All Concerts & Performances

Concert Ticket Information

Community Concerts:

  • Tickets are available on-line and may be purchased at any time before the concert (just show your digital or hard copy receipt at the door to use as your ticket). 
  • Tickets may also be purchased at the venue the day of the show, starting one hour before the performance.
  • For all Community Concerts (except Newmark) seating is general admission. Adults $10, Students/MYS Alumni $5, current MYS Students Free.

Downtown Concerts:

  • Tickets are available on the MYS website until 1:00pm the last weekday before the concert. After that time, you will need to purchase your tickets on the Portland’5 website or at the door of the venue on the night of the event.
  • All tickets in Portland’5 venues are reserved seating. Seating maps provided on the MYS website may be used to request seats however, in some cases you may be given seats near your original selection. In that event, we will contact you to inform you of the change.
  • Tickets purchased within 10 days of the concert will be automatically held at the MYS Will Call table.
  • Downtown tickets purchased via the MYS website are physical printed tickets, email delivery is not available.
  • Student, Alumni, and Senior (65+) discounts are offered for Downtown Concerts. Current MYS students are free.
  • Follow this link for more information about the Portland’5 COVID policy.
  • ADA seating is available, please contact the MYS Office 503-239-4566, or the Portland’5 Box Office for assistance.

Current MYS Student Tickets: 

  • Current MYS students may attend any MYS concert for free.
  • MYS students must have a ticket for the Downtown Concerts, you must select the MYS Student ticket type and use the discount code found in the weekly announcements to claim one free ticket per student.
  • MYS Student tickets also may be claimed in person on the day of the concert at the Portland’5 Box Office. Free MYS Student tickets may not be redeemed online from Portland’5. These free tickets are not available for Dress Circle (Schnitzer) or 1st Balcony Boxes and Rows A & B (Newmark).
  • Current MYS Students are not required to have a physical ticket for Community Concerts. Just tell us you are an MYS student at the door!

MYS Alumni:

  • NEW! If you are an alum of MYS, you are able to purchase your ticket at the student rate.

Contact [email protected] with questions.

COVID-19 Concert Attendance Policy

Audience Members:

Downtown Concert Series

Music in Motion

November 12, 2023, 7:30 pm
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Symphony Orchestra will present iconic pieces from beloved animations, including Modest Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain and Paul Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice from Fantasia, Joe Hisaishi’s enchanting My Neighbor Totoro, as well as three pieces from Alan Menken’s illustrious body of work: Beauty and The Beast Orchestral Suite, The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite, and Poor Unfortunate Souls.

Delving into the ways in which music and animation inspire each other, The Authentic Voice commissioning series will feature the world premiere of Music for an Imaginary Cartoon. This original piece will be composed collaboratively by local student composers Elishiya Crain-Keddi, Manu Isaacs, Max Evans-McGlothen, A’Shariá Pendergrass, and Malia Baker, all from Fear No Music’s Young Composers Project.

MYS’ Interlude Orchestra will also perform in this concert.

Tickets are also available on the on the Portland’5 website or in person on the day of the concert at the Schnitzer Box Office which opens 2 hrs before the show.

Just Jimmie

January 9, 2024, 7:30 pm
Newmark Theatre

Symphony Orchestra’s January concert welcomes guest artist Jimmie Herrod. This concert will premiere orchestral arrangements of original songs by Mr. Herrod, including Are You Lonely, Beautiful, I Love You, I Want To Run, Mouche, and Willow Bed. While these pieces were originally written for piano and voice, student composers from The Authentic Voice student commissioning series will work with Jimmie Herrod to create orchestral arrangements. MYS Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Raúl Gómez-Rojas will accompany Jimmie as he sings his songs, now expanded to a full orchestral palette.

Rounding out the repertoire, Symphony Orchestra will perform En la Alhambra by Spanish composer Tomás Bretón, Alentejana: Suite no.2 by Portuguese composer Luís de Freitas Branco, and she flies with her own wings by acclaimed Oregon composer and MYS artistic team member Kenji Bunch.

Tickets are also available on the Portland’5 website or in person at the Newmark Theatre Box Office 2 hrs before the show.

Rooted

March 3, 2024, 7:30 pm
Newmark Theatre

Symphony Orchestra is proud to present a piece commissioned from Nancy Ives, composer and principal cello for the Oregon Symphony. This piece draws inspiration from Pando, the world’s largest tree. In a high mountain basin in central Utah, Pando is comprised of 40,000 aspen stems that appear as individual trees, but all belong to a genetically identical tree connected by a massive interwoven root system across 106 acres.

Additionally, the show will feature Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 (also known as the Pastoral Symphony), the world premiere of a piece by student composer Charlie Martin as part of The Authentic Voice student commissioning series, and showcase of one of the winners of MYS’ annual Concerto Competition.

MYS’ Concert Orchestra will also perform in this concert.

Tickets are also available on the Portland’5 website or in person at the Newmark Box Office on the day of the concert.

Landscapes

June 16, 2024, 7:30 pm
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

For its season finale, Symphony Orchestra is excited to present pieces inspired by nature, including Portland Beauty, by award-winning composer and MYS conductor Giancarlo Castro D’Addona, based on Giancarlo’s first hike to Mirror Lake; and the world premiere of a piece by student composer Amir Avsker about the evergreens of the Pacific Northwest, as part of The Authentic Voice commissioning series. Further, Symphony Orchestra will perform Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring: Suite and Gerónimo Giménez’s Intermezzo from La Boda De Luis Alonso. Rounding out the repertoire, one of the winners of the MYS Concerto Competition will perform their winning piece.

MYS’ Sinfonietta Orchestra will also perform in this concert.

Tickets are also available on the Portland’5 website or in person at the Schnitzer Box Office which opens at 2 hours before the concert.

Community Concert Series

Saturday, November 11, 7:00 PM
Community Concert, Downtown!
Newmark Theatre

Portland Overture Strings
Portland Chamber Strings
Portland Camerata
Hilllsboro Overture Strings
Sinfonietta Orchestra
Concert Orchestra

Tickets are also available on the Portland’5 website or in person at the Newmark Box Office on the day of the concert.

Sunday, November 19, 4:00 PM
Liberty High School

Hillsboro Chamber Strings
Hillsboro Camerata
Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Jazz Ensemble
Flute Ensemble

Sunday, December 10, 4:00 PM
All Saints Parish Church

MYSfits
A Far Cry
MYSticks

Sunday, February 25, 7:00 PM
Community Concert, Downtown!
Newmark Theatre

Hillsboro Overture Strings
Hillsboro Chamber Strings
Hillsboro Camerata
Interlude Orchestra
Sinfonietta Orchestra
Symphonic Wind Ensemble

Tickets are also available on the Portland’5 website or in person at the Newmark Box Office on the day of the concert.

Saturday, March 2, 7:00 PM
Location: TBD

Beginning Strings Ensemble
Portland Overture Strings
Portland Chamber Strings
Portland Camerata

Sunday, March 17, 7:30 PM
All Saints Parish Church

MYSfits
Jazz Ensemble
MYSticks
Flute Ensemble

Saturday, May 11, 7:00 PM
Location: TBD

Beginning Strings Ensembles
Hilllsboro Overture Strings
Interlude Orchestra
Symphonic Wind Ensemble

Sunday. May 12, 4:00 PM
Location: TBD

Portland Overture Strings
Portland Chamber Strings
Hillsboro Chamber Strings
Portland Camerata
Concert Orchestra

Sunday, May 19, 7:30 PM
All Saints Parish Church

Flute Ensemble
Hillsboro Camerata
Jazz Ensemble
MYSticks