Improvisation – Upcoming Concerts
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
Wayward Music Series: Musica Elettronica Viva
Friday, November 5, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Venue unknown, WA, United States
Three old friends reconvene to share the stage and break new collective ground.
$5-$15 at the door
Racer Sessions: patchtax (Boston)
Saturday, November 6, 2027 @ 9:00pm – 11:00pm (PDT)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
On Stage with Classical KING FM: Multimedia/Art Mashup
Friday, November 12, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PST)
Resonance at SOMA Towers, Bellevue, WA, United States
Four artists from Gage Academy will be presented with 30-minute challenges to create art inspired by live classical music performances.
$20
Racer Sessions: Dialectical Imagination (Oakland/Brooklyn)
Saturday, November 13, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
Music of Today: DXARTS, Indigo Mist (Phase II)
Wednesday, November 17, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse Theater, Seattle, WA, United States
A new improvisational work for trumpet, drums, bass, piano, đàn tranh, ghuzheng, and live electronics.
$10-$15
Racer Sessions: WAH album release
Saturday, November 20, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
Racer Sessions: Andrew Forbe
Saturday, November 27, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free