SEASON 16 | a vocal force for impact

For the past 16 years, Resonance Ensemble has brought exceptional, meaningful music to Portland’s artistic scene, reflecting on the most pressing social issues of our times. This season promises to be no exception. From confronting hard truths and honoring beloved composer collectives, to featuring some of today’s most brilliant musicmakers—including Pulitzer Prize-winning composer CAROLINE SHAW—our season is packed with impact.

We premiere our latest commissions from Resonance favorite CECILLE ELLIOTT and four-time Emmy nominated composer DAVE RAGLAND. We start the season with a concert of music from the BLACKNIFICENT 7. Then, our treble singers join forces with the innovative talents of RINGDOWN (Shaw & DANNI LEE) who join Elliott for a rousing community jam session. We then join forces with Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra to harness the immense power of music in addressing global conflicts. Finally, we gather at the Portland Expo Center with Vanport Mosaic and CHISAO HATA to acknowledge hard truths and honor the survival of Japanese Americans in our region.

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Season 2024/25

THE BLACKNIFICENT 7

**SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2024 | 2:00 PM**
ALBERTA ROSE THEATRE
***Damien Geter*** *curates this concert of vocal music by a collective of leading Black composers known as the Blacknificent 7.*
The Blacknificent 7 is a group that includes Geter, Jasmine Barnes, Jessie Montgomery, Shawn Okpebholo, Dave Ragland, Carlos Simon, and Joel Thompson.
Conducted by Katherine FitzGibbon and Shohei Kobayashi, one of the concert’s centerpieces will be the Oregon premiere of Geter’s Cantata for a *More Hopeful Tomorrow*, with a soprano soloist and cellist **Nancy Ives**.
Adding to the excitement, Resonance will also debut their latest commission, by award-winning composer, **Dave Ragland**.

CHOIR GRRRL

**SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2025 | 7:30 PM**
ALADDIN THEATER
*A concert celebrating phenomenal women working as composers and performers in Portland today.*
Resonance treble singers join forces with the innovative talents of **Ringdown**—a new group featuring collaborators **Caroline Shaw** and **Danni Lee**. Described as an electronic cinematic pop duo, between the two of them they have a Pulitzer Prize, several Grammys, and a “Best Drum Major” Award.
The program will also feature a world premiere commission by Resonance-favorite, **Cecille Elliott** in a concert that is part community jam session and part celebration of new works by these fiery voices.

RESONANCE NOVA

**SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2025 | 7:30 PM**
REYNOLDS HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
**SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2025 | 3:00 PM**
PATRICIA RESER CENTER FOR THE ARTS
*Music as catalyst for change.*
Resonance Ensemble and **Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra** join forces to present Margaret Bonds’s *Credo*, Caroline Shaw’s *To the Hand*s, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s *Dona nobis pacem*.
Featuring special guests **Lewis & Clark Cappella Nova Choir** and **Reed Collegium Musicum.**

WE’RE STILL HERE

**SATURDAY, MAY 31, 2025 | 7:30 PM**
PORTLAND EXPO CENTER, HALL A
*What does it mean to create a memorial together, to invite people into a space and reflect on its history?*
Resonance Ensemble joins **Vanport Mosaic**, artist **Chisao Hata**, and survivors of Japanese-American incarceration and their descendants, to acknowledge the little-known history of the Portland Expo Center and honor the survival and persistence of Japanese Americans in our region.
As part of the 10th Vanport Mosaic Festival, this event will activate the former WWII-era assembly center with historical photographs and video projections, a communal altarpiece, and musical and theatrical offerings — including new site-specific works conceived by Hata.
In tandem with Vanport Mosaic’s celebration of a decade of memory activism, this evening will be recorded for an ongoing digital memorial as we aim to recognize and ring out the whole of this space in sound, word, movement, and song.

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