for more information and updates or changes on any of the following events write to pneumantartold@gmail.com.
Advanced Consort Class Online Summer 2025 term: The 10 week term begins Wednesday June 18th at 7:00pm PDT and Saturday June 21st at 10:00am PDT on Zoom. Cost: $100*. The 90 minute sessions include playing a mélange of renaissance, baroque, medieval and modern music with the ORB Trio in real time with performance advice, historical information and lively banter. Come join the fun! To register and pay, go to the Consort Class Online page and click on the appropriate link. See Consort Class Online for details.
- Intermediate Consort Class Online Spring 2025 term: The 10 week term begins Tuesday June 17th at 7:00pm PDT and Saturday June 21st at 1:00pm PDT on Zoom. Cost: $100*. The 90 minute sessions include playing a mélange of intermediate level renaissance, baroque, medieval and modern music with the ORB Trio in real time with performance advice, historical information and lively banter. Technique and interpretation advice and finger exercises will be geared towards players of intermediate ability, with a bit more repetition and somewhat fewer pieces than the advanced consort class. Come join the fun! To register and pay, go to the Consort Class Online page and click on the appropriate link. See Consort Class Online for details.
* If you take both Advanced and Intermediate online classes you get a $20 discount on the second class (the total would be $180 for both.)
– In person Summer 2025 Early Music Ensemble Classes through the Community Music Center. The term begins Thursday June 26th at the Community Music Center in Portland at 7:00pm. Instructors: Gayle and Phil Neuman. Intermediate and Advanced Ensembles, and the music is a choice selection of Renaissance, Baroque, and more for recorders and strings, early reeds and brass. The repertoire is different from that of the online Consort Classes. To register, call the Community Music Center at (503) 823-3177. Contact pneumantartold@gmail.com for details about the class and music.
Ensemble De Organographia plays The Silver Swan: Music of 17th Century England – Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Campion, John Playford, Thomas Morley and Friends. An ensemble of five musicians, Phil and Gayle Neuman, Polly Gibson, Esther Saulle and Cindy Markham, perform music from 16th and 17th century England for violin, viols, voices, recorders, bandora, cittern, tabor and, of course, rackett and tartold.
Two performances:
Sunday June 22nd, 2025 at 2:00pm at The 2509, 2509 NE Clackamas, Portland. Tickets available at https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/early-music-guild-of-oregon/the-silver-swan-music-of-17th-century-england
Sunday June 22nd, 2025 at 7:00pm at the historic Pioneer Church at Baker Cabin, 18005 S. Gronlund Rd. in Oregon City. Tickets available at https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/bakercabinhs/the-silver-swan-music
Northwest Trombone Collective performs Saturday June 28th at 5:00pm in Hillsboro, Oregon.
18 trombones ranging from alto to contrabass. For more information see Northwest Trombone Collective
Pioneer Brass Sextet plays on Friday, July 4th, 2025 at 3:00 for the Fourth of July Celebration at Baker Cabin, 18005 S. Gronlund Rd. in Oregon City, OR. Tickets available at https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/bakercabinhs/oregon-s-phenomenal-fourth-1871164882