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 Gayle and Philip Neuman 40-year Anniversary Concert

What: Gayle & Philip Neuman celebration concert: 40 years at CMC

Where: Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis Street, Portland, 97202

When: Wednesday, March 11, 8:00 – 9:30 pm

Cost: Free, no tickets necessary.

More Info: Community Music Center: www.communitymusiccenter.org or 503-823-3177

Renaissance music specialists Gayle and Phil Neuman are national treasures in the Portland area (see their biographies below). Portland Parks & Recreation’s Community Music Center has been blessed to have them on faculty as instructors since 1980, inspiring hundreds of adults from the greater Portland area in the art and practice of playing early music together.

We’ll be celebrating their 40-year-and-counting tenure with a free concert on Wednesday, March 11 at 8:00 pm, no tickets necessary. Gayle and Phil will be performing, joined by dozens of current students and guests. UPDATE: no refreshments provided.

The Neumans will continue to teach at CMC – going for 50 years?! Their classes include recorder group lessons, Renaissance song, and early music instrumental ensembles. You can see more information in the PP&R Arts & Culture catalog at portlandoregon.gov/parks/arts.

Phil and Gayle Neuman are musicians, teachers, and instrument builders that engage in the performance of historical music from a variety of periods. They have received international recognition as performers and scholars of early music, especially Ancient Greek music, and have several recordings of this repertoire on the Pandourion label available from North Pacific Music.

The Neumans were recognized in an article by Brett Campbell in The Oregonian, March 9, 2015 as “Portland’s reigning masters of early music,” and have been featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Oregon Art Beat.

They also perform music of the Renaissance as Ensemble De Organographia and direct The Oregon Renaissance Band. They have a number of recordings of music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and other periods, available from North Pacific Music.

In addition to teaching classes at the Community Music Center they have taught music history at Portland State University, Linfield College and other institutions.

They teach at various workshops on the west coast and direct the annual Early Music Guild of Oregon Workshop each fall.

The Neumans have performed at the Smithsonian Institution, The Getty Center, Cleveland Museum of Art, Rice University, Amman Conservatory in Jordan, the Bodrum Crusader Castle Archeological Museum in Turkey, and at ancient theater sites in Epidaurus, Delphi, and Rhodes. They are members of The Trail Band, and have performed with the Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Magnificat, and Cappella Romana.

Gayle Stuwe Neuman, a performer on violin, recorder, sackbutt, and many other instruments, is also a vocalist who has received international acclaim for her renditions of the “Song of Seikilos,” the “Chorus from Orestes,” and others upon the release of Ensemble De Organographia’s CD Music of the Ancient Greeks.

Several of the tracks from that recording have also appeared in the Norton Scores Recorded Anthology of Western Music, and numerous films and television programs. She appears in the recent award-winning film “Buddymoon” directed by Alex Simmons, and recorded music for the 2016 film “Ben-Hur.” She has performed for audiences in the U.S., Japan, Israel, Turkey, Greece, Canada, Norway, Germany, and for members of the royal family in Jordan. She co-founded and co-directs the Oregon Renaissance Band, now in its 29th season.

Gayle has performed with Cappella Romana and the Portland Baroque Orchestra Chorus. She has played under the baton of Monica Huggett and Ton Koopman. She teaches Recorder, Collegium Musicum and Renaissance Song classes at Portland’s Community Music Center. She has given workshops and presentations at many institutions including Oberlin Conservatory, Rice University, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Getty Center. She has built with her husband Phil over 400 early wind and stringed instruments including krummhorns, cornamusen, racketts, and vielles. She composed and arranged music for the 2015 production of “Mary Stuart” directed by Elizabeth Huffman for Northwest Classical Theatre.

Phil Neuman, a performer on recorder, sackbutt, and numerous other wind and stringed instruments, co-founded and co-directs the Oregon Renaissance Band, which has performed for the Regensburg Early Music Festival, and recorded the CDs Carnevale and Now make we joye. He has produced and recorded seven CDs for Pandourion Records including French Music of the 14th Century, Music of the Ancient Greeks, and The One Horse Open Sleigh. He appears in the recent award-winning film “Buddymoon” directed by Alex Simmons, and recorded music for the recent remake of “Ben-Hur.” He has written and recorded music for Oregon Public Broadcasting. He has played for audiences on three continents, including performances at several ancient theater sites in Greece. He teaches Recorder, Renaissance Winds, and Loud Band classes at the Community Music Center in Portland.

Phil has performed under the direction of Christopher Hogwood and Nicholas McGeegan, recorded with the American Bach Soloists, and has played in the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, The Chicago Chorale, Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra, Mercury Chamber Orchestra and Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado. He has composed, arranged and transcribed over a thousand works for recorder ensemble, brass ensemble, and symphonic wind ensemble, including “Theme and Variations” that won first place in the San Francisco Recorder Composition Competition.

Additional Informational Link: https://www.opb.org/artsandlife/article/video-renaissance-wind-band-class/