Artslandia

Bach & Mendelssohn: Grace and Grandeur
2025-02-23 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-02-24 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Adored for centuries for its heartwarming “Air on the G String,” Bach’s Third Orchestral Suite illuminates Baroque dance forms with radiant brass, thunderous timpani, and serenading strings. And Mendelssohn sings ecstatic hymns of praise in his Second Symphony, uniting choir and orchestra in a life-affirming call to “cast off the works of darkness and take up the armor of light.”
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Hagen Quartet: Pinnacle of Musicality
2025-02-27 19:30 - 22:00 | The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
Like American 21st century superstars, the Emerson Quartet, Europe’s Hagen Quartet has attained an unparalleled position among the finest chamber ensembles in the world. Declared “the pinnacle of musicality” (Die Presse) their European preeminence is resolute. Comprised of siblings Lukas, Veronika, and Clemens Hagen, with violinist Rainer Schmidt, this four-decades-strong Austrian sensation has performed throughout the world and amassed a storied discography of nearly 50 acclaimed recordings. For those who love the best-of-the-best, you’ll not want to miss one of the greatest string quartets of our time in this rare U.S. appearance, right here in Portland!

Amadeus in Concert
2025-02-27 19:30 - 23:00, 2025-02-28 19:30 - 23:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Amadeus—the dazzling story of the tortuous rivalry between world-renowned composers Mozart and Salieri—returns to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall to celebrate its 40th anniversary! Accompanied by a live performance of the score with the Oregon Symphony and a full chorus, this is a sumptuous and astonishing movie experience that you will never forget.
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Joe Kye
2025-02-28 19:30 - 21:30 | Walters Cultural Arts Center, 527 East Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, 97123, United States
Musician and storyteller Joe Kye returns to the Walters’ stage, taking listeners on a transcendent personal journey, recollecting lineage and love through multiple generations of his family. Looping violin, vocals, and traditional Korean instruments, his music swirls with spoken word and deep ancestral connection, unraveling our inner cocoons with awareness and self-compassion.
This performance will feature the story of his grandfather’s bold escape from North Korea during the Korean War, connecting it to Joe’s life as a child immigrant. Reflective, emotionally impactful, and spiritually resonant, this show inspires hope, joy, and compassion in all ages.

Steve Reich’s Different Trains & Nathalie Joachim
2025-02-28 19:30 - 22:00 | Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, 12625 SW Crescent St, Beaverton, OR, 97005, United States
Embark on an emotional odyssey with the Oregon Symphony, exploring the cultural heritage, personal identities, and family histories of three groundbreaking living American composers. Singer and composer Nathalie Joachim’s Ki Moun Ou Ye (which means “Who Are You?” in Creole) celebrates her Haitian family with vibrant stories of community, survival, and freedom. Witness a new arrangement of Steve Reich’s iconic Minimalist masterpiece Different Trains—a haunting exploration of Holocaust survivors’ stories interwoven with his childhood memories. Plus, be captivated by Portland native Oswald Huynh’s poignant composition inspired by Vietnamese lullabies. Join us for an evening of breathtaking music that uniquely captures the human experience.

Spring Sunrise
2025-03-01 19:30 - 22:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
As winter fades, let PYP lift your spirits with a program of heartwarming music. Feel the joy and charm of Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps as it fills the air with the promise of spring, a piece so special that PYP performs it for the first time in its 100-year history.
Bask in the uplifting and spiritual energy of Johannes Brahms’s Second Symphony. This timeless masterpiece, performed by PYP for the sixth time, will envelop you in its exceptional beauty and leave you feeling renewed and inspired as the last days of winter give way to the light of spring.
The orchestra will also perform a piece with the 2024 Concerto Competition Winner, still to be announced.

Music for Millions: Film and Video Games
2025-03-02 16:00 - 18:30 | Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Metropolitan Youth Symphony invites you to “Music for Millions: Film and Video Games” on Sunday, March 2, 4:00 pm at the Newmark Theatre. This family-friendly matinee concert features Star Wars Suite by John Williams, screenings of the Palia video game and an all-new animation from Portland Art Museum’s Center for an Untold Tomorrow accompanying musical performances, and a joyous finale of Christopher Tin’s Waloyo Yamoni featuring Pacific Youth Choir. Try your hand at various instruments prior to the show with an instrument petting zoo. Costumes encouraged!

Tora'Dan
2025-03-07 19:30 - 20:30 | Walters Cultural Arts Center, 527 East Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, 97123, United States
Hailing from the vibrant and culturally rich landscapes of the Middle East, Tora’dan fuses traditional Azerbaijani Turkish music with the raw power of rock, crafting a uniquely captivating and intense sound.
For the past 17 years, Tovas and Jan Porvas have performed together globally, fueled by their shared love for music. Tovas, a poet, writes and sings the group’s songs in Azerbaijani Turkish and Farsi, while her husband Jan, a master musician, also sings, arranges the music, and plays keyboard and Tambur.
Join us for an unforgettable evening with one of Oregon’s most distinctive bands, promising a musical experience like no other!
This performance, supported by a City of Hillsboro Performance Series Grant, directly supports Tora’dan, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting The Immigrant Story.

