Gallery Concerts: NOT a Christmas Concert!

Sunday, November 25, 2029 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Queen Anne Christian Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Stellar PNW artists perform Handel’s glorious Italian cantatas (which later became the famous Messiah tunes), a fun Corelli fugue, and other festive musical gems.

$35 / $30 / $15 (kids age 7-15 FREE)

Seattle Pacific University: The Sacred Sounds of Christmas

Sunday, November 25, 2029 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Featuring the best of sacred Advent music from around the world.

$22-$25

Curiouser & Curiouser: E.ravenscraft Improvised Violin

Sunday, November 25, 2029 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Lava Lounge, Seattle, WA, United States
The experimental soundtrack of an improvised violin in a Seattle tiki bar.

Free

Compline Choir: The Office of Compline

Sunday, November 25, 2029 @ 9:30pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
Every Sunday evening at 9:30 p.m. in the Cathedral's nave, the all-male Compline Choir leads this formal choral service that is a Seattle tradition.

Free

UW Baroque Ensemble Concert

Tuesday, November 27, 2029 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Carole Terry and Tekla Cunningham direct UW music students in a program of music of the baroque era.

Free

UW Guest Artist Recital: Christina Dahl, piano

Wednesday, November 28, 2029 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Alban Berg – Sonata
Maurice Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Selections from Preludes Op. 23 and Op. 32

Free

Fall Student Chamber Music Concert

Wednesday, November 28, 2029 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Seattle University - Pigott Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Seattle University chamber music students perform their annual fall concert. Dr. Quinton Morris directs both piano and string students.

$12 / $8 / $5

Rain City Symphony: Thieriot, Bach, Bizet

Wednesday, November 28, 2029 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Seattle Mennonite Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Ferdinand Thieriot – Loch Lomond Overture, Op. 13
Johann Sebastian Bach – Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, BWV 147
Georges Bizet – L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2
Georges Bizet – "Les Toréadors" from Carmen Suite No. 1

Free

UW Guest Artist Master Class: Christina Dahl, piano

Thursday, November 29, 2029 @ 3:30pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
A chamber musician, soloist, and teacher who has spent 21 years on the piano faculty of New York’s Stony Brook University leads a master class with UW piano students.

Free

Seattle Symphony: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2

Thursday, November 29, 2029 @ 7:30pm – 9:20pm (PST)
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Sheherazade, Op. 35

$22-$122 (age 8-18 free)

Inverted Space Ensemble: Livengood & Oliveros

Thursday, November 29, 2029 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Kerrith Livengood – Scrawl Etude I
Kerrith Livengood – New works for Adapted Viola and Intoning Voice
Kerrith Livengood – Pond Frog Translations for Adapted Guitar 1 and Intoning Voice (Seattle premiere)
Pauline Oliveros – Sonic Meditation

$5-$15 suggested donation

UW Concerto Competition: Strings & Viola

Friday, November 30, 2029 @ 1:30pm – 3:30pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
University of Washington School of Music viola students compete for an opportunity to solo with the UW Symphony on Bruch’s Romanze, Op. 85.

Free

Russian Chamber Music Foundation: Inna Faliks, piano

Friday, November 30, 2029 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PST)
Resonance at SOMA Towers, Bellevue, WA, United States
“A concert pianist of the highest order, Inna Faliks can be as dramatic or as subtle as a great stage actor.” – Marc Vitali, WTTW

$25 / $15 / $10

Pacific MusicWorks Underground: A Country (Baroque) Christmas at Naked City

Friday, November 30, 2029 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Naked City Brewery and Taphouse, Seattle, WA, United States
Holiday treats including Isabella Leonarda’s luminous Gloria in Excelsis Deo, rustic and boisterous country carols, and tender lullabies.

$25 ($15 ages 21-30)

UW Percussion Ensemble: Percussion Music as Revolution

Friday, November 30, 2029 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Yiheng Yvonne Wu – Violent Tender
Edgard Varèse – Ionisation
Philip Schuessler – The Glass Abattoir

$10

South Sound Classical Choir: Light of Christmas

Friday, November 30, 2029 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church, Milton, WA, United States
Music by Franz Josef Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn, George Frideric Handel, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Edward Elgar, Ola Gjeilo, and more.

Free

Pacific Lutheran University: Piano Ensemble

Friday, November 30, 2029 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The PLU Department of Music presents their Piano Ensemble in a variety of musical selections.

Free

Emerald City Music: The Daedalus Quartet

Friday, November 30, 2029 @ 8:00pm – 11:00pm (PST)
415 Westlake, Seattle, WA, United States
Janácek – String Quartet No. 1, “Kreutzer Sonata”
Taneyev – Selection from String Quartet No. 2
Tchaikovsky – Andante Cantabile from String Quartet No. 1
Beethoven – Sonata Op. 47, “Kreutzer” (arranged for string quintet)

$45 ($10 students)

Wayward Music Series: Body.Space.Time.Sound. – Volume 2: Threes

Friday, November 30, 2029 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of scored improvisations consisting of three sound and three movement artists working with variations of THREE.

$5-$15 suggested donation

Russian Chamber Music Foundation: Piano/Chamber Music Competition

Saturday, December 1, 2029 @ 5:00am – 4:59am (PST)
Mercer Island Presbyterian Church, Mercer Island, WA, United States
Participants ranging from age 5 up to college gather to compete for the first place prize in this piano/chamber music competition.

Free