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Lauren McCall

Lauren McCall is a composer and educator from Atlanta GA. She has had compositions performed around North America and in Europe, including her piece for piano, Shake the Earth, which was performed at the Morehead State University’s Contemporary Piano Festival, and at the Oregon Bach Festival Composers’ Symposium. Her arrangement of the spiritual I’m Troubled was performed at Florida Southern College for the Grady-Rayam Prize in Sacred Music, and her graphic score composition The Fish Wife was performed by the ensemble Les Amis de l’Orgue de Montréal.

www.laurencmccall.com

Mélanie Héléne Bonis (1858-1937)

Mélanie Bonis was a French pianist, organist, and composer. She studied with César Franck at the Paris Conservatory. Her catalog of compositions includes over 300 works, many of which were published in her lifetime, including chamber music, choral music, songs, orchestral music, and over 150 works for piano. Bonis frequently published under the androgynous name “Mel Bonis.”

www.mel-bonis.com/EN/Biographie  |  photo by Charles Corbineau, 1877

Keyla Orozco

Cuban composer and educator Keyla Orozco’s international career has been recognized by a Guggenheim Fellowship, Fromm Music Foundation Composition Grant (Harvard University), Cintas Fellowship, and MacDowell Residency Fellowship, among other awards. Commissioned in the Netherlands and the United States, Orozco’s works have been performed by internationally-acclaimed ensembles. Orozco studied composition at the University of the Arts in Havana, the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and the Conservatory of Amsterdam.

www.keylaorozco.com  |  photo by Gabriel Guerra Bianchini

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson was an African American composer and conductor. Perkinson’s conducting career included positions as co-founder and director of the Symphony of the New World, and as music director of Jerome Robbins’ American Theater Lab and Alvin Ailey’s American Dance Theater. He also promoted performances of new music at the Center for Black Music at Columbia College Chicago. Perkinson’s catalog includes ballets, film scores, vocal works, chamber music, and more.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleridge-Taylor_Perkinson  |  Image courtesy of Center for Black Music Research

Jasmine Barnes

Jasmine Barnes is a Baltimore MD native and a multifaceted composer and educator, specializing in vocal music. Barnes has been commissioned by numerous organizations including the Washington National Opera. Her opera, The Late Walk, is archived in the Library of Congress. Residencies include a composer fellowship at Chautauqua Opera, and an artist residency for American Lyric Theater’s Composer Librettist Development Program in New York City.

www.jasminebarnescomposer.com

Adam Eccleston

A flutist of international renown dedicated to promoting diversity and equity in classical music, Adam Eccleston made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2021 and is a Powell Flute Artist. His collaborative work with All Classical Portland began in 2020 when he was named an Artist in Residence, a coveted position he held for two consecutive years. Hailed for his advocacy of arts education, Eccleston helped start BRAVO Youth Orchestras’ Cesar Chavez Wind Program in 2015 in Portland OR, where he now serves as BRAVO’s Director of Orchestras.

www.adameccleston.net

Caitlin Edwards

Caitlin Edwards was the recipient of the 2018 Rising Star Award from the Gateways Music Festival. She has performed with the Chicago Sinfonietta, Nairobi Philharmonic, Grant Park Music Festival Orchestra, the ReCollective Orchestra, the National Repertory Orchestra, and more. A featured soloist in the PBS documentary Dreams of Hope, Edwards has performed and recorded with Lauryn Hill, Common, India Arie, and on John Legend’s Bigger Love album, for which she received a GRAMMY Certificate. Edwards released her debut solo album Exhale in August 2021.

www.caitlinedwards.com

Hillary Oseas

Known for her versatility as a performer throughout the Pacific Northwest, Hillary Oseas is principal violist for the Portland Opera Orchestra in Oregon. Oseas also performs with Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony, 45th Parallel Universe, and Fear No Music. She completed her Bachelor of Music degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with the renowned teacher Helen Callus, and received a Master of Music degree from Rice University as a student of the highly-esteemed violist James Dunham.

