New music – Past Concerts
Bellevue Community Band Spring Concert
Sunday, May 5, 2019 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Bellevue College Carlson Theater, Bellevue, WA, United States
Classic wind band music by Antonín Dvořák, Frank Ticheli, and Carl Orff, showtunes from Oklahoma!, rock music by Queen, and jazz by Quincy Jones and Stevie Wonder.
Free
Pacific Sound Woodwind Quintet: Alyssa Morris' 'Melting Pot'
Sunday, May 5, 2019 @ 2:00pm – 3:30pm (PDT)
Juanita Community Club, Kirkland, WA, United States
Alyssa Morris – Melting Pot (world premiere)
Peter Schickele – A Year in the Catskills
Astor Piazzolla – Tango Suite
Erik Satie – Sonatine bureaucratique
Peter Schickele – A Year in the Catskills
Astor Piazzolla – Tango Suite
Erik Satie – Sonatine bureaucratique
$10
The Alaska Suite: A Story of Beauty, Loss, & Hope
Friday, May 3, 2019 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
First Congregational Church, Bellevue, WA, United States
Engaging the power of artistic expression to connect audience members deeply and emotionally to the scientific realities of climate change.
Free (Free)
South Sound Classical Choir: Mozart, Dienes, Gjeilo
Friday, May 3, 2019 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Puyallup United Methodist Church, Puyallup, WA, United States
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Katherine Dienes, Ola Gjeilo, Stephen Paulus, Johannes Brahms, and more, performed by 60 volunteer members from Puyallup and Tacoma.
Free
Joe Oakes Cornish Senior Recital
Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Joe Oakes, a student of composition at Cornish College of the Arts, presents a solo senior recital incorporating live electronics and acoustic instruments.
Free
Wayward Music Series: Ensemble MidtVest
Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An entire program of free improvisations with an ensemble that works with improvisation in order to create its own sound and musical language, breaking down barriers between styles and genres.
$5-$20 donation
BMC Night Beat presents: John Friesen, cello
Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
First Congregational Church, Bellingham, WA, United States
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Jospeh Haydn, Gabriel Fauré, Franz Schubert, and Anton Rubinstein along with a special, unannounced program with guest composer Ben Mink.
$20 / $15 / FREE for teens
UW School of Music & DXARTS: Music of Today w/ Bonnie Whiting & Cristina Valdés
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Joël-François Durand – La mesure des choses mvt. IV "La mesure du temps" (world premiere)
Huck Hodge – Fracture (world premiere)
Sofia Gubaidulina – Rumore e Silenzio
Huck Hodge – Fracture (world premiere)
Sofia Gubaidulina – Rumore e Silenzio
$15 ($10 student/senior)
Landscape With Birds: Paul Taub, flute
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Folio: Seattle Athenaeum at Pike Market, Seattle, WA, United States
20th-century music from three continents, for bass flute, alto flute, and piccolo.
$25 ($20 Folio members)
Anya McCullough: Short Stories & Tall Tales (Cornish junior recital)
Monday, April 29, 2019 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Music based on folk stories, poetry, and literary classics, with repertoire from multiple eras and styles, as well as an original arrangement.
Free
Seattle Modern Orchestra: Coming Together
Sunday, April 28, 2019 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Royal Room, Seattle, WA, United States
Seattle Modern Orchestra performs the politically engaged music of Christian Wolff and Frederic Rzewski.
$15-$20 (students $10)
North Corner Chamber Orchestra: Creation
Sunday, April 28, 2019 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Triple Door, Seattle, WA, United States
Franz Joseph Haydn – Overture to The Creation
Darius Milhaud – La Création du monde, Op. 81a
Wayne Horvitz – New work (world premiere)
Darius Milhaud – La Création du monde, Op. 81a
Wayne Horvitz – New work (world premiere)
$30 / $20 / $10
Seattle Symphony Chamber Concert: American Horizons
Sunday, April 28, 2019 @ 6:00pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Octave 9 at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Edgard Varèse – Poème Électronique
Steve Reich – Vermont Counterpoint
Nina C. Young – Spero Lucem
Kaley Lane Eaton – New work (world premiere)
Mary Kouyoumdjian – Sedna, Beneath the Sea
Mason Bates – White Lies for Lomax
Derek Bermel – Nine Revolutions (world premiere)
Steve Reich – Vermont Counterpoint
Nina C. Young – Spero Lucem
Kaley Lane Eaton – New work (world premiere)
Mary Kouyoumdjian – Sedna, Beneath the Sea
Mason Bates – White Lies for Lomax
Derek Bermel – Nine Revolutions (world premiere)
$35
Island Consort: Landscape With Birds
Sunday, April 28, 2019 @ 4:00pm – 5:30pm (PDT)
Crawford House, Langley, WA, United States
A salon concert of mostly 20th-century music for bass flute, alto flute, and piccolo, from 3 continents, and covering a gamut of styles, techniques, and influences.
$20 suggested donation
Ladies Musical Club: LMC Composers’ Spotlight
Sunday, April 28, 2019 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Music Center of the Northwest, Seattle, WA, United States
LMC member composers Katie O’Rourke, Kathy Roberts, Nicole Truesdell, Sarah Conyers, and Janet Anderson are featured on this concert of new music.
Free
Vashon Island Chorale: A Chorale Celebration Commemorating 30 Years!
Sunday, April 28, 2019 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon, WA, United States
Classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, and Gabriel Fauré, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Alexander Borodin, plus music by local composers Eric Lane Barnes and Buzz Brusletten – and a quartet of extraordinary local soloists.
$20 / $18 / $15 / $5
South Sound Classical Choir: Mozart, Dienes, Gjeilo
Sunday, April 28, 2019 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
St. Patrick Catholic Church, Tacoma, WA, United States
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Katherine Dienes, Ola Gjeilo, Stephen Paulus, Johannes Brahms, and more, performed by 60 volunteer members from Puyallup and Tacoma.
Free
Auburn Symphony Orchestra: D A N C E
Sunday, April 28, 2019 @ 2:30pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Auburn Performing Arts Center, Auburn, WA, United States
Anna Clyne – Masquerade
Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
Rachmaninoff – Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
Rachmaninoff – Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
$37 ($30 seniors, $10 students)
Washington Wind Symphony: The Stories We Tell
Sunday, April 28, 2019 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Redmond Performing Arts Center, Redmond, WA, United States
Leonard Bernstein (arr. Clare Grundman) – Overture to Candide
Martin Ellerby – Paris Sketches
Julie Giroux – Riften Wed
Lewis Norfleet – Shogun
Carl Orff (arr. John Krance) – Carmina Burana
Martin Ellerby – Paris Sketches
Julie Giroux – Riften Wed
Lewis Norfleet – Shogun
Carl Orff (arr. John Krance) – Carmina Burana
$15 / $10 / youth FREE
Northwest Symphony Orchestra Season Finale: Chagnard, Liszt, Tchaikovsky
Saturday, April 27, 2019 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Highline Performing Arts Center, Burien, WA, United States
Christophe Chagnard – Guaguanco
Franz Liszt – Les préludes
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Franz Liszt – Les préludes
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
$20 ($15 seniors/students)