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| | INNER LANDSCAPES: Depths of Expression
November 15, 2025 7:00pm Roosevelt High School, Portland
November 16, 2025 3:00 PM Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, Beaverton SOLD HERE
Maria Garcia, Piano
Featuring Portland pianist Maria Garcia and the Western U.S. premiere of Rainn by Karena Ingram, this evocative program highlights the lyrical power of Lūcija Garūta alongside the warmth of Dvořák.
Program:
KARENA INGRAM Rainn (Western U.S Premiere)
LŪCIJA GARŪTA Piano Concerto in F-sharp Minor
ANTONIN DVORAK Symphony No. 8 in G Major
A program that invites you on a journey through a vibrant musical landscape, blending the bold and contemporary with the timeless and profound. This exciting program presents the Western U.S. premiere of a new composition titled Rainn by Karena Ingram, a rising star in contemporary composition. Her evocative work explores the fluidity of nature and emotion and is presented in collaboration with the League of American Orchestras’ Toulmin Commissions Program. Portland piano virtuoso Maria Garcia performs the dramatic elegance of Lūcija Garūta’s Piano Concerto in F-sharp Minor — a hidden gem of the 20th-century repertoire, brimming with intensity, lyricism, and dazzling virtuosity. The program closes with the radiance of Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 in G Major, a celebration of nature and folk-inspired melodies, bursting with joy and optimism.
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| | ELLIS ISLAND: Dream of America
March 14, 2026 7:30pm Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham
March 15, 2026 3:00 PM Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, Beaverton SOLD HERE
Artina McCain, Piano
A multimedia experience! Carlos Simon’s Hellfighter’s Blues and George Gershwin’s Concerto in F lead to Peter Boyer’s Ellis Island: Dream of America, performed with live actors and archival visuals drawn from the Ellis Island Oral History Project.
Program:
CARLOS SIMON Hellfighter’s Blues
GEORGE GERSHWIN Piano Concerto in F
PETER BOYER Ellis Island: Dream of America
This extraordinary program presents a work of the powerful, contemporary voice of composer Carlos Simon, whose works resonate with history, hope, and heart. Pianist Artina McCain returns to perform George Gershwin’s brilliant Piano Concerto in F, a work that blends classical traditions with the bold rhythms of jazz and pulses with energy, romance, and the unmistakable spirit of the American Jazz Age. The program closes with Peter Boyer’s Ellis Island: Dream of America, a poignant and inspiring tribute to the immigrants who shaped the American story. Innovative in its format, the work brings elements of the theater and multimedia into the concert hall, employing actors and projected historical images from the Ellis Island archives. The spoken texts for the work come from the Ellis Island Oral History Project, an historic collection of interviews with actual immigrants about their experiences emigrating to America. This dynamic work reminds us of the hopes, struggles, and dreams that built a nation. | Purchase Your Tickets |
| | BY NATURE: Resilience and Triumph
May 16, 2026 7:30pm Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham
May 17, 2026 3:00 PM Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, Beaverton SOLD HERE
Sara Davis Buechner, Piano
A tribute to the legacy of LGBTQ+ composers, featuring the return of celebrated pianist and trans advocate Sara Davis Buechner. A stirring close to the season that celebrates resilience and identity through music.
Program:
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Symphony No. 2
for Piano and Orchestra: The Age of Anxiety
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 in E Minor
ONN presents a program that honors two incredible LGBTQ+ composers whose voices have shaped the classical music canon. Leonard Bernstein’s The Age of Anxiety, a symphony in name and a piano concerto in spirit, traces a soul’s search for meaning in a fractured world. Inspired by W.H. Auden’s Pulitzer prize-winning poem, the music journeys through introspection, disillusionment, and, ultimately, hope — with the solo piano as its restless, poetic voice. ONN welcomes the return of dazzling piano soloist Sara Davis Buechner in her fourth appearance with ONN. The orchestra is featured in the powerful Symphony No. 5 in E Minor of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, a deeply emotional journey that weaves darkness and hope, struggle and triumph. Often interpreted as a reflection of Tchaikovsky’s inner turmoil and longing, the symphony builds to a triumphant finale — a powerful reminder of resilience through art. ONN celebrates these two remarkable composers, acknowledging their courage in living authentically in times when their identities were often marginalized. | Purchase Your Tickets |
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