Commission/Premiere – Past Concerts
Seattle Symphony: Wonderful Town
Saturday, June 16, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Alexandra Gardner – New Work (world premiere)
Bernstein – Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
Bernstein – Wonderful Town
Bernstein – Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
Bernstein – Wonderful Town
$22-$122 (ages 8-18 free)
Northwest Girlchoir: Poetry in Motion
Saturday, June 16, 2018 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Music and poetry of movement – in nature, throughout one’s lifetime, and songs of struggle and inspiration from the civil rights and women’s rights movements and around the globe. Featuring a world premiere by Seattle composer Jessica French.
$28 ($18 seniors, $15 youth/student)
Seattle Symphony: Wonderful Town
Thursday, June 14, 2018 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Alexandra Gardner – New Work (world premiere)
Bernstein – Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
Bernstein – Wonderful Town
Bernstein – Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
Bernstein – Wonderful Town
$22-$122 (ages 8-18 free)
Wayward Music Series: Satchel Henneman – New Works for Guitar
Thursday, June 14, 2018 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Featuring newly-commissioned works for guitar by Anne Goldberg-Baldwin, Randy Hathaway, Ava Mendoza, Ian O’Sullivan, Jeff Bowen, Alessandro Rovegno, and Zach Watkins.
$5-$15 donation
Esoterics: DĒSIGNŌ – The reimagined motet: The expression of invention
Sunday, June 10, 2018 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Christ Episcopal Church Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, United States
Contemporary choral music exploring the motet, not only as the most virtuosic and architectural form of ancient choral music, but also for the “play on words” so common in its construction. Works by Lisa Bielawa, Joshua Fishbein, Eric Banks, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, and Richard Strauss.
$25 / $18
Northwest Chamber Chorus: Celebrate 50!
Sunday, June 10, 2018 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Plymouth Congregational Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Old favorites and new gems, featuring the world premiere of a new piece by Eric William Barnum.
$25 / $20 / Free to students through high school
Esoterics: DĒSIGNŌ – The reimagined motet: The expression of invention
Saturday, June 9, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Contemporary choral music exploring the motet, not only as the most virtuosic and architectural form of ancient choral music, but also for the “play on words” so common in its construction. Works by Lisa Bielawa, Joshua Fishbein, Eric Banks, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, and Richard Strauss.
$25 / $18
Seattle Modern Orchestra: In Quest of Spirit – Jonathan Harvey’s 'Bhakti'
Saturday, June 9, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
The West Coast premiere of an epic 50-minute work for chamber ensemble and quadraphonic tape, centered around Sanskrit hymns.
$25 / $15 / $10
Northwest Chamber Chorus: Celebrate 50!
Saturday, June 9, 2018 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Old favorites and new gems, featuring the world premiere of a new piece by Eric William Barnum.
$25 / $20 / Free to students through high school
Esoterics: DĒSIGNŌ – The reimagined motet: The expression of invention
Friday, June 8, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Contemporary choral music exploring the motet, not only as the most virtuosic and architectural form of ancient choral music, but also for the “play on words” so common in its construction. Works by Lisa Bielawa, Joshua Fishbein, Eric Banks, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, and Richard Strauss.
$25 / $18
Luke Fitzpatrick: Reflections
Friday, June 8, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Gallery 1412, Seattle, WA, United States
Huck Hodge – Depart
Melia Watras – Luminous Points
Yiğit Kolat – DARN. for Violin and Electronics
Charles Corey – Concentric Bagatelles (world premiere)
Melia Watras – Luminous Points
Yiğit Kolat – DARN. for Violin and Electronics
Charles Corey – Concentric Bagatelles (world premiere)
$5-$15 suggested donation
Seattle Symphony presents: Young Composers Workshop – A Concert of World Premieres
Monday, June 4, 2018 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
10 new works for chamber ensemble, written by teenage composers and performed by Seattle Symphony musicians.
Free (Free (RSVP required))
Seattle Mandolin Orchestra: The Wheel
Sunday, June 3, 2018 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Trinity Parish Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Joseph Pollard White – Medallion
Parisa Sabet – The Stars Are Setting
Ashkan Saberi – Destiny Suite
Jeffrey Bowen – Of Seven and the Four
Farid Javidan – Potter and Clay
Parisa Sabet – The Stars Are Setting
Ashkan Saberi – Destiny Suite
Jeffrey Bowen – Of Seven and the Four
Farid Javidan – Potter and Clay
$15-$25 (age 12 & under FREE)
Cascadian Chorale: Stormy Weather
Sunday, June 3, 2018 @ 3:30pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Medina, WA, United States
Music celebrating the weather by composers old and new, ranging from Brahms and Elgar to Joy Porter and Joan Szymko.
$20 ($15 student/senior)
OSSCS: Thirsting for Hope
Sunday, June 3, 2018 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
First Free Methodist Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Mendelssohn – Psalm 42, Op. 42
Robert Brooks – The Migration and Death of Esperanza Soledad Hernández
Dvořák – Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
Robert Brooks – The Migration and Death of Esperanza Soledad Hernández
Dvořák – Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
$25 ($20 seniors, $10 students, youth free)
Wayward Music Series: Arun Chandra & Scott Goodwin
Saturday, June 2, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An extremely unique perspective on composition and computer music, plus electronic inspired by rhythmic minimalism, club music, video game soundtracks and the science fiction works of Greg Egan and Liu Cixi.
$5-$15 donation
Cascadian Chorale: Stormy Weather
Saturday, June 2, 2018 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Church of the Holy Cross, Redmond, WA, United States
Music celebrating the weather by composers old and new, ranging from Brahms and Elgar to Joy Porter and Joan Szymko.
$20 ($15 student/senior)
Heath/Asplund Duo: An Evening of Modern/Postmodern Art Song
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Music for soprano with piano and viola by Cage, Ligeti, Ives, Messiaen, Webern, Lutosawski, Christian Asplund, and Jarrad Powell.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Daniel Webbon
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of recent compositions and collaborations ranging from traditionally notated modern classical composition to freely improvised experimental music, drawing on ideas from contemporary literature and continental philosophy.
$5-$15 donation
UW Modern Music Ensemble: Fure, Gubaidulina, Furrer, & Karpen
Thursday, May 24, 2018 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Ashley Fure – Something to Hunt
Sofia Gubaidulina – So sei es
Beat Furrer – Aer
Richard Karpen – World premiere
Sofia Gubaidulina – So sei es
Beat Furrer – Aer
Richard Karpen – World premiere
$10