Resonance in the News!
Find out what others are saying about Resonance Ensemble!
From world premiere of An African American Requiem.
Photo Credit: Rachel Hadiashar
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Press Archive
WINTER2023/SPRING 2024
Classical Portland on Thursdays @ Three (Archive recording available until April 18, 2024) April 4, 2024
Oregon ArtsWatch Conversations and Connections: Darrell Grant with Resonance Ensemble” March 7, 2024
Portland Art Museum Black Art Song by Resonance Ensemble January 1, 2024
FALL 2023
PRESS Oregon ArtsWatch Aiming for center mass: Singing into the message with Resonance Ensemble October 31, 2023
PRESS Here is Oregon (Oregonian) “Fall Arts 2023: Classical season celebrates diversity, modern minimalism” September 7, 2023
SUMMER 2023
PRESS Oregon ArtsWatch “…the season is perfection, exactly Resonance’s core vibe. June 29, 2023
PRESS Oregon ArtsWatch Stitch a new garment: Resonance Ensemble and the nature of Nature June 22, 2023
PRESS Oregon ArtsWatch Festivals large and small with Resonance Ensemble June 12, 2023
PRESS Oregonian 13 things to do this week June 7, 2023
SPRING 2023
PRESS Resonance on Thursdays at Three! May 25, 2024
BLOGPOST A Free Arts and Music Festival is coming to Portland! May 11, 2023
BLOGPOST Around the Requiem: An interview with K FitzGibbon and D Geter | May 2, 2023
PRESS Resonance Announces Exciting New Collaborations | March 2, 2023
Winter 2022/23
PRESS It’s Not Just…Choral Music | February 22, 2023
PRESS RELEASE Announcing: Arts Madness! | February 6th, 2023
PRESS RELEASE An African American Requiem is “Best of Classical Music 2022 | Dec 16, 2022
PRESS RELEASE Resonance Ensemble Announces Three New Board Members | Dec 7, 2022
From the East Coast premiere of An African American Requiem (photo provided by Choral Arts Society)
SUMMER 2022
WASHINGTON INFORMER Damien Geter Opera Captures Sorrow Over Slain Black Americans | June 1, 2022
WASHINGTON POST ‘An African-American Requiem’ turns national grief into powerful music | May 24, 2022
WTOP NEWS After Buffalo massacre, Kennedy Center presents ‘An African American Requiem’ | May 23, 2022
OREGON ARTSWATCH PuzzleWatch: African American Music Influencers | May 16, 2022
OREGON ARTSWATCH Damien Geter Creating with Resonance | May 7, 2022
OPB (THINK OUT LOUD) ‘An African American Requiem’ debuts at the Oregon Symphony | May 6, 2022
THE WILLAMETTE WEEK Damien Geter’s Original Musical Work “An African American Requiem” Debuts This Weekend | May 5, 2022
THE OREGONIAN In Portland premiere, African American Requiem honors souls of those killed by racist violence | May 3, 2022
PORTLAND TRIBUNE Big audience expected for 'An African American Requiem' | May 2, 2022
Commissioned composer Freddy Vilches with the Las Matices Latin Ensemble, featured on the 2022 program Abya Yala
2021-2022
THE BLACK WALL STREET TIMES Composer Damien Geter to premiere “An African American Requiem” | April 12, 2022
OREGON LIVE 11 Things to do this week | March 2, 2022
Willamette Week What to do this Week? Go | ABYA YALA | March 1, 2022
Oregon ArtsWatch All the Words: Choral Music from Around the Worlds | February 24, 2022
Oregon ArtsWatch Looking back with Katherine FitzGibbon on Resonance Ensemble’s year of provocative choral music | December 22, 2021
From the set of Under the Overpass, episode 2 (“Stand by Me”) - featuring Onry as soloist, David Saffert on piano, and members of the Kingdom Sound Gospel Choir (led by Derrick McDuffey).
