Improvisation – Upcoming Concerts near Seattle, WA
Racer Sessions: Ings
Saturday, August 14, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
Racer Sessions: Yzech Tahar and Friends
Saturday, August 21, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
The Westerlies
Friday, August 27, 2027 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
The Royal Room, Seattle, WA, United States
The Westerlies – a New York-based brass quartet comprised of four childhood friends from Seattle – return to their hometown in anticipation of their forthcoming sophomore double-album.
$15 ($5 students)
Racer Sessions: Zae Tinaza with Burning Spirits band (Olympia)
Saturday, August 28, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
Racer Sessions: Sophia Stephens
Saturday, September 4, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
Racer Sessions: Nat Evans
Saturday, September 11, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
Racer Sessions: Seth Alexander
Saturday, September 18, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
Racer Sessions: Samantha Boshnack
Saturday, September 25, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
Racer @ Cornish
Sunday, September 26, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Cornish College of the Arts - Kerry Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Racer sessions at Cornish – special event! Free and open to the public.
Free
Racer Sessions: Daniel Phelps
Saturday, October 2, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
Racer Sessions: CHIVES (Brooklyn)
Saturday, October 9, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
Wayward Music Series presents Loop 2.4.3: Time Machine_music
Wednesday, October 13, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Stories of power, control, love, war, and hyper-reality inform this multi-media concert bringing together fine art, film, and composed and improvised music.
$5-$15
Racer Sessions: Naomi Moon Siegal
Saturday, October 16, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
Frequency Debut Concert: The Kreutzer Sonata
Saturday, October 23, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
A dynamic new chamber ensemble presents a program of interconnected works by Beethoven, Janáček, and Watras, plus improvisation.
$10-$20
Racer Sessions: Tristan Gianola
Saturday, October 23, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
Fright Night: 'Nosferatu' with live pipe organ accompaniment
Sunday, October 24, 2027 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Naked City Brewery and Taphouse, Seattle, WA, United States
A screening of F. W. Murnau's silent horror masterpiece Nosferatu with a live, completely improvised pipe organ accompaniment.
$20, includes free house beverage
Music of Today: Eighty & Ninety – Stuart Dempster & Bill Smith
Tuesday, October 26, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Meany Hall for the Performing Arts, Seattle, WA, United States
William O. Smith – Antiphony (ca. 1975)
Stuart Dempster – Didjeridervish (1971-72)
William O. Smith – Encounter (1970)
Robert Erickson – General Speech (1969)
Stuart Dempster – Didjeridervish (1971-72)
William O. Smith – Encounter (1970)
Robert Erickson – General Speech (1969)
$10-$15
Wayward Music Series: Renée Baker
Thursday, October 28, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Twelve of Seattle’s outstanding improvising musicians performing works by René Baker combining conduction, graphic scores, and standard notation.
$5-$15
Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra: From the New World
Friday, October 29, 2027 @ 2:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Richard Rodgers – Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
Gunther Schuller – Journey into Jazz
Marion Bauer – Sun Splendor
Edward Collins – The Cowboy's Breakdown
Dvořák – Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
Gunther Schuller – Journey into Jazz
Marion Bauer – Sun Splendor
Edward Collins – The Cowboy's Breakdown
Dvořák – Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
$20-$30
Racer Sessions: Abbey Blackwell
Saturday, October 30, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free