2024 - 25 SEASON
In the Mix
Blending Talents, Elevating Sound…
Continuing the PCO’s important legacy of generating greater understanding, community, and goodwill through music, the 2024-25 season highlights the collaborative spirit that characterizes PCO.
New Year’s Concert and Mixology!
Portland loves collaboration, especially when our tastebuds are involved! This concert is an intimate partnership with local mixologists to provide a cross-sensory experience between taste and sound.
Every Brain Needs (Love) Music
Humans have been creating music about falling in and out of love from time immemorial. Such music can have powerful effects on the human brain. Whenever a person engages with music, countless neurons are firing―when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, someone sobs to a sad song, or a wedding guest gets down on the dance floor. Playing an instrument requires all of the resources of the nervous system, including cognitive, sensory, and motor functions, and can actually change the structure of our brains. Something as seemingly simple as listening to a tune involves mental faculties most of us don’t even realize we have. And when that music is a love song, the effects on our brains go to a whole new level.
Cultural Kaleidoscope
Experience a visceral expression of our collective humanity in this music and spoken-word collaboration. While music can often help communicate emotion that is beyond the power of words, the use of language truly highlights our shared human experience.
The Mother and Child Union: A Musical, Poetic, and Neuroscientific Journey
A Musical, Poetic, and Neuroscientific Journey
In this multi-media event, we celebrate mothers through a combination of classical and modern music, poetry, and a fascinating look into all the ways that motherhood changes the brains of both mothers and children throughout their lives.
A Dessert of Brahms - Hauskonzert und Fest
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JUST ADDED - House Concert and Feast. An exclusive opportunity to hear the incredible chamber music of Johannes Brahms paired with an expertly recreated menu from Brahms’ favorite restaurant Zum Roten Igel (The Red Hedgehog). EXTREMELY LIMITED SEATING
A Feast of Beethoven
An evening of all Beethoven featuring some of the composer’s most celebrated works. Dr. Larry Sherman also presents a lecture on Beethoven's Music: Genius, Curiosity, Liver Disease, and Lead before the concert starting at 6:30.
2024 Young Artist Competition Finals
Come hear the selected finalists from the PCO’s inaugural Young Artist Competition and see who will win the grand prize.
New Year’s in Old Vienna
Join the Portland Chamber Orchestra for a gala celebration to welcome the New Year!
Starburst
The sensational double-bassist Maggie Carter joins the PCO on works by Bruch and Bottesini. The orchestra also will perform Jessie Montgomery’s Starbust, a colorful single movement work. Concluding this program is Dvorak’s celebrated String Serenade
Mei-Ting Sun Recital
Internationally acclaimed pianist Mei-Ting Sun presents a recital of celebrated solo works for the piano. This recital serves as a preview for audiences who will hear more of this incredible talent when Mei-Ting joins the Portland Chamber Orchestra for the full cycle of Beethoven Piano Concerti later in the season.
From Darkness To Light
*Pre-concert panel begins at 6:30
The multi-talented soloist Michelle Bushkova joins the Portland Chamber Orchestra with not one but two concerti performed on two different instruments. This remarkable program will begin with Mozart's instantly recognizable Symphony No. 40, K.550 followed by a world premiere of the Belarussian composer Victor Copytsko's "Michelle" Concerto for Violin Solo, Violoncello Obligato, Clavier obligato (Pianoforte and Cembalo) and Chamber Orchestra, a work composed for our featured soloist. For the second half, Michelle will return to the stage this time as piano soloist to perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, K488.