Cascadia Composers presents Made in Oregon – New Music by Northwest Composers in a concert featured at the Astoria Music Festival, including a program packed with exciting and varied works by 12 notable Northwest composers: Matthew Neil Andrews, David Bernstein, Daniel Brugh, John DeRuntz, Denis Floyd, Stephen Lewis, Timothy Arliss O’Brien, Andrew Robinson, Paul Safar, Greg Steinke, Jeff Winslow and Jennifer Wright.
This creative and ambitious program features works for solo, vocal and small instrumental ensembles. You’ll hear many of the multi-talented composers perform on their own works: Matthew Andrews, John DeRuntz, Paul Safar, Stephen Lewis, Tim O’Brien and Jeff Winslow will perform on piano. Daniel Brugh will play piano and fixed media; Jennifer Wright will perform on amplified harpsichord and EBows with an illuminated cymatics display. Oregon’s brilliant Delgani String Quartet will premiere the complete Andrew Robinson work that they excerpted last October in Portland.
Rounding out this stellar cast of performers are Asya Gulua, piano; Alicia Charlton, clarinet; Jonah Thomas, violoncello; Maria Garcia, piano; Catherine Olson, soprano; Cary Lewis, piano; Daniel Robert Vega, alto saxophone, and Nathanael Peterson Blankenship, tenor saxophone. Guests are encouraged to stick around for post-concert coffee and Q+A with the composers.
Cascadia’s Made in Oregon concert is one more reason to check out the events and concerts that are part of the Astoria Music Festival.
Wed Jun 20, 7:30 PM, the Clatsop Community College Performing Arts Center, 588 16th St., Astoria, OR