Education & Community
Community Programs
From classrooms to concert halls, from correctional facilities to retirement homes, the Oregon Symphony strives to create a stronger and more vibrant community through music.
Through these projects, we use music’s transformative power to inspire our youth, foster life-long learning, and bring healing and joyous music to all parts of our community.
Community Program
Lullaby Project
Together with musicians from the Oregon Symphony and local singer-songwriters, parents and parents-to-be experiencing homelessness and other challenging life situations create personal lullabies for their children each year.
Community Program
Northwest Community Gospel Chorus
The Northwest Community Gospel Chorus (NWCGC) is an audition-based community chorus formed to bring Gospel music to the audiences of the Oregon Symphony. The NWCGC joins the Oregon Symphony every holiday season to present the annual Gospel Christmas concerts.
Community Program
Artist-in-Residence
We foster a long-term connection between our performers and our community by bringing a special guest artist to Portland for extended residencies of educational visits, free public performances, and concert appearances over the course of three years.
Community Program
musicNOW
Oregon Symphony musicians partner with Earthtones Music Therapy Services to present interactive, music therapy-informed sessions of beautiful music, relaxing movement, and joy in memory care facilities, senior residences, and centers with adults with disabilities.