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SPRING 2026 CONCERT - APRIL 17, 7:30pm

at La Joie Theatre, Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg

This Love Between Us

Katharine Dain, soprano | Caitlin Lynch, viola | Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano

Read bios on the ARTISTS page.

Meet the star artists at a complimentary reception following the performance!

PCM launches its new residency in partnership with the beautiful La Joie Theatre at the Chehalem Cultural Center with an uplifting program that derives its title and inspiration from Reena Esmail’s powerful song, This Love Between Us. This concert features three immensely distinguished and internationally respected artists: 

  • Netherlands-based soprano Katharine Dain, whose luminous performances have been heard with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestras, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, and many more

  • violist Caitlin Lynch, Grammy Award recipient and founding Artistic Director of Project Chamber Music, known for forging deep connections between performance and community

  • Lithuanian pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute, celebrated worldwide for her insight, range, and fearless musical curiosity

The program traces different forms of love and connection, offering a sonic portrait of the beauty and essentiality of our shared humanity shaped by texts from the ancient saint-poet Kabir, Friedrich Rückert, Heinrich Heine, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Wilhelm Müller. Composer Reena Esmail writes, “Our love, our human connection, goes back so far in time. It is our very foundation… We may squabble, but ultimately—we survive together. Or not at all… I wrote This Love Between Us through some of the darkest times in our country and in our world. But my mind always returns to the last line of this piece, the words of Rumi, which are repeated like a mantra over affirming phrases from each religion, as they wash over one another: ‘Concentrate on the Essence. Concentrate on the Light.’” Presented as part of Project Chamber Music: Willamette Valley’s 10th Anniversary Season, this concert offers an intimate and hopeful meditation on connection, listening, and what binds us together. In the words of Leilehua Lanzilotti, “these moments can reveal love: joyful, enduring, always.”

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Program:

  • Johannes Brahms, Two Songs for Alto, Viola, and Piano, Op. 91

    Gestillte Sehnsucht (Stilled Longing) 

    Geistliches Wiegenlied (Sacred Lullaby)

  • Reena Esmail, This Love Between Us

  • Clara Schumann, Six Lieder, Op. 13

    Ich stand in dunklen Träumen

    Sie liebten sich beide

    Liebeszauber

    Der Mond kommt still gegangen

    Ich hab 'in deinem Auge

    Die stille Lotosblume

  • Robert Schumann, Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70

  • Leilehua Lanzilotti, of moments

    to drink into my eyes the shine

    he breathes the morning

    shall love you always

  • Frank Bridge, Three Songs for Voice, Viola, and Piano, H. 76

    Far, far from each other 

    Where is it that our soul doth go

    Music when soft voices die

  • Franz Schubert, The Shepherd on the Rock, Op. 129, D. 965

All ticket proceeds directly benefit need-based scholarships to provide music instruction to local kids; this particular concert supports the financial aid fund of Young Musicians & Artists, a local summer camp with a 60 year legacy.

PCM Artistic Director Caitlin Lynch attended YMA for seven years as a student and will return this summer as a member of its faculty. She credits YMA as a major source of her growth and inspiration as a young musician.

SPRING

Masterclasses

FREE & open to the public!

Willamette University, Salem Campus

Ieva Jokubaviciute - piano

Friday, April 17  | 9:30 - 11am

Cone Chapel in Waller Hall (second floor)

Jokubaviciute is “riveting in every way” (The Washington Post) and celebrated worldwide for her insight, range, and adventurous musical partnerships. A winner of the 2009 Naumburg International Chamber Music Competition, Ieva regularly tours and appears at international music festivals including: Marlboro; Ravinia; Bard; Caramoor; Chesapeake Chamber Music; Prussia Cove in Cornwall, England; and Festival de la musique de chambre at La Lointaine in France.

Katharine Dain - voice

Saturday, April 18  | 10am - 12pm

Hudson Concert Hall in the Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center

Dain brings a searching musical intelligence shaped by a global career spanning the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestra of the 18th Century, BBC Symphony Orchestras, and major opera houses and festivals throughout Europe and the U.S. Her acclaimed debut album Regards sur l’Infini received the Edison Klassiek Award and international praise for its emotional clarity and depth.

PAST 2025 SEASON EVENT

NOVEMBER 15, 7:30pm

Musicians from A Far Cry - Thunder and Starlight

at Willamette University's Hudson Concert Hall

“A refreshing corrective to classical music’s rigid hierarchies” (WBUR), A Far Cry delivers innovative and compelling programs that feel “perpetually fresh with every performance” (The Boston Globe). Founded in 2007 on the belief that every voice deserves to be heard, A Far Cry features a collective of musicians who democratically curate programming and concertizing. The group has collaborated with such diverse artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Simone Dinnerstein, Dinuk Wijeratne, Davóne Tines, Roomful of Teeth, the Silk Road Ensemble, Vijay Iyer, and David Krakauer, to name a few; has risen to the top of Billboard’s Traditional Classical Chart; and garnered multiple Grammy nominations for albums that include “The Blue Hour” (New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records) - named a Top 10 Album of the Year by NPR, “Stillpoint” (New Amsterdam Records), and “A Gentleman of Istanbul” (Crier Records) which San Francisco Classical Voice called a “dazzling multicultural symphony.” Read more on the ARTISTS page.

Featuring musicians from the Grammy-nominated chamber orchestra, A Far Cry.

Miki-Sophia Cloud & Megumi Stohs Lewis, violins | Caitlin Lynch & Jason Fisher, violas | Hannah Collins & Rafi Popper-Keizer, cello

Meet the star artists at a complimentary reception following the performance!

Thunder & Starlight is a sweeping musical journey through the natural world, from the brilliance of comets and rivers to the tranquility of pastoral landscapes. Program:

  • Mauna Järvelä & Timo Alakotila: Hale Bopp, arr. Karl Doty

  • Osvaldo Golijov: Tenebrae

  • Deena T. Grossman: Songs of the River Po*

  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 (Pastorale), arr. Michael Gotthard Fischer

 *denotes side-by-side with students from the Salem-Keizer School District and Willamette University

100% of ticket sale proceeds provide private instrumental lessons to SKPS students for whom the cost would be otherwise prohibitive.