Here are a dozen concert opportunities that may strike your winter fancy. They represent a sampling of new works, beloved works and works by composers you may know well but not that particular piece. The selection is also spread throughout many local organizations that consistently offer high-quality performances.

Gould Piano Trio – Friends of Chamber Music

The Gould Piano Trio and clarinetist Robert Plane wowed Portlanders in 2017. This acclaimed British ensemble has made 25 recordings, many on the Naxos and Chandos labels. Now they are in town to make their Friends of Chamber Music debut with two diverse concerts. The first program features music by Carl Frühling and Antonín Dvořák plus a new piece by Huw Watkins. The second concert offers works by Joseph Haydn and Maurice Ravel as well as Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time.”

7:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 20-21, Lincoln Performance Hall, 1620 S.W. Park Ave; focm.org or 503-224-9842.

Locally Sourced Sounds VI – Fear No Music

This new music ensemble will present a variety of contemporary works from composers who live in Oregon and southwest Washington. The program features pieces for viola and piano by Jake Safirstein and Allen Skirvin and a piano trio by Nicholas Emerson. Li Tao will offer a piece that draws on ancient Chinese poetry, and a work for clarinet, marimba, and fixed media by visiting Reed College professor Kirsten Volness reflects social and environmental issues. Jennifer Wright’s “X Chromosome,” featuring toy piano, violin, clarinet, soprano and marimba, promises to lighten things up.

7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan, 20, The Old Church, 1422 S.W. 11th Ave.; fearnomusic.org or 971-220-6366.

Super Bach Sunday – Bach Cantata Choir

Before the Super Bowl kicks off, you can load your ears with great music by J.S. Bach. The choir will perform his Cantata #38 “Aus Tiefer Not Schrei Ich Zu Dir” (“Out of Deep Anguish I Call to You”) and Cantata #149 “Man Singet Mit Freuden vom Sieg” (“One Sings With Joy About Victory”). Violinists Mary Rowell and Tatiana Kolchanova will play his “Double Violin Concerto.” The brass will do Gabrieli’s “Canzona for Brass” and then team with the choir for his “Gloria in 12 Parts.” A terrific slate of soloists includes Hannah Penn, Vakarė Petroliūnaitė, Jacob Herbert and Leslie Green.

2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, Rose City Park Presbyterian Church, 1907 N.E. 45th Ave.; bachcantatachoir.org or 503-702-1973.

Genghis Barbie – Third Angle New Music Ensemble

This self-styled “post post-feminist feminist all-female horn ensemble” invades Portland with a killer, eclectic program that will include the quartet’s own arrangements of classical gems, pop music, rock ’n’ roll, and alternative contemporary numbers. With an appearance at Carnegie Hall und five studio albums under their collective belts, these musicians have generated lots of attention, and in keeping with their spontaneous style, they will announce their program from the stage.

7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Feb. 6-7, Studio 2 @ N.E.W., 810 SE Belmont St.; thirdangle.org or 503-331-0301.

Violinist Augustin Hadelich

Pictures at an Exhibition – Oregon Symphony

This concert presents the world premiere of a piece by Gabriella Smith, whose works have struck a chord at Chamber Music Northwest, and Missy Mazzoli’s celestial “Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres).” Also, one of the world’s great violinists, Augustin Hadelich, will use his incredibly impeccable technique and artistry to play Paganini’s First Violin Concerto. To top things off, the orchestra, under music director Carlos Kalmar, will take you to the gates of Kiev in Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.”

7:30 p.m. Saturday and Monday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8-10; Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 S.W. Broadway; orsymphony.org or 503-228-1353.

Safe Harbor – Resonance Ensemble

As part of its Programming with Purpose season, the Resonance Ensemble will present music that touches on the theme of immigration and asylum in this concert. These new pieces tell the stories of immigrants and refugees and will surely have many poignant and thought-provoking moments. The group will sing pieces by Eric Banks, Melissa Dunphy, John Muehleisen, Caroline Shaw and Ysaye Barnwell, plus the world premiere of Theresa Koon’s “Mother of Exiles.” The ensemble will uncork the world premiere of music by Portland violinist/looper Joe Kye that integrates folk music from his native Korea with American folk music and improvisation.

4 p.m. Sunday, March 1, Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 N.E. Alberta St.; resonancechoral.org or 503-427-8701.

