PERFORMANCES
LIVESTREAMS ~ SOLO CELLO CONCERTS
Usually the first TUESDAY of each month
6:30pm Pacific Time (winter); 7pm not-winter
Diane Chaplin, Cellist on Facebook
Diane Chaplin, Cellist youtube channel
Cello Refinery youtube channel
Tuesday, Feb 3rd ~ 6:30pm PT
Black History Month 2026
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Sir Wick Hughes: Suite #1
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Godwin Sadoh: Pastiche of Nigerian Folk Song (World Premiere)
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Carlos Simon: Silence
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Derrick Skye: Hum
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TJ Anderson: Serenade
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Gretchen Yanover: to solve for heart (for cello with Loop Pedal)
Tuesday, Mar 3rd ~ 6:30pm PT
Escaping the Darkness: Women's History Month
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Kaitlyn Raitz: Not So Simple
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Reena Esmail: Perhaps
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Persis Parshall Vehar: Two Ways of Being
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Caitlin Foster: Usinien I Mornie ("Escaping the Darkness")
Tuesday, April 7th ~ 7:00pm PT
Turkish Delights
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Emir Efe Doganer: Variations on a Traditional Turkish Folk Song
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Andrés Soto: Seikilos for Solo Cello
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Ilkim Tongur: Quilt and Dawn
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Adnan Saygun: Partita (mvts 3, 4, 5)
IN-PERSON APPEARANCES
Feb 12 & 13 ~ PORTLAND, OR
Music of Stevie Wonder at Alberta Street Pub
with members of Portland Cello Project
Feb 25, 2026 ~ SAN FRANCISCO
Presentation for National ASTA conference
Mar 8 ~ PORTLAND, OR
Cascadia Composers: MOSAIC @ The Old Church
Chamber music by women composers
April 2 ~ PORTLAND, OR
Thursdays @ Three radio program
April 12 ~ PORTLAND, OR
World premiere of Cello Concerto "Yizkor" by Israeli composer Ayala Asherov
with Jewish Community Orchestra
April 19 ~ PORTLAND, OR
"Turkish Delights"
Friends of Chamber Music house concert
May 8 ~ BEND, OR
Portland Cello Project
May 9 ~ ASTORIA, OR
Portland Cello Project
RECENT - still available to view
on Diane's youtube channel
2025 (link to previous years below)
Wednesday, Jan 7th ~ A Surreal Start to 2026
Howard Patterson, narrator
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Chaplin/Andersen: The Collar
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Tina Davidson: Lost Love Songs
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Dukas/Erben/Chaplin: Sorcerer's Apprentice
Monday, Dec 1st ~ Lights in the Darkness
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Kaitlyn Raitz: She, In the Dark, Found Light
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Ilse de Ziah: Solace in Darkness
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Terry Winter Owens: Cellestial Music
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Paul Brantley: Hutsul Carols
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Three Chanukah songs (arr. Diane Chaplin)
Monday, Nov 3rd ~ Into the Mist and Rain
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Francesco Paolo Scipriani: Three Toccatas
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Samuel Araya: Manana Neblinoso
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Leticia Armijo: Neblina
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Reena Esmail: Varsha
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Helen Mountfort: The Water Dripped and Sang
Monday, Oct 6th ~ Down Under (music from Australia)
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Emily Sheppard: Aftermath
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Helen Mountfort: Wosi Songs from the Trobriand Islands
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Peter Sculthorpe: Into the Dreaming
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Georg Mertens: Blue Mountains (Rainforest) Sonata
Monday, Sept 1st ~ Epic Tales
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Giuseppe Dall'Abaco: Caprice #3
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Paul Colinet: Six Pieces
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Maria Newman: Othmar
Monday, August 4th ~ In High Places
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Riccardo Pes: Signore delle Cime
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Riccardo Pes: Lament for the Tree
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Kaitlyn Raitz: Mountain Scenes
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Helen Mountfort: Arise
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John Luther Adams: Three High Places
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Paul Brantley: Parkour
Monday, July 7th ~ A Breath of Air
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Yuriy Leonovich: Air Russe Variations
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Paul Brantley: En plein air
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Calliope Tsoupaki: Thin Air
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John Corigliano: Fancy on a Bach Air
- Helen Mountfort: How the Wind Blew
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Helen Mountfort: Each Precious Breath
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Helen Mountfort: Swift
Monday, June 2nd ~ Ocean Spirits
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Povilas Syrrist-Gelgota: Ocean (2025)
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Ross Edwards: Water Spirit Song (2003)
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Shirley Ly: Red Sea (2024)
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Shirley Ly: Lament for the Ocean (2023)
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Steve Winstead: Hydra, the Water Serpent (2017)
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Mark O'Connor: Poem for Carlita (1998)
Monday, May 5th ~Jewish Heritage Month 2025
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Amy Barlowe: Hebraique Elegie (2021)
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Hugo Kauder: Kleine Suite (1925)
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Serge Kaufmann: Capriccio (2024)
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Ernest Bloch: Solo Suite #1 (1956)
Monday, April 7th ~ Solitude of Birds
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Helen Mountfort: Alight (2014)
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Sophia Gubaidulina (in memoriam): Prelude #4 (1974)
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Marcus Barcham-Stevens: Bird (2020)
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Ailie Robertson: Skydance (2020)
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Stephanie Ann Boyd: Alleluia Olora (2020)
MONDAY, March 3rd ~ Women's History Month 2025
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Elena Kats-Chernin: Patina (2001/2017)
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Elena Ruehr: Lift (2013)
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Dobrinka Tabakova: Pirin Suite (1999)
MONDAY, Feb 3rd ~ Black History Month 2025
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Melody
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Joseph Jones: Comic Suite, mvt 1
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Carlos Simon: Between Worlds
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Eric Brian Lacy: Three Question Marks
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Deborah Cheetham: Permit Me
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Sir Wick Hughes: Suite #3
MONDAY, Jan 6th ~ A Prelude to the New Year
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Serban Nichifor: Praeludium in Memoriam Pablo Casals
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Edmund Finnis: 5 Preludes
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Sofia Gubaidulina: Prelude #5
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Nicolas Karjinsky: Prelude
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Patricio Marty: Preludio Furioso