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Come hear this amazing jazz/classical crossover group UNBANDE featuring Danny Seidenberg (viola), Daryl Silberman (viola), Noah Seitz (cello), and Christopher Woitach (jazz guitar). They play jazz standards, originals, rock, pop - it's a fun and eclectic mix with someone for everyone! The fun energetic atmosphere of the show will have you wanting more by the end of the night.
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Alessandro Taverna, 26-year old Italian pianist, won 2nd prize in the 2009 London International Piano Competition, 3rd prize in the 2009 Leeds International Piano Competition, and 1st prize in the 2009 Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition. He's a rising star in the classical music world; please take this opportunity to see him while he's in Salem!
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WOW! Silk Mountain Project rocked the house last night at SCO's soiree, Fireside Jazz!


The classical/jazz crossover group comprised of violists Danny Seidenberg and his wife Daryl Silberman, cellist Noah Seitz, and jazz guitarist Christopher Woitach is a fairly new endeavor; this was only their… Continue

Spend a cozy evening with Silk Mountain Project


The Silk Mountain Project was created in 2009 to advance the cause of chamber jazz/pop/rock improvisational crossover styles played by strings, and in particular to celebrate the unique voice of the viola. There’s a style for everyone; it’s a fun and eclectic mix, and all inspired by the beautiful mountains of Oregon!


The ensemble features long-time violist of the Turtle Island String Quartet Danny Seidenberg and his wife Daryl (Silk Mountain i… Continue

Twenty-five years! I remember the clarity of my vision: to better attract and educate the best students we would need a better, more stable orchestra than the small flow of orchestral students we then were attracting to Willamette. A few years earlier there had been such an orchestra, the Salem Symphony. Butthat orchestra, a full symphonic orchestra, nearly entirely professional orchestra, had collapsed under the weight of its payroll during the recession of the early '80s.

Ah, the audacity of… Continue