Greene, and 45th Parallel Universe musicians Ron Blessinger and James Shields, asked Larry what it was like having one of the…
LISA LIPTON
In addition to being a host at All Classical Radio, I am a clarinetist, the Executive Director of both 45th Parallel Universe and Opera Theater Oregon, and a co-founder/co-owner of Portland’s first classical music-themed bar, Mendelssohn’s. My career in radio includes two years as the host of the live weekly radio program Arts Talk on KNPT/KYTE-FM in Newport, OR. As a musician I’ve performed with the Decibel Festival, TBA Festival, PDX Pop Now!, MusicfestNW, Astoria Music Festival, Salem Orchestra, Oregon Ballet Theater, and Portland Opera.
Let’s explore Portland together!
