Contemporary – Upcoming Concerts
Machinations Musical, Divers & Sundry
Thursday, May 7, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of experimental music and performance, featuring new works by Donald Craig, Inmi Lee, Douglas Niemela, Joshua Parmenter, Anna Stachurska and Ewa Trębacz.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Seattle Composers' Salon
Friday, May 8, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of music and discussion with Seattle composers Michael Owcharuk, Matthew James Briggs, Jessi Harvey and Ian McKnight.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Prism: Pärt & MacMillan
Friday, May 8, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
St. James Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
Celebrating Arvo Pärt’s 80th birthday with works by Pärt, MacMillan and Muehleisen.
$12-$35
FHTAGN
Saturday, May 9, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Employing elements of chance-operations, free improvisation, polytonality, atonality and alternative conducting techniques, FHTAGN seeks to deliver a massively immersive musical experience in the traditions of Charles Ives, John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
$5-$15 donation
Prism: Pärt & MacMillan
Saturday, May 9, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
St. James Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
Celebrating Arvo Pärt’s 80th birthday with works by Pärt, MacMillan and Muehleisen.
$12-$35
Racer Sessions
Sunday, May 10, 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
Music of Today: Harry Partch Instruments Presentation
Monday, May 11, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
Charles Corey, director of the Harry Partch Institute at the University of Washington, leads a public demonstration of instruments from the Harry Partch Instrument Collection.
Free
PLU Orchestra Series VI
Tuesday, May 12, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Lagerquist Concert Hall at Pacific Lutheran University, Parkland, WA, United States
The Pacific Lutheran University Symphony Orchestra will perform major works from the orchestral repertoire, plus a premiere of a new PLU-inspired work by Gregory Youtz weaving together themes and instrumental colors that have become part of the PLU soundscape.
Price TBA
UW Chamber Orchestra: After Mozart
Wednesday, May 13, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Mozart – Excerpts from The Magic Flute for wind octet (arr. Heidenreich)
Colin Matthews – To Compose Without the Least Knowledge of Music... A realization of A Musical Dice Game by W. A. Mozart
Schnittke – Moz-Art à la Haydn
Raskatov – Five Minutes from the Life of Mozart
Berio – Divertimento for Mozart, based on a theme from The Magic Flute
Mozart – Divertimento for 2 horns and strings in F major: A Musical Joke, K. 522
Colin Matthews – To Compose Without the Least Knowledge of Music... A realization of A Musical Dice Game by W. A. Mozart
Schnittke – Moz-Art à la Haydn
Raskatov – Five Minutes from the Life of Mozart
Berio – Divertimento for Mozart, based on a theme from The Magic Flute
Mozart – Divertimento for 2 horns and strings in F major: A Musical Joke, K. 522
$5
Long Piece Fest: Stockhausen's Stimmung for 6 Voices
Thursday, May 14, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
The ruins of Mexico are recreated with just intonation in Stockhausen's Stimmung for 6 voices.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Universal Language Project presents: The Soldier's Tale and Saci
Friday, May 15, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Velocity Dance Center, Seattle, WA, United States
To complement our production of Stravinsky's theatrical work The Soldier's Tale, Jovino Santos Neto has written Saci – a Brazilian Folk Tale for seven musicians, narrator and dance.
$25 ($10 youth)
Frank Clayton & Greg Campbell
Friday, May 15, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Frank Clayton (bass, drums) and Greg Campbell (drums, tuba, cornet) present an evening of composed and improvised music with special guests.
$5-$15 donation
Concert Imaginaire: Another Day in Suck City
Saturday, May 16, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Settings of Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe, a dance for an orangutan, the lament of SHE–the cyber-ant goddess, an exploration of God as a virus, and the premiere of JUST A KISS AWAY, a 5-minute opera.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Universal Language Project presents: The Soldier's Tale and Saci
Saturday, May 16, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Velocity Dance Center, Seattle, WA, United States
To complement our production of Stravinsky's theatrical work The Soldier's Tale, Jovino Santos Neto has written Saci – a Brazilian Folk Tale for seven musicians, narrator and dance.
$25 ($10 youth)
Racer Sessions: Dio Jean-Baptiste & Bryan Linberry
Sunday, May 17, 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
Chamber Music at Richmond Beach: Sean Osborn & Jessica Choe
Friday, May 22, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Richmond Beach Congregational Church, Shoreline, WA, United States
Music for clarinet and piano by Hoffmeister, Poulenc, Horwitz, Osborn and Karen Thomas.
$20
Stella Haze | Pulling Out the Light | Raica
Friday, May 22, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of electronic music by three Seattle-based artists, presented by Nonsequitur.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Passenger String Quartet at Folklife
Friday, May 22, 2026 @ 8:45pm – 9:15pm (PDT)
Seattle Center Armory | Center Theatre, Seattle, WA, United States
The Passenger String Quartet is an avant-garde, experimental neo-classical group formed by Northwest composer/violinist Andrew Joslyn
Free
Seattle Cello eXperiment at Folklife
Friday, May 22, 2026 @ 9:30pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Seattle Center Armory | Center Theatre, Seattle, WA, United States
Music spanning many musical genres, including popular, rock, film and television, classical, Latin and fiddling.
Free
Saxophone: UNCOVERED
Saturday, May 23, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Expanding the contemporary classical saxophone repertoire, Kevin Baldwin will premiere new works by local Seattle composers, as well as lesser-performed pieces from famed composers Luciano Berio, Gerard Grisey and Giacinto Scelsi.
$5-$15
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