Performance history by decade · 1990s 

During our time as the Portland Music Commission, the Portland Concert Association, and PCA Great Performances, we have brought many of history’s greatest performing artists to Maine. In this section, we have compiled a list, believed complete, of each season’s artist roster. Use the links below to navigate the list by decade.

  • 1989–90

    • Dave Brubeck
    • English Concert with Trevor Pinnock
    • Royal Winnipeg Ballet
    • Los Angeles Piano Quartet
    • Vladimir Feltsman
    • Dizzy Gillespie & Billy Eckstine
      with Count Basie Orchestra
    • The King’s Singers
    • Dreamgirls, national tour
    • La Bohème, New York City Opera
    • Beaux Arts Trio
    • Soviet Acrobats
    • Jean-Pierre Rampal
    • Horacio Gutierrez
    • H.M.S. Pinafore, Texas Opera Theatre
    • David Parsons Dance Company
    • Manuel Barrueco

  • 1990–91

    • Emanuel Ax & Yo-Yo Ma
    • Midori & Robert McDonald
    • Elmer Iseler Singers
    • Woody Guthrie’s American Song,
      Missouri Repertory Theatre
    • Peter Serkin
    • Harlem Spiritual Ensemble
    • Glen Campbell
    • Kodo Drummers
    • New World String Quartet
    • The Marriage of Figaro, New York City Opera
    • Messiah, Choral Art Society
    • Oakland Ballet
    • Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
    • George Shearing
    • Joe Williams & Joe Pass
    • Mummenschanz
    • Super Stuff, children’s series

  • 1991–92

    • Les Ballets Africains
    • Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
    • Guildhall String Ensemble
    • Canadian Brass
    • Glenn Yarborough & the New Christy Minstrels
    • Isaac Stern
    • Harlem Spiritual Ensemble
    • Philharmonia Hungarica
      Yehudi Menuhin, conductor
      Ralph Markum & Kenneth Broadway, piano
    • Tosca, New York City Opera
    • Ellis Marsalis & Marcus Roberts
    • Ballet Chicago
    • Richard Stoltzman
    • The Chieftains
    • Eduardus Halim
    • Super Stuff, children’s series

  • 1992–93

    • James Galway and Christopher O’Riley
    • American Indian Dance Theatre
    • Midori & Robert McDonald
    • Shanghai Acrobats
    • Hesperus
    • Mark Russell
    • The Vienna Boys’ Choir
    • Garrick Ohlsson
    • Eliot Fisk
    • Brian Bedford
    • The Music Man, national tour
    • Carmen, New York City Opera
    • Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
    • Libana
    • Dawn Upshaw & Jeffrey Kahane
    • Emerson String Quartet
    • Rebirth Brass Band
    • Super Stuff, children’s series

  • 1993–94

    • Sunday in the Park with George, national tour
    • Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
    • Die Fledermaus, Western Opera Theater
    • Ondekoza
    • Guitar Summit
    • Harlem Spiritual Ensemble
    • Yo-Yo Ma & Peter Serkin
    • Jazz at Lincoln Center
    • Cherish the Ladies
    • Porgy and Bess,
      Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
    • András Schiff
    • Madame Butterfly, New York City Opera
    • Super Stuff, children’s series

  • 1994–95

    • Newport Jazz Festival
    • Don Giovanni, Western Opera Theater
    • Israel Chamber Orchestra
    • The Mikado, Opera à la Carte
    • Eduardus Halim
    • Pinchas Zukerman & Marc Neikrug
    • Jean-Pierre Rampal
    • Anonymous 4
    • Christopher O’Riley
    • Evita, national tour
    • The Barber of Seville, New York City Opera
    • Michael Moschen
    • Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
    • Grant Johannsen
    • Canadian Brass
    • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

  • 1995–96

    • Crazy for You, national tour
    • Forever Plaid, national tour
    • The Marriage of Figaro, Western Opera Theater
    • La Traviata, New York City Opera
    • Slide Hampten & the Jazz Masters
    • Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
    • Melvyn Tan
    • Dubravka Tomši?
    • Alan Feinberg
    • The Boston Camerata
    • Kandinsky Trio
    • Prague Chamber Orchestra
    • Evelyn Glennie
    • Guitar Summit II
    • The Pipes, Drums & Highland Dancers of the Black Watch
    • The Vienna Boys’ Choir
    • Paul Taylor Dance Company
    • Ondekoza
    • Victor Borge

  • 1996–97

    • Portland String Quartet & Borealis Wind Quintet
    • Yefim Bronfman
    • The Pirates of Penzance, Opera à la Carte
    • Anonymous 4
    • La Bohème, New York City Opera
    • History of America, Reduced Shakespeare Company
    • Eliot Fisk
    • Ethos Percussion Group
    • Peter Schickele
    • Street Sounds
    • Herb Pomeroy
    • Itzhak Perlman
    • Cleo Lane

  • 1997–98

    • Santiago Rodriguez
    • Trinity Dance Company
    • Dance Theatre of Harlem
    • Carmen, Western Opera Theater
    • Flying Karamazovs
    • James Galway
    • The Legacy of Art Blakey
    • Quartetto Gelato
    • Carter Brey & Christopher O’Riley
    • Julius Cæsar, Aquila Theatre
    • Cavalleria Rusticana & I Pagliacci,
      Opera Nacional Italiana
    • Boys Choir of Harlem
    • Turtle Island String Quartet
    • Cyrus Chestnut
    • Emerson String Quartet
    • The Daughter of the Regiment, New York City Opera
    • Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    • Isaac Stern
    • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

  • 1998–99

    • Grease, national tour
    • A Chorus Line, national tour
    • West Side Story, national tour
    • Spirit of the Dance
    • Ondekoza
    • The Vienna Boys’ Choir
    • The Boston Camerata
    • Emanuel Ax
    • Porgy and Bess
    • Philharmonia Quartett Berlin
    • Otello, Opera Nacional Italiana
    • The Monks of Tibet
    • Swan Lake, Russian National Ballet
    • Yo-Yo Ma & Jeffrey Kahane