All Classical FM proudly partners with the following arts and culture organizations to raise public awareness and encourage attendance of performing and visual arts events. We encourage you to support these organizations and their work.
Community Classical
Oregon Symphony
The Oregon Symphony provides varied music of the highest artistic standards to an audience of more than 300,000 annually, with a strong commitment to engaging as broad a statewide audience as possible.
Portland Baroque Orchestra
The Portland Baroque Orchestra is dedicated to presenting spirited, authentic interpretations of 17th and 18th century music to a wide audience and, through outreach and dialogue, to educating the community about baroque music: its composers, themes, instruments, and performance practices.
Portland Youth Philharmonic
It is the purpose of the Portland Youth Philharmonic Association to maintain the finest possible youth orchestra in order to inspire and educate young people through performing symphonic music and to provide a cultural asset for the community.
Metropolitan Youth Symphony
The Metropolitan Youth Symphony is a non-profit youth musical group consisting of ten different performing groups totaling approximately 500 young musicians from six years through college.
Pacific Crest Wind Symphony
Since its inception, PCWS has been both an artistic challenge and a labor of love. The ensemble and each of its members have set a standard of musical excellence and continual artistic growth, providing its loyal and ever-expanding audience with exciting musical performances.
Portland Piano International
Portland Piano International (formerly the Piano Recital Series) brings pianists of exquisite skill and formidable power from all over the world to electrify and seduce piano enthusiasts of all ages.
Rose City Chamber Orchestra
The Rose City Chamber Orchestra first came into being in Spring of 1998. A small group of musicians, who felt that their needs were not being met in the greater Portland community, decided to venture out on their own and establish a small chamber orchestra together.
Salem Chamber Orchestra
The Salem Chamber Orchestra, through a partnership between Willamette University and the Salem-Keizer community, enriches the Willamette Valley by promoting classical music that entertains, educates, and provides performance opportunities for Willamette students and area musicians.
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s mission is to enhance the quality of life in our city and region by presenting high-quality performances of classical and popular music to a wide variety of audiences, and offering educational and community programs, while operating in a financially sound manner.
Beaverton Chamber Symphony
The Beaverton Chamber Symphony is made up of amateur musicians who share a love of serious music and the desire to perform it.
Metro Arts Inc.
MetroArts Inc is an educational organization dedicated to promoting life-long learning for everyone through the arts. We believe that every person is creative, has something to offer our culture, and deserves the opportunity to know that experience.
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Led by Huw Edwards, CSO is dedicated to presenting the highest quality performances of standard, worthy but rarely performed, and new orchestral repertoire.
Hillsboro Symphony Orchestra
Founded in the spring of 2001 by Mike Graves, Morgan Brown, and Barbara Hanson, HSO provides an opportunity for local amateur musicians to play in an orchestral setting and to enrich the musical environment of our communities.
The Old Church
The Old Church is no longer a home to any one congregation, but is lovingly preserved as a historic venue for concerts, conferences, exhibitions, weddings, and other events.
Portland Chamber Orchestra
The Portland Chamber Orchestra is a 38-member ensemble led by world-renown New York conductor Yaacov Bergman, now in his fifth season as music director. The orchestra, founded in 1947 by Finnish composer and conductor Boris Sirpo, has deep-rooted commitment to performances of innovative repertoire, ranging from the baroque through the twenty-first century.
Oregon Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra
The Oregon Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra is a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering diverse musical education, to providing the community with inspired musical performances and to provide entertainment as an outreach to all ages to promote musical experience and appreciation
Oregon Sinfonietta
The Oregon Sinfonietta, now in its 36th season and conducted by Dr. Donald Lawrence Appert, is a community orchestra that draws together musicians from the greater Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington metropolitan area.
Oregon Symphonic Band
The Oregon Symphonic Band (OSB) is Oregon’s premier symphonic band. Formed in 1988, the award-winning band is comprised of 65 brass, wind and percussion players, all volunteering to play together for their love of music. These players are some of the Portland-area’s finest amateur and professional musicians. Each year the band plays three concert series, playing a range of music from marches to jazz, orchestral transcriptions and Broadway show tunes, to contemporary band literature.
Chamber Music
Chamber Music Northwest
Since its founding in 1971, Chamber Music Northwest has become one of the most successful summer music festivals in the nation, and now is presenting activities on a year-round basis.
Friends of Chamber Music
Friends of Chamber Music, a non-profit organization, is dedicated to presenting the highest quality chamber ensembles in concert, and providing educational outreach to further chamber music in our community.
Oregon Chamber Players
Founded in 1995 and formed by musicians, this group offers the Northwest a unique niche of the widest variety of styles, instrumentation, and musical time frames in an intimate concert setting that assists our audience in getting personally involved with the music.
The Music Population Project
The Music Population Project is an effort to bring chamber music back to the people, invoking times when performances were public spectacles, when operas were performed in front of enthusiastic audiences, when uprisings followed premieres and classical music was pop music.
