Portland Summer Ensembles

a chamber music workshop for young musicians

Monday July 16th - Friday July 20th, 2012 at Marylhurst University

This 5-day workshop will give students the opportunity to play, study, and perform chamber music with other young musicians of a similar level. Students will receive instruction in a variety of aspects of ensemble music making, including practice and performance techniques, and other activities designed to enhance the art of ensemble playing. Each day includes chamber ensemble rehearsals, movement and rhythm classes, coachings, master classes with the outstanding Portland Summer Ensembles faculty and guest artists. The workshop will take place on the beautiful Marylhurst University campus, located 10 miles from downtown Portland, Oregon.

Announcing the addition of Jon Greeney, prinicpal timpanist of the Oregon Symphony, who will be coaching a percussion ensemble. Percussion students please apply!

Students will have the opportunity to attend professional concerts including a performance by the Portland Summer Ensembles faculty. The week program culminates in a final performance by student ensembles on Friday July 20th in the St Anne’s Chapel on the Marylhurst Campus. Both student and faculty concerts will be open to the public.

2010 Student Concert Video

2009 Short Documentary

Portland Summer Ensembles Mission Statement

The mission of the program is to encourage young musicians of all ages and all economic levels to understand that they can keep music in their lives whether they pursue a career in music or whether they choose to take other career paths. Through teaching them the art of playing with others we hope to open up to them the art and repertoire of ensemble playing and instill in them a lasting sense of music as a grounding force in their lives. We also hope to give them a means of relating in a meaningful way to other people of all ages and all cultures.