Early music – Upcoming Concerts near Seattle, WA
Early Music Underground: Baroque Brittania and Mother's Day Tea
Saturday, May 8, 2027 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
St. John's Episcopal Church Kirkland, Kirkland, WA, United States
Celebrate Mother's Day in classic English style with instrumental works by English composers Purcell, Handel, Blow, Boyce, Arne, and Overend – and an elegant afternoon tea.
$15-$20
Seattle Bach Choir: Bach Cantatas 9 & 164
Saturday, May 8, 2027 @ 6:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Trinity Episcopal Church - Parish Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
J.S. Bach – Es ist das heil uns kommen Herr, BWV 9
J.S. Bach – Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet, BWV 164
J.S. Bach – Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet, BWV 164
Free (Free will offering)
Salish Sea Early Music Festival: Versailles
Sunday, May 9, 2027 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Bethel Church, Vashon, WA, United States
Featuring music and instruments from the early 18th-century court of Louis XIV.
$15-$25 suggested donation
Cappella Romana: New Mystics from East & West
Thursday, May 13, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Blessed Sacrament Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Choral works with a deeply personal quality and a rare devotion to ancient chant. Colorful sonorities and intricate structures give the music an unmistakably mystical quality.
$10-$44
Salish Sea Early Music Festival: Versailles
Friday, May 14, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Christ Episcopal Church Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Featuring music and instruments from the early 18th-century court of Louis XIV.
$15-$25 suggested donation
Salish Sea Early Music Festival: Versailles
Sunday, May 16, 2027 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
St. Augustine's in-the-Woods Episcopal Church, Freeland, WA, United States
Featuring music and instruments from the early 18th-century court of Louis XIV.
$15-$25 suggested donation
Salish Sea Early Music Festival: Versailles
Monday, May 17, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Mason United Methodist Church, Tacoma, WA, United States
Featuring music and instruments from the early 18th-century court of Louis XIV.
$15-$25 suggested donation
Women in Song
Ancora and
Mägi Ensemble
Wednesday, May 19, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Resonance at SOMA Towers, Bellevue, WA, United States
Join two of our area’s finest women’s chamber choirs, Ancora and the Mägi Ensemble, for an evening of sublime song.
$15-$20
Pacific MusicWorks presents Gluck Orphée
Thursday, May 20, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
Orpheus' impassioned singing secures the release of his beloved, but he is then put to a test at which he, with his impetuous feelings, cannot succeed.
$10-$65 (age 5-17 free)
Ladies Musical Club: Bach & Fuchs
Thursday, May 20, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Crossroads Community Center, Bellevue, WA, United States
Bach – Partita for Unaccompanied Violin No. 1 in B minor
Robert Fuchs – 12 Duets for Violin and Viola
Robert Fuchs – 12 Duets for Violin and Viola
Free (Free)
Early Music Underground: Tasting Notes – All Who Wander…
Friday, May 21, 2027 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Northwest Cellars, Kirkland, WA, United States
Taste five of Northwest Cellars' exceptional wines paired with music from Scotland, Sweden, France, and Mexico.
$20 (includes wine tasting)
Pacific MusicWorks presents Gluck Orphée
Friday, May 21, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
Orpheus' impassioned singing secures the release of his beloved, but he is then put to a test at which he, with his impetuous feelings, cannot succeed.
$10-$65 (age 5-17 free)
Medieval Women's Choir: Visions in the Cloister
Friday, May 21, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 9:20pm (PDT)
Trinity Parish Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Join the Medieval Women’s Choir as we explore the ecstatic inner lives of medieval nuns.
$22
Pacific MusicWorks presents Gluck Orphée
Saturday, May 22, 2027 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
Orpheus' impassioned singing secures the release of his beloved, but he is then put to a test at which he, with his impetuous feelings, cannot succeed.
$10-$65 (age 5-17 free)
Ladies Musical Club: Mahler, Genzmer, Handel
Saturday, May 22, 2027 @ 2:00pm – 3:00pm (PDT)
Music Center of the Northwest, Seattle, WA, United States
Mahler – Kindertotenlieder ("Songs on the deaths of children")
Harald Genzmer – Zweite Sonate
Händel – Recorder sonata in F major, Op. 1 No. 11
Harald Genzmer – Zweite Sonate
Händel – Recorder sonata in F major, Op. 1 No. 11
Free (Free)
Ave Renaissance Choir presents Rosa: Flower of Paradise
Thursday, June 3, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Trinity Episcopal Parish Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Featuring works by Allegri, Clemens, Dunstable, Sweelinck, Binchois, Cima, Klimek, Morales, Lassus, the Montpelier Codex, and Seattle's own Karen P. Thomas.
Free
Ave Renaissance Choir presents Rosa: Flower of Paradise
Friday, June 4, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Church of the Redeemer, Kenmore, WA, United States
Featuring works by Allegri, Clemens, Dunstable, Sweelinck, Binchois, Cima, Klimek, Morales, Lassus, the Montpelier Codex, and Seattle's own Karen P. Thomas.
Free
Salish Sea Early Music Festival: 1800 – Virtuoso Guitar & Flute
Saturday, June 5, 2027 @ 1:30pm – 3:00pm (PDT)
Bethel Church, Vashon, WA, United States
A sampling of music by the outstanding guitar and flute virtuosos of the early 19th century.
$15-$25 suggested donation
Seattle Bach Choir presents Swift as a Shadow: Shakespeare in Song
Saturday, June 5, 2027 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Trinity Parish Church, Seattle, WA, United States
A concert of music for choir a cappella and with piano featuring settings of text by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, in honor of the 400th anniversary of his death.
$15-$18
Salish Sea Early Music Festival: 1800 – Virtuoso Guitar & Flute
Saturday, June 5, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Mason United Methodist Church, Tacoma, WA, United States
A sampling of music by the outstanding guitar and flute virtuosos of the early 19th century.
$15-$25 suggested donation