Chamber Party: An Unforgettable Evening with David Shifrin & Gloria Chien
There’s no better way to enjoy a summer evening than with an intimate performance by CMNW’s Artistic Director Gloria Chien and Artistic Director Emeritus David Shifrin. Their musical connection is palpable—they’ve been playing together since he selected her as a Protégé in 2014. Come to connect with fellow chamber music lovers as you stroll through the winding path of a private garden, savor food delights and handpicked wines, and appreciate the rare opportunity to experience these two lauded CMNW artistic leaders performing together in an up-close and personal setting.
Date: Tuesday, July 14
Time: 6–8:30 PM
Where: A private home in Southwest Portland (location provided upon purchase)
Tickets: $150 per person / $75 tax-deductible*
*Food, drinks, and concert included. All proceeds from this event benefit Chamber Music Northwest’s Education & Community Engagement initiatives.
Generously hosted by Sonja L. Haugen
Artists
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Gloria Chien
Piano & Artistic Director
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Taiwanese-born pianist Gloria Chien has one of the most diverse musical lives as a noted performer, concert presenter, and educator. She made her orchestral debut at the age of sixteen with the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Thomas Dausgaard, and she performed again with the BSO with Keith Lockhart. She was subsequently selected by The Boston Globe as one of its Superior Pianists of the year, “who appears to excel in everything.” In recent seasons, she has performed as a recitalist and chamber musician at Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress, the Phillips Collection, the Dresden Chamber Music Festival, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. She performs frequently with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In 2009, she launched String Theory, a chamber music series in Chattanooga, Tennessee that has become one of the region’s premier classical music presenters. The following year she was appointed Director of the Chamber Music Institute at Music@Menlo, a position she held for the next decade. In 2017, she joined her husband, violinist Soovin Kim, as Artistic Director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont. The duo became Artistic Directors at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon in 2020. Most recently, she released two albums—her Gloria Chien LIVE from the Music@Menlo LIVE label and Here With You with acclaimed clarinetist Anthony McGill on Cedille Records.
Chien studied extensively at the New England Conservatory of Music with Wha Kyung Byun and Russell Sherman. She is Artist-in-Residence at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, and she is a Steinway Artist.
Upcoming Concerts & Events
- Protégé Spotlight Recital: Jonah Ellsworth, Cello
- Crossing Borders: Brahms Piano Quartet
- Crossing Borders: Brahms Piano Quartet
- NEW@NIGHT: Across the Americas
- Chamber Party: An Unforgettable Evening with David Shifrin & Gloria Chien (currently selected)
- Universal Harmony: Schumann Piano Quintet
- Timeless Classics: Mozart Clarinet Quintet & “Rhapsody in Blue”
- Timeless Classics: Mozart Clarinet Quintet & “Rhapsody in Blue”
- Americana: “Appalachian Spring”
- Americana: “Appalachian Spring”
- Voices of Our Land: Dvořák “American” Quintet
- Voices of Our Land: Dvořák “American” Quintet
- SPECIAL EVENT | NEW@NIGHT: George Takei’s “Lost Freedom: A Memory”
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David Shifrin
Clarinet & Artistic Director Emeritus 1981–2020
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David Shifrin began performing with Chamber Music Northwest in 1978 and served as its Artistic Director from 1981 to 2020. He has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1982 and served as its Artistic Director from 1992 to 2004.
Shifrin received Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Avery Fisher Prize, as well as numerous awards and prizes competitions and organizations worldwide.
David Shifrin is the Samuel S. Sanford Professor in the Practice of Clarinet at the Yale School of Music where he teaches a studio of graduate-level clarinetists and coaches chamber music ensembles. He is also the Artistic Director of Yale’s Oneppo Chamber Music Society and the Yale in New York concert series. Previously, Shifrin served on the faculties of the Juilliard School, the University of Southern California, the University of Michigan, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the University of Hawaii. He has appeared with many of the major orchestras in the United States and abroad and has served as principal clarinetist with the Cleveland Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Symphony Orchestras of New Haven, Honolulu, and Dallas. Shifrin also continues to broaden the clarinet repertoire by commissioning and championing more than 100 works of 20th and 21st-century American composers. Shifrin’s recordings have consistently garnered praise and awards including three Grammy nominations and “Record of the Year” from Stereo Review.
Shifrin is represented by CM Artists in New York and performs on Backun clarinets and Légère reeds.
Upcoming Concerts & Events
- Chamber Party: An Unforgettable Evening with David Shifrin & Gloria Chien (currently selected)
- FREE Open Rehearsal: Mozart Clarinet Quintet
- NEW@NIGHT: Across the Americas
- Universal Harmony: Schumann Piano Quintet
- Timeless Classics: Mozart Clarinet Quintet & “Rhapsody in Blue”
- Timeless Classics: Mozart Clarinet Quintet & “Rhapsody in Blue”
