New music – Upcoming Concerts
Choral Arts Northwest: Unclouded Day
Sunday, May 7, 2028 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Medina, WA, United States
Muehleisen – Finding Your Voice
Kirchner – Unclouded Day
Averitt – Over Jordan
Additional works TBA
Kirchner – Unclouded Day
Averitt – Over Jordan
Additional works TBA
$24-$28
Bainbridge Island Youth Orchestras performs a premiere by Yiğit Kolat
Sunday, May 7, 2028 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Grace Church, Bainbridge Island, WA, United States
Works by Mozart and Tchaikovsky and a world premiere from Yiğit Kolat.
Free (Free)
Racer Sessions: Tom Varner
Sunday, May 7, 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
Angelo Rondello, piano: Music of Our Sister Cities
Thursday, May 11, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Works by sister-city composers Fernando Sulpizi (Italy), Fumio Uno (Japan), Szilárd Kovács (Hungary), and Knut Vaage (Norway).
$42 (students $20)
DXARTS: Music of Today
Friday, May 12, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
Groundbreaking new works and modern classics by faculty and guest composers.
$10-$15
Wayward Music Series: Zachary Watkins: High Vibration Resonance
Friday, May 12, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Watkins – for Andy
Watkins – Suite for String Quartet
Watkins – Positively Right On
Watkins – Treatment No. III
$5-$15
Opus 7: Twenty-Five Years!
Saturday, May 13, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
University Congregational United Church of Christ, Seattle, WA, United States
Audience and singer favorites from around the world, plus works by winners of this year’s student choral composition awards program.
$20 in advance, $24 at the door
Kaley Lane Eaton Composition Recital
Wednesday, May 17, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
UW School of Music – Room 213, Seattle, WA, United States
UW doctoral student Kaley Lane Eaton presents a degree recital in composition. Free and open to the public.
Free
Hearing Nature: Nat Evans' Vertical Saxophone Aura Readings
Thursday, May 18, 2028 @ 7:00pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
As part of a music series inspired by the landscape exhibit Seeing Nature and John Grade's monumental tree sculpture Middle Fork, Nat Evans presents an interactive work for saxophonists on escalators.
Free (Free)
Northwest Sinfonietta: Mozart’s Requiem
Friday, May 19, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
G. Kahane – Crane Palimpsest (2012)
Mozart – Requiem in D minor (1792)
Mozart – Requiem in D minor (1792)
$21.50-$36.50
Seattle Pro Musica: Dona nobis pacem
Friday, May 19, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
St. James Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
Vaughan Williams’ masterful cantata for soloists, choir, and orchestra – an impassioned plea for peace that blends Biblical text with the emotionally-charged anti-war poetry of Walt Whitman to create a searing indictment of the tragedy of war.
$15-$45
Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra: Four Horns
Friday, May 19, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Vivaldi – Concerto for Strings in D minor, RV 127
Beethoven – Romance No. 2 in F major, Op. 50
Mozart – Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183
Piazzolla – Oblivion, Libertango (arr. Larson)
World Premiere TBA – Horn Quartet and Orchestra
Horn Quartet feature TBA
Beethoven – Romance No. 2 in F major, Op. 50
Mozart – Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183
Piazzolla – Oblivion, Libertango (arr. Larson)
World Premiere TBA – Horn Quartet and Orchestra
Horn Quartet feature TBA
$20/$15
Kirkland Choral Society: Made in Washington
Saturday, May 20, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Bastyr University Chapel, Kenmore, WA, United States
Music by Morten Lauridsen, Melinda Bargreen, Donald Skirvin, Vijay Singh, Giselle Wyers, John Muehleisen, Reg Unterseher, and Karen Thomas.
$20/$15 (12 & under free)
Northwest Sinfonietta: Mozart’s Requiem
Saturday, May 20, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Rialto Theater, Tacoma, WA, United States
G. Kahane – Crane Palimpsest (2012)
Mozart – Requiem in D minor (1792)
Mozart – Requiem in D minor (1792)
$20-$50
Seattle Pro Musica: Dona nobis pacem
Saturday, May 20, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
St. James Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
Vaughan Williams’ masterful cantata for soloists, choir, and orchestra – an impassioned plea for peace that blends Biblical text with the emotionally-charged anti-war poetry of Walt Whitman to create a searing indictment of the tragedy of war.
$15-$45
Sound of Late: Magic With Everyday Objects
Saturday, May 20, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
The music of New York composer Missy Mazzoli, including her transformative Magic with Everyday Objects.
$10
Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra: SPARK.1
Saturday, May 20, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 11:00pm (PDT)
Fred Wildlife Refuge, Seattle, WA, United States
SMCO partners with local DJs, producers, and visual artists for SPARK, a new performance series that takes the classical music genre far outside the realm of the expected.
$25
Northwest Sinfonietta: Mozart’s Requiem
Sunday, May 21, 2028 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Pioneer Park Pavilion, Puyallup, WA, United States
G. Kahane – Crane Palimpsest (2012)
Mozart – Requiem in D minor (1792)
Mozart – Requiem in D minor (1792)
$35
OSSCS: Organ Symphony
Sunday, May 21, 2028 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
First Free Methodist Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Vivaldi – Gloria in D major, RV 589
2016 –2017 OSSCS Composer Contest winning composition
Saint-Saëns – Symphony No. 3 in C minor (“Organ”), Op. 78
2016 –2017 OSSCS Composer Contest winning composition
Saint-Saëns – Symphony No. 3 in C minor (“Organ”), Op. 78
$10-$25, youth free
Music of Remembrance: Ceija
Sunday, May 21, 2028 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
The world premiere of a striking multimedia work by rising young composer Mary Kouyoumdjian; works by Osvaldo Golijov paired with new choreography from the innovative Olivier Wevers; and evocative songs by Korngold.
$30-$45