Past Programs

Tilikum Chamber Orchestra’s Past Program

Tilikum Chamber Orchestra’s 2024-25 Season

Saturday, May 10, 2025:  “The French Connection”

                     with Don Appert, Guest Conductor

Lake Oswego High School Performing Arts Center
2501 Country Club Road, Lake Oswego, OR

“The French Connection” program, under the direction of guest conductor, Don Appert, includes delightful works by 19th century French composers: the well-known Saint-Saëns and the lesser known Magnard. Although not from France, Beethoven’s French connection is that he was a great admirer of Napoleon. The three compositions on the concert also were written by each of the composers while in their 20s.

Program:

  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
  • Albéric Magnard: Suite in Ancient Style, Op. 2
  • Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 2 in A minor, Op. 55
Saturday, March 15, 2025:   “Songs of Youth”
with Jonathan DeBruyn, Guest Conductor
Lake Oswego High School Performing Arts Center
2501 Country Club Road, Lake Oswego, OR
“Songs of Youth” exhibits delightful works of three well-known composers from their student and fledgling composition years. Under the direction of guest conductor, Jonathan DeBruyn, the Tilikum Chamber Orchestra will feature works of Giacomo Puccini, William Grant Still, and Franz Schubert in a concert that showcases the burgeoning styles of these monumental composers.

Program:
  • Giacomo Puccini: Preludio Sinfonico
  • William Grant Still: Darker America
  • Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 5
Saturday, December 7th:  “Mythology, Folklore, and Fantasy”
with Adam Eccleston, Guest Conductor
Lakeridge High School Performing Arts Center, 1235 Overlook Dr, Lake Oswego, OR
  • Michael Vertoske: Fanfare for Brass and Percussion
  • Cécile Chaminade: Suite Callirhoë
  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf: Symphony No. 5

October 5th, 2024 “Beauty in Simplicity” at 7:30pm

with Sam Ross, Guest Conductor
Lakeridge High School Performing Arts Center, 1235 Overlook Dr, Lake Oswego, OR
Program:
    • Marianna Martines:  Sinfonia in C Major 
    • Philip Glass:  String Quartet No. 3
    • Franz Josef Haydn:  Symphony No. 104

Tilikum Chamber Orchestra’s 2023-24 Season

May 4th, 2024 

“Romantic Contrasts”

with Kevin Lefohn, Guest Conductor
Lake Oswego High School Performing Arts Center
2501 Country Club Road, Lake Oswego, OR
Program:
  • Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 10
  • Sir Edward Elgar: Three Characteristic Pieces
  • Emilie Mayer: Symphony No. 1 in C minor

March 2nd, 2024 

“Fairy Tales and Folk Songs”
Dwayne Corbin, Conductor

Lake Oswego High School Performing Arts Center
2501 Country Club Road, Lake Oswego, OR
Program:
  • Rossini, Overture to ‘La Cenerentola (Cinderella)’
  • Gordon Jacobs Old Wine in New Bottles
  • Chen Yi Sprout
  •  Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn
December 2nd, 2023 

“A Musical Gift Exchange: Parisian Delicacies”
Dwayne Corbin, Conductor
Lake Oswego High School Performing Arts Center
2501 Country Club Road, Lake Oswego, OR
Program:
  • Sophie Gail – Les Deux Jaloux Overture
  • Gabriel Faure – Masques et Bergamasques
  • Nicole Buetti – Sforza!
  • Andre Caplet – Legende
  • W.A. Mozart – Symphony no.31, “Paris”
October 14, 2023, 7:30pm 
“Laments and Celebrations”
Dwayne Corbin, Conductor
Lake Oswego High School Performing Arts Center
2501 Country Club Road, Lake Oswego, OR
Program:
  • Bruckner: Overture in G
  • George Walker:  Lyric for Strings
  • Ernest Bloch:  Ba’al Shem (Three Pictures of Chassidic Life) 
    • Comfort Smith, solo violin
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 8

2022-23 Season

December 3, 2022
“A Musical Gift Exchange”
with Guest Conductor:  Dr. Raúl Gómez-Rojas 

Lake Oswego High School, 7:30pm
2501 Country Club Rd, Lake Oswego, OR
  • Aaron Copland:  Variations on a Shaker Melody 
  • W. A. Mozart: Serenade No. 12 in C Minor for 8 winds             
  • Edward Elgar: String Serenade, Op. 20 
  • Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
  • Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5
Lakeridge High School, 7:30pm
Lake Oswego, OR
October 15, 2022
“A Gaelic Celebration”
Dwayne Corbin, Conductor 
  • Hamilton Harty: A John Field Suite
  • Amy Beach: Symphony in Em – Gaelic         

