Orchestra Pianist for the Oregon Bach Festival

Program description -

Across generations, composers displaced by war, persecution, or political upheaval found refuge in the United States. A stirring program to showcase the power of art to survive and flourish through tumult, reinvention, and hope.

Martinů: Nonet No. 2
G. Mahler (Arr. Schoenberg): Songs of a Wayfarer
Yousufi:Humanity – West Coast Premiere, OBF Co-commission
Milhaud: The Creation of the World

UO Chamber Choir
OBF Modern Orchestra
Javier Arrey, baritone
Natalia Ponomarchuk, conductor

https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/beyond-borders-usa250?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=University+of+Oregon

Orchestra Pianist for the Oregon Bach Festival

Conductors Gemma New and Anton Armstrong combine forces for a thrilling expedition through contemporary American music. The evening includes Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody in Blue, featuring pianist Conrad Tao – “[a] magician at the keyboard” (The Boston Globe) – as well as Margaret Bonds’ profound and moving Credo, the third iteration of the OBF New Bach Transcriptions Project, and a multimedia performance of selections from Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring and The Tender Land suites.

J.S Bach/Tao: OBF New Transcriptions Project, Year 3
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Bonds: Credo
Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite (abridged) and “The Promise of Living” with National Park Suite visual concerto

OBF Chorus
UO Chamber Choir
OBF Modern Orchestra
Conrad Tao, piano
Nicole Joseph, soprano
Carl DuPont, baritone
Nicholas Bardonnay, photographer & multimedia artist
Anton Armstrong, conductor
Gemma New, conductor

https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/american-tapestry-usa250?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=University+of+Oregon

Thursdays @ Three with Christa Wessel

Piano Duet Concert

Program TBA

Concert detail TBA

https://chatterpdx.org/

Piano Trio concert

Piano Trio concert with Dr. Sunmi Chang and Dr. Steve Pologe at the University of Oregon. Program to include Rachmaninoff Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 9.

Solo Recital. Program TBA.

For Bartók, Shostakovich, and Mozart, musical form is both discipline and playground—structure and freedom. Bartók’s Divertimento takes a Classical-era template and infuses it with the restless energy of the late 1930s and the earthy humanity of Hungarian folk music. Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1 channels that same interwar unease through wit, irony, and virtuosity. Mozart’s Symphony No. 29, written when the composer was still in his teens, reveals a young master already playing with classical form—music of clarity, energy, and emotional depth pushing at the edges of established convention.

PROGRAM

Béla Bartók: Divertimento

Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1

Featuring Brian Hsu, Piano and Bryce Schmidt, Trumpet

W.A. Mozart: Symphony No. 29

https://www.oregonmozartplayers.org/serious-play