for more information and updates or changes on any of the following events write to pneumantartold@gmail.com.
Advanced Consort Class Online Fall 2025 term: The 10 week term began Wednesday October 1st at 7:00pm PDT and Saturday October 4th 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 Fall 2025 term: The 10 week term began Tuesday September 30th at 7:00pm PDT and Saturday October 4th 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 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 Fall 2025 Early Music Ensemble Classes through the Community Music Center. The term began Thursday October 2nd 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.
● The Trail Sextet performs with the Willamette Master Chorus, Sat./Sun. December 20-21,
3:00pm at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. The Trail Sextet is Gayle Neuman, Phil
Neuman, Dan Stueber, Cal Scott, Mick Doherty and Eddie Parente. For more information go to
Willamette Master Chorus
– The Fireside Social Orchestra’s “Early Celtic New Year 2025” will be happening
Saturday, Dec. 27th at 2:00pm at “The 2509” in SE Portland and
Sunday, Dec. 28th at 2:00pm at the Pioneer Church at Baker Cabin, 18005 S. Gronlund Rd., Oregon City
Ticket details will be added soon.
Join us for an afternoon of festive Celtic Tunes, Dances, Historical Anecdotes and little musical excursions into France, Norway and the U.S., with period instruments including violin, flute, serpent (you can’t miss that!), clarinet, bassoon, cornet, alto horn, tenor horn, tuba, keyed bugle and ophicleide to ring in the new year.