Week 3: July 9 - July 15

umama womama: Coleman, Lash & Ngwenyama

Sunday, July 9 • Lincoln Performance Hall, 4pm Monday, July 10 • Kaul Auditorium, 8pm

Sunday & Monday

Three years in the making, be among the first to hear the exciting West Coast debut of this powerhouse composer collective and stunning ensemble of performers. CMNW favorites, flutist Valerie Coleman, violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama, and harpist Han Lash came together to create umama womama, a unique three-composer trio, to help us celebrate our 50th anniversary season. Postponed by the pandemic, this incredible trio of beloved musicians and their music will finally be unleashed!

• ZOLTÁN KODÁLY Serenade

• umama womama Three Pieces for Flute, Viola & Harp

• NOKUTHULA NGWENYAMA Down

• HAN LASH Music in Cold

• VALERIE COLEMAN Aja

CMNW Co-Commission • West Coast Premiere

• R. MURRAY SCHAFER Trio for Flute, Viola & Harp

• IGOR STRAVINSKY Three Movements from Petrushka

FEATURING: Alexi Kenney (violin), Hanna Lee (viola), Jessica Lee (violin), umama womama: Valerie Coleman (flute), Han Lash (harp), Nokuthula Ngwenyama (viola), Zitong Wang (piano)

SPOTLIGHT RECITAL: Alexi Kenney & Soovin Kim

Tuesday, July 11 • Lincoln Recital Hall, 12pm

Tuesday

Multi-award-winning violinist Alexi Kenney returns this summer to play on two programs with umama womama, and this showcase recital will illuminate his masterful virtuosity and depth of expression with pianist Zitong Wang. Join us for a midday interlude of superbly performed Bach, Salina Fisher, and Eugène Ysaÿe.

• J. S. BACH Violin & Keyboard Sonata, BWV 1016

• SALINA FISHER Hikari

• EUGÈNE YSAYE Sonata for Two Violins

FEATURING: Alexi Kenney (violin), Soovin Kim (violin), Zitong Wang (piano)

NEW@NIGHT: McGill, Goodyear & Catalyst

Wednesday, July 12 • The Armory, Happy Hour: 5pm • Performance: 6pm

Wednesday

This dynamite program of new music by a diversity of composers leaps to the moment with Ad Anah? (How Long?) by James Lee III, and Adolphus Hailstork’s The Blue Bag—inspired by jazz greats Nancy Wilson, Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, and Aretha Franklin. Plus, Catalyst performs 11 new miniature string quartets!

• STEWART GOODYEAR Piano Sonata

• ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK The Blue Bag

• JAMES LEE III Ad Anah? (How Long?)

• CATALYST QUARTET CQ Minute

FEATURING: Gloria Chien (piano), Stewart Goodyear (piano), Anthony McGill (clarinet), Catalyst Quartet

UNCOVERED Voices

Thursday & Saturday

Thursday, July 13 • The Reser, Prelude: 7pm • Performance: 8pm Saturday, July 15 • Kaul Auditorium, Prelude: 7pm • Performance: 8pm

Special musical partnerships from critically acclaimed albums headline this program. Artistic Director Gloria Chien and heralded clarinetist Anthony McGill are longtime recital partners, and the exhilarating F minor sonata was part of their recording of the Brahms clarinet sonatas. McGill joins the Catalyst Quartet in the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor quintet that is part of UNCOVERED— the Catalyst’s multi-volume spotlight on previously overlooked Black composers. Sensational pianist and composer Stewart Goodyear premieres his The Torment of Marsyas, with Portland flutist, Amelia Lukas.

• BRAHMS Clarinet Sonata in F Minor, Op. 120

• STEWART GOODYEAR The Torment of Marsyas for Flute & Piano CMNW Commission • World Premiere

• SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Clarinet Quintet

FEATURING: Gloria Chien (piano), Stewart Goodyear (piano), Amelia Lukas (flute), Anthony McGill (clarinet), Catalyst Quartet

David Ludwig’s The Anchoress

Sunday, July 16 • Lincoln Performance Hall, 4pm Monday, July 17 • Kaul Auditorium, 8pm

Sunday &

Rarely in one concert will you experience a string quartet with piano, a saxophone quartet, a woodwind quintet, and a poetic monodrama! Set to poetry by Portland native Katie Ford, The Anchoress combines a chorus of nine wind instruments with the human voice to explore the medieval mystic tradition called anchorism—with the remarkably expressive Hyunah Yu inhabiting the role of the Anchoress. CMNW Protégé alums, the Kenari Quartet, perform Quantum Shift, “an 8-minute virtuosic powerhouse” for saxophones. Pianist Stewart Goodyear and the Catalyst Quartet also uncover Florence Price’s lively Piano Quintet.

• MISCHA ZUPKO Quantum Shift for Saxophone Quartet

• FLORENCE PRICE Piano Quintet

• DAVID SERKIN LUDWIG The Anchoress

FEATURING: Stewart Goodyear (piano), Hyunah Yu (soprano), Catalyst Quartet, Kenari Quartet, WindSync, Katie Ford (poetry)

SPOTLIGHT RECITAL: Très Coloré et Élégant

Tuesday

Tuesday, July 18 • Lincoln Recital Hall, 12pm In chamber music, as in life, relationships are everything. For today’s recital, hear the beginnings of composer David Serkin Ludwig’s relationship with poet Katie Ford in his 2012 piece, Our Long War. We’ll explore the intimate connection between poetry and music in some of Gabriel Fauré’s exquisite songs, and longtime musical friends and collaborators Soovin Kim and Efe Baltacigil partner on Ravel’s homage to his unlikely friend and fellow composer Claude Debussy.

