Oregon Mandolin Orchestra

The Oregon Mandolin Orchestra is inviting you to join a Mother’s Day weekend celebration of Italian composers. The concerts – one evening performance and one live/virtual matinee – will explore the diversity and richness of Italian music to the modern day.

The concerts will be free to all mothers!

“The Oregon Mandolin Orchestra has played plenty of Italian music over the years, but never made a whole concert of it before now,” said OMO Music Director Christian McKee. “We’ll go as far back as the Baroque period with music by Antonio Vivaldi; up to the present day with music by Claudio Mandonico, born in 1957; and share plenty of the wonderfully expressive music of the early 20th century composed for mandolin ensembles.”

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Saturday May 9: 6 p.m. PDT. Doors open 5:30 p.m.
Rose City Park United Methodist Church, 5830 N.E. Alameda St., Portland, OR 97213
Tickets: $15 for adults; $10 for students and seniors
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Sunday May 10: 3 p.m. PDT. Doors open 2:30 p.m.
St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, 2201 S.W. Vermont St., Portland, OR 97219
Suggested donation: $15 for adults; $10 for students and seniors, in-person or livestreaming.

Information: www.oregonmandolinorchestra.org

Still plenty of seats at the Oregon Mandolin Orchestra's Matinee Christmas concerts

Two Matinee Concerts!

Saturday Dec. 13: 3 p.m. PST. Doors open 2:30 p.m.
Where: First Presbyterian Church, 4300 Main St, Vancouver, WA 98663.
Suggested donation: $15 at the door for adults; $10 for students and seniors.
Information: www.oregonmandolinorchestra.org

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Sunday, Dec. 14: 3 p.m. PST. Doors open 2:30 p.m.
Where: St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, 2201 S.W. Vermont St, Portland, OR 97219.
Suggested donation: $15 for adults; $10 for students and seniors.
Virtual: Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/OMOHolidays
Suggested donation: $15 for adults; $10 for students and seniors through online link.
Information: www.oregonmandolinorchestra.org

“OMO will conclude their 15th anniversary year with a pair of Christmas concerts spanning music from the 17th century to the 1960s, from the Baroque-era German Lutheran church to the American silver screen,” said Christian McKee, OMO music director.

“This year, there will be a special stocking stuffer,” McKee said, “The concerts will include performances by the OMO Chamber Ensemble, playing perennial favorite themes from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.”

Catch the Oregon Mandolin Orchestra’s free Halloween Night concert near Portland International Airport

The OMO will headline the Oct. 31 concert while hosting the Classical Mandolin Society of America’s 39th annual convention.

Who: Oregon Mandolin Orchestra
What: Free concert (Donations happily accepted!)
When: 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31
Where: Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel, 8235 NE Airport Way, Portland, OR 97220
Information: www.oregonmandolinorchestra.org

“We’re excited about this opportunity to play,” said Christian McKee, OMO music director. “It’ll be an honor to have so many members of the Mandolin Family in the audience along with Portland’s loyal mandolin fans.”

The OMO will share the concert with French mandolinist Vincent Beer-Demander, presenting a solo performance of a program entitled “Come Bach.” A renowned composer and multi-instrumentalist, Beer-Demander serves as a member of the convention faculty and is the art director for the Academie de Mandoline et Guitare in Marseille.

Meanwhile, free concerts also will be performed:

 8 p.m. Thursday, featuring duets by Australian mandolinist Fiona Horbach, of the Sydney Mandolin Orchestra (SMO,) and guitarist Werner Ruecker, SMO’s director, and the convention’s composer in-residence. A solo performance by Italian mandolinist Fabio Gallucci, co-founder of the Quintet à Plectres de France, will follow.

 8 p.m. Saturday, featuring a program of duets by Gallucci and Beer-Demander, and closing with the CMSA En Masse Orchestra, 140 strong. Dr. Jim Bates, CMSA music director, will conduct the enormous ensemble comprised of mandolins, mandolas, mandocellos, guitars and basses in a program of music from the U.S., Italy, France, Japan and Australia, including the world premiere of Werner Ruecker’s “Yulugi-Dance of the Earth and Sky.”

Donations to the nonprofit CMSA are encouraged.

Bonjour!

The Oregon Mandolin Orchestra is celebrating the change of seasons with two "Summer in Paris" concerts June 21-22, honoring French composers while leading a musical journey through the City of Light.

OMO Music Director Christian McKee has crafted a concert program that explores French music over four centuries, from enduring symphonic masterpieces to songs made famous on both sides of the Atlantic by Edith Piaf and Bobby Darin.

What you need to know:

June 21
What: Summer in Paris Concert
When: 3 p.m. Saturday, June 21. Doors open 2:30 p.m.
Where: First Presbyterian Church, 4300 Main St., Vancouver, WA 98663
Tickets: $15 at the door; $10 for students and seniors

June 22
What: Summer in Paris Concert – live or virtual
When: 3 p.m. PST Sunday, June 22. Doors open 2:30 p.m.
Live: St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, 2201 S.W. Vermont St., Portland, OR 97219
Tickets: Suggested donation $15 at the door; $10 for students and seniors.
Virtual: Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87530908286
Suggested donation: $15 for adults; $10 for students and seniors through online link

Hope to see you there!