Fall Concert: Opening Night – Fate Knocking
Tickets are available for our downtown Fall concert coming up on November 14th at 7:30pm. Symphony Orchestra will perform Symphony No. 5 in D Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) and Theme and Variations on a “Subwoofer Lullaby” from the Minecraft soundtrack, arranged by Haladar Wright, Kara Taylor, Elaina Stuppler, and Joseph Young. All four young musicians are part of The Authentic Voice commissioning program in partnership with Fear No Music’s Young Composers Project. Concert Orchestra will also perform.
We are thrilled that the Oregon Symphony and Portland’5 Centers for the Arts have installed a new, state-of-the-art Constellation Acoustic System by Meyer Sound at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Oregon Symphony is the first major orchestra in the United States to use the Constellation Acoustic System in its primary performance venue. For more information on this groundbreaking new technology refer to this press release from the Oregon Symphony.
You may find the Portland5 updated COVID-19 attendance policies for ticketholders here.
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Welcome to our new Artistic Team members!
MYS is thrilled to welcome Elizabeth Peyton and Kenji Bunch to our Artistic Team!
Ms. Peyton will be conducting Baroque Strings. She is a tenured member of the Portland Opera and Oregon Ballet Theater Orchestras and is on the music faculty of Reed College, as well as being an avid educator of younger musicians. You can learn more about her on the Artistic Team page of our website. We are so excited and lucky to have her work with our students!
Composer Kenji Bunch will be the Director of MYSfits String Ensemble and will be taking the group in a new direction to explore music beyond what has been traditionally considered “classical.” Mr. Bunch’s experiences as a multi-style musician to help widen our tent and make room for approaches to string playing and music-making previously considered ‘non-classical.’ Through this work, our students will have the potential to become true musical omnivores and help recalibrate expectations for what the next generation of string players could- or should- be capable of in the 21st century. Dr. Gómez will be continuing this year as the conductor of Symphony and Interlude Orchestras!
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