James Bash writes articles for a variety of publications, including magazines such as Opera America, Open Spaces, Opera, MUSO, International Arts Manager, American Record Guide, Symphony, Opera Canada, and PSU Magazine. The newspapers include Crosscut, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Oregonian, The Columbian, The Portland Tribune, The Register-Guard, and Willamette Week. James has also written a number of articles for the Oregon Arts Commission and contributed articles to the 2nd edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music. James was a fellow to the 2008 NEA Journalism Institute for Classical Music and Opera. He is a member of the Music Critics Association of North America (mcana.org) and lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Kathy.
Jonathan Boyd, Rachele Gilmore, Robert Orth, and company team up to deliver strong performance’s of Bernstein’s operatic hybrid.
Using specialized instruments, Miller Packwood spends hours making the perfect reed for upcoming performances.
Portland’s All Classical 89.9 FM KQAC will broadcast the show at 5 pm on Saturday, June 30th.
Soloist Angie Zhang excels in Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concert.
Portland Opera closed out its season with a very strong performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide on Friday evening (May 11) at Keller Auditorium. After its premiere in 1956, Candide has undergone a number of revisions, and the operatic version that Portland Opera presented, directed by Christopher Mattaliano, conquered the numerous episodic transitions with evocative scenery [...]
I always knew that I would be some kind of performer. My parents always said that if the refrigerator light came on, I wanted to perform.
Edwards will continue to direct the Olympia Symphony and will become the conductor of the orchestra at the University of Puget Sound.
Salerno-Sonnenberg smokes the violin during her performance of “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.”
Burke is considered one of the world’s greatest Irish fiddlers, and he happens to live in Portland.
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