Announcing: ARTS MADNESS!
Your one-stop coupon book for
great arts events happening in Portland this March!
In collaboration with other local ensembles and arts organizations, Resonance Ensemble is thrilled to announce a new community initiative for the month of March to support the vibrant arts scene here in Portland:
What is Arts Madness?
Your local arts organizations have come together to support one another and get you discounts at the same time! Think of it like your one-stop coupon book for great arts events happening in Portland this March. From the opera stage and concert hall to intimate local venues, the goal is to encourage arts lovers from all over PDX to explore what their community has to offer.
How It Works
Buy a ticket for a concert / show from any one of the participating organizations, and receive a discount code for the rest! You can plan your own arts crawl and save big on the fantastic events Portland artists and ensembles have to offer.
Read below to find the websites and social media pages of participating organizations and check out the full calendar of events!
Participating Organizations
Cappella Romana
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Cappella Romana is a professional vocal ensemble that performs early and contemporary sacred classical music in the Christian traditions of East and West. The ensemble is known especially for its presentations and recordings of medieval Byzantine chant (the Eastern sibling of Gregorian chant), Greek and Russian Orthodox choral works, and other sacred music that expresses the historic traditions of a unified Christian inheritance.
Promo Code offer: Save 30% on advance tickets (purchased BEFORE March 17th) for Annunciation: Chamber Music Based on Byzantine Chant, in sections A and B.
Chamber Music Northwest
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Now in its 52nd season, Chamber Music Northwest serves more than 50,000 people annually in Oregon and SW Washington with exceptional chamber music through over 100 events annually, including our flagship, five-week Summer Festival, year-round concerts, community activities, educational programs, broadcasts, and innovative collaborations with other arts groups. CMNW is the only chamber music festival of its kind in the Northwest and one of the most diverse classical music experiences in the nation, virtually unparalleled in comparable communities.
Promo Code offer: $5 off ANY price level seat for The Soldier’s Tale
In Mulieribus
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In Mulieribus (een-moo-lee-EH-ree-boos) — the Latin phrase meaning "among women" — is a women's vocal ensemble dedicated to strengthening community through the art of music. The ensemble specializes in works written before 1750 and champions new repertoire by women composers and for women’s voices.
Promo Code offer: $5 off ANY ticket to ‘We Rise!’
Portland Opera
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Portland Opera gathers and inspires audiences, artists, and collaborators to create shared opera experiences that enliven and connect us all—enhancing the cultural landscape of the beautiful Pacific Northwest. We celebrate the power of performance, storytelling, and song as an inclusive artistic leader.
Promo Code offer: 20% off + waived fees to any performance date of ‘Thumbprint’ (up to 4 tickets)
Resonance Ensemble
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In its fourteenth season, Resonance Ensemble, a professional vocal ensemble based in Portland, Oregon, creates powerful programs that promote meaningful social change. Resonance Ensemble works to amplify voices that have long been silenced, and they do so through moving, thematic concerts that highlight solo and choral voices, new music by composers and poets whose stories have been underrepresented on the concert stage, visual and other performing artists, and community partners.
Promo Code offer: Buy one get one (BOGO) on up to 4 tickets for either Portland Protests performances (limit 4 paid seats, for a total of 8)
Third Angle
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With the organization’s focus on creating a soundtrack for our time, Third Angle has created and presented more than 200 events, commissioned more than 90 new works, and released 15 recordings to critical acclaim. Sound of the Five: the chamber music of Chen Yi, was named a top 10 recording for 2009 by National Public Radio. Third Angle’s roguish programming crafts experiences that are mind-altering by design, including concerts created to work in harmony or dissonance with their environment, wildly divergent repertoire, and a blending of the arts that redefines the genre. At a Third Angle performance, you never know quite what will happen next.
Promo Code offer: $5 off any two tickets for The Goddess. This offer also applies to the upcoming Decibel series concerts on February 19th (Christopher Whyte) and March 19th (Machado Mijiga).
Full Calendar of Events
MARCH 2ND-3RD - Third Angle New Music
The Goddess: Min Xiao-Fen and Rez Abbasi | New Expressive Works
Thursday, March 2nd @ 7:30pm
Friday, March 3rd @ 7:30pm
Internationally renowned composer and pipa player Min Xiao-Fen returns to Portland with guitarist Rez Abbasi, performing the NW premiere of her reimagined score to The Goddess, a 1930’s Chinese silent film about a streetwalker fighting amid social injustice to give her young son an education and a better life. Audio Description Services Provided in English on Friday, March 3rd.
