The Reviews Are In!
50 Hit the Charts!
“50” Ranked No. 5 on Billboard’s Traditional Classical Albums Chart!
"I can't think of a better or more beautiful way to celebrate our 50th Anniversary Year!"
– Ethan Sperry, Artistic Director
In honor of the 50th Season, Oregon Repertory Singers has released an album of their favorite pieces titled 50. In it’s first week 50 ranked fifth on Billboard’s Traditional Classical Albums Chart. Selections include ensemble and audience favorites alike, many of them from the popular Glory of Christmas concerts, and works by noteworthy living composers who have appeared on stage with ORS in recent years. Hear Biebl’s famous Ave Maria, the pensive Dirait-On by Oregon native Morten Lauridsen, the hauntingly beautiful Sainte-Chapelle by Eric Whitacre, and works by ORS accompanist Naomi LaViolette and ORS singer Stacey Philipps! Recorded by multiple-Grammy-Award-winning team of producer Steve Barnett and engineer Preston Smith, 50 is available for purchase on all the major platforms and CDs are available at the box office during performances and on the ORS website. (See link)
Also Available on All Major Platforms!
The Sounds of ORS
Stars by Eriks Esenvalds
Performed by Oregon Repertory Singers
Glory of Christmas, 2019
Night of Silence by Naomi LaViolette
Recorded during Glory of Christmas, December 2021
Oregon Repertory Singers, Hamilton Cheifetz (cello) and Naomi LaViolette (piano).
David Peterson, Producer & Editor; Amer Isse, Sound Technician; Brian Robertson, Videographer; Alex Lynch, Videographer
Video-On-Demand discontinued…
As the 2023-24 season approached, ORS made the difficult decision not to move forward with the video-on-demand (VOD) series. Online concert viewership has passed it’s peak and interest from the majority of our patrons has shifted back to live performance, for which we are very grateful. We are so proud of the VOD and the videos we created. Though the medium was new for us, we found it to be an extremely rewarding process with a beautiful product. Thank you so much to those who supported our VOD concert presentations over the last two seasons. It was a crucial component of our work and one that we recognize was essential in the time. We understand that discontinuing the VOD is disappointing to some of our patrons, but we hope you’ll join us as we adapt to an ever-changing performance landscape.
We will continue recording our concert presentations and release videos of individual pieces throughout the year on our YouTube channel, Facebook Page, and Instagram Profile. However, complete concerts will no longer be released. This season we are releasing performance videos every Monday, #MusicalMondays. It’s a great opportunity to revisit favorite moments from the past two seasons and we believe this format will have broader appeal.
Thank you for your continued support of ORS. We hope this next phase in our online content development will serve our existing patrons as well as invite a new audience to appreciate the good work that ORS is doing.
but concert videos live on!
Consider subscribing (free) to our YouTube channel to receive notifications each time we release a #MusicalMondays video. Every week we will release videos of past performances of individual pieces or movements. A playlist of all #MusicalMondays videos can be viewed below. Our YouTube videos are open to the public and do not require an account or subscription to view.
Shadows on the Stars
Shadows on the Stars wins The American Prize in Choral Performance, community Choir Division, 2018-19
Oregon Repertory Singers, Ethan Sperry, artistic director, is the winner of The American Prize in Choral Performance, 2019, in the community chorus division. Oregon Repertory Singers was selected from applications reviewed recently from across the United States. The American Prize is the nation's most comprehensive series of non-profit competitions in the performing arts, unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, ensembles and composers in the United States based on submitted recordings.
All proceeds from CD sales at concerts or through the ORS office directly support Oregon Repertory Singers.
$20 for CD, $30 for CD signed by Morten Lauridsen (limited quantities)
Digital downloads available on all platforms.