• DAVID SERKIN LUDWIG Our Long War

• GABRIEL FAURÉ Selected Songs

• MAURICE RAVEL Sonata for Violin & Cello, M. 73

QUARTET

NEW@NIGHT: International Voices

Wednesday, July 19 • The Armory, Happy Hour: 5pm • Performance: 6pm

Wednesday

This NEW@NIGHT is not only fresh music, but also arranged for unique instrumentation. The cutting-edge Third Sound ensemble kicks off their week in Portland with the world premiere of Patrick Castillo’s ephemera, and works by composers Lembit Beecher (Estonian-American), Edvard Baghdasaryan (Armenian), and Magnus Lindberg (Finnish).

• PATRICK CASTILLO ephemera World Premiere

• LEMBIT BEECHER Stories From My Grandmother

• EDVARD BAGHDASARYAN Rhapsody for Violin & Piano

• MAGNUS LINDBERG Caprice for Solo Violin

Viennese Revolutionaries

Thursday & Saturday

Thursday, July 20 • The Reser, Prelude: 7pm • Performance: 8pm Saturday, July 22 • Kaul Auditorium, Prelude: 7pm • Performance: 8pm

Vienna, one of the musical capitals of the 18th to 20th centuries, was home to some of history’s most important composers. At the heart of the First Viennese School of composition was Mozart, and two of his exquisite works bookend this program featuring Artistic Directors Gloria Chien and Soovin Kim. The revolutionary Second Viennese School is represented by Anton Webern’s hairraising transcription of Arnold Schoenberg’s first Chamber Symphony, played by the Pierrot ensemble, Third Sound—a dynamic combination of violin, cello, flute, clarinet, and piano that sounds like a small orchestra.

• MOZART Violin Sonata in G Major, K. 379

• JENNIFER HIGDON Smash

• ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Chamber Symphony No. 1

• MOZART Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 414

FEATURING: Diana Adamyan (violin), Efe Baltacigil (cello), Gloria Chien (piano), Braizahn Jones (bass), Soovin Kim (violin), Zitong Wang (piano), Third Sound (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano)

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Voices of the Soul featuring Fred Child

Sunday, July 23 • Lincoln Performance Hall, 4pm Monday, July 24 • Kaul Auditorium, 8pm

Sunday & Monday

Music can be an extraordinary expression of personal suffering, loneliness, loss, and ultimately, triumph. The wild colors of Alexander Scriabin’s brilliant third piano sonata, the penetrating soulfulness of the Armenian folk songs of Komitas, and the symphonic scale of Richard Strauss’s chamber music make this the most wide-ranging concert of the summer. Chinese-American composer Wang Jie’s Blame the Obituary is simultaneously a whimsical, comical, and bleak musical picture of life during the trying last few years, with her husband and radio host of Performance Today, Fred Child, narrating.

• ALEXANDER SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No. 3

• WANG JIE Blame the Obituary

CMNW Co-Commission • World Premiere

• KOMITAS VARDAPET Three Armenian Folk Songs

• RICHARD STRAUSS Sonata for Violin & Piano

FEATURING: Diana Adamyan (violin), Fred Child (narrator), Zitong Wang (piano), Third Sound (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano)

SPOTLIGHT RECITAL: Viano String Quartet

Tuesday, July 25 • Lincoln Recital Hall, 12pm

Tuesday

The virtuosic Viano String Quartet—our Protégé ensemble last year—returns to our summer festival with an international noontime musical feast of Hungarian (Bartók) and Czech (Smetana) masterpieces, plus the world premiere of 24-year-old Iranian-American composer Kian Ravaei’s new string quartet, co-commissioned by CMNW.

• KIAN RAVAEI The Little Things

CMNW Co-Commission • World Premiere

• BÉLA BARTÓK String Quartet No. 3

• SMETANA String Quartet No. 1 "From My Life"

NEW@NIGHT: Protégés United

Wednesday, July 26 • The Armory, Happy Hour: 5pm • Performance: 6pm

Wednesday

This thrilling triptych of new works are all the products of CMNW’s wildly successful Protégé Project! They will include the West Coast premiere of Alistair Coleman’s cello sonata, a new solo piece composed by Viano Quartet violist, Aiden Kane, and the world premiere of a new string quartet by this year’s Protégé Composer, Kian Ravaei.

• ALISTAIR COLEMAN Cello Sonata

• AIDEN KANE Triptych for Solo Viola

• KIAN RAVAEI The Little Things

CMNW Co-Commission • World Premiere

FEATURING: Aiden Kane (viola), Anton Nel (piano), Tate Zawadiuk (cello), Viano String Quartet

FESTIVAL FINALE: American Masterworks

Thursday & Saturday

Thursday, July 27 • The Reser, Prelude: 7pm • Performance: 8pm Saturday, July 29 • Kaul Auditorium, Prelude: 7pm • Performance: 8pm

Our finale is an exciting celebration of the vitality of American music from the turn of the 20th century until today: native and folk influences in Antonín Dvořák, New England church hymns and popular tunes in Charles Ives, traditional Romanticism in Amy Beach, and modern-day lyricism in Chris Rogerson. The sensational Fleur Barron returns to close the summer in a beautiful world premiere work by Rogerson, and the dynamic South African pianist Anton Nel makes his CMNW debut in Beach’s ravishing Piano Quintet.

• ANTONÍN DVORÁK "American" String Quartet No. 12

• CHRIS ROGERSON Quintet for Soprano & String Quartet

CMNW Commission • World Premiere

• CHARLES IVES Selections from 114 Songs

• AMY BEACH Piano Quintet in F-sharp Minor

FEATURING: Fleur Barron (mezzo-soprano), Anton Nel (piano), Viano String Quartet