Reed All About It (SOLD OUT)
Sunday, May 3, 2026
3:00 pm
Hosted by Jim Kopp
20 guests • $100
Sold Out
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Extra! Extra! James Kopp makes headlines with his instrument’s rich, resonant tones while cellist David Eby and pianist Cary Lewis add their own bylines to the musical chronicle turning every note into front-page news. Catch this story in a scoop-worthy Westmoreland home while you sip fine wine, savor tasty bites, and revel in a chamber music story worth spreading.
(Please note Jim Kopp is replacing Carin Miller, who will not be able to perform due to a scheduling conflict.)
- More About David Eby
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David Eby’s musical journey began at age six, when he declared he would play the cello. By sixteen, he was performing as a soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony and attending the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals.He earned his Bachelor of Music and Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music under Paul Katz, and his Master’s from Indiana University studying with the legendary Janos Starker. His early career included serving as Principal Cellist with the Evansville Philharmonic and Owensboro Symphony, and co-founding the storytelling ensemble Tales & Scales.
In 1996, David moved to Portland, becoming the founding cellist of Pink Martini and performing with the Portland Opera. In 2001, he followed a deep inner calling to Ananda Village in Northern California, where he served as Music Director and explored the intersection of music, consciousness, and flow.
In 2012, he musically directed and produced the soundtrack for Finding Happiness, starring Elisabeth Röhm. He later returned to Portland, where he now teaches Workshops for the Inspired Musician and shares his insights from nearly two decades of exploring music as a spiritual and expressive path.
David performs with the Oregon Symphony, teaches at Lewis & Clark College, directs Advanced Strings at Oregon Episcopal School, and maintains a thriving private cello studio. Outside of music, he enjoys swimming, rock climbing, and exploring Portland with his partner, Carin Miller.
- More About Cary Lewis
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Pianist Cary Lewis is in frequent demand as a collaborative pianist for soloists and chamber music groups. He joined William Preucil (concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra) and his wife, cellist Dorothy Lewis, to form the Lanier Trio, whose recording of the complete Dvorak Trios was honored by TIME Magazine as one of the Ten Best Recordings in 1993. With degrees from the University of North Texas as well as a doctorate and Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, he was a Fulbright scholar for two years in Vienna. His teachers included Eugene List, Brooks Smith, and Dieter Weber. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Bargemusic, the Library of Congress, the White House, the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall in London, the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, and in other music capitals of the United States and Europe. Dr. Lewis is retired from the faculty of Georgia State University in Atlanta and is now based in Portland, Oregon. In recent years he has participated in festivals in Montana, Colorado, Michigan, Maine, Hawaii, St. Croix and Turkey, and has recorded over three dozen albums featuring works from the standard literature as well as music by American composers. - More About James Kopp
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James Kopp is a bassoonist, reed maker, and writer on musical topics. He has performed with Concert Royal, the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, and Handel & Haydn Society, among many other period-instrument orchestras. He is heard on the soundtrack of the Disney film Casanova and on several commercial sound recordings. He has also performed as a modern bassoonist or contrabassoonist with the New Jersey Symphony, Riverside Symphony, and Pavarotti in Concerto Orchestra, as well as many operatic and chamber ensembles in the New York area. He is the author of The Bassoon, a history of the instrument, its repertory, its players, and its audiences, (Yale University Press, 2012). He was a senior editor of The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, second edition (Oxford University Press, 2014). His articles on the history and acoustics of woodwind instruments have appeared in the Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, the Galpin Society Journal, The Double Reed, British Double Reed News, Rohrblatt, The Grove Dictionary of American Music, and MGG. He has spoken at conferences in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland.
The author of several articles on the acoustics of the bassoon and its reed, he is also a commercial reed maker, a teacher of reed-making techniques, and a frequent consultant to professional bassoonists. He has led workshops at The Juilliard School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music (London), and many universities in the United States. He studied bassoon with Carl Nitchie, Jesse Read, and Dennis Godburn, and contrabassoon with Thomas Sefcovic. He earned a B.A. in music from Duke University and a Ph.D. in music history and theory from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught music history and theory at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgia State University, and Mercer University.
