Improvisation – Upcoming Concerts near Seattle, WA
Wayward Music Series: Aaron Butler & Bonnie Whiting
Friday, August 23, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Featuring works composed for Butler, a recently revived piece from 1973, and duo improvisations with Whiting.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Nash Naubert’s 'Music of Now'
Saturday, August 24, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Join flutist Nash Naubert accompanied by Aditya Kalyanpur on tabla for an Indian classical music performance.
$30 ($24 youth / senior)
Tale Retold, by Emerald City Music
Friday, September 13, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
415 Westlake, Seattle, WA, United States
Old meets new in the retelling of Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale as a cast of NYC Ballet dancers join forces with librettist Mark Campbell, followed by an edgy world premiere by Seattle’s own Angelique Poteat.
$45 ($10 students)
Wayward Music Series: Cellista, Zero Collective, & noisepoenobody
Friday, September 20, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Ambient noise with slices of hip hop, classical music, and alternative pop paired with improvisation, and noise and audio surrealism.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: John Teske's 'vectorscores'
Saturday, September 21, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Music that uses web technologies to generate and render scores and explores some recurring thoughts, visions, and dreams from a dark and surreal time.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Different Drummer
Friday, September 27, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A show that represents genres as varied as the artists presenting it. Prepare to be entertained, amused, and exhilarated by this unique collaboration.
$15 ($10 youth/seniors)
Duo Violão + 1 in Concert
Sunday, October 13, 2030 @ 7:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Phinney Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Internationally acclaimed Rogério Souza and genre-bending Edinho Gerber join with in-demand percussionist Ami Molinelli to brilliantly demonstrate Brazilian choro’s virtuosic possibilities.
$20 / $18 / $10
Thalia Symphony Orchestra: Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 'Scottish'
Saturday, October 26, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Heather Bentley – Laniakea (world premiere)
Edvard Grieg – Peer Gynt
Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”)
Edvard Grieg – Peer Gynt
Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”)
$24 ($18 student/senior)
Emerald City Music: In The Dark
Friday, November 1, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
415 Westlake, Seattle, WA, United States
On the heels of Halloween weekend, immerse yourself in a terrifying musical experience with Georg Friedrich Haas’ In iij. Noct. for string quartet, with the absence of light as the focus.
$45 (students $10)
Wayward Music Series: Body.Space.Time.Sound – Volume 4: Cube
Friday, November 1, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of scored, interdisciplinary improvisations featuring musicians Tom Baker and Kate Olson, and movement artists Alia Swersky and Corrie Befort.
$15
Emerald City Music: In The Dark
Saturday, November 2, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Olympia, WA, United States
On the heels of Halloween weekend, immerse yourself in a terrifying musical experience with Georg Friedrich Haas’ In iij. Noct. for string quartet, with the absence of light as the focus.
$28-$43 (students $10)
Wayward Music Series: Earshot – Travis Laplante
Monday, November 4, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Saxophonist and composer Travis Laplante performs a "mystifying and transporting" solo concert.
$10-$27
Wayward Music Series: Pneuma
Thursday, November 7, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Quartet consisting of clarinets, voice, and electronics presents a body of work at the intersections of Jewish music, contemporary classical music, and free jazz.
$10-$20 sliding scale
Wayward Music Series: SIMF – Odeya Nini + Blackwell/Mines duo
Friday, November 15, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Double bill featuring the double bass duo of Abbey Blackwell and Kelsey Mines, and Los Angeles-based vocalist and composer Odeya Nini.
$5-$20 suggested donation
Wayward Music Series: Pete Leinonen solo + quartet
Thursday, November 21, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Double bassist, composer, and bandleader Pete Leinonen presents long form improvisation as a soloist, and together with saxophonist Wally Shoup, trumpeter Jim Knodle, and percussionist Greg Campbell.
$5-$20 suggested donation
Kin of the Moon: F I R E ∴ R E F I R E
Friday, November 22, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Neil Welch – No house on fire, no.
Ewa Trębacz – Winter After Times of Fire
Leanna Keith and Em Piro – imagination is an act of rebellion (premiere)
Ewa Trębacz – Winter After Times of Fire
Leanna Keith and Em Piro – imagination is an act of rebellion (premiere)
$5-$15 suggested donation
Jack Straw Piano Series: Dana Reason, Lori Goldston, & Nicholas Brannen
Saturday, December 7, 2030 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PST)
Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Jack Straw Artist Dana Reason is joined by cellist Lori Goldston and pianist Nicholas Brannen.
$10-$20 suggested donation
Jack Straw Winter Showcase
Saturday, December 21, 2030 @ 2:00pm – 6:00pm (PST)
Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Jack Straw Cultural Center celebrates the solstice with performances from a wide range of artists from the Artist Support Program, including clarinetist/composer James Falzone, Seattle Art Song Society, Okinawan sanshin player and singer Mako Willett, and others.
$10-$20 suggested donation
Mostly Nordic: Impressions of L. A. Ring (Denmark)
Sunday, January 12, 2031 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PST)
National Nordic Museum, Seattle, WA, United States
Danish jazz and improvisational artist Nikolaj Hess presents opens Mostly Nordic's 25th season with this musical homage to painter and fellow Dane L.A. Ring.
$30 / $25 / $10
SPU Presents Joseph Daley's 'Seven Deadly Sins'
Friday, January 31, 2031 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
First Free Methodist Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Featuring a genre-bending work by Joseph Daley that includes freely improvised sections and Latin-American grooves. Also featuring original chamber works by SPU student composers.
Free (Free)