Contemporary – Upcoming Concerts near Seattle, WA
Racer Sessions
Sunday, October 4, 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
ETHEL with special guest Robert Mirabal presents: The River
Thursday, October 8, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
Critically acclaimed string quartet ETHEL continues its collaboration with Native American flutist and Grammy Award winner Robert Mirabal. Using rivers as inspiration for collaboration, their music explores water as the embodiment of spirit and its essential role in life on earth.
$35-$40
Racer Sessions: Wiener Kids
Sunday, October 11, 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
Cornish Presents: IWO Flute Quartet
Monday, October 12, 2026 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
IWO Flute Quartet (Sydney Carlson, Leonard Garrison, Jennifer Rhyne and Paul Taub) will perform a program that includes Second Grand Quartet for Sixteen Flutes – The White Labyrinth by Harvey Sollberger and Song and Dance by Seattle composer Angelique Poteat.
Free
Northwest Sinfonietta: Mozart & Beethoven
Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Copland – Music for Theater
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 20
Beethoven – Symphony No. 8
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 20
Beethoven – Symphony No. 8
$20-$40
Seattle Symphony: Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:40pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Award-winning pianist Jon Nakamatsu takes on this iconic “jazz concerto.” Broadway singer Doug LaBrecque delivers more familiar Gershwin favorites to round out the program.
$30-$95
Northwest Sinfonietta: Mozart & Beethoven
Saturday, October 17, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Rialto Theater, Tacoma, WA, United States
Copland – Music for Theater
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 20
Beethoven – Symphony No. 8
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 20
Beethoven – Symphony No. 8
$20-$60
From Darkness to Luminosity
Saturday, October 17, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Edgard Varèse – Octandre (1923)
Julia Wolfe – Singing in the dead of night (2008)
Morton Feldman – The Viola in My Life I (1970)
Orlando Jacinto Garcia – From Darkness to Luminosity (2015) – World premiere
Julia Wolfe – Singing in the dead of night (2008)
Morton Feldman – The Viola in My Life I (1970)
Orlando Jacinto Garcia – From Darkness to Luminosity (2015) – World premiere
$20 ($10 student/senior)
Seattle Symphony: Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
Saturday, October 17, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:40pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Award-winning pianist Jon Nakamatsu takes on this iconic “jazz concerto.” Broadway singer Doug LaBrecque delivers more familiar Gershwin favorites to round out the program.
$30-$95
Northwest Sinfonietta: Mozart & Beethoven
Sunday, October 18, 2026 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Pioneer Park Pavilion, Puyallup, WA, United States
Copland – Music for Theater
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 20
Beethoven – Symphony No. 8
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 20
Beethoven – Symphony No. 8
$40
Seattle Symphony: Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
Sunday, October 18, 2026 @ 2:00pm – 3:40pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Award-winning pianist Jon Nakamatsu takes on this iconic “jazz concerto.” Broadway singer Doug LaBrecque delivers more familiar Gershwin favorites to round out the program.
$30-$98
Racer Sessions
Sunday, October 18, 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
UW World Series: Jonathan Biss, piano
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Meany Hall for the Performing Arts, Seattle, WA, United States
Mozart – Sonata in C minor, K457
Schönberg – Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19
Mozart – Sonata in F major, K533/494
Schumann – Kreisleriana, Op. 16
Schönberg – Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19
Mozart – Sonata in F major, K533/494
Schumann – Kreisleriana, Op. 16
$41-$46 (age 17 & under free)
St. Helens Quartet performs Borcherding's 'Sound Games'
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Premiere of Cornish student Roderick Borcherding's new string quartet, a contemporary classical work exploring techniques in sound.
Free
Seattle Symphony: [untitled] 1
Friday, October 23, 2026 @ 10:00pm – 11:00pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Richard Karpen – Program Music (world premiere)
Joël-François Durand – Mundus Imaginalis (world premiere)
Huck Hodge – pulse - cut - seethe - blur (world premiere)
Joël-François Durand – Mundus Imaginalis (world premiere)
Huck Hodge – pulse - cut - seethe - blur (world premiere)
$15
Racer Sessions
Sunday, October 25, 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
Seattle Symphony: Bernstein & Shostakovich
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Bernstein – Piano Trio
Carter – Woodwind Quintet
Enescu – Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor
Shostakovich – Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor
Carter – Woodwind Quintet
Enescu – Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor
Shostakovich – Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor
$39
NWSO: Doolittle, Van Kirk, Boshnack & more
Friday, October 30, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Highline Performing Arts Center, Burien, WA, United States
Emily Doolittle – Two Jigs and Some Fireworks
Keith Van Kirk – Heroic Overture
Modest Mussorgsky – Night on Bald Mountain
Samantha Boshnack – TBA (world premiere)
Jorge Mejia – Danza, Magia y Ritual (Dance, Magic and Ritual)
Antonin Dvořák – Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 1
Keith Van Kirk – Heroic Overture
Modest Mussorgsky – Night on Bald Mountain
Samantha Boshnack – TBA (world premiere)
Jorge Mejia – Danza, Magia y Ritual (Dance, Magic and Ritual)
Antonin Dvořák – Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 1
$15 ($12 student/senior)
Hitchcock's 'Psycho' with the Seattle Symphony
Friday, October 30, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:15pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Bernard Herrmann’s unforgettable score is performed by the Symphony while the film is shown on the big screen at Benaroya Hall.
$31-$112
Racer Sessions: Straighthorn
Sunday, November 1, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free