Welcome to our 2025-26 Distinguished Artist Series!
- Jon Kimura Parker: November 5, 2025
- Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat: April 8, 2026
Jon Kimura Parker, Pianist
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
“Jon Kimura Parker...Has never performed as intimately and imaginatively in Portland as he did Sunday. Parker played like a one-man orchestra, calling forth different colors and textures as the music required.”
—The Oregonian.
Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat
Internationally acclaimed singers and musicians from Iran.
Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
Marjan Vahdat
“Put all activities aside, keep out all disturbing sounds and immerse yourself one hundred percent in the singing of one of the strongest voices I have ever heard.”
—Rootstime
Masha Vahdat
“The Iran born singer Mahsa Vahdat has one of the most beautiful voices in the universe, so intense, so mystic, so passionated that it can express the deepest longing, sorrow and pain that exists.”
—Lira
“The album "Placeless" (Kronos Quartet and Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat) nominated by Songlines magazine to be the best fusion album in 2020.”
Willamette University Music Department
Rogers Music Center
503-370-6255
music-info@willamette.edu