Erik Satie – Past Concerts

Pianist David Greilsammer presents an unusual program in palindrome form, conceived as 1 long piece made of numerous short movements & fragments spanning the history of classical music.

Experience Paris through the music of composers who knew it best. Works by Maurice Ravel, Hector Berlioz, Claude Debussy, & more, featuring soloist Natalie Buickians, soprano.

Nadia Boulanger – Selected songs TBA
Lili Boulanger – Cortège
Erik Satie – Passacaille
Pierre Menu – Sonatine pour quatuor à cordes
Germaine Tailleferre – Piano Trio
Georges Auric – Trois Interludes
Francis Poulenc – "Toccata" from Trois Pièces, FP 48
Elsa Barraine – Crépuscules et Fanfare
Albert Roussel – Sérénade, Op. 30

Grimaud stirs profound emotions through the elegant simplicity of miniatures by Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, and Valentin Silvestrov.

Piano music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Frederic Chopin, Domenico Scarlatti, Eric Satie, and Franz Liszt.

Claude Debussy – Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Ottorino Respighi – Feste Romane
Claude Debussy – La Cathedrale Engloutie (orchestrated by Peter Lawson)
Erik Satie – Gymnopédies (orchestrated by Claude Debussy)

Alyssa Morris – Melting Pot (world premiere)
Peter Schickele – A Year in the Catskills
Astor Piazzolla – Tango Suite
Erik Satie – Sonatine bureaucratique

Arrangements of Bizet, Sousa, Saint-Saëns, Khachaturian, and Satie; original works for flute choir by Barr, Butterworth, and Dorff; and a new arrangement of Stairway to Heaven by Jim Durand.

Béla Bartók – Piano Sonata
Stockhausen – Klavierstück XI
Erik Satie – Selected works

Music by Brahms, Vivaldi, Grieg, J.C. Bach, Schubert, Telemann, Satie, and Paganini.

Mel Bonis – Suite en forme de valses
Jessie Montgomery – Starburst
Erik Satie – La belle excentrique
Tchaikovsky – "Waltz of the Flowers" from The Nutcracker
Schumann – Overture, Scherzo and Finale
Arturo Marquez – Danzon No. 2

Mel Bonis – Suite en forme de valses
Jessie Montgomery – Starburst
Erik Satie – La belle excentrique
Tchaikovsky – "Waltz of the Flowers" from The Nutcracker
Schumann – Overture, Scherzo and Finale
Arturo Marquez – Danzon No. 2

Acclaimed French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie gives a recital of Satie, Rameau, Poulenc, Murail, Saint-Saeëns, Messiaen, and more.

Satie – Two Gymnopédies
Brahms – Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, Mvt. 1
Williams –Tuba Concerto

A “third stream” concert mixing the classical tradition of America with the music of the European classical tradition.

An evening of vintage and modern cabaret. From Britten to Weill, Satie to Schoenberg, we'll bring the concert hall to the music hall with some well loved pieces and unknown gems.

In honor of National Poetry Month at the West Seattle Library, hear “Dickinson Poetry in Song" as well as poems set to music by Copland, Laitman and others.

Be swept away by the elegance of a Parisian evening by the Seine at a post-concert black-tie cocktail reception and dinner at the luxurious Fairmont Olympic Hotel.
Ibert – Suite symphonique, "Paris"
Satie /orch. Debussy – Gymnopédies Nos. 1 and 3
Saint-Saëns – Havanaise for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 83
Massenet – Méditation from Thaïs for Violin and Orchestra
Delibes – Selections from Suite No. 2 from Coppélia
Sarasate – Carmen Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 25
Offenbach – Selections from Orphée aux enfers ("Orpheus in the Underworld")