Portland Baroque Orchestra

Guest Ensemble

Emerging in the early 1980s as a grassroots cooperative of musicians, the Portland Baroque Orchestra has matured as a polished, professional organization squarely within the ranks of the best baroque orchestras in North America and Europe. The orchestra specializes in performing baroque and classical music on original instruments, or replicas, from the time the music was composed. These instruments and the techniques used to play them produce an orchestral texture very different from that of their modern counterparts. The improvisation and wit of historically informed performance practices add freshness, clarity, and vitality to the music of Corelli, Purcell, Bach, Telemann, Couperin, Vivaldi, and Handel as well as that of Mozart, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn. Succeeding PBO's regular guest director and artistic advisor Ton Koopman, Monica Huggett has been the group's artistic director for fifteen years, and she is considered one of the premier baroque violinists performing today. PBO's debut performances at the 2009 Oregon Bach Festival were the culmination of its twenty-fifth anniversary year, which included statewide performances of Vivaldi's Four Seasons and the orchestra's first baroque opera production with the Portland Opera. In 2010 PBO performed for the Cascade Head Music Festival and made its debut at Seattle's Town Hall on the Early Music Guild's International Series. In 2011 PBO will team with Montreal's Les Voix Baroques for touring performances and a new recording of Bach's St. John Passion. PBO regularly collaborates with such international period specialists as Richard Egarr, Paul Goodwin, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Alexander Weimann, and Andrew Manze.

At the 2010 OBF

Bach's Suites Rediscovered-Bend
Bach's Suites Rediscovered-Eugene
Discovery Series: Orchestral Suite No.1

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