The Hunting Horn: Handel, Couperin & Bach
2025-03-08 15:00 - 17:30 | Sanctuary Hall at First Congregational, 1126 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Featuring horn, oboe, violin, and harpsichord, this musical ride through the European countryside echoes with the thundering hooves and spirited chase of the hunt. Stölzel’s Sonata sets the scene with its evocative simplicity, capturing the essence of the outdoors. The complexity of the music then intensifies with works by Telemann and Fasch, mirroring the excitement and intensity of the hunt, while paying homage to the horn’s crucial role in signaling and guiding the pursuit.

Copland & Sibelius: Sounds of Spring
2025-03-08 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-03-09 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-03-10 19:30 - 22:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
The first warm, fragrant breezes of spring waft through the pages of two beloved works: Copland’s Appalachian Spring, a tender portrayal of rural American life, and Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony, with its heart-stopping vision of swans soaring across an April sky. Plus, Artist-in-Residence Xavier Foley returns to your Oregon Symphony to perform his astonishing new bass concerto.
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Hanneke Cassel Band
2025-03-14 19:30 - 21:30 | Walters Cultural Arts Center, 527 East Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, 97123, United States
With a career spanning over two decades, Hanneke Cassel has helped redefine what it means to be a modern fiddler. Fusing musical influences from the Isle of Skye and Cape Breton Island with Americana stylings, she blends originality and innovation with the spirit of Scottish traditional fiddle.
Prepare for a performance described by the Boston Globe as “exuberant and rhythmic, somehow wild and innocent, delivered with captivating melodic clarity and an irresistible playfulness.” Beyond the strings of her fiddle, Hanneke’s generous presence and passion round out her magnetism as a performer on the world stage of fiddle music.
“For more than two decades, she has infused her fiddle music—whether interpreting from Scottish, Cape Breton or other traditions, playing her own material, or covering other contemporary fiddle tunes—with a singular passion as well as technical brilliance, from soulful slow airs to boisterous strathspeys to exuberant reels.” — Boston Irish Reporter

Spring: Vivaldi, Guido & Samuel
2025-03-15 19:00 - 22:00 | Sanctuary Hall at First Congregational, 1126 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
A celebration of rebirth and renewal, from the much-loved “Spring” from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, to the world premiere of Rhian Samuel’s Gwanwyn (the Welsh word for spring), commissioned by PBO in response to Vivaldi’s interpretation of the season. We also explore Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto in G Minor, a ‘rebirth’ of one of his earlier works where the organic interplay of soloist and orchestra captures the nature of springtime.

Schumann 4: From Sorrow to Ecstasy
2025-03-15 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-03-16 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-03-17 19:30 - 22:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
A work of searing drama and intensity, Schumann’s Fourth Symphony charts an emotional journey to rapturous joy in one uninterrupted flow of achingly romantic music. Plus, Jeffrey Kahane mixes operatic lyricism with the playful intimacy of chamber music in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22, a work that “flows from Kahane’s hands as refreshingly as water from a crystalline spring” (LA Times).
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Resonance Nova: Music as Catalyst for Change
2025-03-15 19:30 - 22:00 | Reynolds High School, 1698 SW Cherry Park Rd, Troutdale, OR, 97060, United States
The Orchesrta Nova Northwest launches a new collaboration with the brilliant and dynamic Resonance Ensemble, a professional vocal ensemble with a mission that mirrors that of the Orchesrta Nova Northwest, who is committed to creating and presenting powerful programs promoting meaningful social change. This program will present an evocative work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw that uses excerpts of American poet Emma Lazarus’ poem The New Colossus and also addresses refugee crises, and a rarely performed work of American composer Margaret Bonds that sets W.E.B. Du Bois’ stirring Credo from his 1920 autobiography, Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil. The combined choruses from Lewis and Clark and Reed Colleges will join the Resonance Ensemble and the ONN for the mighty and majestic Dona nobis pacem of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, a work composed in 1936 and written as a plea for peace between the two world wars.

Bach-A-Thon
2025-03-16 14:00 - 16:30 | St. Andrew Lutheran Church, 12405 SW Butner Rd, Beaverton, OR, 97225, United States
The Portland Chapter of the American Guild of Organists presents the annual Bach-a-thon!
Live and livestreamed on YouTube: In person Sunday, March 16 at 2 PM at St. Andrew Lutheran Church, 12405 SW Butner Rd. Beaverton, OR. We will also simulcast the performances on our YouTube channel.
Live performers: Stephen Jantzen, Gregor McGee, Steve Wiberg, James Waler, Yu-Lin Chao, Susan Werner Reiser, and Cheryl Will
Immediately following the live event we will present the world premiere of the pre-recorded pieces submitted by chapter members. This will also be broadcast on our YouTube channel.

