Commission/Premiere – Past Concerts
Emerald City Music: What You Are To Me
Saturday, October 23, 2021 @ 5:30pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts, Olympia, WA, United States
Bohuslav Martinů – Variations on a Theme of Rossini, H. 290
Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Suite for Two Violins, Cello, & Piano Left Hand, Op. 23
Patrick Castillo – Winter Light (Seattle premiere)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Suite for Two Violins, Cello, & Piano Left Hand, Op. 23
Patrick Castillo – Winter Light (Seattle premiere)
$55 ($44 ETV member)
'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' – The Met: Live in HD Screening
Saturday, October 23, 2021 @ 9:55am – 1:10pm (PDT)
Icicle Creek Center for the Arts – Snowy Owl Theater, Leavenworth, WA, United States
In-person screening of Met Opera's production of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Terence Blanchard’s new adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s moving memoir.
$22 ($12 student, $5 ages 12 & under)
Emerald City Music: What You Are To Me
Friday, October 22, 2021 @ 10:00pm – 11:55pm (PDT)
415 Westlake, Seattle, WA, United States
Bohuslav Martinů – Variations on a Theme of Rossini, H. 290
Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Suite for Two Violins, Cello, & Piano Left Hand, Op. 23
Patrick Castillo – Winter Light (Seattle premiere)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Suite for Two Violins, Cello, & Piano Left Hand, Op. 23
Patrick Castillo – Winter Light (Seattle premiere)
$55 ($44 ETV member)
Emerald City Music: What You Are To Me
Friday, October 22, 2021 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
415 Westlake, Seattle, WA, United States
Bohuslav Martinů – Variations on a Theme of Rossini, H. 290
Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Suite for Two Violins, Cello, & Piano Left Hand, Op. 23
Patrick Castillo – Winter Light (Seattle premiere)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Suite for Two Violins, Cello, & Piano Left Hand, Op. 23
Patrick Castillo – Winter Light (Seattle premiere)
$55 ($44 ETV member)
arx duo – Evergreen: New Music for Marimba & Vibraphone
Friday, October 22, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Resonance at SOMA Towers, Bellevue, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Peter Klatzow – Ambient Resonances
Johann Sebastian Bach – English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808
Angelique Poteat – New work TBA (world premiere)
Robert Honstein – Evergreen
Johann Sebastian Bach – English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808
Angelique Poteat – New work TBA (world premiere)
Robert Honstein – Evergreen
Online: $18 | In person: $25
Eastman Philharmonia: Frazier, Mahler, Shostakovich
Monday, October 18, 2021 @ 4:30pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
J. Todd Frazier – Hear the Future Now (world premiere)
Gustav Mahler – Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen ("Songs of a Wayfarer")
Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10
Gustav Mahler – Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen ("Songs of a Wayfarer")
Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10
Free
Meany Center: Conrad Tao
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
Pianist Conrad Tao leads a journey through the sonic worlds of compositional voices from the past & the immediate present – including a newly commissioned piece from Tao himself.
$65 (subscriptions available)
Wayward Music Series: Skyros Quartet + arx duo – Bows & Mallets
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
New works for string quartet & percussion by Michael Laurello & Christopher Dietz, plus works from the 20th & 21st Centuries.
$5-$15 donation
Carpe Diem String Quartet: Something Old & Something New
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 @ 6:30pm – 7:45pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Bassoonist Yoshi Ishikawa, oboist Peter Cooper, & the Carpe Diem String Quartet will present the world premiere of a sextet by Korine Fujiwara, as well as works by Jennifer Higdon, Antonio Vivaldi, & Franz Danzi.
Free
Seattle Symphony: Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances
Saturday, October 9, 2021 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Gioachino Rossini – Overture to Semiramide
Francisco Coll – Violin Concerto (US premiere)
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Francisco Coll – Violin Concerto (US premiere)
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Ticket price TBD
Ensemble Dal Niente with Ken Vandermark at Washington University
Friday, October 8, 2021 @ 5:30pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Roscoe Mitchell – Last Trane to Clover Five for solo saxophone & ensemble (world premiere)
Nicole Mitchell – Cult of Electromagnetic Connectivity for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, & percussion
Wang Lu – After some remarks by CW on his work for harp & clarinet
Anthony Braxton – Composition Nos. 193 + 228 for large ensemble
Wang Lu – After some remarks by CW on his work for harp & clarinet
Anthony Braxton – Composition Nos. 193 + 228 for large ensemble
$15 online | $0-$20 in person
Seattle Symphony: Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances
Thursday, October 7, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Gioachino Rossini – Overture to Semiramide
Francisco Coll – Violin Concerto (US premiere)
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Francisco Coll – Violin Concerto (US premiere)
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Ticket price TBD
Our House is On Fire
Thursday, October 7, 2021 @ 5:30pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Livestreamed concert of world premieres urging immediate action to address the global climate crisis, featuring an interdisciplinary team of composers, poets, performers, & sound designers from across the US.
Free (Free)
Roulette: Experiments in Opera & Restless NYC Present 'Rainbird'
Thursday, October 7, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Improvised arias over loops, original folk songs, & textural spaces are featured in director/librettist Mallory Catlett & composer Aaron Siegel's operatic adaptation of a novel by New Zealand author Janet Frame.
Free (Free ($20-$25 in person))
Roulette: Robert Dick & Ursel Schlicht – Flute & Piano Redefined—Again!
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
The long-standing duo of Robert Dick (Glissando Flute, bass flute, contrabass flute, & piccolo) & Ursel Schlicht (piano – both on the keyboard, & inside the instrument) premieres new music that seeks to expand the sound world of their instrumental configuration.
Free (Free ($20-$25 in person))
Oregon Symphony: The Season Premiere – David Danzmayr Conducts Mahler’s Second Symphony
Monday, October 4, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR, United States
Kenji Bunch – Time In (world premiere)
Gabriela Lena Frank – Elegía Andina
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”
Gabriela Lena Frank – Elegía Andina
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”
$25-$79
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Unsupervised with Chicago Composer's Consortium
Monday, October 4, 2021 @ 11:45am – 12:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Laura Schwendinger – Celestial Bodies (world premiere)
Kyong Mee Choi – MOMENT
Lawrence Axelrod – Of Wind and Sky
Elizabeth Start – O, Aedicatio; O, Vita (world premiere)
Martha Horst – Quiltage (world premiere)
Kyong Mee Choi – MOMENT
Lawrence Axelrod – Of Wind and Sky
Elizabeth Start – O, Aedicatio; O, Vita (world premiere)
Martha Horst – Quiltage (world premiere)
Free (Free)
The Sound Ensemble: EXTRACTION – Art on the Edge of the Abyss
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Royal Room, Seattle, WA, United States
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė – Solastalgia (US premiere)
Henning Kraggerud – ROMANTARCTICA
Jerry Mader – Pietà: Lament at the Edge of the Abyss (world premiere)
Henning Kraggerud – ROMANTARCTICA
Jerry Mader – Pietà: Lament at the Edge of the Abyss (world premiere)
$15 advance, $20 at the door, $7 student
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: ~Nois with Annika Socolofsky
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 6:30pm – 7:15pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Mathew Arrellin – Metasomatic V
Annika Socolofsky – New work TBA (world premiere)
Annika Socolofsky – New work TBA (world premiere)
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Janice Misurell-Mitchell – Resistant Noise
Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 5:30pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
World premiere of Janice Misurell-Mitchell's Resistant Noise for vocal & instrumental ensemble & electronics, based on text by Jacques Attali.
Free (Free)