James Bash

| During World War II, following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly sent to prison camps that

FNM’s all-Oregonian season started with a bang last weekend at Reed College’s acoustically-friendly Eliot Chapel Hall.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Virtuoso percussionist-composer Andy Akiho expanded his compositional palette with a newly minted cello concerto that showered sparks of rhythmic intensity and wit.

| With the ongoing tragedy of warfare in the Middle East, it seems like a miracle whenever people from different cultural backgrounds can work together in peaceful and meaningful ways.

Violist Caitlin Lynch, back in town for Portland Chamber Music: Willamette Valley, performed a concert of Mozart and Brahms.

The violist and Portland Youth Philharmonic alum returns to Oregon to work with high school and college students.

The English singer performed “Schwanengesang” and other selections with pianist Myra Huang for Chamber Music Northwest.

An outstanding performance by PYP alumna Hamani Froom of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto highlights a 101st season-opening program that also includes works by Silvestre Revueltas and Willam Grant Still.

The young composer Elishiya Crain-Keddie's "Innamorata" sparkles in a program including Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and contemporary American composer Missy Mazzoli.

PORTLAND, Ore. — It is fairly uncommon to hear voice and string quartet paired at a concert in which pop and classical styles have been blended.