Spring: Vivaldi, Guido & Samuel
2025-03-16 15:00 - 17:30 | Kaul Auditorium, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR, 97202, United States

Resonance Nova: Music as Catalyst for Change
2025-03-16 15:00 - 17:30 | Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, 12625 SW Crescent St, Beaverton, OR, 97005, United States

The Music of the Rolling Stones
2025-03-20 19:30 - 22:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
With countless chart-toppers and unmistakable swagger, The Rolling Stones have defined “cool” since the ‘60s. Backed by the power of a full orchestra and rock band, incredible lead singer Mick Adams delivers a fabulous rendition of Mick Jagger’s vocals (and moves) to recreate The Rolling Stones’ biggest hits through the decades—“Satisfaction,” “Paint It Black,” “Ruby Tuesday,” “Honky Tonk Women,” “Angie,” “Wild Horses,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” and many more!
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Back to the '80s
2025-03-22 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-03-23 14:00 - 16:30 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Back to the ’80s is a retro-packed concert of the decade’s #1 hit songs, including “The Power of Love,” “Time After Time,” “Material Girl,” “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Footloose,” “Addicted to Love,” and many more. Featuring the music of such 80’s iconic stars as Madonna, Debbie Gibson, Huey Lewis & The News, Phil Collins, Queen, and Joe Cocker… it will be a totally tubular concert experience, for sure!
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Nathalia Palis
2025-03-23 14:00 - 15:00 | Walters Cultural Arts Center, 527 East Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, 97123, United States
Join us for an afternoon of singing, dancing, and family fun when Colombian-born songwriter and performer Nathalia Palis takes the stage! Through her fun, interactive, and original bilingual music, learn about the world while exploring songs of empowerment and discovery through heartfelt melodies and lyrics.
Exploring a variety of imaginative themes, Nathalia paints a world of musical colors by fusing popular styles with traditional Latin American sounds and rhythms. From start to finish, her catchy melodies, heartfelt lyrics, and musical stories will have families singing, dancing, even learning a little Spanish, in this exciting multicultural experience!
“The music is fun and engaging so that kids will want to listen again and again.” – Spanish Playground

Silkroad Ensemble: Uplifted Voices
2025-04-01 19:30 - 22:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
In Uplifted Voices, Silkroad shines a light on previously under-recognized voices from across the globe to change our perspective of the history and migration of music. Through a stunning collaboration of global instrumentation, Silkroad’s newest project champions women and non-binary members of the Silkroad Ensemble alongside special guest Tuscarora/Taíno musician Pura Fé to tell a musical journey that connects the music of indigenous North America to the World. Drawing inspiration from the folk and ancestral music of Japan, China, Armenia, Ireland and the Hebrides, and native populations across North America, Uplifted Voices brings together this collection of distinctive and powerful musical origins within a contemporary musical tapestry.
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Soovin Kim: Bach's Complete Solo Sonatas & Partitas Part 1
2025-04-03 19:30 - 22:00 | The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
When the world shut down in 2020, one of the first musicians in the nation to step onto a stage to share desperately needed music with the world was our own artistic director, acclaimed violinist Soovin Kim. CMNW streamed his monumental performance of Bach’s complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin from Massachusetts’s majestic Mechanics Hall for thousands of home-bound views. Now, it is finally our honor and privilege to have him perform them LIVE! This will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, a marathon performance over two concert evenings, of some of Bach’s most moving works…and by CMNW’s own artistic director violinist extraordinaire.

Minidoka Swing Band
2025-04-04 19:30 - 21:30 | Walters Cultural Arts Center, 527 East Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, 97123, United States
Imagine yourself as a young adult born in America, knowing only the U.S. as your home. Now, picture the country of your birth rounding up you and your family to be imprisoned because your ancestors legally immigrated from a country currently at war with the U.S. How would you deal with this upheaval in your life?
The Minidoka Swing Band dives into this topic, taking you on a journey detailing the experiences of the Japanese Americans during World War 2 as they were forced into internment camps in the U.S. Seeking to create as normal a life as possible, people in the camps formed sports teams, Boy Scout troops, and often held Saturday night dances for young adults and teens, with music by bands formed in the camps.
The Minidoka Swing Band performs swing tunes from the Big Band era—music of the 1930s and 1940s popular in the internment camps of WW2—paying tribute to the resilience of the Americans unjustly imprisoned by the only country they ever knew. This evening will also include a presentation about these troubling events from United States history.
This performance, supported by a City of Hillsboro Performance Series Grant, directly supports the Minidoka Swing Band, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting The Immigrant Story.
