Chamber Music Northwest
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Chamber Music Northwest is an American non-profit organization in Portland, Oregon
that is dedicated to the performance and promotion of chamber music
. The organization's main presentation is an annual five-week summer festival that occurs during the months of June and July. Performances are held at the Kaul Auditorium on the campus of Reed College
and the Cabell Center Theater at the Catlin Gabel School. The organization also presents individual chamber music concerts throughout the year as part of their Encore Series. The organization regularly features many of the world's greatest performers and has been featured on NPR
's Performance Today
.
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
that is dedicated to the performance and promotion of chamber music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
. The organization's main presentation is an annual five-week summer festival that occurs during the months of June and July. Performances are held at the Kaul Auditorium on the campus of Reed College
Reed College
Reed College is a private, independent, liberal arts college located in southeast Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus located in Portland's Eastmoreland neighborhood, featuring architecture based on the Tudor-Gothic style, and a forested canyon wilderness...
and the Cabell Center Theater at the Catlin Gabel School. The organization also presents individual chamber music concerts throughout the year as part of their Encore Series. The organization regularly features many of the world's greatest performers and has been featured on NPR
NPR
NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
's Performance Today
Performance Today
Performance Today is a Peabody Award-winning classical music radio show, currently hosted by Fred Child. It is the most listened-to daily classical music radio program in the United States, with 1.2 million listeners on 237 stations...
.