Chamber Music America
The mission of Chamber Music America is to promote artistic excellence and economic stability within the profession and to ensure that chamber music, in its broadest sense, is a vital part of American life.
Chamber Music Society of Oregon
The Chamber Music Society of Oregon is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit devoted to promoting music education for children, music in the schools, and music for adults as lifelong learners.
Classical Revolution PDX
Classical Revolution PDX is a network of musicians that come together to perform chamber music for the community. We have all different kinds of musicians playing with us: symphony and ballet/opera orchestra members, conservatory and music school students, established chamber groups, cello project members, and amateurs that just really, really love chamber music.
Florestan Trio
The Florestan Trio has received international acclaim for its brilliant and dynamic playing. Since joining the faculty of Portland State University in 1977 as Artists-in-Residence, the Trio has concertized throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, where their playing was described as "...positively overflowing with life and energy."
Friends of Rain
Friends of Rain, made up of tenure-track and adjunct music faculty, draws its repertoire from the last 50 years. Their performances feature new works by established masters, Lewis & Clark faculty composers, and guest composers in residence.
Portland Cello Project
“Independent” and “Orchestra” are not two words you often hear in the same breath. Nevertheless, that’s exactly what The Portland Cello Project is: and indie cello orchestra.
Opera
Portland Opera
Portland Opera exists to inspire, challenge and uplift our audiences by creating productions of high artistic quality that celebrate the beauty and breadth of opera.
The Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera’s foremost goal is to present the highest quality performance of the opera repertory featuring the world’s most talented artists, conductors, stage directors and designers.
Chicago Lyric Opera
Lyric Opera of Chicago is recognized internationally as one of the truly great opera companies of our time.
Choral Music
Bach Cantata Choir
The Bach Cantata Choir's mission is to sing the entire set of cantatas by Johann
Sebastian Bach over a period of 20 years.
Cappella Romana
A vocal chamber ensemble dedicated to combining passion with scholarship in its exploration of the musical traditions of the Christian East and West, with emphasis on early and contemporary music.
In Mulieribus
In Mulieribus (the Latin phrase meaning “amongst women”) is a female vocal ensemble dedicated to the promotion and enrichment of community through the art of music with a focus on works written primarily before 1750.
Oregon Chorale
The Oregon Chorale is a fifty-voice symphonic choir under the direction of Bernd R. Kuehn. Based in Hillsboro, Oregon, the Oregon Chorale has been delighting audiences since 1985, performing choral music from around the world and maintaining an appreciation for technique while exhibiting flexibility of musical style. Our formal concerts showcase a variety of styles from Classical to Baroque, Renaissance to Contemporary. Our less formal presentations include world folk music, spirituals, dinner theater and staged shows.
Pacific Youth Choir
The mission of the Pacific Youth Choir is to instill a lifelong love of music in each student. Through practice, performance and education they will build their skills and emerge as confident young adults. Their choral artistry will inspire audiences as they work together to create musical excellence.
Portland Boy Choir & Ovation
To provide music education and professional-quality performance opportunities that develop self-esteem, depth of character and advanced music skills in boys ages 6 to 18 and girls ages 11 to 18.
Portland Choirs
Welcome to Portland Choirs, the home of Portland Boychoir and Ovation! We provide unique, first-class music education and performance opportunities for boys ages 6 to 18, and girls 11 to 18.
Portland Gay Men's Chorus
The Portland Gay Men’s Chorus aspires to expand, redefine, and perfect the choral art through eclectic performances that honor and uplift the gay community and affirm the worth of all people.
Portland Symphonic Choir
Portland's oldest and largest independent choral organization. Under the direction of Dr. Steven Zopfi, we are a force of 130 voices, and we are known for the large and beautiful sound that we produce when we sing the greatest choral masterworks in the repertoire.
Portland Symphonic Girlchoir
Widely acclaimed by internationally renowned composers, conductors, and music educators for its musicality, adventurous programming, and dynamic performances, the Portland Symphonic Girlchoir offers a performance-based vocal music education for talented girls who love to sing.
The Choral Art Society
For over 35 years The Choral Art Society has delighted audiences and enriched Southern Maine with its musical excellence. CAS is comprised of talented amateur musicians who audition for one, two, or all three vocal ensembles. Get to know us, and you’ll want to be a part of our exciting season.
Willamette Master Chorus
The Willamette Master Chorus, the mid-valley's premier auditioned choral ensemble, comprises 75 veteran professional and dedicated amateur musicians.
Early Music
Early Music Guild of Oregon
The Early Music Guild of Oregon is a non-profit organization founded in 1978 to promote the interest in, the study of, and the performance of early music, and to encourage the construction and use of historically accurate early instruments.
The Handel and Haydn Society
The Handel and Haydn Society was founded in 1815 by a group of Boston merchants seeking to enrich Boston ’s cultural landscape.
