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2026 marks the centennial of American avant-garde icon Morton Feldman. To honor this milestone, our season finale “Looking Back: The Feldman In My Life” features Feldman’s rarely performed Piano and String Quartet, alongside Webern’s Five Movements and Feldman’s own The Viola in My Life 3.

Looking Back: The Feldman In My Life
📆 April 20-26
📍 The Old Church and Reed College
🎟️ Tickets in bio and online at fearnomusic.org

See you there!

Our season finale looks back at some of the most important figures in new music, Morton Feldman and Anton Webern, revolutionaries in the 20th century contemporary music scene.

Join us April 20-26 for Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet, The Viola in My Life no. 3, and Webern’s Five movements for String Quartet

📆 April 20-26
📍 The Old Church and Reed College
🎟️ Tickets in bio and online at fearnomusic.org

One of our favorite parts of Fear No Music is almost here: Hearing the Future, the concerts featuring our outstanding YCP students! Hearing what students have been working on all year is always a highlight for us, and audiences!

Save the date for THREE concerts on April 19 (we had so many fantastic students, we decided to split the concert into three segments). Find us at Reed College at 1:30, 3:00, and 4:30 on April 19. Tickets coming soon!

Founded in 1997, the Young Composers Project is a flagship program of Fear No Music, providing unparalleled compositional education to thousands of students.

Fear No Music — but make it brunch!🥂🎶

On May 17, our Musical Brunch series returns. This year, we feature Portland’s own The Bylines — the married singer-pianist duo known for their lush arrangements, original songs, and reimagined standards.

Expect beautiful music, charcuterie and drinks, and a relaxed morning of listening and mingling.

Tickets now on sale! More details + tickets at the link in bio.

Check out our preview in Oregon ArtsWatch! Learn about the spatial music on our program tonight, and then be sure to snag a ticket. Tickets are selling fast!

Looking Inward, Spacing Out
February 20, 7:30 PM
Reed College Performing Arts Atrium
Ticket in Bio!

We are THRILLED to announce the launch of A Year of Trees, an epic project in collaboration with our friends at Chatter PDX, the Delgani String Quartet, and Portland Fruit Tree Project.

Learn more at yearoftrees.org 🌳

A Year of Trees The official site for the A Year of Trees project. A Year of Trees is a Portland-based project that brings together musicians and local enviornmental groups to honor and protect trees through music, conversation, and direct actions.

It’s only 4 days away! We can’t wait for the Portland love fest with Resonance Ensemble this Friday! Make sure to use your discount code PDX25 for 25% off 🥳

The Sound of Us
October 24, 7:30 PM
Benson High School Auditorium
Ticket link in bio

Photo by the incomparable

Kenji had such a great time with Resonance Ensemble artistic director Katherine FitzGibbon today on KATU ABC 2 discussing the upcoming concert The Sound of Us!

Check out the interview on KATU.com!

We are counting down the days until this fabulous collaboration with Resonance Ensemble on October 24✨🎶

FNM joins forces with RE and outstanding Portland composers and artists Bora Yoon, Caroline Shaw, Stacey Philipps, Sydney Guillaume, Lisa Neher, Renée Favand-See, and Cecille Elliott for Oregon Symphony’s Sounds Like Portland festival!

Use code PDX25 for 25% off tickets to this concert!

We had such a great time last week at our Locally Sourced Sounds Reading Marathon! Great music, great food, a great audience. We’re already planning the next one! 🥳

This Friday! Locally Sourced Sounds returns for a 4-hour reading marathon featuring 32 composers. Check out Oregon ArtsWatch’s stellar preview of the concert. Article and ticket links in bio!

We’re also beyond THRILLED to have delicious treats provided by:
Bella’s Italian Bakery
Fire on the Mountain
Cowbell Cheese
Edelweiss Sausage & Delicatessen
Brew Dr. Kombucha

Photo by Joe Cantrell and Oregon ArtsWatch.