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This is always an exciting time of year for the Coppers Classic Team. The 2026  repertoire is posted {click “Repertoire” and soak it in. It is diverse (always a goal, and includes an unpublished work by Midwest middle chool music teacher, Billy Brandt. I taught middle school music, too, and have admiration for all who create brilliant music with those young musician!}

There’s a composition by Seattle composer, Chris Reed, a George Fox University grad and award winner. Song of the Storm was also selected by JW Pepper as one of the “Editor’s Choice” honorees! We debut the 2025 Area 10 Belltree Composition Contest winner, The Way Back Home by Mark Longfield, a SoCal composer.

And so much more wonderful handbell repertoire!

The Coppers Classic Team, Vanessa Blake, event coordinator, Sharon Ross, registrar, Lynn Kempter, treasurer and me, Ellie Hodder, the happiest person in the room!

Speed over to the registration page and join the fun!

Questions? mail to: coppersclassic@gmail.com. We’ll get back to you soon!

Join us Sunday, October 13th at 4 pm as we celebrate 5 years of music making.

Coppers Classic is the nations’s premier massed ringing event for advanced coppers handbell musicians held annually in Portland, Oregon with participants from all over the United States and Canada.

Wonderful handbell repertoire by the best of the best composers and arrangers–Michael Glasgow, Cynthia Dobrinski, Linda Boatright, Hart Morris, Sondra Tucker,  Nick Hanson, Jason W. Krug, Kazuko Okamoto, Cathy Moklebust, Alex Guebert, Sandra Eithun and Kath Wissinger. Original works and

transcriptions. The best of handbells!

University Place Hotel & Conference Center
(310 SW Lincoln, On the Orange Line)

Suggested Donation: $10 (all welcome)

Info: directorcoppersclassic@gmail.com