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Music Performances at CCC
Each year, CCC’s Music Department offers dozens of opportunities to hear live music performed by students, faculty, guest artists and ensembles of all sizes. We hope you’ll join us and support our talented students. Support local musicians by attending any one of our events.
For information on our competitive performance festivals, visit our Music Festivals page.
Musical Concerts include:
7:30 – 9:30 p.m., Osterman Theatre.
Ellington to Dylan
The Clackamas Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combo will perform a night of pieces from the traditional and modern jazz repertoire. Ellington’s Sepia Panorama is classic jazz band with Ellington’s unparalleled tuneful writing, while we’ll perform a piece written by local composer Charley Gray written especially for CCC, an original composition with its roots in an old Bob Dylan song. Come and see us to hear the story!
7:30 – 9:30 p.m. Osterman Theatre
The Contemporary Music Ensemble covers historical perspectives in the early development of the American pop ensemble with a practical, hands-on emphasis on learning music through standard musical notation and by ear. Within this format, focus is on correctly interpreting various styles from the 1950s to the 2000s by replicating arrangements and instrumental sounds. In addition, the Contemporary Music Ensemble covers practical vocational skills required for performing live and in the recording studio.
7:30 – 9:30 p.m. Osterman Theatre
On the Town
Bernstein Centennial
The Clackamas Wind Ensemble celebrates the centennial of Leonard Bernstein’s birth with its performance of the Three Dance Episodes from On The Town. The lively and intimate movements convey Bernstein’s sense of 1940’s New York City, with his completely personal and unique sonic language. Alongside this, the group will perform traditional and modern wind ensemble works from composers Camphouse, Gillingham, Maslanka, and more.
The CCC Guitar Ensemble was created by David Tutmark to provide an opportunity for classical guitarists in the community and at the college to gain experience playing in an ensemble setting. Essentially the ensemble is a guitar quartet, but there may be more than one guitar on each part. Our goal is to play exciting and beautiful repertoire composed and arranged for guitar ensemble. The ensemble is open to guitarists of various skill levels and is always looking to add new members. For this concert we have chosen to play two Catalan folk songs, “El Noi de la Mare" and "Canco del Lladre", as well as “Romance”. "El Noi de la Mare" (The Child of the Mother) is a Catalan Christmas song referencing the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, while "Canco del Lladre" (The Song of the Thief) depicts the life of a thief. “Romance" is a very famous traditional piece by an anonymous composer very often played on solo classical guitar. The arrangement of Romance played by the CCC Guitar Ensemble is quite different from the original and includes time signature and tempo changes throughout. For their very first public performance the CCC Guitar Ensemble is excited to present this short but delightful program.
7:30 – 9:30 p.m., LeRoy Anderson Room N119, Oregon City campus
Come celebrate the holidays with CCC’s Chamber and Mainstream choirs. Chamber Choir performs a combined set of familiar carols and new takes on old favorites. Mainstream will swing away the blues with jazz versions of Jingle Bells and cozy up in the storm with Snowbound. Both ensembles will also perform classic non-holiday literature including composers Franz Schubert and Rogers and Hart. Together, the ensembles will sing an uplifting gospel arrangement of What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace Love and Understanding. Join us for a fun evening of music!
Young musicians from the local area come together to showcase their talent. Enjoy their instrumental and vocal combined recitals!
Upcoming performances:
February 9, 2019 2-4 p.m., Osterman Theatre
June 15, 2019 2-4 p.m., Osterman Theatre
Siempre La Guitarra is a concert series presented by David Tutmark and Oregon Guitar Studio in partnership with Clackamas Community College. Focused primarily on classical guitar, each season consists of three to four concerts showcasing some of the finest international and local guitarists of today.
Upcoming performances:
Jan. 11 - Cameron O’Connor (Guitar professor at OSU)
May 24 - Carlos Pons Altes (Spain), Alfredo Muro (Peru)
Sept. 6 - Travis Johnson (PDX), Nathan Holterman (PDX)
