Upcoming Events
October 2017
The Fertile Crescent
Recent Music by Middle Eastern Composers Our mission to “Fear No Music” celebrates the music of artists working in the Middle East as well as the diaspora of immigrants active today in our country. Buy tickets - OR - Buy the Season Package
The Music of Resistance
100 Years of Music Advocating Political and Social Change The concert music world has a long history of composers using their art as advocacy and protest, with varying degrees of subtlety. We look at some examples from the past (Ravel, Shostakovich, Rebecca Clarke) as well as more current entries in this hour-long testament to music’s…
November 2017
Common Threads
Four Portland Composers Create A New Work Together Common Threads continues the collaborative spirit behind the original Hexameron composition, which involved six composers writing a set of variations on a common theme. In Common Threads, four Portland composers come together to write a set of variations united by source material from Franz Liszt's “Bagatelle Sans…
January 2018
Locally Sourced Sounds IV
New Music by Pacific Northwest Composers It’s our yearly celebration of music created right here in the Pacific Northwest by the composers living among us. Come hear brand new music, including the premiere of our Call For Scores for a new work for viola and piano. After the show, introduce yourself to the composers over…
March 2018
Sin Miedo a la Música
A Survey of Recent Music by Mexican and Mexican-American Composers With this concert, we turn to the often overlooked but well-established and thriving art music scene to our southern border. Mexican and Mexican-American composers have long been active, important contributors to the new music world, and we dedicate this evening to a sampling of recent…
April 2018
May 2018
Hope in the Dark
New Music That Searches for Beauty in Times of Adversity We end our season-long journey through the intersection of music and social advocacy with a moving evening of inspirational beauty. Each work on this special program was a composer’s artistic response to a tragic event, whether personal or public. Rather than turn to cathartic expressions of…