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Thursdays @ Three: Camerata PYP, Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner; New Wave Opera

January 9, 2025: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Portland Youth Philharmonic’s chamber orchestra Camerata PYP with award-winning pianist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, and New Wave Opera to All Classical Radio’s Irving Levin Performance Hall.

Camerata PYP will share highlights from their concert with Sanchez-Werner, featuring music by Joaquín Turina, Camille Saint-Saëns, Franz Liszt, and more.

Then, New Wave Opera will perform an exclusive preview of their production of Wags and Whiskers, a family-friendly show featuring tuneful music and themes of friendship, found family, and the animals in our lives.

Join us Thursday at 3:00 PM PT at 89.9 FM in Portland, OR or from anywhere in the world via the live player on our website.


ABOUT

Since 1924, Portland Youth Philharmonic has inspired and trained young musicians throughout the Pacific Northwest. Founded by Mary V. Dodge, a pioneer violin teacher, the Portland Junior Symphony, America’s first youth orchestra, captured the hearts of radio listeners all across the country.

Camerata PYP performs in more intimate settings around the region and features an engaging mixture of traditional and modern programming, including commissions of new music and collaborations with other professional music organizations.

Learn more at portlandyouthphil.org.

“A gifted virtuoso” (San Francisco Chronicle) with “mesmerizing artistry and extraordinary ability to communicate” (The Post-Standard), “poetic, electrifying” (Michigan Live) with “masterful technique and a veritable deluge of sonorities” (La Presse Montreal), 27-year-old Mexican-American Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner was selected First Prize Winner of the 2022 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. Named a Gilmore Young Artist, an honor awarded to the most promising American pianists of the new generation, his multi-faceted artistry has been featured in the New York Times, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN International, Mexico News Daily, the Wall Street Journal, and WDR-Arte.

Keep reading at llewellynsanchezwerner.com.


New Wave Opera (NWO) believes that opera is a living art form and that new works best represent the variety of stories, experiences, and identities of NWO’s performers and audiences. Their productions uplift composers, librettists, and performers of diverse backgrounds and experiences, while investing heavily in the rich talent pool of our region. New Wave Opera is especially committed to emphasizing treble voices, which are largely underused in standard opera repertoire, and fostering a professional, welcoming, and healthy creative environment for all voice types and identities.

More at www.newwaveopera.org.


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