New music – Upcoming Concerts near Seattle, WA
Seattle Pro Musica: Star of Wonder
Friday, December 17, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Bastyr University Chapel, Kenmore, WA, United States
Music from a thousand years of choral music, from medieval chant to contemporary works, evoking the winter lights of the holiday season.
$12-$38
Serendipity Quartet: Sunnier, Rainier – A String Quartet for Seattle
Saturday, December 18, 2027 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Town Hall Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 8
Dvořák – String Quartet No. 12 ("American")
Adam Stern – Crossroads
Dvořák – String Quartet No. 12 ("American")
Adam Stern – Crossroads
Free (Free)
Racer Sessions: Carmen Rothwell
Saturday, December 18, 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
Violin, Viola & Video Virtuosity on Winter Solstice
Tuesday, December 21, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė – Serenity Diptychs
Ayal Adler – Contrasts in Time
David A. Jaffe – Cluck Old Hen Variations
Dominique de Williencourt – Mont Ararat
Daniel Felsenfeld – Hooked to the Silver Screen
Randall Woolf – TBA
Brian Moon – Duetto con Bobik
Ayal Adler – Contrasts in Time
David A. Jaffe – Cluck Old Hen Variations
Dominique de Williencourt – Mont Ararat
Daniel Felsenfeld – Hooked to the Silver Screen
Randall Woolf – TBA
Brian Moon – Duetto con Bobik
$5-$15 sliding scale
Racer Sessions: Evan Shay (Quebec)
Saturday, January 1, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
The Esoterics present KAY: Ulysses Kay Centennial
Thursday, January 6, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Celebrating the centennial of African-American composer, conductor, and professor Ulysses Kay.
$15-$25
Seattle Composers' Salon: Baker, Hamilton, Olmstead, Shaskus
Thursday, January 6, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An informal presentation of new and in-progress works by Tom Baker, Jay Hamilton, Andrew Olmstead, and Jeremy Shaskus.
$5-$15 donation
The Sound Ensemble: Life After Y2K
Friday, January 7, 2028 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Sarah Bassingthwaighte – Premiere
Sean Osborn – 12-4-6 (2005)
Marcin Pączkowski – Deep Decline (2015)
Greg Dixon – Piece for tuba and electronics (premiere)
Daron Hagen – Chamber Symphony (2003)
Sean Osborn – 12-4-6 (2005)
Marcin Pączkowski – Deep Decline (2015)
Greg Dixon – Piece for tuba and electronics (premiere)
Daron Hagen – Chamber Symphony (2003)
$10-$15
The Esoterics present KAY: Ulysses Kay Centennial
Friday, January 7, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Celebrating the centennial of African-American composer, conductor, and professor Ulysses Kay.
$15-$25
The Esoterics present KAY: Ulysses Kay Centennial
Saturday, January 8, 2028 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm (PST)
Christ Episcopal Church Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, United States
Celebrating the centennial of African-American composer, conductor, and professor Ulysses Kay.
$15-$25
Wayward Music Series: State of Mind – Susan Maughlin Wood & Michaud Savage
Friday, January 14, 2028 @ 7:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
New works for string sextet.
$10
Empowering Silenced Voices 2.0 with Chorosynthesis Singers
Friday, January 14, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:15pm (PST)
SPU Nickerson Studios, Seattle, WA, United States
A symphony of voices embedded with social consciousness.
$10-$25
Different Drummer
Friday, January 14, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Kenyon Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
What do you get when you combine two symphony musicians, a Scottish fiddle champion, and a world-class tap dancer?
$8-$14
Racer Sessions: Ian Christiansen Quartet (Portland)
Saturday, January 15, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
Seattle Phonographers Union & Guests
Wednesday, January 19, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A collective of artists improvising with unprocessed field recordings performs one of their infrequent “ambient” sets.
$5-$15 suggested donation
She has wings
Thursday, January 20, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Trinity Lutheran Church, Lynnwood, WA, United States
The Radcliffe Choral Society joins Northwest Girlchoir Amore and the small ensembles of Seattle Pro Musica for a collaborative concert.
$15 (26 & under free)
Russian Music of the 1960s: Brendan Kinsella, piano
Thursday, January 20, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
1960s-era violin sonatas by Edison Denisov, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Alfred Schnittke.
$10-$20
Universal Language Project: concrete-lines-fluid-curves
Thursday, January 20, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Resonance at SOMA Towers, Bellevue, WA, United States
New chamber works that spin out from themes emerging in poetry and found sounds: life cycles, birth and rebirth, change and becoming, fusion and elision, flow and process, eternal recurrence.
$15-$25
Saratoga Orchestra presents: J.S. Bach, Arnold, Elgar & Shaw
Friday, January 21, 2028 @ 2:30pm – 4:00pm (PST)
Island Church of Whidbey, Langley, WA, United States
J.S. Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Malcolm Arnold – Concerto for Flute
Caroline Shaw – Entr'acte for String Orchestra
Edward Elgar – Serenade for Strings
Malcolm Arnold – Concerto for Flute
Caroline Shaw – Entr'acte for String Orchestra
Edward Elgar – Serenade for Strings
$25/$20/Free
Seattle Chamber Music Society: Mozart, Higdon, Fauré
Friday, January 21, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Mozart – Duo for Violin and Viol in B-flat major, K. 424
Jennifer Higdon – Piano Trio
Fauré – Quartet for Piano and Strings in C minor, Op. 15
Jennifer Higdon – Piano Trio
Fauré – Quartet for Piano and Strings in C minor, Op. 15
$16-$52