Tualatin Valley Symphony
Making Beautiful Music Since 2007The exciting and varied 2024-2025 season is here!
November 24, 3pm: FREE chamber concert by Symphony members, donations benefiting the Symphony
Mozart: Clarinet quintet prehear
Schubert: Octet for strings, clarinet, horn, and bassoon prehear
String quartet by our own Raymond Doerr
New Venue: Tigard Community Friends Church, 15800 SW Hall Blvd
This is a concert by our dedicated section principals and intrepid string volunteers, including our Music Director Mark Perlman on bass. We are excited to present two giant works of the “small” repertoire, and a brand new work by one of our own! The energy of our performers in rehearsals is palpable. Donations at the concert will help keep the TVS music flowing.
March 2 2025: FREE family concert at OMSI – and enjoy OMSI first Sunday $5 admission!
April 6 2025: Anthea Kreston returns with the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
June 1 2025: the Anglo-American connection
Locations:
Family concert: OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR 97214 – Google Maps Directions
Most concerts: Tigard Friends Church, 15800 SW Hall Blvd, Tigard, OR 97224 – Google Maps Directions
More Ways to Support the Orchestra:
- Donate to Tualatin Valley Symphony
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- YouTube videos with original concert slide shows: Grand Canyon Suite, Cascadian Concerto
Past Concerts
November 3, 3pm: Smetana’s and Bruckner’s bicentennial year!
Bruckner – Symphony #4 Scherzo
Mozart and Richard Strauss – concerto movements performed by TVS principal flute, clarinet, and horn players
Smetana – The Moldau, Bartered Bride Overture and Dances
Concert recording
June 2, 2024, 3:00pm
Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture
Vaughan Williams – Lark Ascending, Anthea Kreston, violin
Saint-Saens – Rondo Capriccioso, Anthea Kreston, 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