Upcoming Events near Seattle, WA
Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'
Saturday, May 9, 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)
Seattle Rock Orchestra performs The Beatles
Saturday, May 9, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Moore Theatre, Seattle, WA, United States
The program features 'Across The Universe,' 'Let It Be,' 'Get Back,' 'Come Together,' 'Something,' 'Oh! Darling,' and concludes with Abbey Road's famous 16-minute medley. SRO marries the unabashed performance energy of rock'n'roll with the broader palette of musical nuances treasured in classical music.
$22.50
Imogen Cooper: Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 24
Saturday, May 9, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 8:00pm (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
FHTAGN
Saturday, May 9, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Employing elements of chance-operations, free improvisation, polytonality, atonality and alternative conducting techniques, FHTAGN seeks to deliver a massively immersive musical experience in the traditions of Charles Ives, John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
$5-$15 donation
Peter Hallock Gala Tribute Concert
Saturday, May 9, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
The music of Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) provides a sonic feast as Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble, the Compline Choir and Saint Mark’s Cathedral Boys & Girls Choir are joined by guest soloists, handbells, string orchestra, organ, brass sextet and percussion.
$20-$25
Prism: Pärt & MacMillan
Saturday, May 9, 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
Strauss, Sibelius, Queen and the Beatles
Sunday, May 10, 2026 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Trinity Lutheran Church, Freeland, WA, United States
Works by Strauss, Sibelius, Queen and the Beatles, and music from Downtown Abbey.
Free (donations encouraged)
Barry Lieberman and Friends: American String Project Chamber Players
Sunday, May 10, 2026 @ 2:00pm – 3:00pm (PDT)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Rossini – String Sonata No. 2
Mendelssohn – Quintet in B-flat major
Brahms – Quintet in G major
Mendelssohn – Quintet in B-flat major
Brahms – Quintet in G major
$15
Seattle Rock Orchestra performs The Beatles
Sunday, May 10, 2026 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
The Moore Theatre, Seattle, WA, United States
The program features 'Across The Universe,' 'Let It Be,' 'Get Back,' 'Come Together,' 'Something,' 'Oh! Darling,' and concludes with Abbey Road's famous 16-minute medley. SRO marries the unabashed performance energy of rock'n'roll with the broader palette of musical nuances treasured in classical music.
$22.50
Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'
Sunday, May 10, 2026 @ 2:00pm – 5:00pm (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)
Seattle Symphony: Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1
Sunday, May 10, 2026 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Prokofiev – Quintet, Op. 39
Tchaikovsky – String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
Schumann – Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44
Tchaikovsky – String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
Schumann – Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44
$39
Seattle Youth Symphony: Verdi, Puccini, Mahler
Sunday, May 10, 2026 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Verdi – Scenes from La Traviata
Puccini – Scenes from La Bohème
Mahler – Das Lied von der Erde (Songs of the Earth)
Puccini – Scenes from La Bohème
Mahler – Das Lied von der Erde (Songs of the Earth)
$15-$48
Ladies Musical Club at West Seattle Library
Sunday, May 10, 2026 @ 3:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
West Seattle Library, Seattle, WA, United States
Alfred Tokayer – Day in the Life of My Child
Bernstein – Children’s songs
Music by Schumann and Granados
Bernstein – Children’s songs
Music by Schumann and Granados
Free
Racer Sessions
Sunday, May 10, 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
Compline Choir: Alumni + Compline Service
Sunday, May 10, 2026 @ 9:30pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
Compline Choir and alumni combine to chant the office of Compline, featuring music by Peter Hallock.
Free
1600: Winds of the Renaissance
Monday, May 11, 2026 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Trinity Lutheran Church, Tacoma, WA, United States
The elusive dulcian, the rarely heard renaissance transverse flute and the lute will be showcased in an evening of 16th and early 17th-century chamber music.
$15-$25 suggested donation
Cascade Symphony Orchestra: Dvořák, the legend
Monday, May 11, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Edmonds Center for the Arts, Edmonds, WA, United States
Brahms – Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Villa-Lobos – Fantasia for Saxophone, Strings and Horns
Wagner – Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
Dvořák – Symphony No. 7, Op. 70 in D minor
Villa-Lobos – Fantasia for Saxophone, Strings and Horns
Wagner – Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
Dvořák – Symphony No. 7, Op. 70 in D minor
$10-$25
Music of Remembrance: After Life
Monday, May 11, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein meet again – and argue about art and life – in a new opera by composer Tom Cipullo and librettist David Mason, commissioned by Music of Remembrance.
$40 ($30 age 30 and under)
Music of Today: Harry Partch Instruments Presentation
Monday, May 11, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
Charles Corey, director of the Harry Partch Institute at the University of Washington, leads a public demonstration of instruments from the Harry Partch Instrument Collection.
Free
WSCO: Promenade into Summer
Tuesday, May 12, 2026 @ 6:30pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Chief Sealth High School, Seattle, WA, United States
Haydn – Piano Concerto in D major
Beethoven – Symphony No. 4, 1st Mvt.
Sherman & Sherman – Mary Poppins
Beethoven – Symphony No. 4, 1st Mvt.
Sherman & Sherman – Mary Poppins
Free