Past Performances
2024
2023
2022
April 14
Ascension Episcopal Parish
Portland, OR
Words Are For the Birds:
Songs Without Words, and Songs About Birds
Concert programs are not typically built around rhymes, but it was just too hard to resist this whimsical theme. The resulting concert program was full of beauty, power, humor, and sheer exuberance. Featuring works by Sarah Quartel, Bernat Vivancos, William Cornysh, Cassandra Wilson, Veljo Tormis, Christine Donkin, William Billings, Reena Esmail, J. David Moore, and Michele Weir.
Mad Love
Ah, love! That most universal of human emotions. It can engender so much: beauty, happiness, transcendence, confusion, heartbreak, resentment, murder…and children. This concert celebrated love in all of its manifestations with music by Guillaume de Machaut, Frank Foster, Robert Schumann, the Honey Whiskey Trio, Mary Montgomery Koppel, Alice Parker, Leela Grace, Ysaye Barnwell, Kitka, and ABBA.
Choral Evensong
A contemplative choral Evensong service, featuring medieval music from 13th-century England.
Choral Evensong
A contemplative choral Evensong service, featuring medieval music from 13th-century England.
Choral Evensong
A contemplative choral Evensong service, featuring music by Karin Rhenqvist, Malcolm Pearce, and Eoghan Desmond.
Do Not Fear the Darkness
The inaugural concert performance of the Radix Vocal Ensemble! Do Not Fear the Darkness was an expansive program exploring themes of darkness and light, sin and redemption, life and death, risk and resilience, and the power of music to help us find balance and joy in our lives. Music by Karin Rehnqvist, J. David Moore, James MacMillan, Edie Hill, Henry Purcell, George Gershwin, Lillebjørn Nilsen, the Wailin' Jennys, Abbie Betinis, Marie-Claire Saindon, and the Beatles.
December 9
Eliot Chapel, First Unitarian Church
Portland, OR
June 10
Historic Alberta House
Portland, OR
December 10
Historic Alberta House
Portland, OR
From Cloister to Back Porch:
Community Built Through Song
Radix was honored to perform on the 2023-2024 Salon Series at Ascension Episcopal Parish, a concert series dedicated to providing accessible, high-quality chamber music performances highlighting composers from under-represented groups.
This concert explored the historic importance of communal singing through four touchstone examples: music of medieval women religious; songs of the Jewish diaspora; works composed for rural community choirs by British composer Imogen Holst (1907-1984); and traditional American folk songs and hymns.
April 30
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
Portland, OR
February 26
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
Portland, OR
December 11
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
Portland, OR