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Chamber Music Northwest Summer Festival goes digital
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Amy Mintonye, Marketing Director
503-546-0187, amym@cmnw.org
CHAMBER MUSIC NORTHWEST SUMMER FESTIVAL GOES DIGITAL
(Portland, OR) May 7, 2020 – As important as coming together to share music is, it is clear that restrictions on public gatherings will continue through much of the summer. Therefore, it is with heavy hearts that Chamber Music Northwest is canceling upcoming spring concerts and all Summer Festival concerts and events. This would be a difficult decision any year, but it is especially difficult with 2020 being Chamber Music Northwest’s 50th anniversary and David Shifrin’s 40th and final summer as artistic director. Despite the cancellation of live concerts, however, Chamber Music Northwest will continue to bring music to our community through a five-part series airing on All Classical Portland 89.9 FM and a free Virtual Summer Festival on CMNW.org.
May 21 - June 21, All Classical Portland 89.9 FM will air a new five-part series of music and interviews from recent Chamber Music Northwest Summer Festivals on Thursdays at 7 pm, repeated on Sundays at 4 pm. Hosted by Suzanne Nance and Robert McBride, the series will feature the Verona Quartet, Imani Winds, Opus 1 Piano Quartet, Harlem Quartet, and many more internationally-acclaimed artists performing everything from J.S. Bach to Jeff Scott – all recorded live at Chamber Music Northwest’s Summer Festival!
Chamber Music Northwest will then also host a free Virtual Summer Festival June 22 - July 26 featuring highlights from recent seasons and special live concerts. The five weeks of digital concerts will include performances by the Emerson, Miró, and Dover Quartets, Ida and Ani Kavafian, Andre Watts, Edgar Meyer, Peter Schickele – and David Shifrin, of course! Full schedule to be released soon.
Chamber Music Northwest has also announced the exciting 2020-21 Season Concerts that incoming Artistic Directors Gloria Chien and Soovin Kim have lined up, including performances by the Brentano String Quartet, internationally-renowned cellist Alisa Weilerstein, acclaimed tenor Christoph Prégardien, favorite former Protégé Project artists Bella Hristova, Dmitri Atapine and the Kenari Quartet, and more.
“Though we can’t be together this summer, I hope you will join us next season and support Chamber Music Northwest at this time by buying your tickets for Season 2020-21 concerts now,” says Artistic Director David Shifrin. “Please also join me in welcoming our new Artistic Directors, Gloria Chien and Soovin Kim, and wishing them every success in the years to come!”
Though Chamber Music Northwest has been forced to cancel their Summer Festival, the organization is committed to its musicians and staff. Chamber Music Northwest has paid all 88 Summer Festival musicians half of their compensation to assist them at this challenging time, and has committed to continued employment for its year-round staff.
Chamber Music Northwest on All Classical Portland
May 21 - June 31, Thursdays at 7 pm and repeated on Sundays at 4 pm
89.9FM or allclassical.org
Hosted by Suzanne Nance and Robert McBride, the series will feature the Verona Quartet, Imani Winds, Opus 1 Piano Quartet, Harlem Quartet, and many more internationally-acclaimed artists performing everything from J.S. Bach to Jeff Scott – all recorded live at Chamber Music Northwest’s Summer Festival.
Virtual Summer Festival
Free! June 22- July 26 at CMNW.org Full schedule coming soon.
Five weeks of digital concerts including performances by the Emerson, Miró, and Dover Quartets, Ida and Ani Kavafian, Andre Watts, Edgar Meyer, Peter Schickele, David Shifrin, and many more.
Season 2020-21
Ticket prices range from $10-$64. Tickets to all Chamber Music Northwest concerts are just $10 for youth under 25 and only $20 for people 26-30. Purchase tickets online at https://cmnw.org/concerts-tickets/all-concerts-events or through the CMNW Box Office:
Monday – Thursday, 10 am – 3 pm*
*Box Office is closed to in-person transactions until further notice
2300 SW 1st Avenue, Suite 103
Portland, OR 97201-5047
Phone: 503-294-6400
Email: tickets@cmnw.org
Protégé Encore: Chien, Hristova & Atapine with Shifrin
September 24, 2020 | 7:30 pm | The Old Church
Tickets $10 – $62.50
The new Protégé Encore Series will feature prominent Chamber Music Northwest Protégé Project alumni performing with longtime CMNW favorite artists. This special inaugural concert features Artistic Director Emeritus David Shifrin, Protégé Project alumni and new Co-Artistic Director Gloria Chien, violinist Bella Hristova, and cellist Dmitri Atapine. Beginning with duos by friends and Les Six composers Francis Poulenc and Arthur Honegger, the program is anchored by Olivier Messiaen's powerful Quartet for the End of Time that was famously written in a World War II prison camp and featured on an acclaimed 1986 CMNW recording performed by David Shifrin.
