April 10, 2025: Guest host Brandi Parisi welcomes the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and PSU Opera to All Classical Radio’s Irving Levin Performance Hall.
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra previews Spanish composer Xavier Montsalvatge’s Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, with harpist Cristina Montes Mateo, and more. Then, PSU Opera shares a Puccini combo, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi.
Join us Thursday at 3:00 PM PT at 89.9 FM in Portland, OR or from anywhere in the world on our website.
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This season the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra celebrates 46 years of providing symphonic music to the community. Its success is due to the talent and commitment of the early conductors and musicians who provided its foundation. Visit vancouversymphony.org for more.
Winner of the unanimously 1st Prize in the XII Edition of the “Torneo Internazionale di Musica” (Rome, 2006) and the unanimously 1st Prize in the International Harp Competition “V. Bucchi” (2009), Cristina Montes Mateo is recognized as one of the leading harpists of her generation throughout the world. She has also won top international prizes at the “Arpista Ludovico” International Harp Competition (Madrid, 2005), the “International Nippon Harp Contest” (Tokyo, 2007), and the prestigious Concours International de Harpe “Lily Laskine” (Paris, 2011); as well as numerous national harp solo competitions like the “Jeunesses Musicales” Competition (2003) or “Victor Salvi” Special Prize at the “Arpa Plus” Contest (2001).
Keep reading at cristinamontesmateo.com.
Portland State University Opera is nationally renowned for its innovative and fully staged productions, successful alumni, and extraordinary faculty who teach from decades of career experience as successful singers. Alumni from this program have been Grammy Award Winners, National winners for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and singers with international careers, including houses like Covent Garden, the Salzburg State Theater, the Frankfurt Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Metropolitan Opera.
Keep reading at pdx.edu.
