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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

  • Sir Wick Hughes: Suite #1

  • Godwin Sadoh: Pastiche of Nigerian Folk Song (World Premiere)

  • Carlos Simon: Silence

  • Derrick Skye: Hum

  • TJ Anderson: Serenade

  • Gretchen Yanover: to solve for heart (for cello with Loop Pedal)

Tuesday, Mar 3rd ~ 6:30pm PT

Escaping the Darkness: Women's History Month

  • Kaitlyn Raitz: Not So Simple

  • Reena Esmail: Perhaps

  • Persis Parshall Vehar: Two Ways of Being

  • Caitlin Foster: Usinien I Mornie ("Escaping the Darkness")

Tuesday, April 7th ~ 7:00pm PT

Turkish Delights

  • Emir Efe Doganer: Variations on a Traditional Turkish Folk Song

  • Andrés Soto: Seikilos for Solo Cello

  • Ilkim Tongur: Quilt and Dawn

  • 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

  • Chaplin/Andersen: The Collar

  • Tina Davidson: Lost Love Songs

  • Dukas/Erben/Chaplin: Sorcerer's Apprentice

Monday, Dec 1st ~ Lights in the Darkness

  • Kaitlyn Raitz: She, In the Dark, Found Light

  • Ilse de Ziah: Solace in Darkness

  • Terry Winter Owens: Cellestial Music

  • Paul Brantley: Hutsul Carols

  • Three Chanukah songs (arr. Diane Chaplin)

Monday, Nov 3rd ~ Into the Mist and Rain

  • Francesco Paolo Scipriani: Three Toccatas

  • Samuel Araya: Manana Neblinoso

  • Leticia Armijo: Neblina

  • Reena Esmail: Varsha

  • Helen Mountfort: The Water Dripped and Sang

Monday, Oct 6th ~ Down Under (music from Australia)

  • Emily Sheppard: Aftermath

  • Helen Mountfort: Wosi Songs from the Trobriand Islands

  • Peter Sculthorpe: Into the Dreaming

  • Georg Mertens: Blue Mountains (Rainforest) Sonata

Monday, Sept 1st ~ Epic Tales

  • Giuseppe Dall'Abaco: Caprice #3

  • Paul Colinet: Six Pieces

  • Maria Newman: Othmar

Monday, August 4th ~ In High Places

  • Riccardo Pes: Signore delle Cime

  • Riccardo Pes: Lament for the Tree

  • Kaitlyn Raitz: Mountain Scenes

  • Helen Mountfort: Arise

  • John Luther Adams: Three High Places

  • Paul Brantley: Parkour

Monday, July 7th ~ A Breath of Air

  • Yuriy Leonovich: Air Russe Variations

  • Paul Brantley: En plein air

  • Calliope Tsoupaki: Thin Air

  • John Corigliano: Fancy on a Bach Air

  • Helen Mountfort: How the Wind Blew
  • Helen Mountfort: Each Precious Breath

  • Helen Mountfort: Swift

Monday, June 2nd ~ Ocean Spirits

  • Povilas Syrrist-Gelgota: Ocean (2025)

  • Ross Edwards: Water Spirit Song (2003)

  • Shirley Ly: Red Sea (2024)

  • Shirley Ly: Lament for the Ocean (2023)

  • Steve Winstead: Hydra, the Water Serpent (2017)

  • Mark O'Connor: Poem for Carlita (1998)

Monday, May 5th ~Jewish Heritage Month 2025

  • Amy Barlowe: Hebraique Elegie (2021)

  • Hugo Kauder: Kleine Suite (1925)

  • Serge Kaufmann: Capriccio (2024)

  • Ernest Bloch: Solo Suite #1 (1956)

Monday, April 7th ~ Solitude of Birds

  • Helen Mountfort: Alight (2014)

  • Sophia Gubaidulina (in memoriam): Prelude #4 (1974)

  • Marcus Barcham-Stevens: Bird (2020)

  • Ailie Robertson: Skydance (2020)

  • Stephanie Ann Boyd: Alleluia Olora (2020)

MONDAY, March 3rd ~ Women's History Month 2025

  • Elena Kats-Chernin: Patina (2001/2017)

  • Elena Ruehr: Lift (2013)

  • Dobrinka Tabakova: Pirin Suite (1999)

MONDAY, Feb 3rd ~ Black History Month 2025

  • Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Melody

  • Joseph Jones: Comic Suite, mvt 1

  • Carlos Simon: Between Worlds

  • Eric Brian Lacy: Three Question Marks

  • Deborah Cheetham: Permit Me

  • Sir Wick Hughes: Suite #3

MONDAY, Jan 6th ~ A Prelude to the New Year

  • Serban Nichifor: Praeludium in Memoriam Pablo Casals

  • Edmund Finnis: 5 Preludes

  • Sofia Gubaidulina: Prelude #5

  • Nicolas Karjinsky: Prelude 

  • Patricio Marty: Preludio Furioso

© 2025 by DIANE CHAPLIN

photo credits: Rachel Hadiashar, Kimberly Whipps (Barefoot Photography), Michelle Bates,

Chris Leck, Andrine de la Rocha 

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