New music – Upcoming Concerts near Seattle, WA
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
Wayward Music Series: Steve O’Brien’s moving out
Friday, September 8, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
The evening will start with a brass quintet piece, then two septet pieces, trios arranged for sextet, collective improvisations using conduction, and more.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Wayward Music Series: Janet Feder & Fred Frith
Saturday, September 9, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Come for the incredibly lovely compositions, stay for the wildly inventive improvisational interplay.
$5-$15 donation
Racer Sessions: Adam Briggs
Sunday, September 10, 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
Cornish@Amazon Summer Concert Series: James Falzone’s Musique Actuelle
Thursday, September 14, 2028 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
Van Vorst Plaza, Seattle, WA, United States
James Falzone (clarinet and woodwinds), Ruth Dornfeld (fiddle), and Dave Bartley (guitar).
Free
Not Even the Wind... by Emerald City Music
Friday, September 15, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 11:00pm (PDT)
415 Westlake, Seattle, WA, United States
Bernstein – America!, for Violin and Piano
Norman – Light Screens
Adams – there is no one, not even the wind...
Reich – Nagoya Marimbas, for two marimbas
Dvořák – Piano Quartet in E-flat major
Norman – Light Screens
Adams – there is no one, not even the wind...
Reich – Nagoya Marimbas, for two marimbas
Dvořák – Piano Quartet in E-flat major
$45 includes open bar; $10 students
Not Even the Wind... by Emerald City Music
Saturday, September 16, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Olympia, WA, United States
Bernstein – America!, for Violin and Piano
Norman – Light Screens
Adams – there is no one, not even the wind...
Reich – Nagoya Marimbas, for two marimbas
Dvořák – Piano Quartet in E-flat major
Norman – Light Screens
Adams – there is no one, not even the wind...
Reich – Nagoya Marimbas, for two marimbas
Dvořák – Piano Quartet in E-flat major
$28-$43 ($10 w/ student ID)
Racer Sessions: TVTV
Sunday, September 17, 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: Evan Smith, Saxophone
Thursday, September 21, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Contemporary-classical works bridging the divide between composition and improvisation and exploring the flexible sonic palette of the saxophone.
$5-$15 donation
Seattle Symphony: John Williams conducts Williams
Friday, September 22, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
One of America’s most accomplished and revered composers for film and the concert stage will join the Seattle Symphony for a one-night-only concert featuring the music from many of his beloved film scores including Star Wars, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Indiana Jones, Schindler’s List, and more.
SOLD OUT
Wayward Music Series: S. Eric Scribner: 'Fantastical Sounds: Music from Tond'
Friday, September 22, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Modal or microtonal – and often strongly rhythmic – music based on traditions everywhere but with a sense of strangeness from an invented world.
$5-$15 donation at the door
Wayward Music Series: Sahba Sizdahkhani
Saturday, September 23, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Slow, long-form compositions coupled with primeval pulse-rhythms.
$5-$15 donation
John Teske’s ‘vectorscores’ & Neil Welch, solo saxophone
Saturday, September 23, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Rainier Arts Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Using web technology to create scores and parts for musicians that use animation to present musical material, generate and update parts in real-time, and allow a musician’s choices to influence other players’ parts.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Different Drummer w/ Jessie Sawyers
Sunday, September 24, 2028 @ 6:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Naked City Brewery and Taphouse, Seattle, WA, United States
Multi-genre chamber ensemble with percussive tap dance.
$20 adults, $10 youth
Master Class: Bonnie Whiting with Jennifer Torrence: New Music for Singing/Speaking Percussionists
Wednesday, September 27, 2028 @ 11:30am – 12:30pm (PDT)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of world premieres, including a work for crash cymbals, resonant feedback, and singing by Paula Matthusen, and music for small electronic toys and deconstructed language by Bethany Younge.
Free
Bonnie Whiting with Jennifer Torrence: New Music for Singing/Speaking Percussionists
Wednesday, September 27, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of world premieres, including a work for crash cymbals, resonant feedback, and singing by Paula Matthusen, and music for small electronic toys and deconstructed language by Bethany Younge.
$20 ($10 students and seniors)
Wayward Music Series: Hans-Joachim Roedelius + XAMBUCA + Hair & Space Museum
Thursday, September 28, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Of the greatest innovators of the krautrock and ambient movements.
$12
Seattle Pro Musica: Rearranged
Friday, September 29, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 8:45pm (PDT)
Triple Door, Seattle, WA, United States
Join members of Seattle Pro Musica and emcee Karen P. Thomas for a lively evening of Broadway choruses and cabaret solos.
$25-$49; reserved seating