2025-26 Concert Season

UPCOMING:

Friday, May 15, 2026: The Penitential Psalms
St. Mary’s Cathedral, Portland Oregon
7:30pm
Tickets: $20 online, $25 at the door

Rose City Renaissance explores the Penitential Psalms — ancient cries of anguish, repentance, and hope that speak as powerfully today as they did centuries ago. The program features beloved masterworks including Purcell's Hear My Prayer, O Lord and Josquin's Miserere mei Deus alongside unrecorded treasures by Leonhard Lechner, the most gifted student of Orlando di Lasso. Period winds and strings — sackbut, shawm, recorder, dulcian, and viola da gamba — join the ensemble's voices, bringing rich contrasts of texture and dialogue to the double-choir repertoire.

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Advent in Early Tudor England
Friday, December 5th, 2025
The Parish of St. Mark, 1025 NW 21st, Portland
7:30pm

Online sales have ended. Tickets are still available at t
he door.

This concert takes listeners from the evening of All Saints, through Advent, up to the arrival of Christmas Day, and features amazing music by Tudor composers Whyte, Tallis, Taverner, and Fayrfax The generation of composers who lived and worked in England prior to the Protestant Reformation represent the zenith

Repertoire:
Robert Whyte: Magnificat
Thomas Tallis: Gloria from Missa Puer Natus Est
John Brown: Stabat Mater
Robert Fayrfax: Eterne laudis lilium
John Taverner: Hodie nobis Coelorem
plus plainchant from the Sarum rite.