Promo Code offer: $5 off any two tickets for The Goddess. This offer also applies to the upcoming Decibel series concerts on February 19th (Christopher Whyte) and March 19th (Machado Mijiga).
March 14th - CHAMBER MUSIC NORTHWEST
Curtis on Tour: The Soldier’s Tale | Alberta Rose Theatre
Tuesday, March 14th @ 7:30pm
A thrilling tale of trickery and magic, Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier’s Tale) comes to life through renowned Curtis Institute of Music alumni and CMNW Artistic Directors clarinetist David Shifrin and violinist Soovin Kim, with superstar actor John de Lancie (Star Trek & Breaking Bad) who voices the characters for this dramatic treat. Six up-and-coming Curtis Institute student artists add bassoon, double bass, trumpet, trombone, percussion, a conductor to this innovative evening.
Beyond Stravinsky’s well known work, the program also features stirring masterpieces by Penderecki and Poulenc, and features Curtis alumnus composers Viet Cuong, and Nicholas DiBerardino with his Star Trek-inspired new work, Darmok & Jalad.
P.S. This is a concert for lovers of music AND Star Trek!
Promo Code offer: $5 off ANY price level seat for The Soldier’s Tale
March 17th - Cappella Romana with 45th Parallel
Annunciation | The Madeleine Parish
Friday, March 17th @ 7:30pm
Virtuoso pianist and Byzantine cantor Paul Barnes leads this program with the 45th Parallel String Quartet in music inspired by Byzantine chant. Philip Glass wrote his Annunciation Quintet for Paul Barnes, who gave its world premiere before the composer in 2018, when Cappella Romana performed the chants upon which it is based. Violinist Ron Blessinger joins Barnes to perform Arvo Pärt’s most beloved work, with the program rounded out by Victoria Bond’s Illuminations on Byzantine Chant for solo piano.
Promo Code offer: Save 30% on advance tickets (purchased BEFORE March 17th) for Annunciation: Chamber Music Based on Byzantine Chant, in sections A and B.
March 18-26 - Portland Opera
Thumbprint | Newmark Theatre
Saturday, March 18 @ 7:30pm
Wednesday, March 22 @ 7:30pm
Friday, March 24 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, March 26 @ 2:00pm
Thumbprint is inspired by the true story of Mukhtar Mai—a trailblazing Pakistani activist whose fight for justice and safety reminds us that women's rights are human rights. After surviving sexual violence perpetrated by a local tribal council in retribution for her brother's alleged crimes, Mukhtar decides to live—and that decision changes the world. Her hope: open a village school for girls to learn to read and write, so that they may avoid the humiliation of signing their names with only a thumbprint. Heartening, and optimistic for the future, this opera is about restorative justice.
Promo Code offer: 20% off + waived fees to any performance date of Thumbprint (up to 4 tickets)
March 18-19 - Resonance Ensemble
Portland Protests | Historic Alberta House
Saturday, March 18 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, March 19 @ 3:00pm
Led by guest conductor Shohei Kobayashi, Resonance will offer an evening of vocal music and poetry in dialogue with visual art and photography of Portland’s racial justice protests of 2020–2021, and joined by a string quartet from Portland’s Fear No Music. A panel discussion with featured artists will follow.
Works by Margaret Bonds, David Lang, and Joel Thompson will be heard alongside newly commissioned poetry and music by acclaimed local poets and composers. With texts from writer A. Mimi Sei, Resonance Ensemble Poet-in-Residence S. Renee Mitchell, and spoken word artist Vin Shambry set to music by Judy A. Rose, Kimberly Osberg, and Fear No Music’s Kenji Bunch, audiences will be invited to consider and intentionally remember our city’s past, collectively grieve, and dare to envision more just futures.
Promo Code offer: Buy one get one (BOGO) on up to 4 tickets for either Portland Protests performances (limit 4 paid seats, for a total of 8)
March 19th - IN MULIERIBUS
We Rise | St. Philip Neri Church
Sunday, March 19th @ 4pm
This program proudly celebrates the remarkable accomplishments and creative contributions of women composers, poets, and performers throughout history—achieved with grit and determination against all odds. Performed will be works by women spanning the centuries alongside the world premiere of Sister Among Sisters, a new work written for IM by our very own cofounding artistic director and conductor, Anna Song, featuring poetry by Ashland-based artist and poet Tiziana DellaRovere.
Promo Code offer: $5 off ANY ticket to We Rise!
