OMF's international world-view aims to enrich the local community, by focusing on a repertoire of specific composers or periods within the overall programming theme, and connecting the Pacific Northwest with historically-informed performances in collaboration with artists of the international creative community.

The festival main concert series includes many standard and contemporary masterworks and features soloists and conductors from the international musical community including those from Austria, Czech Republic, Korea, Brazil, Croatia, Russia, Iceland, Switzerland, and USA. Festival's Signature Concert Series includes such notable works as Mendelssohn's Symphonies 1, 3 and 4; three Oregon premieres of contemporary chamber music compositions (Reich's Pulitzer Prize winning Double Sextet, Missy Mazzoli's Still Life with Avalanche, and Pēteris Vasks's Cantabile); the rarely heard Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion by Bela Bartók; concertos by Copland, Shostakovich, Beethoven and Górecki; and additional orchestral works by Haydn, Martinů, Mozart, and Canteloube.

Resident ensembles include Oregon Festival Orchestra, Portland Civic Orchestra, Orpheus Academy Orchestra, Third Angle New Music, Trio Martinů, and OMF Artistic Collegium. OMF's educational arm, Orpheus Academy runs concurrently with the festival. This is a free, merit-based, music immersion program for talented young musicians ages 15-25 that offers orchestral training, masterclasses, private instruction, concert and chamber music training by the festival resident artists/teachers in two sessions over a period of three weeks.

Portland, Oregon: First Baptist Church and Lincoln Performance Hall

June 23 - July 14, 2018

Zvonimir Hačko

Classical

$15 to $65

Telephone: 503-927-2910

Fall 2018 for Summer 2019