2021-2022 Season

Saturday, May 21st, 7:30pm 
Rex Putnam High School, 4950 SE Roethe Rd, Milwaukie

Orchestral Songs and Dances

with Guest Artist
Dr. Rebekah Hanson, viola

Florence Price: Suite of  Dances
Max Bruch:  Romance – featuring Viola Soloist, Dr. Rebekah Hanson
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G major

Saturday, March 19th, 7:30pm 
Rex Putnam High School, 4950 SE Roethe Rd, Milwaukie

Sunday, March 20th, 2:00pm 
Portland State University, Lincoln Hall 75, corner of Market St. and Broadway, downtown Portland

Guitar Concerto premiere
featuring guitar soloist, David Tutmark

  • Shawn E. Okpebholo: ZOOM! for strings and percussion
  • Nicholas Emerson:  Concerto Saudade for Guitar – premiere
       with Guitar Soloist, David Tutmark  
  • Franz Krommer: Symphony in D, op. 40
December 4, 2021, Parkrose High School, Portland, OR
TCO Presents Schumann’s Symphony No. 4
  • Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Overture in C
  • Alexander Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
  • Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 4
October 4, 2021, George Fox University, Bauman Auditorium, Newberg, OR
The Orchestra Re-Emerges
  • Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphony in G
  • Emile Bernard: Divertissement for Woodwind Dectet
  • Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question
  • Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 44 (“The Tragic”)

2020-2021 Season

Mini Virtual Concert – “A Musical Travelogue”

At long last, we have brought you a new performance in the comfort of your own home! Entitled “A Musical Travelogue”, this program takes the place of the trips we haven’t been able to take during COVID. Though presented free of charge, producing any concert rarely is. For an advance look at the program and the list of musicians that made it all possible: CLICK HERE

The performance can be viewed by clicking: https://vimeo.com/562237114

Music for Woodwind Quintet:

  • Nicole Buetti:  Reflections of Assisi (Sunrise, Tourists, Monasteries, Rocca Maggiore, Sunset Dinner with Friends and Family)
  • Jacques Ibert: Trois Pieces Breves

Music for String Orchestra:

  • Glazunov – Theme and Variations for String Orchestra, Op.97
  • Parry – An English Suite              

2019-2020 Season

Saturday, October 19, 2019, 7:30pm, Rex Putnam High School, 4950 SE Roethe Rd, Milwaukie
“Rhapsody of Bohemia”
  • Johann Stamitz: Symphony in D, Op. 4 no. 2, mvmt 1
  • Leoš Janáček: Suite for Strings
  • Roberta Kurka: Good Soldier Schweik Suite 
  • Antonín Dvořák: Czech Suite
Saturday, December 14, 2019, 7:30pm, Reedwood Friends Church, 2901 SE Steele St., Portland
“A Musical Gift Exchange”

Small chamber ensemble and orchestra concert

  • François-Joseph Gossec: Suite de Noels
  • Principal Strings:
    • Beethoven: String Quartet, op. 18 no. 3
  • String Ensemble:
    • Harry Gilbert:  Patience & Prudence
  • Woodwind Ensemble:  Jean Françaix: Sept Dances
  • Guest Ensemble: Rose City Flute Choir, conducted by Phyllis Louke
    • Eric Whitacre, arr. Louke:  Alleluia
    • Gioachino Rossini, arr. Shaul Ben-Meir:  La Boutique Fantasque
  • Brass Quintet:
    • Paul Dukas, arr. Decker:  Fanfare to La Peri
    • Seb Skelly, arr. Robertson:  Coventry Carol
    • Traditional, arr. Henderson:  Ding Dong! Merrily on High
  • Georges Bizet:  Jeux d’Enfants op. 22

This concert is sponsored by Reedwood Friends Church and Tilikum Chamber Orchestra – donations are gratefully accepted.

WORLD PREMIERE: Sunday, March 8, 2020, 3:00pm
Rex Putnam High School, 4950 SE Roethe Rd, Milwaukie
Saturday, March 7, 2020, 7:30pm
Bauman Auditorium, George Fox University, Newberg

  • PART ONE: Early experiments.
    • Giovanni Gabrieli: Sonata piano e forte (1597)
    • Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo (1607): Overture
    • J. S. Bach: Orchestral Suite #1, Gavotte 1 & 2
  • PART TWO: The Common Practice Period
    • W. A. Mozart: Symphony No. 1
    • Spohr: Nocturne: March

intermission

  • PART THREE: more colors, more ideas! (20th century)
    • Igor Stravinsky: Suite No. 2 for Small Orchestra
    • William Grant Still: Blues from Lenox Avenue
    • Pinkston: Concerto for Bass Clarinet: From Gotland    WORLD PREMIERE, Bruce Belton, soloist