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Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki continues his exploration of, an interest in the different facets of Romanticism, following his Chopin CD with this new one of Mendelssohn's piano concertos. The concertos anchor the CD, but are not the only highlight: Lisiecki tells me (in our conversation), that from the beginning he wanted to incorporate the "Serious Variations", and the "Rondo Capriccioso", which...

Matthew Lipman is a 2015 Avery Fisher Grant winner, has recorded with Rachel Barton Pine and Sir Neville Marriner. Since graduating from Juilliard Lipman is now on the viola faculty at Sony Brook University and concertizes around the world. His debut CD, Ascent, is in tribute in part to his mother (d. 2014), and commissioned “Metamorfose” from Clarice Assad in her memory. In his conversation with...

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Charlotte describes a boating adventure.

Soprano Joyce DiDonato's recording projects are seldom conventional.  Her last, "Hopes and Dreams: The Lullaby Project" featured original songs to texts by new mothers, some of whom were experiencing financial insecurity.  Her newest, Songplay, goes back to her roots as a budding singer.  She rediscovered the arias that all young singers are taught, and then set aside.  What makes these new are th...

Bridging Voices (The Portland GSA Youth Chorus) is a youth chorus for gay, straight and questioning youth, ages 13-21, and strives to be a safe, accessible place for youth to experience empowerment and unity through music. It is Portland’s first Queer/Straight Alliance Youth Chorus and is one of the largest choruses of its kind, in the nation.

British-born Nicholas McGegan has been directing San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra since the 1980s (about the time that this interviewer started in radio), and has had many sweet successes during that time in bringing great Baroque works to audiences around the world.  One of the sweetest for McGegan happened just a few years ago, when he mounted a production of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s...

Any time that a pianist undertakes to record a complete set of anything in classical music, it’s bound to be an endeavor taking considerable time and effort.  Take on the 32 piano sonatas of Beethoven, plus all the other solo piano pieces by one of music’s giants, and I imagine that it must be daunting.  Enter Llŷr Williams, who has been lauded for his interpretations of the great man’s music, who...

The great 20th century cellist, Pablo Casals, was the first in the world to record all six of Bach’s suites for unaccompanied cello.  This was in 1939.  Before this, people only considered the suites as study pieces.  Casals proved them wrong, and now the suites are among the most beloved works for the instrument of all time.   Amit Peled, an Israeli-born former basketball player (he’s 6’ 5”), now...

Early in her career, violinist Hilary Hahn took on music that many before her wouldn't approach until they were a little older.  She chose three of the six unaccompanied violin works of J.S. Bach, a set regarded as the pinnacle of solo violin repertoire.  Now, 21 years later, Hahn returns to complete the set.  Naturally, her interpretation may sound different, but one constant remains:  Hilary Hah...

Youth Roving Reporter Connor Barrow: Adam LaMotte, Portland Baroque Orchestra by All Classical Radio

A Life, Portland Center Stage - A wickedly irreverent play about the meaning of life. Nate Martin is hopelessly single. When his most recent breakup casts him into a funk, he turns to the only source of wisdom he trusts: the stars. Poring over astrological charts, he obsessively questions his past and his place in the cosmos. The answer he gets is shockingly obvious — and totally unpredictable.

Nina's work as a soloist is now sometimes found in a concert hall, but more likely in bars and cafes around Portland. Though she has trained classically for most of her life and currently plays full time with the Oregon Symphony, her solo repertoire is heavily influenced by bassists whose approach and compositions straddle the worlds of classical, bluegrass, Latin, and Middle Eastern music, includ...

Oregon Food Bank collects food from farmers, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, individuals and government sources. OFB distributes that food through a Statewide Network of 21 Regional Food Banks and approximately 1,200 food assistance sites serving all of Oregon and Clark County, Washington.

Cellist and composer Zoë Keating is a one-woman orchestra. She uses a cello and a foot-controlled laptop to record layer upon layer of cello, creating intricate, haunting and compelling music. Zoë is known for both her use of technology - which she uses to sample her cello onstage - and for her DIY approach, releasing her music online without the help of a record label.

MAGELLANICA by E.M. Lewis. Directed by Dámaso Rodríguez. In 1986, scientists and engineers from around the world converge at the South Pole Research Station to figure out, among other things, if there really is a hole in the sky. In the darkest, coldest, most dangerous place on Earth, eight imperfect souls are trapped together. Utterly isolated from the outside world for eight and a half months, t...

Blending their classical training with an eclectic taste in musical styles, PROJECT Trio offers concerts that combine the virtuosity of world-class artists with the energy of rock stars. Using social media to broaden their reach beyond the concert stage and classroom, the Trio has its own YouTube channel, which has over 80 million views and 96,000 subscribers, making PROJECT Trio one of the most w...

Youth Roving Reporter Emma Clark interviewed Salvador Brotons, conductor of The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

Renowned conductor and pianist Jeffrey Kahane joins forces with Austin's Miró Quartet to perform Dvořák’s "Piano Quintet in A Major" after the Quartet tackles Dvořák’s "Cypresses and Schumann’s Quartet in A Minor" on their own.

Portland Youth Philharmonic presented the title oratorio by Richard Einhorn in conjunction with Carl Dreyer’s iconic 1928 silent film, The Passion of Joan of Arc. The event takes place in collaboration with Northwest Film Center, as part of their 34th Reel Music Festival. Voices of Light includes live performances by Camerata PYP, In Mulieribus, three Portland State University choirs, as well as c...

Portland’s Inaugural South Asian American Arts Festival is an all-ages, multi-cultural celebration that showcases and highlights South Asian arts and artists living and working in America. Poets, musicians, storytellers, dancers, and multimedia artists present performances, demonstrations, and workshops. The Festival also hosts community conversations and panel discussions on topics of social just...

Tesla: Light, Sound, Color brings lightning to the stage with live physics demonstrations, digital animation, an original string and electronic musical score, and contemporary choreography.

Project Prelude is a student-run nonprofit organization that aims to expand the accessibility of music education by connecting high school musicians with students from economically disadvantaged schools through free music lessons. Currently, we run after-school group lesson programs at three different schools in the Portland area, teaching flute and violin to more than 140 fourth and fifth student...

PHAME is a fine and performing arts academy serving adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We offer three ten-week terms of arts-based classes each year, as well as many performance opportunities. Taught by talented arts education professionals, our classes include visual art, acting, choir, dance, musical theatre and many more.

The mission of The Children’s Book Bank is to fill children’s homes and lives with beautiful, engaging books. Through our flagship Building Home Libraries program, The Children’s Book Bank provides children from birth through kindergarten with home libraries containing a collection of age-appropriate books. We serve every Head Start child in Multnomah County in addition to local preschool programs...