Join us for Concert #5 of Season 2025/26
Concert #3 – Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony
May 30 at 7:00 pm, pre-concert talk at 6:15 pm
May 31 at 2:00 pm, pre-concert talk at 1:15 pm
East Salem Community Center
1850 45th Ave. NE
Salem, OR 97305
2025-2026 Individual concert ticket prices:
- $25 (adults aged 18-64)
- $20 (students/seniors 65+)
- $0 (children/youth through age 17)
Franz von Suppé (1819-1895)
Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna Overture
Randall DeBruyn (b. 1947)
Apocalyptic Maiden
Featuring Sprano, Saori DeBruyn
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 (Pathétique)
I. Adagio – Allegro non troppo
II. Allegro con grazia
III. Allegro molto vivace
IV. Finale: Adagio lamentoso
Featured Composer Randall DeBruyn
Composer Randall DeBruyn was born in Portland, Oregon, but grew up in Michigan. Although no one in his immediate family was a musician, he spent his early summers back in Oregon in the care of his maternal grandmother, who was an accomplished pianist. As a boy, he taught himself to play the piano and to compose on a broken “player” piano at home, but he had no access to a teacher. His first formal study of music was at Lewis and Clark College in the 1960s, where he graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Music in Music Theory and Composition. He completed his Doctor of Musical Arts at University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) in 1975, after which he moved back to Oregon for good. There, he raised eight children and spent 32 years working as an editor and arranger for Oregon Catholic Press. Many of his compositions are liturgical pieces, although he also had a number of notable collaborations with theatrical producer and actor Leonardo Defilippis. He has also written several orchestral works and chamber pieces. Now retired, Randall still composes music almost every day and lives in Lake Oswego with his wife.
Featured Soloist Saori DeBruyn
Hailed by Northwest Reverb as “a dynamite soprano,” Saori DeBruyn brings heart and soul to all her performances. Saori’s recent performances include Zerlina in Don Giovanni (Cascadia Chamber Opera), Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus (Opernfest Berlin), and Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte (Eugene Opera). Saori is no stranger to premiering new works, starring as the Barmaid in Keith Allegretti’s Good Country and as Brianne in Mark Lanz Weiser and Amy Punt’s The Place Where You Started. In the fall of 2026, Saori will make her house debut with Livermore Valley Opera singing Sister Genevieve in their production of Suor Angelica.
Her concert appearances include the soprano solo in Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Eugene Concert Choir, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle with the Dartmouth Glee Club, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Sunnyside Symphony Orchestra, and the world premiere of Apocalyptic Maiden, a song cycle for soprano and orchestra set to text from the Magnificat, with the Salem Philharmonia Orchestra.
Saori received her master’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and her bachelor’s degree from Portland State University. Saori moved back to her hometown of Portland, Oregon, last year with her husband, Jonathan DeBruyn, and their two-year-old daughter. In her free time, Saori enjoys cooking, sewing, and doing Brazilian jiu-jitsu.