Third Angle announces 2026/2027 Season

PORTLAND, Ore. — Third Angle New Music enters its fifth decade with SEASON 41– exploring the space between darkness and light, humanity and technology, piety and blasphemy. Running from September 2026 through May 2027, SEASON 41 includes collaborations with Winter Light Festival, Zidell Yards and Hillsboro’s Bag&Baggage Productions to create the mind-bending sonic experiences that continue to define the future of “new music” in Oregon.

Artistic Director Sarah Tiedemann adds, “This season is all about transcendence. We'll submerge audiences not only in sound, but also in deconstructed spaces, otherworldly light, and the interfacing of human and machine. No boundary is sacrosanct this year at Third Angle.”

Concert Series‍ ‍

Haunted Haas
Oct. 9, 2026 at Zidell Yards

Within the massive Zidell Yards shipyard, Third Angle presents chilling electroacoustic works by Georg Friedrich Haas, Nicole Lizée, Christopher Cerrone, Rosśa Crean and Kennedy Taylor Dixon.

Vespers for a New Dark Age
Feb. 11, 2027 at Winter Light Festival (exact venue yet to be revealed)

A prayer to the ghost in the machine, Third Angle presents Missy Mazzoli’s electrified and distorted take on the traditional Vespers prayer service and a world premiere work from Portland composer and recently-named Guggenheim Fellow Oswald Huỳnh.

Neural Duet - Guest Creative Director Badie Khaleghian
May 21-23, 2027 at The Vault Theater

Blurring the line between human and technology, Badie Khaleghian performs a duet with a Steinway Spiro player-piano trained to respond to his own realtime neural behavior.

John T. Montague Memorial Decibel Series

In addition to the SEASON 41 Concert Series, Third Angle returns to Decibel Sound & Drink in Milwaukie, Ore. for intimate Sunday afternoon sets from local artists.

Aruna Quartet - Nov. 8, 2026
Garrett Baxter - Jan. 17, 2027
Sarah Tiedemann & Daniel Reyes Llinás - April 18, 2027

For season subscriptions and more information, visit thirdangle.org.