Music of the 14th Century
A guide to resources available on the Web for people who are interested in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Twentieth Century Music
Fear No Music
To explore and perform great music of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Third Angle New Music Ensemble
We are devoted to creating and presenting musical events, works and collaborations that reflect the highest artistic expressions of our time, to instigating a creative dialogue through the works and artists presented, and to reinforcing the necessity for the voice of the living composer in our cultural heritage.
Organ
Dance
Oregon Ballet Theatre
Oregon Ballet Theatre (OBT) is a classically based professional ballet company established in 1989 and located in Portland, Oregon. The company performs an annual season of five programs at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts and also conducts regional and national tours.
BodyVox
BodyVox approaches dance with a breezy freshness and simplicity that is all its own.
Polaris Dance
Polaris Dance Theatre is a Horton and ballet technique based Modern dance company in its third season.
White Bird Dance
White Bird fosters the growth of dance in the region by presenting established and emerging companies and choreographers, commissioning or co-commissioning new work, and collaborating with other arts organizations in Portland and the region to make dance performances possible.
Composers
SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVALS
Cascade Music Festival, Lincoln City
The Cascade Head Music Festival has been called, "A little jewel in the form of a festival—small enough to be supported by the area but high enough in quality to qualify as a world class artistic endeavor."
Ernest Bloch Music Festival
The Central Oregon Coast is the setting for the annual music festival that celebrates the teaching, composition and performance legacy of the Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch.
Oregon Bach Festival
Two weeks of choral and orchestral concerts centering on the music and influence of J.S. Bach. Set amid the lush forests and scenic rivers of Eugene and the Willamette Valley, the festival also includes chamber music, family events, and educational programs in "a musical enterprise virtually without equal in America." (LA Times)
Britt Festivals
Britt Festivals, a non-profit organization, presents dozens of summer concerts, featuring world-class artists in classical music, dance, jazz, blues, folk, bluegrass, world, pop and country music.
General
Northwest Film Center
The Northwest Film Center is a regional media arts organization founded to encourage the study and appreciation of the moving image arts; foster their artistic and professional excellence; and to help create a climate in which they may flourish.
Center for Movement Arts
Center for Movement Arts offers children and adults a safe, positive and enjoyable environment in which to study a rich variety of movement disciplines.
Artists for the Arts
We are an organization dedicated to returning the color and rhythm back to kids’ lives.
Piano Santa
The PSF runs a unique scholarship program that can put a piano in the home of a qualified student and family. We also have a special in-home grand piano scholarship for young students whose studies have taken them to the point where they really need a grand piano to progress with their music.
Oregon Cultural Trust
The Oregon Cultural Trust is a statewide organization investing in Oregon's arts, heritage and humanities. Through the cultural trust, Oregon's citizens are able to participate in preserving and strengthening all aspects of Oregon culture.
Portland Opera Guild
To stimulate interest and participation in opera for the benefit of cultural, educational and musical life in all of Oregon and to assist artists in the arts and aid in the production of opera.
Listener & Misc. Choices
Labels
All Classical Syndicated Programs
St. Paul Sunday
Minnesota Public Radio - Whether you're a long-time classical fan or a relative newcomer, this Web site is designed to broaden your own understanding of classical music.
From the Top
From the Top is a not-for-profit multi-media organization whose mission is to encourage and celebrate the development of youth through music.
Weekend Performance Today
The producers of American Public Media’s Performance Today with Fred Child take the best two hours from the week’s preceding shows and combines them into this special two hour broadcast, Saturdays from 8 to 10 am.
Research / Resources
PRI
Public Radio International (PRI), an independent, not-for-profit corporation and managing partner of American Public Radio LLC, the satellite radio company, is public radio’s leading source for innovative programming and audio content.
San Francisco Symphony
Since those first concerts in 1911, the SFS has played a defining role in American cultural life. Today, it's defining what the orchestra of the 21st century will be.
Classical Net
This site now features more than 3500 CD/SACD/DVD/Book reviews, as well as 6000 files and over 4000 links to other classical music web sites.
Cleveland Orchestra
Long considered one of America’s great orchestras, The Cleveland Orchestra stands today among the world’s most-revered symphonic ensembles.
Pittsburgh Symphony
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has been a vital part of the City of Pittsburgh’s heritage for more than 100 years. With its noble history of the finest conductors and musicians and its strong commitment to artistic quality and excellence, audiences around the world have claimed the Pittsburgh Symphony as their orchestra of choice.
Composers' Forum
The American Composers Forum is committed to supporting composers and developing new markets for their music.
Save Our Strings
Save Our Strings is an Oregon non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting string orchestra programs in public schools.
BBC
The BBC exists to enrich people’s lives with great programmes and services that inform, educate and entertain. Its vision is to be the most creative, trusted organisation in the world.
Visual Arts
Portland OPEN STUDIOS
Annual tour of artists' studios every second and third weekends in October. See artists at work in their natural habitat.
