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Celebrating our 49th season of providing musical opportunities and enjoyment to the community! |
| The Chamber Music Society
of Oregon is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is devoted to promoting musical opportunities for persons
of all ages. Our flagship performing ensemble, the Oregon Sinfonietta, is a full symphony orchestra of community
musicians, conducted by Dr. Donald L.
Appert, which presents a series of four free concerts each season. The Oregon Sinfonietta has consistently throughout the years
offered a superb selection of the classical music repertoire, as well as performances by world-class professional soloists and outstanding young
musicians, winners of the yearly CMSO Concerto Competition performing full concertos. |
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 – 2020 CMSO Concerto Competition: Bassoonist Caleb
Hutchings, cellist Hailey Kang, and pianist Adrian Hsieh. We applaud Caleb Hutchings on his superb
performance in the January 2020 concert, and while we were not able to enjoy the performances of Hailey Kang
and Adrian Hsieh, we congratulate them on their wins and wish them many more opportunities for music
making in the future. |
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The 2021 – 2022 CMSO Concerto Competition took place on October 2, 2021. Congratulations to this
year's winners: French hornist Evan Doster, violinist Hanami Froom, and pianist Steven Wu. We look forward
to these outstanding young artist winners' performances of Mozart's lively Horn Concerto No. 4, Glazunov's
wonderful Violin Concerto, and Shostakovich's exciting Piano Concerto No. 2. The winner in each category
will receive a $1,000.00 honorarium, made possible with the addition of a generous donation by the Jerry and
Donna Smith Family Foundation, on the condition the winners actually perform with the Oregon Sinfonietta at
the concert. Information about the 2022 – 2023 Concerto Competition is provided on the Concerto Competition
page. |
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| We are pleased to
announce the 2021 – 2022 season of the Oregon Sinfonietta, our 49th! (Please see the Concerts page for detailed
information regarding our concerts.) We hope you will join us for these exciting concerts as we celebrate 49 years of providing free musical
opportunities and enjoyment to the community. Our collaboration in March 2016 with world-renowned violist Brett Deubner
as soloist for the première of Dr. Appert's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, and the November 2019 première of his
Violin Concerto with Oregon Sinfonietta's concertmaster Darrell Hunt as soloist, are wonderful past highlights. The
2021 – 2022 season is sure to have many more memorable moments and highlights! |
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| To see and hear video and
audio recordings of Mr. Deubner and Mr. Hunt performing Dr. Appert's viola and violin concertos, please go to the Videos/Recordings
page. The newest additions to the Videos/Recordings page are audio recordings of the Oregon Sinfonietta's November 7, 2021
and March 20, 2022 concerts. The Videos/Recordings page also includes videos/recordings of past Oregon Sinfonietta
concerts, as well as the orchestra's performance of Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, for
which the orchestra placed as a Semi-Finalist in the 2016 The American Prize competition for Orchestral
Performance. Also of note is the Oregon Sinfonietta's November 5, 2017 performance of the first movement of Vaughan
Williams' A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2). (Please click
here to view a video recording of the first movement. The
complete video recording of the November 5, 2017 concert is on the Videos/Recordings page.) |
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