Upcoming Events near Seattle, WA
Racer Sessions
Sunday, May 3, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
Ladies Musical Club at the Seattle Art Museum
Thursday, May 7, 2026 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
Seattle Art Museum, Plestcheef Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Libby Larsen – Cowboy Songs
Janet Anderson – My Life as a Subject
Haydn – Andante Variations in F minor
Chopin – Etude in F minor, Op. 10 No. 9
Chopin – Etude in A-flat major, Op. 25 No. 1
Chopin – Prelude No. 7 from Book I
Debussy – "Ce qu'a vu le vent d’ouest” (What the West Wind Saw”)
Ravel – “Ondine” from Gaspard de la Nuit
Janet Anderson – My Life as a Subject
Haydn – Andante Variations in F minor
Chopin – Etude in F minor, Op. 10 No. 9
Chopin – Etude in A-flat major, Op. 25 No. 1
Chopin – Prelude No. 7 from Book I
Debussy – "Ce qu'a vu le vent d’ouest” (What the West Wind Saw”)
Ravel – “Ondine” from Gaspard de la Nuit
Free
Imogen Cooper: Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 24
Thursday, May 7, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K. 453
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
$20-$76
Brechemin Piano Series
Thursday, May 7, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 8:15pm (PDT)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
UW music students perform works for piano.
$5
Machinations Musical, Divers & Sundry
Thursday, May 7, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of experimental music and performance, featuring new works by Donald Craig, Inmi Lee, Douglas Niemela, Joshua Parmenter, Anna Stachurska and Ewa Trębacz.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Ten Grands
Friday, May 8, 2026 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Ten grand pianos, ten amazing pianists and one sensational stage, benefiting the education and community programs of the Seattle Symphony and other select organizations.
$42-$120
Bremerton Symphony Orchestra Season Finale: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
Friday, May 8, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Shelton High School Performing Arts Center, Shelton, WA, United States
Beethoven – Symphony No. 9
$26 ($22 senior/military; $8 student)
Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'
Friday, May 8, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 10:30pm (PDT)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
An entirely new staging conception by stage director Dan Wallace Miller, with one of the reigning “Queens of the Night” in our time, Cyndia Sieden.
$40-$65 ($25 students, $10 UW students)
Student recital: Laura Colmenares, flute
Friday, May 8, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 8:15pm (PDT)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
UW student Laura Colmenares performs a recital in flute. Open to the public.
Free
Seattle Send-Off Concert: Mostly Monteverdi
Friday, May 8, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Trinity Parish Church, Seattle, WA, United States
The choir will present selections from their upcoming tour to Italy.
Free/donation TBD
The Daphnes
Friday, May 8, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 10:30pm (PDT)
Hotel Sorrento, Seattle, WA, United States
An unconventional trio of harp, violin, upright bass and voice.
Free
Seattle Composers' Salon
Friday, May 8, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of music and discussion with Seattle composers Michael Owcharuk, Matthew James Briggs, Jessi Harvey and Ian McKnight.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Prism: Pärt & MacMillan
Friday, May 8, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
St. James Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
Celebrating Arvo Pärt’s 80th birthday with works by Pärt, MacMillan and Muehleisen.
$12-$35
Seattle Symphony Family Play-Along
Saturday, May 9, 2026 @ 11:00am – 12:00pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Explore rhythm, pulse and groove in a range of colorful orchestral repertoire, as families are invited to sing and/or play instruments along with the Seattle Symphony.
$20
Fiddler Darol Anger with the Saratoga Orchestra
Saturday, May 9, 2026 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
South Whidbey Performing Arts Center, Langley, WA, United States
Our Spring Gala featuring jazz and blues fiddler Darol Anger.
$25 ($20 seniors; ages 5-18 free)
Bremerton Symphony Orchestra Season Finale: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
Saturday, May 9, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Bremerton Performing Arts Center, Bremerton, WA, United States
Beethoven – Symphony No. 9
$26 ($22 senior/military; $8 student)
Tacoma Symphony Orchestra: The Planets
Saturday, May 9, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Pantages Theater, Tacoma, WA, United States
Chadwick – Euterpe
Schumann – Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
Holst – The Planets
Schumann – Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
Holst – The Planets
$19-$79
Respighi, Mozart, Goodman, Schumann
Saturday, May 9, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Maple Park Church, Lynnwood, WA, United States
Respighi – Ancient Airs & Dances
Mozart – Oboe Concerto
Goodman – Tessellations
Schumann – Overture, Scherzo & Finale
Mozart – Oboe Concerto
Goodman – Tessellations
Schumann – Overture, Scherzo & Finale
$13-$20
The Young Artists Concerto Concert
Saturday, May 9, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Theodore Roethke Auditorium at UW Kane Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Barber – Concerto in G major, Op. 14, II. Andante, III. Presto in moto perpetuo
Mendelssohn – Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, I. Allegro molto appassionato
Rachmaninoff – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
Beethoven – Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58, I. Allegro moderato
Tchaikovsky – Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33
Paganini – Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 6, I. Allegro maestoso
Mendelssohn – Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, I. Allegro molto appassionato
Rachmaninoff – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
Beethoven – Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58, I. Allegro moderato
Tchaikovsky – Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33
Paganini – Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 6, I. Allegro maestoso
$15 suggested contribution
Seattle Wind Symphony: Spring Zephyrs
Saturday, May 9, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Shorewood Performing Arts Center, Shoreline, WA, United States
Dmitri Shostakovich – Festive Overture (trans. Donald Hunsberger)
Arthur Sullivan – Pineapple Poll
Georges Hüe – Fantasie
Charles Ives – Country Band March
John Zdechlik – Chorale and Shaker Dance
J.S. Bach – O Mensch (arr. Percy Grainger)
David Maslanka – Hell's Gate
Camille Saint-Saëns – Pas Redouble
Arthur Sullivan – Pineapple Poll
Georges Hüe – Fantasie
Charles Ives – Country Band March
John Zdechlik – Chorale and Shaker Dance
J.S. Bach – O Mensch (arr. Percy Grainger)
David Maslanka – Hell's Gate
Camille Saint-Saëns – Pas Redouble
$20 ($18 seniors; $5 students)