New music – Upcoming Concerts
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
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