Event

Winter Chamber Music

The Winter Chamber Music Festival on Saturday, February 16th, will feature a variety of small ensembles performing chamber works paired with wine and hors d'oeuvres. The evening will feature the world premier of a commissioned piece of music by Raven Chacon.

Raven Chacon hails from the Navajo Nation, has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project and is a former member of the American Indian arts collective Postcommodity which has had their work displayed internationally. His compositions have been performed by the Arizona Opera, the Kronos Quartet, and Ensemble Music New Mexico. The commissioned work will feature both Symphony musicians and youth from the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Mr. Chacon will visit Pendleton for a three week period leading up the performance where he will be producing a series of prints based off the score at Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts and coach musicians performing the commissioned work.

Additional performances for the evening include Brahms's "Piano Quintet, Op 34" featuring pianist James Cook, the Donizetti aria "Oh Mio Fernando!" sung by mezzo-soprano Alexis McCarthy, Devienne's "Suite No. 1 in G major" featuring Symphony principal flutist Cathy Muller, and an appearance by the Pendleton Brass Quintet.