New music – Upcoming Concerts near Seattle, WA
Ode to Hope: New Guitar Music & Poetry of the Americas
Thursday, November 9, 2028 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Centilia Cultural Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Field – Ode to Hope, Sephardic Folk Songs, Maria Poems
Free
Meany Center presents: Juilliard String Quartet
Thursday, November 9, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PST)
Meany Hall for the Performing Arts, Seattle, WA, United States
Beethoven – Quartet in A major, Op. 18, No. 5
James MacMillan – Quartet No. 2 "Why is This Night Different?” (1998)
Dvořák – Quartet No. 11 in C major, Op. 61
James MacMillan – Quartet No. 2 "Why is This Night Different?” (1998)
Dvořák – Quartet No. 11 in C major, Op. 61
$44+
Northwest Sinfonietta: Tales of Hope & Heroism
Thursday, November 9, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Krasa – Overture for Small Orchestra
Sharon Farber – Bestemming: Concerto for Cello, Narrator, and Orchestra
Beethoven – Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
Sharon Farber – Bestemming: Concerto for Cello, Narrator, and Orchestra
Beethoven – Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
$21.50-$46.50
Northwest Sinfonietta: Tales of Hope & Heroism
Saturday, November 11, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Broadway Center, Tacoma, WA, United States
Krasa – Overture for Small Orchestra
Sharon Farber – Bestemming: Concerto for Cello, Narrator, and Orchestra
Beethoven – Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
Sharon Farber – Bestemming: Concerto for Cello, Narrator, and Orchestra
Beethoven – Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
$20-$50
Seattle Baroque Orchestra: Forces of Nature
Saturday, November 11, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Early music and new music intertwine like never before, including the world premiere of a concerto for electric theorbo by Seattle-based composer Aaron Grad.
$40 (students $20)
Wayward Music Series: Amy Denio – Truth is Up for Grabs
Saturday, November 11, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Amy Denio presents Truth Is Up For Grabs, a song cycle of 8 new compositions for chamber ensemble.
$5-$25 donation
Passenger Pigeon / Mark Schlipper / Too Tired to Say Anything
Wednesday, November 15, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Wordless music that range from the droney and dissonant to the upbeat and melodic.
$5-$15 donation
Cornish Pivot Convocation: Frequency Ensemble
Thursday, November 16, 2028 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PST)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
A short set from the Frequency Ensemble.
Free (Free)
Wayward Music Series: Matthew McCright, piano, Connecting Flights
Thursday, November 16, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A wide range of interconnected, contemporary composers.
$5-$15
Kin of the Moon
Saturday, November 18, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An innovative program of new electroacoustic and acoustic music that transcends genre and classification.
$5-$15 donation
Seattle Philharmonic Strings: Walton, Elgar, Bartók
Sunday, November 19, 2028 @ 2:15pm – 4:00pm (PST)
Norse Home, Seattle, WA, United States
Walton – Sonata for Strings
Elgar – Serenade
Bartók – Divertimento
Elgar – Serenade
Bartók – Divertimento
Free
Music, Thanks, & Giving: A Benefit Concert of Healing & Love
Friday, November 24, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Christ Episcopal Church Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
A benefit concert combatting discrimination, harassment, and hate.
Free
Live @ Benaroya Hall: YIRUMA
Friday, November 24, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
A Korean contemporary classical musician who combines melodious Korean compositions with inspiration and emotion.
$99+
DXARTS presents: Jonty Harrison’s 'Voyages'
Tuesday, November 28, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of new works of sonic and visual art exploring state-of-the-art technologies as instruments of poetry and artistic discovery.
$15 ($10 students/seniors)
Wayward Music Series: Semi-Formal
Thursday, November 30, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Short, formally cohesive pieces that together form a fluid and varied concert experience.
$5-$15 donation
UW Percussion Ensemble: John Cage – 'The City Wears a Slouch Hat'
Friday, December 1, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
A theatrical version of Cage's recently-discovered radio play The City Wears a Slouch Hat, pairing his vintage music with new music by UW composition students.
$10
Karin Stevens Dance & the ULP: 'Saci – A Brazilian Folktale' & 'The Greater Trumps'
Friday, December 1, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Jovino Santos-Neto – Saci – A Brazilian Folktale
Stravinsky/Thorpe – The Greater Trumps
Stravinsky/Thorpe – The Greater Trumps
$50 / $35 / $25 / $20 / $15 / $5
Wayward Music Series: Gregg Skloff, Cyclopsycho, & Raica
Friday, December 1, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Contrabass that evokes swirling storms and sweeping vistas; voice technique, words, syllables and electronic medium that combine to manifest adventures into the wild; and analog and digital that meet to marry a wall of sporadic and intermixed sounds.
$5-$15 donation
The Esoterics present Excelsis: Contemplating extremity
Friday, December 1, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Kevin Puts – To touch the sky
Kevin Puts – If I were a swan
Paul John Rudoi – Spheres of Influence
Kala Pierson - Flung open (world premiere commission)
Andrea Clearfield - Khandroma (world premiere commission)
Kevin Puts – If I were a swan
Paul John Rudoi – Spheres of Influence
Kala Pierson - Flung open (world premiere commission)
Andrea Clearfield - Khandroma (world premiere commission)
$22 in advance ($15 students/seniors)
The Esoterics present Excelsis: Contemplating extremity
Saturday, December 2, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Kevin Puts – To touch the sky
Kevin Puts – If I were a swan
Paul John Rudoi – Spheres of Influence
Kala Pierson – Flung open (world premiere commission)
Andrea Clearfield – Khandroma (world premiere commission)
Kevin Puts – If I were a swan
Paul John Rudoi – Spheres of Influence
Kala Pierson – Flung open (world premiere commission)
Andrea Clearfield – Khandroma (world premiere commission)
$22 in advance ($15 students/seniors)