Listen Live at Lunch: Onomatopoeia Trio

Wednesday, August 4, 2032 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
First Lutheran Church Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, United States
Flute/sax/horn trio Onomatopoeia presents a wide-ranging program spanning the 18th Century to today. Works by W.A. Mozart, Friedrich Kuhlau, & Ben Seavello, with pops arrangements by Jessi Harvey.

Free

Mystic Chords of Memory

Thursday, August 5, 2032 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA, United States
Composer/performer Nat Evans & saxophonists Neil Welch & Kate Olson perform a new, semi-improvisatory work while drifting around Olympic Sculpture Park.

Free (Free)

Whidbey's Saratoga Orchestra & PNW Conducting Institute Concert

Saturday, August 7, 2032 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Langley, WA, United States
Whidbey's Saratoga Orchestra plays host to orchestra conductors from around the globe in this final concert of the PNW Conducting Institute. Works by Antonín Dvořák, Grażyna Bacewicz, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, & Hanna Benn.

$25

CMNW Summer Festival AT-HOME: Festival Finale – A Journey Into the Light (on-demand until 8/31/2021)

Saturday, August 7, 2032 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, Portland, OR, United States
Olivier Messiaen – "V. Praise to the Eternity of Jesus” from Quatuor pour la fin du temps ("Quartet for the End of Time")
Davóne Tines – Excerpts from Recital No. 1: MASS
Franz Schubert – String Quintet in C major, D. 956, Op. posth. 163 "Cello Quintet"

$20 ($150 AT-HOME Summer Festival Pass)

Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival: Old World, New World

Tuesday, August 10, 2032 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Orcas Center, Eastsound, WA, United States
George Gershwin, arr. James Cohn – Three Preludes
Amy Beach – Quartet for Strings, Op. 89
Ludwig van Beethoven – "I. Music, Love, and Wine" from 25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 11 "Gassenhauer"
Franz Schubert – "IV. Andantino – Allegretto" from Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 “Trout”
Astor Piazzolla, arr. Roman Sokruta – Libertango
Astor Piazzolla, arr. Pablo Ziegler – Michelangelo '70
Aram Khachaturian, arr. Greg Anderson – "Sabre Dance" from Gayane
Jennifer Higdon – A Gentle Notion
Morton Gould – "VIII. Jaunty" from Benny’s Gig
Dick Hyman – "Allegro" from Sextet for clarinet, piano, & string quartet

Free ($40 ($10 ages 6-18))

Listen Live at Lunch: Eneida Larti, piano

Wednesday, August 11, 2032 @ 12:00pm – 12:50pm (PDT)
First Lutheran Church Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, United States
George Frideric Handel – Chaconne in G major, HWV 435
Franz Liszt – "II. Der Müller und der Bach" from Müllerlieder von Franz Schubert, S. 565
Franz Liszt – "VIII. Gretchen am Spinnrade" from 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, S. 558
Robert Schumann – "I. Durchaus fantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen; Im Legenden-Ton" from Fantasie in C major, Op. 17
Çesk Zadeja – Tokkata

Free (Free)

Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival: Old World, New World

Wednesday, August 11, 2032 @ 5:30pm – 6:30pm (PDT)
Orcas Center, Eastsound, WA, United States
Online and in-person
George Gershwin, arr. James Cohn – Three Preludes
Amy Beach – Quartet for Strings, Op. 89
Ludwig van Beethoven – "I. Music, Love, and Wine" from 25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 11 "Gassenhauer"
Franz Schubert – "IV. Andantino – Allegretto" from Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 “Trout”
Astor Piazzolla, arr. Roman Sokruta – Libertango
Astor Piazzolla, arr. Pablo Ziegler – Michelangelo '70
Aram Khachaturian, arr. Greg Anderson – "Sabre Dance" from Gayane
Jennifer Higdon – A Gentle Notion
Morton Gould – "VIII. Jaunty" from Benny’s Gig
Dick Hyman – "Allegro" from Sextet for clarinet, piano, & string quartet

Free (Free ($10-$40 in-person))

New Music Gathering 2021: Performance / Workshop / Installation Presented by Women’s Labor

Thursday, August 12, 2032 @ 8:00am – 10:00am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Using embedded technologies, domestic tools are repurposed as musical instruments & explored in this public installation & performance.

