Contemporary – Upcoming Concerts
Atlanta Chamber Players: Opening Concert – Now & Then
Sunday, November 14, 2032 @ 1:00pm – 3:00pm (PST)
Online and in-person
Benjamin Krause – Notes From Inside
Jessie Montgomery – Peace
Kenji Bunch – Dies Irie
Jennifer Higdon – Southern Harmony
Johannes Brahms – Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
Jessie Montgomery – Peace
Kenji Bunch – Dies Irie
Jennifer Higdon – Southern Harmony
Johannes Brahms – Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
Free (Online: Free | In person: $0-25)
Seattle Bach Choir: Ceremony & Memorial
Sunday, November 14, 2032 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Trinity Parish Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Marcel Tyberg – Mass No. 2 in F major
Heinrich Schütz – Syncharma musicum, SWV 49
Eskil Hemberg – Lützener te deum
Additional works TBA
Heinrich Schütz – Syncharma musicum, SWV 49
Eskil Hemberg – Lützener te deum
Additional works TBA
$20 ($15 youth/seniors)
Olympia Symphony Orchestra: Looking Forward
Sunday, November 14, 2032 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Olympia, WA, United States
Ferruccio Busoni – Eine Lustspielouvertüre ("Comedy Overture"), Op. 38, BV 245
Richard Strauss – Serenade in E-flat major, Op. 7
Johannes Brahms – Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Roupen Shakarian – Whimsy
Camille Saint-Saëns – Suite algérienne, Op. 60
Richard Strauss – Serenade in E-flat major, Op. 7
Johannes Brahms – Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Roupen Shakarian – Whimsy
Camille Saint-Saëns – Suite algérienne, Op. 60
$6-$65 (discounts available)
Washington Chamber Ensemble: Solace & Hope
Sunday, November 14, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 6:20pm (PST)
Federal Way Performing Arts and Event Center, Federal Way, WA, United States
Washington Chamber Ensemble, the most advanced Korean choral group in the Seattle area, presents a program including contemporary Korean Christian songs, popular Korean folk songs, & beloved 90’s K-pop.
Free (Free (call for tickets))
Eastman School of Music Composition Department: EARS
Monday, November 15, 2032 @ 4:30pm – 6:00pm (PST)
Online and in-person
Concert featuring works by students of the Eastman Audio Research Studio (EARS), a platform for research, experimentation, & realization of new music & sound art.
Free
Roulette: Bob Bellerue – 'Radioactive Desire'
Wednesday, November 17, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PST)
Online and in-person
Experience a multidimensional sound world in this public premiere of Bob Bellerue's Radioactive Desire, a work for 6 improvising chamber musicians whose sounds are fed into a menagerie of unusual speaker systems.
Free (Free ($20-$25 in person))
WWU: Composers of Western (C.O.W.)
Wednesday, November 17, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
WWU Performing Arts Center, Bellingham, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Brand-new works for strings, woodwinds, trumpet, voice, piano, & percussion, including 2 premieres by this year's COW Ensemble.
Free
Seattle Symphony: Beach Gaelic Symphony
Thursday, November 18, 2032 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Music Director Thomas Dausgaard conducts this powerhouse program featuring Amy Beach’s “Gaelic” Symphony No. 2, plus the world premiere of a rare double harp concerto by American composer Hannah Lash.
Online: from $12.99 | In-person: $24-$134
Roulette: Jessica Pavone – 'Lull' for String Octet & Soloists
Friday, November 19, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PST)
Online and in-person
Composer/violist Jessica Pavone presents Lull, a new chamber work reflecting a multifaceted experience of ‘stasis’ – quietude & introspection sustained amidst the tension & instability of the pandemic.
Free (Free ($20-$25 in person))
ROCO Connections: A Dust in Time
Friday, November 19, 2032 @ 5:30pm – 6:30pm (PST)
Online and in-person
The ROCO String Quartet presents Huang Ruo’s A Dust in Time: Passacaglia for Strings, a 60-minute uninterrupted musical meditation inspired by the Tibetan sand mandala.
