PERFORMANCES
LIVESTREAMS ~ SOLO CELLO CONCERTS
First MONDAY of each month
6:30pm Pacific Time
Diane Chaplin, Cellist on Facebook
Diane Chaplin, Cellist youtube channel
Cello Refinery youtube channel
Monday, July 7th ~ 6:30pm PT
A Breath of Air
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Calliope Tsoupaki: Thin Air
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Yuriy Leonovich: Air Russe Variations
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John Corigliano: Fancy on a Bach Air
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Paul Brantley: En plein air
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Helen Mountfort: How the Wind Blew
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Helen Mountfort: Each Precious Breath
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Helen Mountfort: Swift
Monday, August 4th ~ 6:30pm PT
In High Places
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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, Sept 8th ~ 10am PT (from Italy)
Down Under (music from & about Australia)
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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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Emily Sheppard: Aftermath
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Georg Mertens: Blue Mountains (Rainforest) Sonata
Monday, Oct 6th ~ 10am PT (from Italy)
Epic Tales
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Paul Colinet: Six Pieces
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Maria Newman: Othmar
IN-PERSON APPEARANCES
JUNE 28 ~ PORTLAND, OR
The Female Gaze
4pm at Michelle's Pianos
a work by Randy Woolf for cello, piano & shakuhachi
TICKETS HERE (or use QR code below)
JULY 18 & 19 ~ PORTLAND, OR
LONG STRINGS at Zidell Yards
A once-in-a-lifetime concert event featuring Jennifer Wright's Long Strings instrument (120 feet long!)
with Paul Safar (medieval hurdy-gurdy), Lucas Marshall Smith (transcendent throat singing)
RECENT - still available to view
on Diane's youtube channel
2025 (link to previous years below)
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
The poster below is from a past performance, but it's so cool that it's going to stay here for a while!
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, 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