Join Oregon’s progressive orchestra, Orchestra Nova Northwest + Cognizart, for ¡El Espectacular! This joyful and exuberant program features an innovative melding of Pan-American, Taiko, classical music, and dance in a show-stopping performance for all ages.

Featured Performers:

– Adam Eccleston
– Young Artists Debut! (YAD!) Winner Nikita Istratov
– Takohachi featuring Yumi Torimaru, and Young Artists Debut! Winners Jin Nakajima and Calvin Stuczynski
– Freddy Vilches
– Poison Waters

Honoring:

– Bodyvox and Jamey Hampton & Ashley Roland

Weaving together diverse musical traditions from across the Americas, ¡El Espectacular! honors cultural identity and creative innovation through rhythm, color, and connection. Highlights include:

– A brilliant flute concerto by Portland-based composer Giancarlo D’Addona Castro, performed by ONN Executive Director Adam Eccleston.
– A fusion of music and dance featuring Bodyvox’s modern choreography coupled with classical orchestral music.
– A performance by Poison Waters.
– A performance by Young Artists Debut! winners Jin Nakajima and Calvin Stuczynski with composer Yumi Torimaru.
– Young Artists Debut! winner Nikita Istratov performing a Prokofiev piece with the orchestra.

Friday @4 Music Series: Black Composers Concert

Reed College (Eliot Chapel) 4p

with Monica Ohuchi, piano

Recital with Cary Lewis!

Mirabella Portland 6pm

Artina McCain, Piano 

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. 

Program:

CARLOS SIMON                              Hellfighter’s Blues

GEORGE GERSHWIN                    Piano Concerto in F

PETER BOYER                                 Ellis Island: Dream of America