Free (Online: Free | In person: $35)
Seattle Modern Orchestra: Concert 1 – Dissociation
Friday, November 19, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Forum at Town Hall Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Kaley Lane Eaton – Dissociation, or Self-Portrait (world premiere)
Marisol Jiménez – Bestiario Onírico II – Ciudadela (US premiere)
Marisol Jiménez – Yiríya aiteiya (US premiere)
Wang Lu – Ryan and Dan
Fausto Romitelli – Professor Bad Trip – Lesson 1
Marisol Jiménez – Bestiario Onírico II – Ciudadela (US premiere)
Marisol Jiménez – Yiríya aiteiya (US premiere)
Wang Lu – Ryan and Dan
Fausto Romitelli – Professor Bad Trip – Lesson 1
Online: $15 | In-person: $25 ($15 senior, $10 student)
The Esoterics: The Rewaking
Saturday, November 20, 2032 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
St. John's Episcopal Church, Olympia, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Program featuring newly-written choral music by living composers who comprise “the new majority”: women, transgender people, people of color, & members of the greater LGBTQIA+ community.
Donations accepted
92Y: Berta Rojas, guitar, plays Presti, Anido, & more
Saturday, November 20, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 6:30pm (PST)
Online and in-person
Berta Rojas returns to 92Y with a program of music written by or composed in honor of pioneering guitarists Ida Presti & María Luisa Anido. Includes the NY premiere of Sérgio Assad's Anido's Portrait.
Online: $20 | In-person: $20-$45
Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra: Bernstein, Strauss, Hanson
Saturday, November 20, 2032 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Town Hall Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Leonard Bernstein – Overture to Candide
Richard Strauss – Tod und Verklärung (“Death and Transfiguration”), Op. 24
Howard Hanson – Symphony No. 2 in D-flat major, Op. 30, W. 45 “Romantic”
Richard Strauss – Tod und Verklärung (“Death and Transfiguration”), Op. 24
Howard Hanson – Symphony No. 2 in D-flat major, Op. 30, W. 45 “Romantic”
$10 ($8 student/senior/military/veteran)
Bellingham Symphony Orchestra: The BSO is Bach
Saturday, November 20, 2032 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham, WA, United States
An evening of Baroque & Baroque-inspired concertos. Soloists include: oboist Alex Klein; Director Yaniv Attar & Michael Partington on guitar; & BSO's 4 principal violinists.
$15-$49
Seattle Symphony: Beach Gaelic Symphony
Saturday, November 20, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Music Director Thomas Dausgaard conducts this powerhouse program featuring Amy Beach’s “Gaelic” Symphony No. 2, plus the world premiere of a rare double harp concerto by American composer Hannah Lash.
Ticket price TBD
Wayward Music Series: Seattle Phonographers Union
Saturday, November 20, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Collective improvisation using only unprocessed field recordings, exploring the ways in which we recognize, differentiate, map, & navigate our sonic environment.
$5-$15 donation
Thalia Symphony Returns to Town Hall
Sunday, November 21, 2032 @ 2:00pm – 3:30pm (PST)
Town Hall Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
George Walker – Lyric for Strings
Franz Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 85 in B-flat major, Hob. I:85 "La Reine" ("The Queen")
Charles Ives – Symphony No. 2
Franz Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 85 in B-flat major, Hob. I:85 "La Reine" ("The Queen")
Charles Ives – Symphony No. 2
$25 (General Admission) $20 (Students/Seniors)
Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Fall Series
Sunday, November 21, 2032 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Performances by SYSO's Debut Symphony Orchestra & Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra, as well as the revival of a SYSO relic: the Youth Chamber Orchestra.
$10
Bellingham Symphony Orchestra: The BSO is Bach
Sunday, November 21, 2032 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham, WA, United States
An afternoon of Baroque & Baroque-inspired concertos. Soloists include: Alex Klein, oboe; Director Yaniv Attar & Michael Partington, guitar; & BSO's 4 principal violinists.
$15-$49