About Valdine Mishkin
Canadian Cellist Valdine Ritchie Mishkin is a diverse musician, recognized as a gifted cello teacher and an avid solo, chamber, and orchestral musician. Valdine champions contemporary music with Third Angle, Fear No Music, and March Modern, as featured live on All-Classical FM Portland’s Club Mod and Thursdays at Three. A chamber music enthusiast, she performs Latin-American music as Duo Apaixionado with Peruvian guitarist Alfredo Muro, performs “the classics” with the passionate Crescendo Project, and collaborates in faculty recitals at Willamette University and with pianists Maria Garcia and Steve Lewis. She recently launched the Valley View Chamber Concerts series that hosts soloists and chamber ensembles in intimate salon-style house recitals paired with themed food and wine. Valdine is a regular extra cellist with the Oregon Symphony, sectional coach with the Portland Youth Philharmonic, and formerly performed with the Houston Grand Opera and Mercury Baroque Ensemble. Debuting at age 10 as a soloist with the Winnipeg Symphony, Valdine has since performed concerti with the Mercury Ensemble, Chehalem Symphony, Chamber Camp of Portland, McGill Symphony, the Winnipeg Youth Symphony, and upcoming in October 2019 with Sunnyside Symphony.
Equally dedicated to teaching the youngest students in early education as well as training advanced cellists, Valdine serves on the faculty at Willamette University, teaches a bustling studio of cellists in West Linn, and as faculty at the Walla Walla Suzuki Institute. Her students are frequent solo competition winners and scholarship recipients, earn distinction awards in ABRSM exams, sit principal in area youth orchestras, and attend nationally-recognized summer programs such as BUTI at Tanglewood and Center Stage. Committed to reaching the next generation of musicians, she presents at conferences, adjudicates regional and national festivals, and serves on the boards of Oregon Cello Society and Oregon ASTA.
Valdine holds a Doctorate and Masters in Music from Rice University as a student of Lynn Harrell and Norman Fischer, a Bachelor of Music from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) as a student of Antonio Lysy, and holds both performance diplomas (A.R.C.T.) and teaching certificates in cello and piano from the Royal Conservatory of Toronto as a student of Julie Banton and Ann Lugsdin (Winnipeg). Performing across Canada, U.S.A. and Europe, Valdine’s development was shaped by such festivals as Tanglewood, Orford, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada’s National Music Competition Festival (3rd prize winner), and Schleswig-Holstein Orchestra Academy, by masterclasses with Janos Starker, Aldo Parisot, Zara Nelsova, David Finckel, the Juilliard Quartet, and Arnold Steinhardt, and under the baton of Seiji Ozawa, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Larry Rachleff and Timothy Vernon.

Performance News
Memorial gathering to honor the life of Sonja Myklebust
Dear Friends,Nothing shakes us more than losing a loved one way too young. Our friend, cellist, and beloved teacher Sonja Myklebust passed away last Thursday evening after a year-long fight with brain cancer- she was only 34 years old. We are holding a drop-in...
ThirdAngle Wine Wednesdays, Starting Nov. 20th
November 20, 2019 James Shields, Clarinet Laura Metcalf, Cello January 15, 2020 Chris Whyte, Percussion February 19, 2020 Mario Diaz, Guitar Sarah Tiedemann, Flute March 18,2020 Lisa Neher, Mezzo-Soprano Valdine Mishkin, Cello Cost: FREE and open to the public...
ThirdAngle-Homecomings Thu & Fri, Oct 17 & 18, 2019 at 7:30pm
TICKETS Thu & Fri, Oct 17 & 18, 2019 at 7:30pmStudio 2 @ N.E.W. | 810 SE Belmont St. There must be something in the water here! Join Team 3A for a celebratory homecoming of composers who honed their craft in Oregon before heading out to take the music world by...
Portland Piano Duo Festival Launch Concert: María García / Momoko Muramatsu
Hello Chamber Concert Enthusiasts! Below you'll find a flyer for the upcoming concert of my dear friends and colleagues Maria Garcia and Momoko Muramatsu of 20 Digitus Duo. Maria and I will be performing a cello and piano recital in the upcoming months and Momoko's...
Valdine Mishkin performs Elgar Concerto in e minor with the Sunnyside Symphony, October 20th, 2019
Cellist Valdine Ritchie Mishkin performs Elgar's Concerto in e minor with the Sunnyside Symphony under the baton of Travis Hatton on Sunday, October 20th at 4 PM at Sunnyside SDA Church, 10501 SE Market Street, Portland, Oregon. For more: sunnysidesymphony.org
Duo Apaixonado – Friday May 17th at 7:30 pm
Classic Pianos presents Duo Apaixonado Dialogues for Guitar and Cello Friday, May 17th at 7:30 pm Classic Pianos 3003 SE Milwaukie Ave Portland, OR 97202 Enjoy an intimate house concert of Brazilian, Argentinian, and Mexican works performed by guitarist Alfredo...