Performance history by decade · 2000s 

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.

  • 1999–2000

    • The King and I, National Tour
    • Annie, National Tour
    • Camelot, National Tour
    • STOMP
    • Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
    • Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
    • Canadian Brass
    • Lydian String Quartet
    • Street Sounds
    • The Magic Flute, London City Opera
    • Big Apple Circus on Stage
    • Lewis & Perry Piano Duo
    • Romeo and Juliet, Ballet de l’Opéra de Bordeaux
    • National Song and Dance Company of Mozambique
    • Gil Shaham

  • 2000–01

    • Emanuel Ax
    • Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight
    • WOFA
    • St. Petersburg String Quartet with Andrew Rangell
    • Godspell, national tour
    • John O’Conor
    • Show Boat, national tour
    • Anonymous 4
    • Carmen, London City Opera
    • Chicago, national tour
    • Mary Black
    • Aida, Teatro Lirico d’Europa
    • Giselle, Moscow Festival Ballet
    • AEROS
    • Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
    • Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
      Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano
    • Willie Nelson

  • 2001–02

    • Moscow State Symphony
      Pavel Kogan, conductor
      Vladimir Feltsman, piano
    • Ivan Moravec
    • Takács Quartet
    • Emmanuel Pahud
    • The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
      Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
      Thomas Quasthoff, bass-baritone
    • Jane Monheit
    • Titanic, national tour
    • The Merry Widow, London City Opera
    • Ragtime, national tour
    • Swan Lake, Moscow Festival Ballet
    • Turandot, Teatro Lirico d’Europa
    • Cabaret, national tour
    • Eileen Ivers

  • 2002–03

    • Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
    • Rent, national tour
    • Moscow Chamber Orchestra
      Constantine Orbelian, conductor
    • Dee Dee Bridgewater
    • Tamas Erdi
    • STOMP
    • Yo-Yo Ma & Kathryn Stott
      Endowment Benefit Performance
    • Sleeping Beauty, St. Petersburg Ballet on Ice
    • Richard Goode
    • Madame Butterfly, London City Opera
    • South Pacific, national tour
    • Philharmonia Quartett Berlin
    • Il Trovatore, Teatro Lirico d’Europa
    • Grease, national tour
    • Mary Chapin Carpenter
    • The Capitol Steps

  • 2003–04

    • The Music Man, national tour
    • Herbie Hancock Quartet
    • Porgy and Bess
    • Prague Chamber Orchestra
    • Yamato, drummers of Japan
    • Cats, national tour
    • Piotr Anderszewski
    • Tosca, Teatro Lirico d’Europa
    • Juilliard String Quartet
    • Saturday Night Fever, national tour
    • The Mikado, Carl Rosa Opera
    • Alisa Weilerstein
    • Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    • THWAK!, The Umbilical Brothers
    • Cinderella, Moscow Festival Ballet
    • Opus Cactus, Momix
    • Krystian Zimerman
    • Natalie MacMaster
    • Bobby McFerrin & Savion Glover
    • Glenn Miller Orchestra