Tualatin Valley Symphony
Making Beautiful Music Since 2007The 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
Locations:
Most concerts: Multnomah Arts Center, 7688 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR 97219 – Google Maps Directions
Chamber concert: Tigard Friends Church, 15800 SW Hall Blvd, Tigard, OR 97224 – Google Maps Directions
Family concert: OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR 97214 – Google Maps Directions
More Ways to Support the Orchestra:
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- YouTube channel
- YouTube videos with original concert slide shows: Grand Canyon Suite, Cascadian Concerto
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
October 8, 2023, 7:00pm
Mozart – Overture from Cosi Fan Tutti
O’Connor – Appalachia Waltz
Wagner – Siegfried Idyll
Bizet – Symphony in C
June 4, 2023, 3PM: Tales 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
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
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
October 9, 2022, 3pm – Celebrating Black Composers
- William Grant Still’s Afro-American Symphony
- Florence Price
- Jessie Montgomery
- Joseph Bologne
- S. Coleridge-Taylor
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
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)
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
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
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
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