Now in its 50th season, Chamber Music Northwest serves more than 50,000 people annually in Oregon and SW Washington with exceptional chamber music through over 100 events annually, including their flagship Summer Festival which is the only chamber music festival of its kind in the Northwest.

This week their 49th Annual Summer Festival is on, and tonight a Mark Abel piece will be performed in Portland’s Lincoln Recital Hall. It’s an exceptionally difficult piece entitled “Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano.” A virtuosic piece for all involved, we were fortunate to have remarkable players.

World-renowned clarinetist David Shifrin is in his 39th season as the Artistic Director of CMNW, he’s had a long and successful performing career, and he’s also one of of most-recorded classical musicians in America. The cellist is Fred Sherry, who among many other accomplishments is a member of the cello faculty of The Juilliard School, The Mannes College of Music and The Manhattan School of Music.

I was Mark’s music copyist and editor for the clarinet trio, and it’s always an honor to collaborate with him and his superb players.