New music – Upcoming Concerts near Seattle, WA
Wayward Music Series: Laraaji
Saturday, July 22, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
New-age visionary sound artist Laraaji performs new music with modified electric zither/harp, voice, kalimba, and electronics.
$15-$20
Seattle Chamber Music Society: Kernis, Saint-Saëns, & Dvořák
Wednesday, July 26, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Aaron Jay Kernis – Trio in Red
Saint-Saëns – Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano in D minor, Op. 75
Dvořák – Sextet for Strings in A major, Op. 48
Saint-Saëns – Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano in D minor, Op. 75
Dvořák – Sextet for Strings in A major, Op. 48
from $52 ($16 students or 30 & under)
Wayward Music Series: Thea Farhadian + Ewa Trębacz
Thursday, August 3, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Fumes of disassembled harmony and dissonant refractions are followed by a violin-horn duo with computer-realized sound.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Gretchen Yanover, Electric Cello: Bridge Across Sound album release show
Friday, August 4, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
String layers create a nuanced landscape, with melodies that map the heart.
$5-$15 sliding scale
Racer Sessions: Luke Woodle
Sunday, August 6, 2028 @ 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: High Plains + Wild Card + Cruel Diagonals
Friday, August 11, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Please join us for a night of music by Kranky recording artists High Plains, the new duo of Scott Morgan (loscil) and Mark Bridges, in support of their debut release Cinderland.
$10-$15
Racer Sessions: Lily Shababi
Sunday, August 13, 2028 @ 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: Daryl Seaver / Cameron Shafii / RM Francis
Friday, August 18, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Sound scenes that emphasize the materiality and morphology of spatial textures, plus a compendium of non-redemptive transformations and asymmetrical translations in the twinned idioms of chocolate and sound.
$10-$15 suggested donation
Wayward Music Series: Kosaly-Meyer's 'Gradus…'
Saturday, August 19, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An ongoing composition in progress for piano, exploring through improvisation a slowly expanding collection of pitches, and their grounding in silence, in patient attentive microscopic detail.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Racer Sessions: Bad Luck
Sunday, August 20, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
A collectively organized composition and improvisation series for new and experimental music.
Free
Total Eclipse of My Heart Comes Undone
Monday, August 21, 2028 @ 6:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Naked City Brewery and Taphouse, Seattle, WA, United States
Two musicians passionate about creating inviting concert experiences, exploring the continuum between classical music and other genres, and engaging the world beyond music in their work.
$15-$20
Wayward Music Series: M. Barreca + J. Muir + S. Peters
Friday, August 25, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of ambient/electro-acoustic music celebrating new releases by three Seattle artists on local labels that have since moved on to warmer climes.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Summer at SAM and MV Music Presents: one gate
Saturday, August 26, 2028 @ 12:30pm – 1:30pm (PDT)
Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA, United States
Benjamin Marx – one gate
Free (Free)
Wayward Music Series: Jarrad Powell + Golden Retriever (Portland)
Saturday, August 26, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Jarrad Powell will present some of his electronic music, offering up a rare opportunity to experience these works outside of a music for dance context. Opening will be Portland duo Golden Retriever.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Racer Sessions: Ryan Ferreira
Sunday, August 27, 2028 @ 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: End of Summer Improvisations & Meditations
Thursday, August 31, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A great setting for musical quiet and reflection — though not without some wonderfully noisy moments! With artists James Falzone, Heather Bentley, Paul Kikuchi, Steve Peters, Steve Barsotti, Doug Haire, and Tom Varner.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Seattle Composers' Salon: O'Keefe, Scribner, Degraw, Bratcher
Friday, September 1, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Patrick O’Keefe – Sonata for Piano (world premiere – Karin McCullough, piano)
S. Eric Scribner – Works TBD
Blake Degraw – Diler, for strings
Cole Bratcher – Transit Maps, fixed media with projection
S. Eric Scribner – Works TBD
Blake Degraw – Diler, for strings
Cole Bratcher – Transit Maps, fixed media with projection
$5-$15 suggested donation
The Fourth Wall Ensemble Interactive Hybrid Arts Workshop
Thursday, September 7, 2028 @ 3:40pm – 5:10pm (PDT)
Lagerquist Concert Hall at Pacific Lutheran University, Parkland, WA, United States
An interactive hybrid arts workshop from the Fourth Wall Ensemble.
Free
The Living: Contemporary Music for Solo Piano
Thursday, September 7, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Frederic Rzewski – De Profundis
John Joubert – Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 71 (American premiere)
Jacob TV – The Body of Your Dreams
Eric McElroy – The Perilous Realm
John Joubert – Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 71 (American premiere)
Jacob TV – The Body of Your Dreams
Eric McElroy – The Perilous Realm
$5-$15 donation
The Fourth Wall Ensemble
Friday, September 8, 2028 @ 3:40pm – 5:10pm (PDT)
Lagerquist Concert Hall at Pacific Lutheran University, Parkland, WA, United States
Award-winning innovative, interactive, hybrid chamber performance.
$10 / $5 / Free age 18 and under