Northwest Chamber Orchestra:
The NCO includes the best freelance musicians from the Portland metropolitan region. Our musicians perform regularly with Portland Opera, Oregon Ballet Theatre, and Oregon Symphony. Their experience includes performing in orchestras and ensembles including Miami Pops Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, The Metropolitan Opera, New Jersey Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, Spokane Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony and others.
SOPRANO
Mary Braut
Anna Collins
Marilyn Hays
Hui Juan Ma
Emily Nelson*
Kayla Ray*
Natalie Worthy
* = Chorale Soloists
VIOLA
Cynthia Scott
Shelley Mathewson
Keely McMurry
CELLO
Heather Blackburn
Liz Byrd
BASS
Tommy Thompson
ALTO
Jean Avery
Dr. Nancy Bowen-Hicks
Sarah De Rosier
Heidi Kohne
Janet Miller
Chris Newbrook
Mary Peters
Phoebe Gildea*
BASS
Uram Park*
Douglas Webster
Harold Williams
HARPSICHORD / PIANO
Heidi Kohne
Maria Manzo
FLUTE
Rebecca Olson
OBOE
Mitch Iimori
CLARINET
John Gibson
BASSOON
Mark Eubanks
Bravo! Northwest Chorale:
The Bravo! Chorale is recognized as one of the premiere civic choral groups in the Pacific Northwest. Our members live throughout the Portland-Vancouver region and include both highly trained amateur and professional musicians. The Chorale has performed many of the major choral music from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, including: Rachmaninov’s Solemn Vespers, Handel’s Messiah, Johannes Brahms’ German Requiem, J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion; the Requiems of Mozart, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Duruflé and Guiseppe Verdi; Joseph Haydn’s Te Deum and Creation, Beethoven’s Christ on the Mount of Olives and 9th Symphony and Felix Mendelssohn’s St. Paul Oratorio and Elijah to name just a few. The Chorale has performed concerts of Dave Brubeck’s To Hope: A Celebration and Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert; and is equally at home performing jazz, Broadway, American folk and patriotic songs, American Spirituals and more. The Bravo! Chorale has toured nationally and internationally. The Chorale has toured throughout Croatia with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra (DSO) and produced a 5-city Pacific Northwest concert tour with the DSO, with concerts in Portland, Vancouver, Olympia, Edmonds and Seattle. The Chorale has performed in Washington D.C. and in New York City at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. The Chorale has released two CD recordings: Hear My Prayer: The American Spiritual, a collection of classic Negro Spirituals and spirituals by contemporary American composers; and a live concert recording of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah: An Oratorio.
TROMBONE
Andrew Harris
John Ohnstad
VIOLIN
Brian Bennett
Sara Watts
Nelly Kovalev
Janet Dubay
Stacy Edgar
Hae Jin Kim
Tatiana Kolchanova
Nic Price
Elizabeth Doty
Lori Brosius
TIMPANI / DRUMS
Nick Rose
TENOR
Davor Braut
Isaac Chapelle*
David Kirchner
Bruce McKelvie
John Stott*
TRUMPET
Gerry Webster
John Kim
Jason Gunderson
HORN
William Stalnaker