2024-2025 Concert Season
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Fall Concert
Fall Concert
7:00pm, Saturday, November 9th, 2024 | Hermiston High School (600 S 1st St, Hermiston, OR)
2:30pm, Sunday, November 10th, 2024 | Vert Auditorium (480 SW Dorion Ave, Pendleton, OR)
Beethoven - Symphony No. 9
The 2024-2024 OES Concert Season will open with the Symphony and Chorale performing Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. For the fourth movement, popularly known as Ode to Joy, the Chorale will be joined by members of the Hermiston High School choir.
The 2024-2024 OES Concert Season will open with the Symphony and Chorale performing Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. For the fourth movement, popularly known as Ode to Joy, the Chorale will be joined by members of the Hermiston High School choir.
Holiday Music Festival
Holiday Music Festival
2:30pm, Sunday, December 8th, 2024 | Vert Auditorium (480 SW Dorion Ave, Pendleton, OR)
OES's annual celebration of the holidays through song featuring a variety of community music ensembles. This year's performers include the Pendleton Men's Chorus, Hermiston Brass Quintet, Sisters In Song Women's Choir and the Pendleton High School A Cappella Choir.
Winter Youth Orchestra
Winter Youth Orchestra
7:00pm, Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 | Vert Clubroom (345 SW 4th St, Pendleton, OR)
Spring Concert
Spring Concert
2:30pm, Sunday, March 16th, 2025 | Vert Auditorium (480 SW Dorion Ave, Pendleton, OR)
Chee - Bassoon Concerto (Soloist: Dr. Jacqueline Wilson)Strauss - MetamorphosenSchubert - Symphony No. 3
Guest soloist Dr. Jacqueline Wilson joins OES for the Oregon premier of Navajo composer Connor Chee's Bassoon Concerto. Also to be performed will be Strauss's Metamorphosen and Schubert's Symphony No. 3.
Guest soloist Dr. Jacqueline Wilson joins OES for the Oregon premier of Navajo composer Connor Chee's Bassoon Concerto. Also to be performed will be Strauss's Metamorphosen and Schubert's Symphony No. 3.
Chamber Music Festival
Chamber Music Festival
6:30pm, Saturday, April 12th, 2025 | Vert Clubroom (345 SW 4th St, Pendleton, OR)
Featuring guest violinist Tomás Cotik
This year OES welcomes back Argentinian violinist Tomás Cotik as our featured guest performer. With OES Assistant Concertmaster Viet Block and Principal Cellist Zach Banks, Cotik will perform a selection of duos and trio by Borodin, Glière, Bartók and Albéniz. Also while in Pendleton, Cotik will present a masterclass to local string students and a lecture in collaboration with Blue Mountain Community College's Arts & Culture Series.
Additional featured performances at the Chamber Music Festival include Shostakovich's Trio No. 2 Op. 67 presented by Concertmaster Lisa Robertson, cellist Ed Dixon and pianist Dr. James Cook, and a selection of Baroque and Renaissance vocal music directed by OES Chorale Rehearsal Conductor Carly Elder.
Spring Youth Orchestra
Spring Youth Orchestra
The Oregon East Symphony Youth Orchestra, under the direction of Education Director Zach Banks, will present its Spring Concert at 7:00pm on Thursday, May 15th, 2025 at the Vert Auditorium. Works to be performed include the Overture to Mendelssohn's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Serenade for String Orchestra, Op. 20" by Elgar, and "Danza Finale" from Ginastera's "Estancia."
Also performing will be the beginner level Preludes Orchestra under the direction of Emma Norquist. Preludes will perform "Minuet" by Handel, the Korean folk song "Arirang," and an orchestral arrangement of "Seven Nation Army" by the rock band The White Stripes.
The Spring Concert will be followed by an encore performance at the Pendleton Farmer's Market at 5:30pm, on Friday, May 16th, 2025 (weather permitting).
The Vert performance will also feature the year-end performance by students from the Symphony Strings program. Symphony Strings is an after-school beginning strings instruction activity produced in collaboration with the Pendleton School District made available to Pendleton area 4th and 5th grade aged students.
This free concert is made possible with support from Banner Bank Pendleton and the Pendleton Farmers Market.
Summer Concert
Summer Concert
2:30pm, Sunday, June 8th, 2025 | Vert Auditorium (480 SW Dorion Ave, Pendleton, OR)
The Oregon East Symphony concludes its 2024-2025 concert season at 2:30pm with a performance of British composer Edward Elgar's mysterious musical cryptogram "Enigma Variations." Each movement of "Enigma Variations" is dedicated to a member of his circle of close acquaintances and the entire work is a currently unsolved puzzle which "contains a dark saying" in the counterpoint. Also to be performed will be Jean Sibelius's "Symphony No. 7," an unusual work in the Finnish composer's oeuvre due to its short duration and having only one movement (in contrast to the standard symphonic formula of four movements).
This concert will be presented in memory of the late Dr. George Nelson, a founding member of the Oregon East Symphony, and his colleague Dr. Albert Baxter.
This concert is made possible with support from the Pendleton Foundation Trust and Lorie Baxter.
*Information of where to receive free, unreserved seating will be published on May 9th, 2025.
*Reserved seating (floor and balcony level) can be purchased online or by calling/visiting the OES Office (541-276-0320, 345 SW 4th, Pendleton, OR, 10am-2pm, M-Th).
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