International Scholars

Performers and Speakers

In addition to papers by scholars from around the country, the festival features keynote talks and performances by internationally acclaimed musicians and writers.

Camille Ortiz

Puerto Rican soprano Camille Ortiz has served as Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Oregon, School of Music and Dance since the fall of 2020. Recent career highlights include a residency with Seattle Opera in the fall of 2023, leading to a return on the mainstage as Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute in February/March of 2025. An avid recitalist, she holds a keen interest in art song, particularly of underrepresented composers.

Stephen Rodgers

Stephen Rodgers is Edmund A. Cykler Chair in Music and Professor of Music Theory and Musicianship at the University of Oregon, where he has been teaching since 2005. He specializes in the study of song, especially songs by underrepresented composers. His book The Songs of Clara Schumann was published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press, and his edited collection The Songs of Fanny Hensel appeared with Oxford University Press in 2021. He also hosts a podcast about poetry and song, called Resounding Verse, as well a website devoted to songs by composers whose music has been marginalized, called Art Song Augmented.

Stephen Rumph

Stephen Rumph is Chair and Adelaide D. Cole Endowed Professor of Music History at the University of Washington. His publications include The Fauré Song Cycles: Poetry and Music, 1861-1921 (University of California Press, 2020) and Fauré Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2021), co-edited with Carlo Caballero. He is currently editing the Cambridge Companion to French Art Song, expected out in 2024. He also sings professionally as a lyric tenor, appearing regularly in opera and concert.

Carrie Shaw

Praised in the New York Times “as graceful vocally as she was in her movements”, “consistently stylish” (Boston Globe), and as a “cool, precise soprano” (Chicago Tribune), Carrie Henneman Shaw is a two-time McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians winner. She has premiered major works by such Minnesota composers as Jocelyn Hagen and Abbie Betinis, whose annual Christmas carols she has recorded for Minnesota Public Radio, and sung American premieres of works by such composers as Georg Friedrich Haas, Hans Thomalla, and Augusta Read Thomas. Carrie is a member of acclaimed contemporary groups Quince Ensemble and Ensemble Dal Niente.

Cascade Song Festival is presented in partnership between scholars from the University of Oregon, Eugene, and University of Washington, Seattle.

CSF will alternate between our campuses with the inaugural festival to be held at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Details for travel logistics to be announced