Chamber Music Northwest Summer Festival presents the trio umama womama from 8 to 10 p.m. July 29 at Reed College's Kaul Auditorium. Hear American music from the turn of the 20th century until today, including native and folk influences in Antonín Dvořák, New England church hymns and popular tunes in Charles Ives, traditional Romanticism in […]

Chamber Music Northwest Summer Festival presents "Voices of the Soul" from 8 to 10 p.m. July 24 at Reed College's Kaul Auditorium. The concert features Alexander Scriabin’s third piano sonata, folk songs by Komitas, and Richard Strauss’s chamber music as well as Chinese-American composer Wang Jie’s world premiere with narration by Fred Child. An additional […]

Chamber Music Northwest Summer Festival presents "Viennese Revolutionaries" from 8 to 10 p.m. July 22 at Reed College's Kaul Auditorium featuring works by Mozart and Schoenberg. Additional performances of this concert are planned. Learn more about the festival and get tickets ($10 to $62.50) at cmnw.org/concerts-tickets/2023-summer-festival.  

Exceptional musical partnerships from critically acclaimed albums headline this program. Artistic Director Gloria Chien and heralded clarinetist Anthony McGill are longtime recital partners, and the exhilarating F Minor sonata was part of their recording of the Brahms clarinet sonatas. McGill joins the Catalyst Quartet in the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor quintet that is part of UNCOVERED—the Catalyst’s […]

Chamber Music Northwest Summer Festival presents the trio umama womama from 8 to 10 p.m. July 10 at Reed College's Kaul Aditorium, 3203 S.E. Woodstock Blvd., Portland. Be among the first to hear the West Coast debut of this powerhouse ensemble featuring flutist Valerie Coleman, violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama and harpist Han Lash. Learn more about […]

Chamber Music Northwest Summer Festival presents the Emerson Quartet from 8 to 10 p.m. July 8 at Reed College's Kaul Auditorium. After 17 appearances over a span of 30 years, this is their final performance at Chamber Music Northwest. They will perform Beethoven’s Opus 131 quartet and Robert Schumann’s piano quintet. Learn more about the […]

Chamber Music Northwest Summer Festival presents the nine-time Grammy Award-winning Emerson Quartet from 8 to 10 p.m. July 6 at Reed College's Kaul Auditorium. The evening includes a West Coast premiere by Sarah Kirkland Snider, a Bartók quartet from the group's first Grammy recording, and a collaboration with the clarinetist David Shifrin in Brahms’s last chamber […]

Chamber Music Northwest presents the Oregon Bach Festival, 8 to 10 p.m. July 1 at Reed College's Kaul Auditorium, 3017 S.E. Woodstock Blvd., Portland. Jos van Veldhoven leads the Oregon Bach Festival Period Orchestra and Chamber Chorus through a Baroque-era musical journey. Beginning with movements from Telemann’s celebratory nautical oratorio “Hamburg Admiralty Music,” the program […]