Musica Maestrale presents
Renaissance flute, lute music
Mara Winter, Hideki Yamaya to play
CHINOOK, Wash. — Early mu-
sic ensemble Musica Maes-
trale will present the concert
“Passaggi: Virtuosic Renais-
sance Music” at 7 p.m. Sat-
urday, April 9 at Chinook
Lutheran Church, located at
767 U.S. Highway 101. Ad-
mission is $15 at the door.
The concert will feature
Mara Winter on the Renais-
sance Àute, a notorious-
ly dif¿cult yet hauntingly
beautiful instrument. Musi-
ca Maestrale artistic direc-
tor Hideki Yamaya will also
perform on the Renaissance
lute. Included in the program
will be masterworks by At-
taining, De Rore, Dowland
and Palestrina.
%ased in the Paci¿c
Northwest, Winter is a spe-
cialist in historical Àute per-
formance. She can be heard
performing chamber music
on period instruments span-
ning from the 11th century to
the present.
In the past she has been
featured at the Berkeley and
Vancouver Early Music Fes-
tivals. Winter has also per-
Submitted photo
Mara Winter will perform.
formed with the historically
informed Berwick Academy
Orchestra during the Oregon
Bach Festival under the di-
rection of Matthew Halls.
Winter is the recent recipi-
ent of the Early Music Amer-
ica Barbara Thornton Memo-
rial Scholarship. She holds an
Artist Diploma in early music
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Vo i K au he a
from Cornish College of the
Arts in Seattle. Other principal
teachers include Molly Barth
and Kim Pineda at the Uni-
versity of Oregon and Michel
Debost and Kathleen Chastain
at Oberlin Conservatory.
Yamaya, based in Port-
land, is a lutenist and guitar-
ist who actively teaches and
performs all over the West
Coast. He has a Bachelor of
Arts in music and a Master
of Arts in ethnomusicology
from University of Califor-
nia, Santa Cruz, where he
studied with Robert Strizich,
and a Master of Fine Arts in
guitar and lute performance
from University of Califor-
nia, Irvine, where he studied
with John Schneiderman.
In demand both as a solo-
ist and as a continuo/cham-
ber player, Yamaya has per-
formed for Portland Baroque
Orchestra, Portland Opera,
Santa Cruz Baroque Festival,
Baroque Northwest, Musica
Angelica Baroque Orchestra,
L.A. Master Chorale, Cali-
fornia Bach Society and the
Astoria Music Festival.
Musica Maestrale a Port-
land-based early music en-
semble, brings together local
musicians with national and
international reputations to
perform the exquisite, varied
repertoire from between the
16th and 18th centuries. Us-
ing only historically accurate
instruments, Musica Maes-
trale explores the tone, depth
and character of the quieter,
temperamental Renaissance
and Baroque instruments,
and aims to provide an inti-
mate musical experience.
For more information,
visit www.musicamaestrale.
org
Speaker talks female-to-male experience
Lower Columbia Diversity Project hosts transgender discussion
ASTORIA — Over the past
few years, male-to-female
transgender
individuals
have received a great deal
of national attention. From
Chelsea Manning to Laverne
Cox to Caitlyn Jenner and
beyond, trans women have
been in the public eye. But
what about “the other di-
rection”? What about the
female-to-male experience?
Where are the trans men in
this life-and-death conver-
sation about gender identity
and expression?
That will be the subject
of “The Other Direction: Fe-
male-to-Male in the Transgen-
der Continuum,” a discussion
with Laird Young presented by
the Lower Columbia Diversi-
ty Project. The talk will take
place from 2 to 4 p.m. Sun-
day, April 10 at the Boyington
Oregon Humanities presents free talk about nature in Astoria
ASTORIA — Oregonians across
the political spectrum place a
high value on the diverse natural
resources of the state, but they
are divided about how these re-
sources should be used and talk-
ed about. What do Oregonians
want from nature? What do they
understand nature to be, and how
do they see themselves ¿tting in?
“What We Want from the
Wild,” a free discussion about
humanity’s relationship to nature
and part of Oregon Humanities’
statewide Conversation Project,
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Young is a native of St.
Louis who has lived in the
Paci¿c Northwest since 1990.
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Laird Young will speak about transgender
issues at an event hosted by the Lower Co-
lumbia Diversity Project on April 10.
In 2012, at age 51, he decid-
ed he’d waited long enough
to bring his inner and outer
selves into alignment and tran-
sitioned from female-bodied
to male-bodied.
He also decided that while
things were in a state of
change, it was a good time to
leave a 25-year career in sales
and sales management and do
something that mattered more
in the world. He now works in
the nonpro¿t ¿eld for the Pa-
ci¿c NW Hospice Foundation
and does occasional speaking
engagements and workplace
trainings on transgender is-
sues.
This Lower Columbia Di-
versity Project presentation is
free, and everyone is welcome.
For more information, email
lcdiversityproject@gmail.com
or call 503-325-1895
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April 8 at the Astoria Public Li-
brary, located at 450 10th St.
The guest speaker will be
Adam Davis, executive direc-
tor of Oregon Humanities. His
previous roles include directing
the Center for Civic ReÀec-
tion, where he helped the Aldo
Leopold Foundation develop
its Land Ethic Leader training,
and working for the United
States Forest Service, where he
led backcountry trail crews and
occasionally fought wild¿res.
He has taught courses and led
workshops on the human rela-
tionship to nature.
Through the Conversation
Project, Oregon Humanities
offers free programs that en-
gage community members in
thoughtful, challenging conver-
sations about ideas critical to
their daily lives and the state’s
future. For more information
about this free community dis-
cussion, contact Ami Kreider
at 503-325-7323, or email
akreider@astoria.or.us
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Oregon Humanities Executive Director
Adam Davis will lead the discussion “What
We Want from the Wild” on Friday, April 8.
Oregon Humanities is an
independent, nonpro¿t af¿liate
of the National Endowment for
the Humanities and a partner of
the Oregon Cultural Trust. Find
more information at www.oreg-
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This program is hosted by
Astor Library Friends Associa-
tion and sponsored by Oregon
Humanities.