www.orsymphony.org/discover/orchestra/strings/hillary-oseas

Inés Voglar Belgique

Born to a Slovenian family in Venezuela, where she studied music under the program “El Sistema” and violin with Roberto Valdes, violinist Inés Voglar Belgique came to the United States in 1996 to study at Duquesne University and Carnegie Mellon University with Andrés Cárdenes, then concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony. Inés Voglar Belgique has toured internationally and is the principal second violin of the Oregon Symphony. She has served as guest concertmaster of the Galicia Symphony Orchestra and concertmaster of the Astoria Music Festival Orchestra. A renowned educator, Inés serves on the faculty of Lewis & Clark College.

www.orsymphony.org/discover/orchestra/strings/ines-voglar-belgique |  photo by Sankar Raman

Karen Slack

Hailed for possessing a voice of extraordinary beauty and great dramatic depth, award-winning American soprano Karen Slack has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, and San Francisco Opera. Slack was featured as the Opera Diva in Tyler Perry’s movie and soundtrack For Colored Girls. Slack is an Artistic Advisor for Portland Opera and has served in director and chair positions at the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, and the Women’s Opera Network with Opera America. A graduate of the Adler Fellowship and Merola Opera Program at the San Francisco Opera, the native Philadelphian is also a graduate of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music.

www.sopranokarenslack.com  |  photo by Kia Caldwell

Keiko Araki

A native of Vancouver BC, Keiko Araki received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Vancouver Academy of Music and a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Institute. Her primary teachers were Lawrie Hill, Gwen Thompson, and Herbert Greenberg. Araki is a member of the Oregon Symphony and has made recordings with Pink Martini, The Decemberists, Storm Large, and The Stolen Sweets. Araki is a member of Portland Taiko, the Asian-American drumming ensemble in Oregon, and has performed with the Oregon Bach Festival, Fear No Music, the Oregon Ballet Theatre Orchestra, and the Astoria Music Festival.

www.orsymphony.org/discover/orchestra/strings/keiko-araki

María García

María García made her debut with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra at 10 years old. An active chamber musician, soloist, and educator, García performs internationally and has participated in festivals such as the Bergen (Norway) Festival and the Casals (Puerto Rico) Festival. A sought-after collaborator, she has performed with members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre Orchestra, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, as well as with artists such as soprano Christine Goerke, violinist Mayuko Kamio, and trombonist Joseph Alessi. María García is All Classical Portland’s 2022 Artist in Residence.

www.mariagarciapiano.com  |  photo by Andrew Wallner

Monica Ohuchi

Hailed by The New York Times for her “commanding pianism,” Monica Ohuchi maintains an active international career as a soloist, chamber musician, and piano pedagogue. From Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall to the Hakuju Concert Hall in Tokyo, Japan, Ohuchi has performed internationally to wide acclaim. Since capturing first prize at the Chinese International Piano Competition at the age of 5, she has been awarded top prizes in over 20 international piano competitions, including the 2006 William Garrison International Piano Competition. Additionally, Ohuchi was named a New York Steinway Hall Recital Award Recipient. Ohuchi holds a master’s and bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance from The Juilliard School where she studied with Julian Martin.

www.monicaohuchi.com

Nancy Ives

Composer and cellist Nancy Ives (D.M.A.) has served for more than 20 years as principal cellist of the Oregon Symphony. A relative of the composer Charles Ives, she “carries on the tradition of her namesake with modern relevance,” (Oregon Coast Today). Her profound collaborative work Celilo Falls: We Were There received its world premiere to wide acclaim in 2022. Ives has appeared with Oregon-based Chamber Music Northwest, Third Angle, Portland Piano International, the Oregon Bach Festival, and the Vancouver Symphony. She has performed with avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson, Brazilian pop star Gal Costa, and rock star Lenny Kravitz. A sought-after educator and arts leader, Ives is an instructor at Lewis & Clark College and serves on the Board of Directors for All Classical Portland.

www.nancyives.com |  photo by Charles Noble

Yoko Greeney

A native of Japan and an acclaimed soloist and collaborative pianist, Yoko Greeney has won top prizes at numerous international competitions. Greeney holds a bachelor’s degree from San Francisco State University, and a master’s degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, where she was awarded the prestigious Piano Accompaniment Assistantship. A dedicated educator, Greeney has taught at institutions such as the International School of Music in Washington DC, and at the Instituto Superior de Musica in Mexico. Greeney actively performs in the Pacific Northwest, sharing stages with the Oregon Symphony, the Oregon Ballet Theatre, Third Angle New Music, and others.

college.lclark.edu/live/profiles/4144-yoko-greeney