2025–2026
UPCOMING EVENTS
Breaking Ground: Fourth Wall & Portland State
The Portland State Chamber Choir kicks off its 50th anniversary season in signature style, bringing the acclaimed professional vocal ensemble Fourth Wall Ensemble to Portland for an evening of musical brilliance. Hailing from New York City, Fourth Wall Ensemble is a genre-bending group known for their fearless artistry and inventive programming. The program spans the centuries, from Claudio Monteverdi’s shimmering Renaissance harmonies to the genius of Portland’s own Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw. Breaking Ground promises to be a felicitous start to a milestone season for one of America’s finest university choirs.
Breaking Ground: Fourth Wall & Portland State
The Portland State Chamber Choir kicks off its 50th anniversary season in signature style, bringing the acclaimed professional vocal ensemble Fourth Wall Ensemble to Portland for an evening of musical brilliance. Hailing from New York City, Fourth Wall Ensemble is a genre-bending group known for their fearless artistry and inventive programming. The program spans the centuries, from Claudio Monteverdi’s shimmering Renaissance harmonies to the genius of Portland’s own Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw. Breaking Ground promises to be a felicitous start to a milestone season for one of America’s finest university choirs.
Carnegie Hall: Estonian Festival Orchestra
Bringing the best Estonian talent together with leading musicians from around the world, the Estonian Festival Orchestra assembles for its highly anticipated North American debut during the global celebration of Arvo Pärt at 90. Led by Artistic Director Paavo Järvi, they’re joined by the Grammy Award–winning Pärt specialists of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and soloists who include Midori, Hans Christian Aavik, and composer-pianist Nico Muhly. The wide-ranging program features significant early works, including a piece with a historic connection to Carnegie Hall; major works from Pärt’s game-changing tintinnabuli style; powerful 21st-century selections; and more. Together, it’s a stunning survey of Pärt’s singular musical world, performed by many of the artists who know it best.
PIPES: Downtown Voices
Trinity Choir
Downtown Voices
Janet Yieh, organ
Stephen Sands, conductor
Janet Yieh, music director at New York’s Church of the Heavenly Rest and former Trinity assistant organist, joins Downtown Voices to present a program of iconic Anglican and American hymns that illustrates the new organ’s majestic sweep — capable of both soaring transcendence and quiet sweetness. Opening with I Was Glad, by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, the evening includes such favorites as William Henry Harris’s Faire is the heaven, Cecilia McDowall’s O sing unto the Lord, and Alice Parker’s Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal.
Evenings at Avaloch
Evenings at Avaloch
featuring:
Fourth Wall Ensemble
Bristol Lightning
Clippinger-Dodson Duo
The Moanin’ Fogs
Holland Andrews & Yuniya Edi Kwon