Oregon Arts Watch — Portland Pride: Back to the Past | June 8, 2021
Oregon Live — These live and virtual events celebrate Pride 2021 in Portland | June 7, 2021
PrideScape Podcast — Resonance is featured on the latest episode of the Pride Northwest podcast! | June 1, 2021
Oregon Arts Watch — Looking Back: Reports from the Orchestra Seats | Dec 31, 2020
Jefferson Public Radio — Coronavirus And Chorus: Singing The Pandemic | Nov 20, 2020
Poet-in-Residence Dr. S. Renee Mitchell performs at a joint concert featuring Resonance Ensemble, BRAVO Youth Orchestra, and Kingdom Sound Gospel Choir. Photo Credit: Rachel Hadiashar
2020 and beyond
Oregon Arts Watch – MusicWatch Monthly: Labors of love | Sept 7, 2020
All Classical Portland—State of the Arts highlights the work of Artistic Director Katherine FitzGibbon | June 24, 2020
VOICE Magazine—Singing of Loss, Saving through Memory: The Healing Power of Secular Requiems
Summer 2020
Oregon ArtsWatch—Damien Geter’s “There’s a man going around”: the final installment of a three-part interview.
June 18, 2020
Oregon Arts Watch—Resonating: Arts groups respond to race crisis | June 15, 2020
Oregon Arts Watch—Damien Geter’s "Tired of Having Conversations": Part two of a three-part interview with the composer | June 8, 2020
Oregon Arts Watch—Damien Geter’s "Black music is the centerpiece of American culture": Part one of a three-part interview with the composer | June 8, 2020
Oregon ArtsWatch — Safe Harbor, the long-awaited third installment of Resonance Ensemble’s thrilling eleventh season. | February 28, 2020
Willamette Week —The 29 Can’t-Miss Portland Art Events This Spring – Your super calendar for the season | February 19, 2020
Portland Monthly — Damien Geter’s An African American Requiem will premiere at the Schnitz in May. |
February 2020
Oregonian (Oregon Live) — 12 classical music concerts to add to your winter calendar | January 5, 2020
Oregon ArtsWatch — In part two of three, we consider Resonance Ensemble's "Beautiful Minds" concert and its meaningful treatment of text, time, and texture. | November 30, 2019
Lewis and Clark — Resonance Ensemble Awarded $100,000 Creative Heights Grant | November 2019
All Classical Portland — All Classical shines a spotlight on Resonance Ensemble and it’s upcoming season | October 4, 2019
Oregon ArtsWatch—Resonance concerts are part social commentary, part group therapy, and part best damn choir show in town. | June 1, 2019
Oregon ArtsWatch—Music makes the message come alive. Resonance Ensemble concert features all women singers and composers | February, 2019
Oregon ArtsWatch — Resonance Ensemble: amplifying ‘Hidden Voices’ | November 2018
All Classical Portland — We are a top pick for the Fall! | October 2018
Travel Portland — Discover the unconventional Portland choir scene | August 28, 2018
Oregon ArtsWatch — Bodies’ review: Pride is a verb by Matthew Andrews | August 14, 2018
Pride Northwest — We are proud to partner this year with Pride Northwest! | June, 2018
Willamette Week — Across the Spectrum — Preview for BODIES | June 2018
Northwest Previews— All Classical 89.9, Portland — A five-minute guide to Portland’s current classical music events - This segment features Resonance Ensemble’s June 2018 concert, BODIES | June 22, 2018
The Oregonian — Resonance Ensemble singers respond to the ‘times we are living in’ | February 23, 2018
Travel Portland Whose voices are heard, and whose excluded? | November, 2017
Broadway World Resonance Ensemble Shows Off the Art of Cabaret Wildly Entertaining DIRTY, STUPID MUSIC | February 2017
PDX Vox A Cappella in Portland: Resonance Ensemble presents, “Back in the U.S.S.R.” | February 2013