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2026/27 Season Artist Spotlight! Bryan Lee, violin 🎻Bryan Lee is the second violinist of the internationally acclaimed D...
10/13/2026

2026/27 Season Artist Spotlight! Bryan Lee, violin 🎻

Bryan Lee is the second violinist of the internationally acclaimed Dover Quartet. Mr. Lee has performed as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Delaware, Lansdowne, and Temple University symphony orchestras, among others. He has been awarded the bronze medal at the Stulberg International String Competition and second prize at the Kingsville Young Performers Competition. With the Dover Quartet he won first prize and every special award at the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2013, and the gold medal and grand prize in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in 2010. He has been featured on NPR’s From the Top and has attended Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, La Jolla Music Society’s Summerfest, Music from Angel Fire, Encore School for Strings, Sarasota Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and the Perlman Music Program.

Mr. Lee is a graduate of Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Pamela Frank and Victor Danchenko, and Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. His previous studies were with Choong-Jin Chang and Soovin Kim. He joined the Curtis faculty in 2020.

Mr. Lee performs on an 1810 Nicolas Lupot and a 2020 violin by Brooklyn-based maker Samuel Zygmuntowicz.

Catch Bryan in our Dover Quartet: Brahms, Pura Fé & Dvořák concert on October 28, and keep an eye out for more posts showcasing our 2026/27 Season artists!

📷: Roy Cox

Extraordinary chamber music? ✅ Accessible ticket prices? ✅Every member of our community should have access to unforgetta...
10/11/2026

Extraordinary chamber music? ✅ Accessible ticket prices? ✅

Every member of our community should have access to unforgettable musical experiences! That’s why we offer a variety of discounts for both Year-Round AND Summer Festival concerts.

🎶 40 & Under: $20 (online & at the door)
🎶 18 & Under: $10 (online & at the door)
🎶 General & Senior Rush: $30 (at the door)
🎶 Arts Industry Rush: $20 (at the door)
🎶 Arts for All: $5 (at the door)
🎶 Group Discounts: 20% off 10+ tickets (by emailing [email protected])

Visit cmnw.org/concerts-events/tickets for more details.

Flashback Friday, Dover edition—part one! 🙌We’re sharing pictures from our archive throughout Oct-Dover! 😉 Since first b...
10/09/2026

Flashback Friday, Dover edition—part one! 🙌

We’re sharing pictures from our archive throughout Oct-Dover! 😉 Since first becoming CMNW Protégé Project Artists in 2013, the Dover Quartet has returned many times over the past 13 years. Here are some of our favorite pics from past performances—maybe you were even in the audience?

📷 1-2: July 3, 2014; Dress Rehearsal for In Motion with BodyVox; Joel Link, violin; Bryan Lee, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Camden Shaw, cello; photos by Chris Peddecord

📷 3: January 27, 2015; Opening Night: Beethoven’s Inner World; Joel Link, violin; Bryan Lee, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Camden Shaw, cello; photo by Tom Emerson

📷 4: January 31, 2015; Open Rehearsal for Mozart, Bartók & Schumann; Joel Link, violin; Bryan Lee, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Camden Shaw, cello; photo by Tom Emerson

Watch this space for part two, and in the meantime, get your tickets for our sure-to-sell-out Dover Quartet: Brahms, Pura Fé & Dvořák concert on October 28! Reserve your spot now at CMNW.org.

2026/27 Season Artist Spotlight! Joel Link, violin 🎻Joel Link is the first violinist of the internationally acclaimed Do...
10/07/2026

2026/27 Season Artist Spotlight! Joel Link, violin 🎻

Joel Link is the first violinist of the internationally acclaimed Dover Quartet. He was appointed Concertmaster of The Cleveland Orchestra in May 2025. An active soloist and chamber musician, Link has earned top prizes at numerous competitions, including the Johansen International Competition in Washington, D.C., and the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in England, where he was featured in The Strad magazine.

