Tualatin Valley Symphony

Making Beautiful Music Since 2007

The exciting and varied 2024-2025 season is here!

November 3, 3PM: Smetana’s and Bruckner’s bicentennial year! The Moldau, Bartered Bride, Scherzo from Bruckner Symphony #4, plus concerto movements by TVS’s principal flute, clarinet, and horn players.  New venue: Multnomah Arts Center!

 

November 17, 3PM: Chamber concert by Symphony members, benefitting the Symphony

 

March 2: Free family concert at OMSI

 

April 6: Anthea Creston returns with the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto

 

June 1: the Anglo-American connection

Past Concerts

June 2, 2024, 3:00pm

Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture
Vaughan Williams – Lark Ascending, Anthea Creston, violin
Saint-Saens  – Rondo Capriccioso, Anthea Creston, violin
Brahms – Symphony #2

Concert recording

April 7, 2024, 3:00pm

Humperdinck – Prelude to Hansel & Gretel
Vaughan Williams – Tuba Concerto, Emily Rumpca tuba
Dvorak – Sym. No. 7

Concert recording

 February 4, 2024, 3:00pm Family Concert

Rossini – Semiramide Overture
J. Strauss Sr. – Radetzky March
J. Strauss Jr. – Emperor Waltzes
Brahms – Hungarian Dance #5
John Williams – Highlights from Jurassic Park
Mark Fish – Ferdinand the Bull

Concert recording

December 3, 2023, 7:00pm

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Ballade for Orchestra
Schumann – Symphony No. 4
Dvorak – cello concerto, cellist Jason Duckles

Concert recording and video

October 8, 2023, 7:00pm

Mozart – Overture from Cosi Fan Tutti
O’Connor – Appalachia Waltz
Wagner – Siegfried Idyll
Bizet – Symphony in C

Concert recording and video

June 4, 2023, 3PMTales from the Middle East

Rimsky-Korsakov   Scheherazade
Bloch   Schelomo Rhapsodie Hebraique, Jerry Bobbe, cello soloist
Saint-Saens   Bacchanale from Samson and Delila

stories narrated by Margaret Bloomfield

Concert recording

April 2, 2023, 3PM: “For the Birds”:

Stravinsky Firebird
Rossini Thieving Magpie
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake
Sibelius Swan of Tuonela
Rautavaara Cantus Arcticus

Concert recording and video

February 5, 2023, 3pm: FAMILY CONCERT featuring STAR WARS
and TWO WORLD PREMIERES!

Our program theme is Animals Wild and Magical, including a world premiere of an original narrated story for children by our Composer in Residence!

Program
  • John Williams – Star Wars
  • Arthur Breur – Amber the Ambitious Spider (WORLD PREMIERE), Red Wolf Quartet (WORLD PREMIERE), Mastodons & Megafauna
  • Andrew Poole Todd – Foxbridge
  • Ravel – Mother Goose Suite
  • Leroy Anderson – The Waltzing Cat
  • Fucik – The Old Grumbling Bear

Concert recording

December 4, 2022, 7pm: a winter concert from the northland: Brahms and Sibelius

Program
  • Mozart Magic Flute Overture
  • Brahms Double Concerto – Anthea Kreston and Jason Duckles
  • Sibelius Symphony No. 2

Concert recording

October 9, 2022, 3pm – Celebrating Black Composers

  • William Grant Still’s Afro-American Symphony
  • Florence Price
  • Jessie Montgomery
  • Joseph Bologne
  • S. Coleridge-Taylor

Concert recording

June 5, 2022, 3pm – SPRING CONCERT
Northwest Christian Church, Tigard, Oregon

  • Bax – Tintagel Tone Poem
  • Ewazen – Cascadian Concerto for Wind Quintet and Orchestra YouTube recording with slides
  • Respighi – Pines of Rome

Concert recording

April 3, 2022, 3pm – FAMILY CONCERT: “A WESTERN CONCERT”

  • John Williams – The Cowboys Overture
  • Copland – Saturday Night Waltz and Hoe-Down from Rodeo
  • Theme from film Silverado
  • Grofe – Grand Canyon Suite YouTube recording with slides
  • Arthur Breur – Comeback Fanfare for brass and percussion (callback from intermission)

Concert recording

December 5, 2021, 3pm
Northwest Christian Church, Tigard, Oregon

  • Arthur Breur – Comeback Fanfare for brass and percussion (world premiere)
  • Grieg – Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
  • Brahms – Tragic Overture
  • Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 2

 

Virtual Concert, 3pm, December 6, 2020

A select bunch of Tualatin Valley Symphony musicians performed online, so you can stay healthy!

2019-2020 Season (partial)

October 27, 2019, 7pm

  • Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 1
  • Brahms – Symphony No. 3
  • Chabrier – Scherzo-Waltz from Suite Pastorale
  • Dvorak – In Nature’s Realm

ANNUAL FAMILY CONCERT!

Babar, the Little Elephant. Artwork by Amanda Volk

Babar, the Little Elephant.
Artwork by Amanda Volk

February 23, 2020, 3pm

SPECIAL LOCATION:
Sherwood Center for the Arts
22689 SW Pine St, Sherwood, OR 97140

  • Poulenc: The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant
  • Strauss: The Blue Danube Waltz
  • Beardsworth: Suite from the Blender 3D Movie “Sintel”
  • Rossini: Overture to La Gazza Ladra
  • Gerald Finzi: Forlana and Fughetta from Five Bagatelles for Clarinet and Chamber String Orchestra
    Dick Boberg, clarinet
  • Ippolitov-Ivanov: Procession from Caucasian Sketches Suite No. 1

Including our much-beloved “Instrument Petting Zoo!”

 

2018-2019 Season:

October 28, 2018, 7pm

  • Brahms – Tragic Overture
  • Ravel Pavane pour une Infante Defunte
  • Donald R. Sticksel Jr. – Legions
  • Grazyna Bacewicz – Overture for Orchestra
  • Sibelius – Symphony #7

Concert recording

Feb. 24, 2019, 7:00pm, 2nd Concert of the 2018-2019 Season
& Silent Auction

Featuring Diane Chaplin, Cello Solo

  • Bizet – “Patrie: Ouverture”
  • Copland – “Appalachian Spring” and “Hoedown” from Rodeo
  • Korngold – Cello Concerto – Diane Chaplin, cello
  • Bloch – Prayer for Cello and Orchestra (arrangement by Diane Chaplin)

April 7, 2019 – FAMILY CONCERT 3:00pm 

  • Music from the Movies:
    • Pirates of the Caribbean
    • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
    • Black Panther, and…
    • Pink Panther!
  • Winston of Churchill by Mark Fish
  • Bach – Piano Concerto 1 – 13-year-old Meiling Larsen, piano
  • Camille Saint-Sans – Danse Macabre

Concert recording

June 9, 2019, 7:00pm – Oregon Composers Concert (& Annual Raffle)

  • Ernest Bloch – Concerto Grosso No. 1 for Piano and Strings
  • Arthur Breur – Tualatin Overture
  • Nicole Buetti – Odyssey Overture
  • Andrew Poole Todd – Music for Strings
  • Bill Whitley – Bonzai Down
  • Kevin Walczyk – Celebration Fanfare

Concert recording

Buy Tickets for November 3, 3pm Concert

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12 and under - FREE

Contact us for a group rate of $8 for groups of 8 or more

Concert Admission:

  • $15 General
  • $10 Seniors (60 and above) and Students (13 and older)
  • FREE: youth 12 & under