https://cmnw.org/concerts-tickets/2020-21-season/ChienHristovaAtapineShifrin/1056
Germany's Amazing Goldmund Quartet
October 22, 2020 | 7:30 pm | The Old Church
Tickets $10 – $62.50
Hailed as one of the most exciting young string quartets in the world, the Goldmund Quartet from Germany will make their second U.S. appearance and West Coast debut in Portland. The Goldmund’s exquisitely refined playing has been awarded prizes at major competitions such as the Wigmore, Melbourne, and ARD Munich. They are the Rising Stars of the European Concert Hall Organisation leading to debut recitals at the Philharmonie de Paris, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and the Vienna Konzerthaus. In this concert, the Goldmund will perform dramatic chamber works written by composers best known for opera, from Puccini and Verdi to a new work by Ana Sokolovic on their special set of Stradivari instruments once owned by the great virtuoso Niccolò Paganini. https://cmnw.org/concerts-tickets/2020-21-season/goldmund-quartet/1057
Brentano Quartet: Romantic Quartets in “A”
December 2, 2020 | 7:30 pm | The Old Church
Tickets $10 – $62.50
The “passionate, uninhibited and spellbinding” (London Independent) Brentano Quartet has been among the world’s finest string quartets for nearly 30 years since their first performances at Chamber Music Northwest in 1995. As the 2020-21 CMNW Artists-in-Residence, the quartet will visit Portland three times with their varied and thoughtful programming. In this tonally-lush concert, the Brentano Quartet will bring their “yearning lyricism” (New York Times) to masterpieces by Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Brahms in the key of A.
https://cmnw.org/concerts-tickets/2020-21-season/RomanticQuartetsinA/1058
Akropolis Reed Quintet with BodyVox: NINETEEN•TWENTY
December 10-19 | varies | BodyVox Dance Center
Tickets $10 – $64
The Akropolis Reed Quintet, hailed for their “imagination, infallible musicality, and huge vitality” by Fanfare Magazine, and Portland’s own BodyVox contemporary dance company team up again for a celebration of the roaring ‘20s. Co-presented with BodyVox.
Alisa Weilerstein: Bach's Complete Cello Suites
January 30, 2021 | 4:00 pm | Agnes Flanagan Chapel
Tickets $10 – $67.50
Deeply expressive, ferociously rhapsodic, and technically immaculate, Alisa Weilerstein makes the cello sing as if it were her own voice. Renowned for her monumental performances of Bach's complete cello suites in one concert, The Aspen Times marveled Weilerstein "...applied extraordinarily flawless technique for nearly 3 hours and 30 minutes... all six of them in one go, without hardly blinking." This special extended concert of the most profound and formidable works in the cello repertoire is bound to be memorable. Cocktail and appetizer intermission included.
Christoph Prégardien: Legendary Lieder
March 2, 2021 | 7:30 pm | The Old Church
Tickets $10 – $62.50
Christoph Prégardien, one of the world's greatest lyrical tenors, treats Portland to a rare United States performance! Prégardien's “plaintive beauty and piercing insight” (The New York Times) make him a preeminent interpreter of German Lieder, art songs for voice and piano inspired by poetry. Known to be a keen storyteller, Prégardien will evoke the love and loss that is at the heart of these Romantic era songs by Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann.
https://cmnw.org/concerts-tickets/2020-21-season/LegendaryLieder/1061
Protégé Encore: Kenari Quartet with Soovin Kim
Tickets $10 – $62.50
March 21, 2021 | 7:30 pm | Alberta Rose Theatre
Applauded for their “flat-out amazing” performances and “stunning virtuosity” (Cleveland Classical), the Kenari Quartet's larger-than-life personalities pop off the stage. The unique style and flair of this Protégé Project alumni all-saxophone ensemble electrified Chamber Music Northwest audiences in 2018. Their triumphant return to Portland includes a diverse program of Bach, Ligeti, and a new CMNW-commissioned violin concerto by Protégé alumni composer Chris Rogerson for violinist and new Co-Artistic Director Soovin Kim.
https://cmnw.org/concerts-tickets/2020-21-season/KenariQuartetwithSoovinKim/1062
Brentano Quartet: The Musical World of Bartók’s Quartet No. 5
April 29, 2021 | 7:30 pm | The Old Church
Tickets $10 – $62.50
The “fiercely intelligent and expressively pristine” (New Yorker) Brentano Quartet’s creative programming and thoughtful interpretation will reveal new dimensions of Béla Bartók’s magnificent fifth quartet. The first half of this very unusual program consists of miniatures by Bartók and five other master composers that explore elements of the fifth quartet. That immersive investigation will be followed by Bartók’s complete Quartet No. 5 – heard with new clarity and immediacy. https://cmnw.org/concerts-tickets/2020-21-season/MusicalWorldofBartok/1063
ABOUT CHAMBER MUSIC NORTHWEST
Now in its 50th season, Chamber Music Northwest shares the richness and diversity of chamber music with more than 50,000 people through 80 events annually, including our Summer Festival of outstanding concerts, illuminating outreach activities, educational programs supporting young musicians, and innovative collaborations across the Portland Metro region.
As one of the nation’s leading chamber music presenters, Chamber Music Northwest brings to our community the world’s greatest musicians and composers, from rising-star members of our Protégé Project and exceptional local musicians to world-renowned artists that include Grammy Award winners, Avery Fisher Prize honorees, and MacArthur “Genius Award” recipients. Together they collaborate to perform the expansive 500-year chamber music repertoire, ranging from beloved classics and hidden masterpieces to contemporary works and less conventional projects.
Chamber Music Northwest is an international leader in celebrating chamber music’s enduring relevance and diversity, with more than 100 commissions and premieres of new works as well as its Protégé Project, which cultivates the next generation of dynamic chamber music performers by supporting exceptional, early-career chamber musicians and composers in their professional development.
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