Camerata PYP: Sound Garden Series
2025-01-10 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, 12625 SW Crescent St, Beaverton, OR, 97005, United States
The PYP Camerata ensemble returns with a thrilling program that blends the elegance of classical traditions with vibrant modern compositions. Our first Camerata concert of the year features special guest Llewellyn SÁNCHEZ-WERNER, piano.
Joaquín Turina’s Rapsodia Sinfónica opens the evening, showcasing lush, Spanish-inspired themes that ebb and flow with rich harmonies. This will be followed by Franz Liszt’s brooding and virtuosic Malédiction, a powerful showcase for the piano.
Camille Saint-Saëns’ playful and refined Wedding Cake, a sparkling showpiece, rounds out the first half, leaving the audience ready for what’s to come after the intermission. Contemporary sounds take center stage with Jessie Montgomery’s evocative Rounds for Piano and String Orchestra, blending rhythm and melody in fresh and exciting ways. The intensity builds with Carlos Surinach’s Concertino for Piano, Strings, and Cymbals, an electrifying mid-20th-century piece filled with energetic shifts between its three movements, ranging from the lyrical to the fiery.
Bruce Stark’s playful and dynamic Mischief Dance serves as a delightful encore, ensuring that this Camerata PYP concert will leave the audience both exhilarated and enchanted.

Krapp’s Last Tape
2025-01-10 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-11 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-12 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-01-16 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-17 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-18 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-19 14:00 - 16:30 | 21Ten Theatre, 2110 SE 10th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97214, United States
Krapp’s Last Tape, a rarely seen gem from Nobel Prize–winning playwright Samuel Beckett, opens Friday, January 4th at 21Ten Theater!
This succinct and searing play features veteran Portland actor Bruce Burkhartsmeier in the title role, and is directed by the luminary Victoria Parker-Pohl.
This play cleverly and movingly examines three iterations of one man—at ages 29, 39 and 69—as captured on tape. Critic Michael Billington writes that Krapp’s Last Tape “never ceases to astonish.”

Beethoven's Emperor: Leaders & Pathbreakers
2025-01-11 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-12 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-01-13 19:30 - 22:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Composed while the Napoleonic Wars raged outside his door, Beethoven’s heroic piano concerto receives a powerhouse performance from the world-renowned Yefim Bronfman, who brings “fire and poetry” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) to each epic moment. And Duke Ellington connects past and present in the jazzy dreamscapes of Three Black Kings, his soulful tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A Powerful Voice Rises: Soloists in the Spotlight
2025-01-12 19:30 - 22:00 | Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
MYS’ dynamic January concert will feature a guest artist who breaks the barriers of how and where classical music can be performed and enjoyed: Hunter Noack!
In performance with Symphony Orchestra, Noack will present Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Piano Concerto No.2, Op.18.” Noack is a classical pianist and founder of the wilderness concert series, “IN A LANDSCAPE: Classical Music in the Wild™”, a unique example of solo performance breaking the confines of the concert hall.
Further, Symphony Orchestra will present the world premiere of “Seas of Glass” by YCP/Authentic Voice student composer Frazar Henry. The concert will also feature the winners of MYS’ Concerto Competition: Leena Karmarkar (violin) will perform “Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53, Mvt. 3” by Antonín Dvořák, and Kaden Prichard (clarinet) will perform “Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 74, Mvt. 3” by Carl Maria von Weber.

Winter Recital
2025-01-16 18:30 - 21:30 | Jefferson High School Auditorium, 5210 N. Kerby, Portland, OR, 97217, United States
Come and see the skilled Jefferson Dancers perform a variety of dance styles including jazz, modern, ballet, African dance, and hip-hop.

Portland Arts & Lectures: Timothy Egan
2025-01-16 19:30 - 21:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Timothy Egan is an American journalist and author of ten books. The most recent, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, was an immediate New York Times bestseller. Egan worked for The New York Times for 18 years, first as the Pacific Northwest correspondent, and then as a national enterprise reporter. As part of a team of reporters Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2001 for writing a series called How Race is Lived in America. Egan lives in Seattle with his family.