Free (Free (registration required))

New Music Gathering 2021: Sidney San Martin, Verdant Vibes, Kyle Hutchins, Zack Baltich & Ilan Blanck

Thursday, August 12, 2032 @ 11:00am – 12:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Sidney San Martin – Donate a Note
Kirsten Volness – The Pathless Woods
The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker – ICD-10CM R55
Zack Baltich & Ilan Blanck – Giving

Free (Free (registration required))

Michael Harrison performs Indian Ragas & Compositions for Piano & Tabla, with Nitin Mitta

Thursday, August 12, 2032 @ 5:30pm – 6:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Composer/pianist Michael Harrison offers his debut performance of traditional Indian classical music, adapted for piano with tabla accompaniment.

$40 ($25-$55 in-person)

New Music Gathering 2021: Mary Prescott, Marianne Parker, Julia Lougheed, 113, Ryan McMasters

Thursday, August 12, 2032 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Mary Prescott – “Moon” from Tida
Stephanie Ann Boyd – Pincushion Protea (world premiere)
The Persistence of Art Music: COVID works for Clarinet
Yu Kuwabara – In Between
Ryan McMasters – phonetinus_

Free (Free (registration required))

New Music Gathering 2021: COULTER HILL, Girlnoise, John Dorhauer

Friday, August 13, 2032 @ 11:00am – 1:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
COULTER HILL – Concert
Girlnoise – For What, For Whom
John Dorhauer – The National Coin Shortage

Free (Free (registration required))

New Music Gathering 2021: Morgan Schoonover, Clara (Da) Yang, & Rachel Mangold; Gregory Oakes; Dameun Strange

Friday, August 13, 2032 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Morgan Schoonover, Clara (Da) Yang, & Rachel Mangold – grief. acceptance. resistance. money?
Jessie Cox – Light-Dots on a Deep-Space-Image for Quarter Tone Clarinet
Dameun Strange – Our Boat: Notes on Senegal

Free (Free (registration required))

Key to Change: Summer Finale Concert

Saturday, August 14, 2032 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Renton IKEA Performing Arts Center, Renton, WA, United States
Key to Change's first in-person concert in almost 2 years features the music of composer-in-residence Caleb Vaughn-Jones.

Free (Free (RSVP required))

New Music Gathering 2021: The Sonoglyph Collective & Zeitgeist

Saturday, August 14, 2032 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
The Sonoglyph Collective performs music & poetry that interrogate the theme of money. Zeitgeist presents music by Minnesota composers.

Free (Free (registration required))

Grand Teton Music Festival: Festival Orchestra – Bronfman Plays Beethoven

Saturday, August 14, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Richard Strauss – Don Juan, Op. 20
Jessie Montgomery – Five Freedom Songs
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37

Free (Free (in-person tickets are SOLD OUT))

New Music Gathering 2021: Sasha Kaoru Zamler-Carhart & Samn Johnson; Thiago Ancelmo; Andrea Mazzariello; Melody Loveless

Saturday, August 14, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 7:10pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Sasha Kaoru Zamler-Carhart & Samn Johnson – Consolation: trans monastic microtonal dungeon
Thiago Ancelmo – Contrasts: Music for clarinet and electronics
HEADLINER: RECAP
Andrea Mazzariello – War Footing
Melody Loveless – Live code set

Free (Free (registration required))

Joey Largent & Katrina Wolfe: Dreams of the Forty Whales of the Harmonic Reed System

Saturday, August 14, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Joey Largent joins his quartet, Glacial Time Communion, in presenting a new, long-duration composition for 4 re-tuned reed boxes in collaboration with interdisciplinary visual/performing artist Katrina Wolfe.

$5-$15 suggested donation

La Jolla Music Society: Grand Duos

Thursday, August 19, 2032 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major for violin, viola, & orchestra, K. 364 / 320d
Tamar Muskal – Facing the Automaton (world premiere)
Ernest Chausson – Concerto for violin, piano, & string quartet in D major Op. 21

Free (Free (in-person tickets $45-$95))

Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival: A Montrose Foray

Friday, August 20, 2032 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Orcas Center, Eastsound, WA, United States
Fanny Mendelssohn – "I. Allegro molto vivace" from Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 11
David Baker – "IV. Boogie Woogie" from Roots II
Rebecca Clarke – "II. Andante molto semplice" from Piano Trio
Mieczysław Weinberg – "II. Toccata" from Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 24
Gabriel Fauré – Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15

Free ($40 ($10 ages 6-18))