Skyros Quartet: Beneath the Surface – love, death, and transformation

Saturday, February 25, 2017 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Resonance at SOMA Towers, Bellevue, WA, United States
Works by Mozart, Ligeti, Dvořák, and Mendelssohn that explore a complete cycle of emotion and expression.

$20

Seattle Pro Musica: Chichester Psalms

Saturday, February 25, 2017 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
St. James Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
Bernstein’s beloved Chichester Psalms is paired with James MacMillan’s deeply moving Cantos sagrados in this concert of sacred music for choir and organ.

$12-$38

Wayward Music Series: Noel Kennon & Austin Larkin

Friday, February 24, 2017 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Manipulated violin harmonics, sine waves, and controlled feedback, plus a small chamber ensemble who will attempt to induce sleep...

$5-$15 donation at the door

Nynorsk! Songs & Piano Works of Edvard Grieg

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Grieg – Vinje songs, Op. 33
Grieg – Norwegian folkeviser Op. 66

$8/$5 (students free)

Music Y: New Works by Emerging Artists

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Meany Hall for the Performing Arts, Seattle, WA, United States
The University of Washington School of Music and The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) present a program of original music and new works by emerging artists.

$15 ($10 students/seniors)

Seattle Symphony Chamber Concert: Schubert Octet

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Schubert's inviting Octet and Bolcom's shimmering Serenata Notturna paint two shades of night music, renewing the spirit of Mozart and his gregarious serenades.

$40

Cornish Mid-day Concert: Classical Instrumentalists

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 @ 12:30pm – 1:30pm (PST)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Cornish College students performing chamber music, program TBD.

Free (Free)

NOCCO: RESONANCE – A Celebration of Black American Composers

Sunday, February 19, 2017 @ 7:30pm – 7:30pm (PST)
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, Seattle, WA, United States
Hanna Benn – Sankofa
Joplin – Selections from Treemonisha (1912, arr. Rick Benjamin)
Walker – Orpheus for Chamber Orchestra and narrator (1994)

$15-$25 (under 18 free)

Steve Griggs Ensemble presents Panama Hotel Jazz on Day of Remembrance

Sunday, February 19, 2017 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PST)
On the 75th anniversary of the Executive Order putting the military in charge of incarcerating Japanese Americans, come hear a 75-minute program of personal stories and original music.

Free

Chamber Music at Hale's Palladium: Mendelssohn & Dvořák

Sunday, February 19, 2017 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (PST)
Hale's Palladium, Seattle, WA, United States
Members of Orchestra Seattle visit Ballard’s Hale’s Brewery to perform chamber works by Mendelssohn and Dvořák.

$25 (includes one glass of wine or beer)

Ladies Musical Club: Oboe Music & Spanish Piano Music

Sunday, February 19, 2017 @ 3:00pm – 4:00pm (PST)
Mirabella Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Charles Colin – Concerto No. 6, Op. 46
William Alwyn – Oboe Concerto
Isaac Albéniz – Selections from Suite Española for Piano, Op. 47
Enrique Granados – Selections from Twelve Spanish Dances for the Piano, Op. 5

Free (Free)

Wayward Music Series: Melanie Voytovich

Saturday, February 18, 2017 @ 8:00pm – 9:15pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A night of new work with premiers by Bradley Hawkins and Ella Mahler/Melanie Voytovich.

$5-$15 sliding scale donation

ECCO Chamber Ensemble: What’s Love Got To Do With It?

Saturday, February 18, 2017 @ 2:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A concert exploring our humanity as affected by technology, with music for soprano, flute, and guitar by Robert Beaser, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, John Dowland, Gabriel Fauré, Christoph Gluck, Frederic Hand, Deirdre Lynds, Louis Sauter, Franz Schubert, and Mark Hilliard Wilson.

$10-$15 suggested donation

NOCCO: RESONANCE – A Celebration of Black American Composers

Saturday, February 18, 2017 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PST)
New Holly Gathering Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Hanna Benn – Sankofa
Joplin – Selections from Treemonisha (1912, arr. Rick Benjamin)
Walker – Orpheus for Chamber Orchestra and narrator (1994)

$15-$25 (under 18 free)

Seattle Philharmonic Strings: The Austrian Tradition

Saturday, February 18, 2017 @ 2:00pm – 4:30pm (PST)
The Hearthstone at Green Lake, Seattle, WA, United States
Joseph Haydn – Kindersinfonie
Rosenmüller – Sinfonia in E minor
Beethoven – String Quartet Op. 95 (arr. Mahler)
Michael Haydn – Divertimento in D
Mozart – Adagio and Fugue in C minor
Genzmer – Sinfonietta

Free (Free)

Second City Chamber Series: Past and Future Tense

Friday, February 17, 2017 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Great Hall at Annie Wright School, Tacoma, WA, United States
Mendelssohn – Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor
Alexandra T. Bryant – The Open for Violin and Piano
Shostakovich – Piano Trio No. 2

$10-$25 (18 & under free)

Meany Center presents Benjamin Grosvenor in recital

Tuesday, February 14, 2017 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Meany Hall for the Performing Arts, Seattle, WA, United States
Schumann – Arabesque, Op. 18
Mozart – Sonata No. 13 in B-flat major, K. 333
Beethoven – Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, “Moonlight”
Scriabin – Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor, Op. 19, “Fantasy”
Granados – Selections from Goyescas, Op. 11
Liszt – Rhapsodie espagnole

$40-$45

NOCCO Open Rehearsal: George Walker & Hanna Benn

Monday, February 13, 2017 @ 10:00am – 1:00pm (PST)
University Christian Church, Seattle, WA, United States
We invite you and your students to observe as we put together works by black American composers, NOCCO-style – long on collaboration, short on authoritarianism.

Free

Byron Schenkman & Friends: Russians & Jews

Sunday, February 12, 2017 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Music of Glinka (Sonata for viola and piano), Prokofiev (“Overture on Hebrew Themes”), and composers associated with the Russian Society for Jewish Folk Music.

$10-$42