SPRING SERIES
Friday Night Music
June 2026 Schedule
7:30 PM | Parkview Auditorium
12
JUN
Friday Night Music — Amici Trio, Classical
Tomás Cotik is internationally recognized as a soloist, chamber musician, and professor. A highly sought-after recording artist, Dr. Cotik has released 19 CD recordings for Naxos and Centaur Records, accumulating over six million streams and receiving more than 200 enthusiastic reviews from the international press. Dedicated to sharing his passion for music, Dr. Cotik holds the position of Professor of Violin at Portland State University.
Dr. Cotik has been recently honored with several prestigious awards, including First Prize in The American Prize for String Performance (2025), the Dean’s Council Award for Research, the Kamelia Massih Outstanding Faculty Prize, five Global Music Awards, two International Classical Music Awards nominations, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and a Fulbright Scholar Award for Spain. He will be joined by a pianist and cellist to play Mozart and Ravel piano trios.
19
JUN
Friday Night Music — Mark Hanson and Greta Pedersen, Americana, jazz, pop
Grammy-Award winner Mark Hanson is a well-known performer, author, and instructor in the acoustic guitar field. He has authored over two dozen guitar books/DVDs on a variety of topics, released 10 solo and group recordings, and contributed to numerous tribute CDs, one of which – Solid Air Records’ “Henry Mancini Pink Guitar” – won a Grammy for best pop instrumental album in 2005. Mark earned a music degree at Stanford University and performed and taught for many years in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Named 2009 National Artist of the Year by Young Audiences, Greta Pedersen is a versatile performer and music educator. She has appeared internationally in concerts, arts festivals, libraries, nightclubs, and schools, as well as on radio and television, alongside luminaries as diverse as Jerry Garcia and Pete Seeger.
With her husband Mark, Greta performs a memorable mix of styles, including playful jazz, Americana, originals, classic rock and eclectic pop.
26
JUN
Friday Night Music — Dan Balmer Group, jazz
From coffee-house gigs at fifteen to chart-topping success with the Tom Grant Band in the 90s, world tours with two-time Grammy Award winner Diane Schuur and contemporary jam-bands, Dan Balmer brings fire and heart every time he plays the guitar. His playing spans nearly one hundred CDs including twelve as a leader from which his original works have appeared internationally in television, film, and radio. An in-demand educator, Dan adjudicates student jazz band competitions at events such as the Monterey Next Generation Festival and Reno Jazz Festival along with being a long-term teacher at the Centrum Jazz Workshop. He is the director of jazz combos at Lewis and Clark College, while also on faculty at most colleges in the greater Portland area. Dan will be joined by Clay Gilberson on piano; Bill Athens on bass, and Jason Palmer on drums.