As a member of the Dover Quartet, Link won first prize and all special awards at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, as well as the gold medal and grand prize at the 2010 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. The Quartet’s many accolades include the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award, and Lincoln Center’s Hunt Family Award. Their recordings have received two Grammy nominations for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: The Schumann Quartets (Azica Records) and Beethoven Complete String Quartets, Volume 2 – The Middle Quartets (Cedille Records).

Link has performed with many of the most distinguished artists of recent decades, including Emanuel Ax, Marc-André Hamelin, Peter Serkin, Leon Fleisher, Leif Ove Andsnes, Edgar Meyer, Michael Tree, Avi Avital, and Ray Chen, appearing in major concert halls around the world. He has also been featured at leading festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, Schwetzingen Festival, and Rheingau Musik Festival, among others.

A graduate of both Curtis Institute of Music and Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, Link studied with renowned violinists Joseph Silverstein, Pamela Frank, and Frank Huang. He joined the Curtis faculty in 2020.

Link plays a fine Peter Guarneri of Mantua violin, generously loaned to him by Irene R. Miller through the Beare’s International Violin Society.

See Joel in our Dover Quartet: Brahms, Pura Fé & Dvořák concert on October 28, and keep an eye out for more posts showcasing our 2026/27 Season artists!

📷: Roy Cox

We’ll be featured on Performance Today!Listen to tomorrow’s (Tuesday, October 6) show to hear flutist Tara Helen O’Conno...
10/05/2026

We’ll be featured on Performance Today!

Listen to tomorrow’s (Tuesday, October 6) show to hear flutist Tara Helen O’Connor and violinist Alexi Kenney play Kian Ravaei's iPod Variations. This performance was recorded at Kaul Auditorium as part of our 2025 Summer Festival.

Tune in at yourclassical.org/performance-today.

📷: Tom Emerson

WHAT A DELIGHTFUL SUNDAY AFTERNOON RECITAL! 🎻🎹 Claire Wells - Violinist and pianist Pualina Lim Mei En WOWED us all at A...
10/05/2026

WHAT A DELIGHTFUL SUNDAY AFTERNOON RECITAL! 🎻🎹

Claire Wells - Violinist and pianist Pualina Lim Mei En WOWED us all at All Classical Radio yesterday. After that performance, it’s clear to see what all the excitement is about with our Protégé Project Alumni!

We are so proud to have been a part of Claire's career taking off and appreciate her continued enthusiasm to frequently return to CMNW. Similarly, we were happy to have three-time Young Artist Institute Collaborative Piano Fellow Pualina Lim back in Portland!

…AND, even more CMNW favorites will return this month! On October 28 at Lewis & Clark's Agnes Flanagan Chapel we welcome the exemplary Dover Quartet for another evening of beautiful music. See you soon!

📷: Nicole Lane

Our season kicks off TOMORROW! 🎻🎹Over the years, CMNW audiences have witnessed the exuberant artistry of Protégé Project...
10/03/2026

Our season kicks off TOMORROW! 🎻🎹

Over the years, CMNW audiences have witnessed the exuberant artistry of Protégé Project Alumna Claire Wells - Violinist and the sensitive musicality of THREE-time YAI Piano Fellow Pualina Lim Mei En…but this is the first time they’re performing in Portland TOGETHER!

🎶 Protégé Recital Series: Claire Wells
Irving Levin Performance Hall at All Classical Radio
TOMORROW (Sunday), 10/4 • 4 PM

Don’t miss these two deeply expressive musicians play a heart-melting program of Debussy, Prokofiev, Brahms, and Bartók! Reserve your spot now at CMNW.org.

The Protégé Recital Series is sponsored by Peter and Ann van Bever.

📷 of Pualina: Taylor Rossi
📷 of Claire: Clara Evens

2026/27 Season Artist Spotlight! Pualina Lim, piano 🎹Singaporean pianist Pualina Lim Mei En is a passionate collaborativ...
10/01/2026

2026/27 Season Artist Spotlight! Pualina Lim, piano 🎹

Singaporean pianist Pualina Lim Mei En is a passionate collaborative musician who has performed extensively across the United States and internationally, including in Singapore, Canada, Indonesia, and Japan. Pualina has spent three summers with Chamber Music Northwest’s Young Artist Institute as a Piano Fellow.

