Welcome to Chamber Music Northwest's 37th summer festival. We invite you to share the beauty and power of great chamber music and the thrill of brilliant, committed performances. You will find much to savor this summer, as classic masterpieces and intriguing new works are brought to life by some of the most sought-after artists in the world. Join us for the intensity, beauty and sheer joy of these performances!

Monday, Thursday & Saturday at Reed College
Tuesday & Friday at Catlin Gabel School
Concerts at 8pm.

Our summer journey begins with a Beethoven and Brahms celebration built around some of their best-loved chamber music. the Orion Quartet brings up the bookends of Beethoven's first and last string quartets, and the two lush string sextets of Brahms cap two programs. Pianist André Watts joins David Shifrin and Peter Wiley in two sublime sonatas and Brahms' autumnal trio.

Monday, June 25
Tuesday, June 26

Beethoven and Brahms:
The Early Years

Opus One and Orion Quartet

Thursday, June 28
Friday, June 29

Masterpieces of Beethoven and Brahms

Orion Quartet, Paul Neubauer, Peter Wiley and Cary Lewis (Important Announcement)

Saturday, June 30 - sold out!

An Evening of Late Beethoven
and Brahms

Pei-Yao Wang, David Shifrin, Peter Wiley and the Orion Quartet (Important Announcement)

Monday, Thursday & Saturday at Reed College
Tuesday & Friday at Catlin Gabel School
Concerts at 8pm.

This week we explore the high Romantic sensibilities of 19th Century composers Tchaikovsky and Glazunov, enjoy Stravinsky's spiky ryhytms and sound colors, and conclude with a joyful evening of Schubert's sublime melodic genius. With the superb Emerson Quartet as our guides, we immerse ourselves in the profound final six string quartets of Shostakovich to end the journey of the complete cycle.

Monday, July 2 - sold out!

Complete Shostakovich
String Quartets IV

Emerson String Quartet

Tuesday, July 3 - sold out!

Complete Shostakovich
String Quartets V

Emerson String Quartet

Thursday, July 5
Friday, July 6

Russian Music Before Shostakovich

Steven Copes, Leila Josefowicz, Philip Setzer, Paul Neubauer, Fred Sherry, Sophie Shao, Pei-Yao Wang

Saturday, July 7

Schubertiade: An Intimate Evening Musicale

Steven Copes, Leila Josefowicz, Paul Neubauer, Fred Sherry, Sophie Shao, Pei-Yao Wang, Hyunah Yu

Monday, Thursday & Saturday at Reed College
Tuesday & Friday at Catlin Gabel School
Concerts at 8pm.

Delight in an evening of Bach concertos for keyboards, flute and violin, featuring two stunningly gifted young pianists, Orion Weiss and Shai Wosner, who also bring us a special evening of two-piano and four-hand piano music. Chamber works from the early Classical, Romantic and early 20th century - Schoenberg's hauntingly beautiful early quartet with soprano - complete this eclectic and rewarding musical week.

Monday, July 9
Tuesday, July 10

From the Heart of Classical to
the Far Side of Romanticism

Theodore Arm, Steven Copes, Jennifer Frautschi, Scott Lee, Fred Sherry, Pei-Yao Wang, Hyunah Yu

Thursday, July 12
Friday, July 13

Bach Concerto Night

Orion Weiss, Shai Wosner, Jennifer Frautschi, Tara Helen O'Connor, Theodore Arm, Scott Lee, Fred Sherry, Peter Lloyd

Saturday, July 14

An Evening with Pianists Orion Weiss and Shai Wosner

Orion Weiss, Shai Wosner

Monday, Thursday & Saturday at Reed College
Tuesday & Friday at Catlin Gabel School
Concerts at 8pm.

Two beloved chamber masterpieces highlight this week - Dvorak's gorgeous piano quintet and Mendelssohn's phenomenal string octet - with colorful contrasts surrounding them, from Haydn to Elgar and Prokofiev, to John Corigliano and Portland's own Thomas Svoboda. The brilliant Elmar Oliveira, the first and only American violinist to win the gold at the Tchaikovsky Competition, takes the spotlight for an exciting and memorable recital.

Sunday, July 15

Summer Family Concert:
Music for 20 Fingers

Orion Weiss, Shai Wosner

Monday, July 16
Tuesday, July 17

German and Slavic Melodies

Robert McDuffie, Amy Schwartz Moretti, Scott Lee, Ronald Thomas, Tara Helen O'Connor, Shai Wosner

Thursday, July 19
Friday, July 20

Lyrical Contrasts

Theodore Arm, Elmar Oliveira, Daniel Phillips, Amy Schwartz Moretti, Toby Appel, Scott Lee, Fred Sherry, Ronald Thomas, David Shifrin, Tara Helen O'Connor

Saturday, July 21

The Virtuoso Violin:
Elmar Oliveira in Recital

Elmar Oliveira, Robert Koenig

Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at Reed College
Tuesday & Friday at Catlin Gabel School
Concerts at 8pm except Sunday at 4pm.

Our journey ends with CMNW's trademark musical diversity, in a week that takes us back to the Baroque with Handel, to masterpieces of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Dvorak, to two world premieres. Composers David Schiff and Edgar Meyer bring us two compelling new works - both for nine instruments - and our grand finale combines three wonderful wind serenades written over a span of 225 years.

Monday, July 23 - limited availability
Tuesday, July 24

Old Favorites Meet 21st Century Jazz

Theodore Arm, Elmar Oliveira, Daniel Phillips, Toby Appel, Ronald Thomas, Edgar Meyer, Michael Anderson, Jose Franch-Ballester, Yoshinori Nakao, David Shifrin, Milan Turkovic, William Purvis

Thursday, July 26 - almost sold out
Friday, July 27 - limited availability

Classical Masterpieces

Elmar Oliveira, Ronald Thomas, Allan Vogel, Jose Franch-Ballester, Julie Feves, William Purvis, Anne-Marie McDermott.

Saturday, July 28 - limited availability
Sunday, July 29

Three Serenades: 1782 to 2007

Stephen Taylor, Allan Vogel, Jose Franch-Ballester, David Shifrin, Julie Feves, Peter Kolkay, Milan Turkovic, John Cox, David Jolley, William Purvis, Ronald Thomas, Edgar Meyer