Thursdays at Three Episodes

June 29, 2023: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Chamber Music Northwest’s Young Artist Institute and the Corvallis Celtic Festival to the Roger O. Doyle performance studio. CMNW’s Young Artist Institute will showcase young violinists, violists, and cellists selected for the YAI program. These musicians are among the top high school string players from North America and Asia. The 2023 students……

June 22, 2023: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Stephanie & Saar and the Chintimini Chamber Music Festival to the Roger O. Doyle performance studio. Stephanie & Saar will preview the upcoming Makrokosmos Project, a festival bringing cutting-edge contemporary American music to urban settings. The project includes a world premiere by Kenji Bunch, and an Oregon premiere by Adam……

June 15, 2023: Host Christa Wessel welcomes pianist Lifia Teguh, plus Ben Tissell, baritone, and James Pick, piano, to the Roger O. Doyle performance studio. Lifia will be joined by cellist Jonah Thomas and vocalist Darren Raynald. Ben and James will share snippets from their recent celebration of English and American art songs event called……

June 1, 2023: Host Christa Wessel welcomes pianist Alexander Korsantia and the In Medio Choir to the Roger O. Doyle performance studio. Alexander will preview his upcoming concerts with Portland Piano International, including music by Haydn, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and more. In Medio Choir will perform works about the sea from their upcoming series Sea Changes, exploring how we……

May 25, 2023: Host Christa Wessel welcomes the Resonance Ensemble with cellist Nancy Ives, and Cascadia Composers, to the Roger O. Doyle performance studio. Resonance Ensemble will share a preview of their upcoming free arts and music festival, Earth’s Protection. Cellist Nancy Ives will perform original works memorializing Celilo Falls, a former tribal fishing area……

May 11, 2023: Guest host Warren Black welcomes In Mulieribus and Portland Youth Philharmonic‘s chamber orchestra and violinist Michelle Bushkova to the Roger O. Doyle performance studio. In Mulieribus and PYP will preview their upcoming chamber series BECAUSE I WILL NOT DESPAIR, featuring the World Premiere of a brand new composition by Jessica Meyer, set to poems……

May 4, 2023: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Ronn McFarlane and Carolyn Surrick, and tuba player JáTtik Clark to the Roger O. Doyle performance studio. ABOUT GRAMMY-nominated lutenist, Ronn McFarlane strives to bring the lute – the most popular instrument of the Renaissance – into today’s musical mainstream and make it accessible to a wider audience.  Since……

April 27, 2023: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Ping & Woof Opera to the Roger O. Doyle performance studio. They will preview their upcoming production of Reverie – a celebration of live music and dance. In collaboration with Pathways Dance Company, Reverie features music by Chopin, Schubert, Debussy, Faure, Tchaikovsky, Schumann and more. ABOUT Reverie takes the……

April 20, 2023: Host Christa Wessel welcomes the Portland State University Opera to the Roger O. Doyle performance studio. PSU Opera will preview their upcoming production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Baritone Dr. Harry Baechtel, Associate Professor of Voice at Portland State University, was originally scheduled to perform unpublished works by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel with pianist Chuck Dillard….…

April 13, 2023: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Catalyst Quartet and Classical Up Close to the Roger O. Doyle performance studio. The Catalyst Quartet is presented by our friends at Chamber Music Northwest and will preview their upcoming series Remarkable Women Composers, including music by Fanny Mendelssohn, Jessie Montgomery, Joan Tower, and Angélica Negrón. Classical Up Close is celebrating their……