She has been featured on Oregon’s All Classical Radio and at festivals such as the Manchester Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Musical Chairs Chamber Music Festival, and is very happy to be returning to Chamber Music Northwest.

An accomplished collaborative pianist, Pualina has collaborated with distinguished artists including Soovin Kim in Jordan Hall’s First Monday concert series, Claire Wells at Oregon Bach Festival, Emerson String Quartet violinist Philip Setzer, and baritone Randall Scarlata. She is the pianist of The Lina Duo, a violin-piano duo with Célina Bethoux.

In 2022, Pualina appeared as concerto soloist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in a concert attended by the President of Singapore. She has also performed with the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra as concerto competition winner, and in the same year was awarded the Best Accompanist prize.

Deeply committed to nurturing the next generation of musicians, Pualina serves as staff pianist at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and actively supports young artists in concerto competitions throughout the Greater Boston area. She is also dedicated to community engagement, sharing violin-piano and piano four-hands music in community spaces and senior homes.

Pualina received her Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, and Master of Music in Collaborative Piano from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Pei-Shan Lee and Cameron Stowe. Pualina completed undergraduate studies in Piano Performance at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, where she received the National University of Singapore Society Medal for Outstanding Achievement.

Catch Pualina in our Protégé Recital THIS SUNDAY and keep an eye out for more posts showcasing our 2026/27 Season artists!

The Protégé Recital Series is sponsored by Peter and Ann van Bever.

📷: Taylor Rossi

Did you know that CMNW celebrates and supports Arts for All?! …and we have since its inception! All you need is an Orego...
09/30/2026

Did you know that CMNW celebrates and supports Arts for All?! …and we have since its inception! All you need is an Oregon Trail card to get $5 tickets.

There are dozens of Portland arts organizations that are Arts for All PDX program partners—visit the A4A website to see who and explore all the ways you can access the arts at arts4allpdx.org.

2026/27 Season Artist Spotlight! Claire Wells, violin 🎻Born in 2001, Claire Wells - Violinist is an American violinist w...
09/28/2026

2026/27 Season Artist Spotlight! Claire Wells, violin 🎻

Born in 2001, Claire Wells - Violinist is an American violinist who is fast emerging as an original, distinctive musical voice on the international scene. As an artist, Claire’s work is shaped by an instinctive curiosity that guides her across periods and styles, drawing her toward music she finds genuinely compelling, from early repertoire to contemporary works.

As a soloist, Claire has performed with orchestras including the Dallas Symphony, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Philharmoniker, Czech Orchestra Prague, Auckland Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Webern Kammerphilharmonie, and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Having won major prizes at many internationally renowned competitions including the Michael Hill, Sibelius, Mirecourt, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, and Indianapolis violin competitions, Claire was the 2023 scholarship winner of the Mozart Gesellschaft Dortmund, and was most recently the winner of the 2025 Susan Wadsworth Young Concert Artists International Auditions.

Claire appears at leading festivals such as Chamber Music Northwest, Chamber Music Connects the World in collaboration with Christian Tetzlaff and Steven Isserlis, the IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music Festival in Cornwall, the Verbier Festival Academy, Tippet Rise Chamber Festival in Montana, and the Kryzyowa Festival in Kreisau, Poland. As well as performing regularly with top young artists of today, Claire has collaborated with many distinguished musicians, including Noah Bendix-Balgley, Christian Tetzlaff, Steven Isserlis, Gary Hoffman, Enrico Pace, and Nobuko Imai, among others.

Claire is represented worldwide by Young Concert Artists. She currently resides in Berlin, and is studying at the Kronberg Academy under the tutelage of Mihaela Martin, made possible by the Opel/Dr. Schaefer patronage. Claire Wells plays on a Nicolo Amati and a Grand Adam bow, on loan from a generous donor.

See Claire in her Protégé Recital in a little over a week (on October 4), and keep an eye out for more posts showcasing our 2026/27 Season artists!

The Protégé Recital Series is sponsored by Peter and Ann van Bever.

📷: Clara Evens

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