NEXT FESTIVAL
June 19 - July 14, 2019
OMF 2018 SEASON IN REVIEW
Over 250 musicians performed for close to 16,000 audience members during the month-long festival: some 40 soloists, conductors, dancers and choreographers; three orchestras, a chorus, and four chamber music ensembles took part. They came from Brazil, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Austria, Iceland, Serbia, Korea, Czech Republic, Canada as well as from around the U.S., and performed repertoire that ranged from Haydn and Shostakovich to Oregon premieres of contemporary works by Missy Mazzoli, Peteris Vasks and Steve Reich. The festival was an hommage to Swiss patron and conductor Paul Sacher.
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Highlights
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Pulitzer Prize winning work gets Oregon premiere
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Bocelli once again
wows the crowd |
Weill's Seven Deadly Sins
in semistaged production |
Three of Mendelssohn's
symphonies performed |
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Trio Martinu
plays Beethoven |
Tyniec played V. Williams
with great charm |
Giunta and Nichols do
justice to Weill |
Serdar plays Shostakovich
brilliantly |
Picture Gallery
Photo credits: Donna Robinson, Jeremy Lillie and Andrew Nowak
International megastar Andrea Bocelli opened the season to a large crowd
at Moda Center 
Lyric soprano Jennifer Forni
sings Canteloube's magical Songs of the Auvergne 
Serbian pianist Aleksandar Serdar
performs Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto 
Travis Hatton leads Portland Civic Orchestra in the works of Mozart, Shostakovich and V. Williams
Brazilian conductor Jetro de Oliveira
leads Orpheus Academy Orchestra in the works of Haydn & Mendelssohn 
The Family cast in Kurt Weill's "Sins" (left to right): Deac Guidi, Daniel Buchanan, Brian Tierney and Harry Baechtel
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Dancer/choreographer Jennifer Nichols (left) and mezzo Wallis Giunta (right) give a dramatic performance of Weill's "Sins"
Orpheus Academy Orchestra
receives enthusiastic applause at the end of the June 28 concert 
Canadian violinist Andrea Tyniec
plays V. Williams' "The Lark Ascending" on the 1689 Baumgartner Stradivari 
Third Angle New Music and
OMF Artistic Collegium give Oregon premiere of Reich's Double Sextet 
Members of OMF Artistic Collegium
rehearsing Steve Reich's Double Sextet 
Oregon Festival Orchestra and Portland Symphonic Choir rehearse at Moda Center for the Bocelli concert
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Hacko leads Oregon Festival Orchestra
in the works of Vasks, Weill and Mendelssohn 
Trio Martinu from Prague, Czech Republic
presented a memorable evening of chamber music 
Claudio Cohen/Portland Civic Orchestra
perform Beethoven, Gorecki and Mendelssohn 
Trio Martinu performs
Beethoven's Triple Concerto with Portland Civic Orchestra, Claudio Cohen conductor 
Third Angle New Music
performs area premiere of Missy Mazolli's Still Life with Avalanche 
Dossin, Yun, Bluestone and Rencher
play Bartok's monumental "Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion" |
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Portland Civic Orchestra |