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
Duo Apaixonado – Sunday May 19th at 1:30 pm
Valley View Chamber Concerts presents Duo Apaixonado Dialogues for Guitar and Cello Sunday, May 19th at 1:30 pm Enjoy an intimate house concert of Brazilian, Argentinian, and Mexican works performed by guitarist Alfredo Muro and cellist Valdine Mishkin Tickets are $25...
FearNoMusic Concert “Japanarama” on Monday May 6th
FearNoMusic Concert “Japanarama” on Monday May 6th 7:30 pm at the Old Church 1422 SW 11th St., Portland For a country the size of California, Japan has long provided an outsized influence on Western culture. In this special collaboration with Portland Taiko, Fear No...
FearNoMusic “Young Composers Project” Concert on Sunday April 28th
FearNoMusic “Young Composers Project” Concert Sunday, April 28th at 2 pm Lincoln Hall Portland State University
“Love Songs” Tuesday April 23rd
Love Songs David Schiff, Composer: A Three Concert Celebration Kaul Auditorium at Reed College Tuesday, April 23rd, 8 pm Valdine will be performing with FearNoMusic as part of David Schiff's retirement Concert series. The Program will include "Peace" (1984) and "All...
Faculty Chamber Music Concert for Strings and Piano, Wed. Feb. 6, 7:30pm
Willamette University's music faculty presents FREE CONCERT Suggested donation: $8/adults, $5/students. Wednesday, February 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Hudson Hall The program will include colorful sonatas for each of the individual string instruments and piano by Claude...
Delgani String Quartet – February 16th, 2019
Valley View Chamber Concerts Presents Inaugural Event of the 2019 season Delgani String Quartet Saturday, February 16th 2:30 PM, Wine & Appetizers at 2 PM Imagine the sound in that living room! You won't have to if you attend our intimate concert at the home of...