Northern Lights and Smörgåsbord – 45th Parallel Universe

Sample two Scandinavian-inflected concerts in one evening. For the first, the Arcturus Quintet will evoke snowflakes and the northern reaches in a piece by Johan Kvandal. The ensemble will explore basement timbres in Esa-Pekka Salonen's “Memoria” and close with Carl Nielsen’s tongue-in-cheek Quintet, Op. 43. The second concert will start with folk music on the nyckelharpa and the hardanger fiddle. It will end with two works inspired by traditional music: Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 1 and Edvard Grieg's tuneful “Sonata in F Major for Violin and Piano.”

7 and 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 6, The Old Church, 1422 S.W. 11th Ave.; 45thparallelpdx.org or 503-446-4227.

Anderson & Roe – Portland Piano International

Acclaimed for their electrifying performances, the dynamic duo of Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe are poised to take audiences on another music journey that will travel all over the map. Whether they sit at separate grands or side-by-side at the same keyboard, their musicality and inventiveness are astonishing and fun to watch as they get into a mind meld that is just uncanny. Two separate programs include works by Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, John Williams, Radiohead and arrangements by Anderson and Roe.

4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 14-15, Lincoln Performance Hall, 1620 S.W. Park Ave; portlandpiano.org or 503-228-1388.

Tchaikovsky’s Divine Liturgy – Cappella Romana

Although chiefly known for his symphonies, ballet music, chamber pieces and operas, Tchaikovsky also composed sacred music, including a setting of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, the most famous of the Eucharistic services of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Written for chorus and bass, this performance of the Divine Liturgy will feature the Cappella Romana ensemble with the Pacific Youth Choir and basso profundo Glenn Miller under the baton of guest conductor Benedict Sheehan.

7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 14, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave.; cappellaromana.org or 503-236-8202.

Berio’s "Sinfonia" by Rose Bond – Oregon Symphony, runs March 14-16, 2020. Courtesy of Oregon SymphonyCourtesy of Oregon Symphony

Berio’s Sinfonia by Rose Bond – Oregon Symphony

As part of its SoundSights series, the orchestra will collaborate with Portland-based media artist Rose Bond in a performance of Luciano Berio’s “Sinfonia.” Described as a lively deconstructionist meditation on symphonic patterns that is infused with fragments from Debussy, Ravel and Richard Strauss, the piece includes vocals provided by Roomful of Teeth. That ensemble will also perform Caroline Shaw’s “Partita for 8 Voices,” which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music. To level things out a bit, the orchestra will play the Overture and Venusberg Music from Richard Wagner’s “Tannhäuser.”

7:30 p.m. Saturday and Monday, 2 p.m. Sunday, March, 14-16; Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 S.W. Broadway; orsymphony.org or 503-228-1353.

Erin Helyard. Photo by Bridget ElliotPhoto by Bridget Elliot

Bazajet – Portland Opera

Everyone knows Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons,” but he wrote many other works, including 50 operas. “Bazajet” is an exotic love story that revolves around the emperor of the Turks, who has been captured. Contralto Avery Amereau and countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen have been cast in this production, which will be the first-ever by a professional opera company in the United States. In the pit will be the Portland Baroque Orchestra led by Australian conductor Erin Helyard.

7:30 p.m. Friday, March 20, Tuesday, March 24, Thursday, March 26, Saturday, March 28; 2 p.m. Sunday, March 22; Newmark Theatre, 1111 S.W. Broadway; portlandopera.org or 503-241-1407.

The Portland Symphonic Choir will perform Beethoven’s monumental “Missa Solemnis" in March. Photo by Donna RobinsonCourtesy of Portland Symphonic

Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis – Oregon Music Festival

Beethoven’s monumental “Missa Solemnis” is a rare treat for Portlanders. This performance will involve ​Ukrainian-American soprano Antonina Chehovska, Argentinian bass-baritone Eduardo Chama, American mezzo Stacey Rishoi and tenor Scott Ramsay. The Portland Symphonic Choir will give you more than a wall of sound in the pivotal choral passages. All of the forces, including the Oregon Music Festival orchestra, will be guided by the baton of Zvonimir Hačko.

4 p.m. Sunday, March 22, First United Methodist Church, 1838 S.W. Jefferson St.; oregonmusicfest.org or 503-927-2910.

— James Bash, events@oregonian.com