Reed College Performing Arts

06/26/2026

Tango for Musicians at Reed College is featured today on Portland's All Classical Radio!

Join host Andrea Murray every Friday at 8:00 AM PT for Northwest Previews, All Classical Radio’s weekly guide to what’s coming up in the Pacific Northwest. Hear interviews with performers, composers, and artistic leaders, musical segments, and more.

06/12/2026

We hope you'll join us for our upcoming Tango for Musicians Concert & Event Series, featuring renowned tango musicians from Argentina, U.S. tango ensembles, and student orchestras. Tickets are now on sale for the concerts, and all are welcome at the free milongas.

https://www.reed.edu/tango/public-events.html

05/06/2026

Join us for the annual Reed College Commencement Ceremony celebrating the class of 2026!

Monday, May 18, 2026
11 a.m.
Great Lawn (south side of campus)
Reed holds a reception in the Quad following the ceremony.

For detailed information about the event, head to https://www.reed.edu/commencement/.

05/05/2026

The FINAL Friday@4 of the year is this Friday! Join us in Eliot Chapel at 4 p.m. to hear chamber music ensembles perform great works of music. Admission is free!

Friday@4 Recital
Eliot Chapel, 4 p.m.

04/29/2026

The Reed College Dance Department presents the Spring Dance Concert, an evening celebrating a semester of artistry and collaborative exploration. The program features choreography by students and faculty, alongside collaborative works from advanced technique classes. Highlights include a new piece by Community Dance at Reed, a premiere by guest choreographer Andrea Parson, and a reconstruction of Trisha Brown’s seminal work.

Free and open to the public. Reservations required. Click here to reserve your seats: https://events.reed.edu/event/spring-dance-concert-1765

04/22/2026

Join us in the PAB atrium (main floor) for the spring jazz ensemble concert on Monday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. featuring Reed music students.

Admission is free, and no tickets are needed to attend.

04/21/2026

Join us Tuesday, April 28 at 7:30 p.m. for the annual spring orchestra concert under the direction of Maestro Giancarlo Castro in Kaul Auditorium. Featuring Concerto Competition Winners Leif Horak-Hult, Robert Shu, Emily Kim, Quincy Nash, and Henry Sullivan. Admission is free, and no tickets are needed to attend.

Concert is in Kaul Auditorium.

04/17/2026

The Reed College Choirs present their 2026 Spring Choral Concert "The Songs Will Remain". Featuring Collegium Musicum, Treble Voices Ensemble, and Reed College Chorus, with pianist Rebecca Stager and conductor Shohei Kobayashi.

Wednesday, April 22
Kaul Auditorium, 7:30pm
Free Admission

04/17/2026

Join us Friday, April 17 in Eliot Chapel for the Friday@4 Recital. The program features works for voice, and features Reed music students. Admission is free!

Eliot Chapel, 4 p.m.

UPCOMING: The final two Friday@4 Recitals of the year will be Friday, April 24 in the PAB atrium featuring the ROOTS vocal ensemble and on Friday, May 8 in the chapel featuring chamber music ensembles.

04/16/2026

TODAY! The Reed Music Department is pleased to host a lecture-recital presented by local professional vocal ensemble In Mulieribus, featuring two of our private voice instructors, Sarah Beaty and Madeline Ross in PAB 320 from 12:10-1:10pm. Admission is free.

In Mulieribus, a Portland-based women’s chamber vocal ensemble, offers a lecture-recital titled “Sappho: Whispers of Desire" that centers on the enduring legacy of Sappho, the extraordinarily prolific and influential poet of ancient Greece. Though her lyric poetry revolutionized the genre, Sappho’s voice has been historically marginalized. This project aims to help restore a misunderstood and eclipsed figure to her rightful place in cultural history through the performance of musical settings of Sappho’s poetry, spanning composers from Brahms to contemporary voices.

Renowned classics scholar Dr. Ellen Greene, author of the first anthology of Sappho scholarship whose research examines diverse critical approaches to her poetry, will offer insights into the curated repertoire and provide contextual understanding of Sappho’s life and work.