Anton Armstrong
Elizabeth Baker
Roxana Constantinescu
Monica Huggett
Craig Hella Johnson
Jeffrey Kahane
OBF Chorus
OBF Orchestra
Portland Baroque Orchestra
Rahel Rilling
Gernot Süssmuth
James Taylor
Stangeland Family
Youth Choral Academy
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Portland Baroque Orchestra
Emerging in the early 1980s as a grass-roots 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, Handel as well of Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Succeeding PBO's regular guest director and artistic advisor Ton Koopman, Monica Huggett begins her 15th year as the groups artistic director this year. Huggett was recently appointed the first artistic director of the Juilliard School's new program for Historical Performance and she is considered one of the premier baroque violinists performing today. PBO's performances at the 2009 Oregon Bach Festival are the culmination of its 25th Anniversary year, which also included statewide performances of Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Huggett and a collaboration with Portland Opera for Cavalli's 17th-century operatic masterpiece, La Calisto. International period specialists, including Richard Egarr, Paul Goodwin, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Alexander Weimann and Andrew Manze now consider Oregon and PBO an important addition to their musical resumes.
Additional information on Portland Baroque Orchestra is available at http://www.pbo.org
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