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Timoteus Racz, Artistic Director
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THE OREGON CHAMBER PLAYERS
Celebrating
our 17th Anniversary Season
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It is with great sorrow that we report the sudden and unexpected death of Timoteus Racz on April 2, 2012.
Following his wishes, there will be no Service or Memorial. Our Oregon Chamber Players May 5, 2012 Concert will now honor and celebrate the impact that Timoteus made and continues to make to the music world. Free-will donations will be accepted in lieu of general admission. These donations will be for the Oregon Chamber Players/Junior Symphony of Vancouver organization that he founded and funds will be used to ensure that his legacy will live on.
We will be performing two of his compositions instead of the originally programmed Oboe Quartet. Our reception this time will be an informal Memorial so that our OCP Family (and yes, that does mean our audience) may feel free to share their favorite memories of Tim.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Timoteus Racz Fund (set up to care for his wife) at Wells Fargo Bank, 1800 Main Street, Vancouver, WA 98660, Vancouver, Washington. Phone: 360-694-2595.
Click to Read the full Obituary of Timoteus Racz
For the most varied programming of the
highest quality featuring professional
musicians from across the Northwest, come to
experience the conductorless “ensemble
with no boundaries", led by Artistic
Director and Concertmaster Timoteus Racz –
the Oregon Chamber Players!

OCP Group
Picture with Children's Concert soloist
Stella Kaplan

OCP Group Picture with guest David Ogden
Stiers
(photos by Bob Haas)
Founded
in 1995 and formed by musicians, this group offers the Northwest a
unique niche of the widest variety of styles, instrumentation, and
musical time frames in
an intimate concert setting that assists our audience in getting
personally involved with the music.
If you think you will pay high ticket prices to match the
expensive musical package you are getting – you are in for a
pleasant surprise! The OCP makes it a priority to keep ticket
prices accessible – only $15.00 general and $12.00
student/senior. Cash or Check Only.
Performances are in the beautiful All Saints’ Episcopal Church
located at 4033 S.E. Woodstock in Portland.
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News
What our audience is saying....
October 2009
I am the classical ballet dancer you
and Timoteus spoke with in the
"refreshment room" afterwards. I am
so very grateful that I "stumbled" upon
your performance Saturday night! What a
gem I witnessed. The perfect combination
of "out of Heaven" musical selections to
be enhanced and interpreted and
exquisitely translated for my ears and
soul by true Artists - all of you. I was
transformed as I always dream of "being"
when I go to a concert. I had no idea I
would swept away, but there I was "in
need" and you all and each gave me
Life....
Thank you, thank you and I look forward to
hearing you all again!
Please tell your horn players and
bassoonists that they struck a deep note
in me. But of course each of the
instruments speak so personally and deeply
for me in the chamber music "setting".
The acoustics were excellent for all of
you, but of course you knew this, yes!
Happy Music-Making ahead for the rest of
2009 and into 2010.
Can't wait to hear more of OCP! Tell your
beautiful husband, Timoteus, what
admiration I have for his gathering the
perfect sound/musicians together with the
soul-satisfying choices of music! I love
the way he and you passionately,
truthfully let the music speak through the
beautiful violin and oboe. All
instruments are "delicious" when heard
played by the Oregon Chamber Players! The
viola, the clarinet, the cello, the bass,
the flute - all my favorite voices.
Thank you over and over.
Linda Keeler Burmister
(About the October 17, 2009 OCP Concert)
January 2009
"Con
Grazia Quintet Thanks for playing my piece "El Shlomo del
Toro". You gave it life, spirit, soul and personality.
Victoria, LOVED your improv. YAY!!!
"...Congrats on a wonderful evening last
night. It was delightful in every way. My
wife and my sister-in-law (who won a Mozart
book) enjoyed it immensely.....I must say my
little Piggy story was very well done.
Thanks for my 3rd Golden Apple!
Sincerely,
Matt Doran
(Composer of "Roland, the Minstrel
Pig" writing about our OCP Children's
Concert, Saturday, February 23, 2008)
"...Sesalee's
friend liked the concert so much (her
first ever) that she already asked if I
could take her next year. We had a
rollicking good time on the way home, even
stopping at 7-Eleven for Slurpee's (a
substance usually banned in my car). It
was an act of desperation and poor
parenting skills as I caved in to the
incessant enthusiastic begging.
While the concert was in progress I
looked around the church at all the kids
there and thought to myself, if it
weren't for the OCP, most of those kids
would have been home watching TV, none
the wiser for the beautiful music they
would have been missing. Now they have
the seeds planted for a life-long love
of music.
Thanks for doing all the hard work to
bring the concert together.
Kathy
By the way, Sesalee wants to be a
violinist now, inspired by the adorable
Stella!"
- Quote from an e-mail regarding the OCP
Children's Concert on Saturday, February 23
"The
Oregon Chamber Players performed a plucky concert Saturday night
at All Saints’ Episcopal Church. Resuscitating rarely heard
delicacies, the group interpreted works by Cimarosa, Mozart,
Dvorak and Kozeluh."
- The Oregonian
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