Commission/Premiere – Upcoming Concerts near Seattle, WA
Auburn Symphony Orchestra: A World-Premiere Tribute to Auburn
Sunday, January 31, 2027 @ 2:30pm – 4:30pm (PST)
Auburn Performing Arts Center, Auburn, WA, United States
Ott – New work (world premiere)
Brahms – Academic Festival Overture
Shostakovich – Piano Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich – Festive Overture
Brahms – Academic Festival Overture
Shostakovich – Piano Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich – Festive Overture
$10-$35
Graphic Scores: New Commissions
Friday, February 12, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Common Area Maintenance, Seattle, WA, United States
Inverted Space has commissioned four new graphic scores as visual art and instruction for performance. Works by Luke Fitzpatrick, Ania Stachurska, Jacob Sundstrom, and Kevin Baldwin will be premiered.
Donations welcome
NWSO: Huling, Tonooka, Jones, Bernstein
Friday, February 12, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Highline Performing Arts Center, Burien, WA, United States
Tim Huling – Flock in Flight
Sumi Tonooka – For Malala (world premiere)
Samuel Jones – Trombone Concerto
Leonard Bernstein – On the Town: Three Dance Episodes
Sumi Tonooka – For Malala (world premiere)
Samuel Jones – Trombone Concerto
Leonard Bernstein – On the Town: Three Dance Episodes
$15 ($12 student/senior)
Simple Measures + Spectrum Dance: Rambunctions 2.0
Thursday, February 18, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Engaging, evocative works by African-American composers Pamela Z, Wynton Marsalis, and T. J. Anderson.
$20-$40
Simple Measures + Spectrum Dance: Rambunctions 2.0
Friday, February 19, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Engaging, evocative works by African-American composers Pamela Z, Wynton Marsalis, and T. J. Anderson.
$20-$40
Simple Measures + Spectrum Dance: Rambunctions 2.0
Saturday, February 20, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Engaging, evocative works by African-American composers Pamela Z, Wynton Marsalis, and T. J. Anderson.
$20-$40
Kronos Quartet: Beyond Zero
Saturday, February 20, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Moore Theatre, Seattle, WA, United States
Kronos Quartet combines a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to continually re-imagining the string quartet experience.
$20-$75
Simple Measures + Spectrum Dance: Rambunctions 2.0
Sunday, February 21, 2027 @ 2:00pm – 3:30pm (PST)
Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Engaging, evocative works by African-American composers Pamela Z, Wynton Marsalis, and T. J. Anderson.
$20-$40
Music of Today: Garth Knox, viola
Monday, February 22, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
A program of new and improvised music by internationally renowned violist Garth Knox, joined by faculty violist Melia Watras and students from the UW viola studio.
$10-$15
Kronos Quartet Workshop
Tuesday, February 23, 2027 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
The internationally renowned Kronos Quartet leads a workshop exploring new works by UW professor emeritus Ken Benshoof and violist Garth Knox, commissioned for the group's project Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire.
Free
Town Music: ‘we do it to one another,’ Poetry and Performance Featuring Joshua Roman, Tracy K. Smith, and Jessica Rivera
Thursday, February 25, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Town Hall Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
A performance of Joshua Roman's we do it to one another (based on Tracy K. Smith's Life on Mars), a reading by Smith, and a conversation between the artists on the creative process, music, and poetry.
$10-$25
Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra: World Sounds
Saturday, February 27, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
First Free Methodist Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Milhaud – Le boeuf sur le toit
Kodály – Hungarian Rondo
Grieg – Two Elegiac Melodies
World Premiere – International Composition Competition
World Premiere – Local Composers Competition
Piazzolla – Oblivion
Piazzolla – Libertango
Kodály – Hungarian Rondo
Grieg – Two Elegiac Melodies
World Premiere – International Composition Competition
World Premiere – Local Composers Competition
Piazzolla – Oblivion
Piazzolla – Libertango
$20 ($15 student/senior)
Wayward Music Series: Lori Freedman + Seth Josel
Wednesday, March 3, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
New works traversing the limits and thresholds of the low clarinets, plus the US premiere of
point/wave
, a 45-minute piece for steel-stringed acoustic guitar and live ambient sound processing by composer Cat Lamb.
point/wave
, a 45-minute piece for steel-stringed acoustic guitar and live ambient sound processing by composer Cat Lamb.
$5-$15
Graphic Scores: New Commissions – II
Thursday, March 4, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Common Area Maintenance, Seattle, WA, United States
Inverted Space has commissioned four new graphic scores as visual art and instruction for performance. Works by Luke Fitzpatrick, Ania Stachurska, Jacob Sundstrom, and Kevin Baldwin will be premiered.
Donations welcome
VOCES8: Underneath the Stars
Thursday, March 4, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Town Hall Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
From traditional Renaissance harmonies to more modern compositions, including the premiere of Norwegian composer/pianist Ola Gjeilo’s The River and an amplified, modern pop set.
$25
David A. Jaffe: The Space Between Us
Friday, March 5, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
David A. Jaffe – The Space Between Us
Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 9
David A. Jaffe – Cluck Old Hen Variations
David A. Jaffe – Impossible Animals
Rebecca Clarke – Poem
Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 9
David A. Jaffe – Cluck Old Hen Variations
David A. Jaffe – Impossible Animals
Rebecca Clarke – Poem
$15 online, sliding scale at the door
Inverted Space Ensemble: Long Piece Fest 2.2: asleep, forest, melody, path
Monday, March 8, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A 60-minute piece using sounds gathered in Seattle, mixing piano, violin, electric guitar, and saxophone with melodies superimposed with and separated from these field recordings.
$5-$15 suggested donation
UW Chamber Singers and University Chorale
Tuesday, March 9, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
Music dealing with suffering and redemption, including the world premiere of Robert Kyr's The Rose Led Us To Our Eyes and Arvo Pärt’s ground-breaking Passio.
$10
Universal Language Project presents: SCRAPE
Thursday, March 11, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 11:00pm (PST)
Resonance at SOMA Towers, Bellevue, WA, United States
Chin – Obamatorio
Knapp – Only Those Who Have Dared
Knapp – A Letter
Knapp – Charles Who?
Knapp – Only Those Who Have Dared
Knapp – A Letter
Knapp – Charles Who?
$15-$25
RUMI: Within each timeless droplet
Thursday, March 11, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Celebrating the poetry of mystical Sufi poet Jalal ad-Din Mohammed RUMI with works by Nilo Alcala, David Asplin, Eric Banks, Bern Herbolsheimer, J David Moore, Christopher Theofanidis, and Mark Winges.
$15-$25