Exhilarating Beethoven
2025-01-18 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-19 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-01-20 19:30 - 22:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
A showstopping ode to the power of dance, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony brims with an unbridled energy certain to make your heart race. The composer’s Violin Concerto—which ends with its own rollicking tune—trades in technical fireworks for transcendent lyricism, while Jimmy López Bellido’s Fiesta! shakes up Baroque dance forms with elements of pop, techno, and Latin music.
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Mrs. Harrison
2025-01-19 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-21 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-22 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-23 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-24 19:30 - 22:00 | U.S. Bank Main Stage, 128 NW Eleventh Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
At their 10-year college reunion, Aisha and Holly meet by chance. Aisha is a Black, successful playwright; Holly is a white, struggling stand-up comedian. Aisha’s most successful play bears a striking resemblance to a tragic event in Holly’s life. Is it a coincidence or is it theft? They both have a story they’ve been telling themselves about what happened years ago and they’re both willing to fight for their truth in the present.
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Beethoven x Beyoncé
2025-01-23 19:30 - 22:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Experience Steve Hackman’s thrilling new blend of pop/R&B’s queen and classical music’s king as Beyoncé’s iconic repertoire is seamlessly interwoven with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.
The symphonic world’s most joyful celebration of dance becomes the backdrop to fifteen of Beyoncé’s chart-topping hits—including “Run the World (Girls),” “Crazy in Love,” “Single Ladies,” “Sorry,” “Halo,” “Cuff It,” and “Texas Hold ‘Em”—in this innovative new musical fusion.
Prepare to be mesmerized as three powerhouse female soloists—accompanied by a guest drummer, guitarist/keyboardist, and bassist—join forces with your Oregon Symphony for a night to remember!
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8-Track: The Sounds of the '70s in Concert
2025-01-23 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-24 19:30 - 22:00 | Broadway Rose New Stage, 12850 SW Grant Avenue, Tigard, OR, 97223, United States
Put on your boogie shoes and experience the music of the ‘70s with the fast-paced musical revue, 8-Track. With over 50 songs that defined the decade, this joyful concert will take you on a time-traveling journey back to an era of vibrant songs, electric choreography, and outstanding harmonies. Featuring the music of The Bee Gees, Marvin Gaye, KC and The Sunshine Band, The Carpenters, Labelle, The Doobie Brothers, Barry Manilow, The Emotions, and more, 8-Track will bring the best of soul, pop, and disco to you!

Open Ended
2025-01-23 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-24 19:30 - 22:00 | Open Space Creative Container, 9371 N Interstate Ave, Portland, OR, 97217, United States
Open Space welcomes Outrun the Bear, an LA based collaborative dance project, for 2025’s iteration of Open Ended. Founded in 2021 by Megan Doheny (USA) and Ilya Nikurov (RUS), Outrun the Bear will create a new work on the company AND perform their own repertoire for this highly anticipated show!

Samsara
2025-01-23 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-24 19:30 - 22:00 | Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison Street, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
by Lauren Yee
co-directed by Jamie M. Rea & Ajai Tripathi
Katie and Craig are having a baby… with a surrogate… who lives in India. A month before the baby’s due date, Craig reluctantly travels to the subcontinent, where he meets Suraiya, their young, less-than-thrilled surrogate. As all three “parents” anxiously wait for the baby to be born, flights of fancy attack them from all sides, in the form of an unctuous Frenchman and a smart-mouthed fetus. A whimsical take on modern day colonialism.
Samsara features both special Friday night pre-show performances by local artists and Sunday afternoon post-show discussions curated by Subashini Ganesan, chair of the Oregon Arts Commission, former Create Laureate of Portland, and Founder and Artistic Director of New Expressive Works.

Hubby Jenkins
2025-01-24 19:30 - 21:30 | Walters Cultural Arts Center, 527 East Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, 97123, United States
A talented multi-instrumentalist, Hubby Jenkins endeavors to share his love and knowledge of old-time American music. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, he delves into his Southern roots, following the thread of African American history that wove itself through country, blues, ragtime, fiddle, and traditional jazz.
As an integral member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and later the Rhiannon Giddens band, Hubby performed around the world, earning himself both Grammy and Americana award nominations.
“He plays guitar, banjo, mandolin, claps the bones, and sings in a rich tenor…. Hearing this young guy perform Blind Willie Johnson or Fred McDowell will astonish even the most seasoned blues aficionado, impressing that this fierce slide guitarist and fingerpicker, and a superb singer, is the joyous embodiment of the future of acoustic blues.” –Living Blues Magazine
