James Bash

Oregon Symphony’s Director of Classical Programming discusses everything from spreadsheets and contingency planning to catching the conducting bug at Yale and his early days schlepping timpani at New York’s 92nd Street Y.

HONG KONG — Chamber music is alive and well in Hong Kong, where a constant stream of people from all corners of the world fill the streets beneath canyons of skyscrapers.

Joby Talbot and Gene Scheer’s “graphic novel opera,” running at Portland’s World Trade Center Theatre through December 21, is anything but cartoonish in this climb to the top of the world.

Speaking with three Oregon musicians who travel regularly to O'ahu to perform with the Hawai'i Symphony Orchestra in Honolulu.

The local non-profit arts organization Project Chamber Music: Willamette Valley presented a concert at Chehalem Cultural Center surveying the emotional heights and depths of love.

The orchestra delivered new Music Director Alex Prior's lively reimagining of Handel’s Water Music with elan.

The Oregon composer, graduating this month from Lakeridge High School and headed to Yale in the fall, was featured on a recent Portland Youth Philharmonic concert.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Matthias Pintscher made a big splash in his conducting debut with the Oregon Symphony , serving up sonic delights at the Arlene

The most operatic of requiems is a heavy lift for soloists and chorus. Portland Opera's performance was at times powerful, and at other times muted, partly by Keller Auditorium's sonic limitations.

MYS wraps up its season with celebratory pieces by Tchaikovsky and Elaine Stuppler, topped off by Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.