New music – Upcoming Concerts
UW School of Music: The Here & Now
Monday, March 18, 2030 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Ryan Farris – Across the Channel (world premiere)
Gerald Kechley – Little Flower
Jennifer Higdon – Song for Flute
Brian Schappals – Ave generosa (world premiere)
Sandesh Nagaraj – Unfreedom
Marc Mellits – Tight Sweater
Jennifer Higdon – Song for Flute
Brian Schappals – Ave generosa (world premiere)
Sandesh Nagaraj – Unfreedom
Marc Mellits – Tight Sweater
Free
UW School of Music: Talea Ensemble Composition Reading Workshop
Tuesday, March 19, 2030 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Members of New York’s acclaimed Talea Ensemble perform readings of new works by students of the University of Washington School of Music.
Free
Michael Tilson Thomas San Francisco Symphony
Tuesday, March 19, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:15pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Michael Tilson Thomas – Agnegram
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
$82-$165
Cornish Presents: Splinter Reeds
Tuesday, March 19, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
The West Coast's first reed quintet, comprising five innovative musicians with a shared passion for new music.
Free (Free (RSVP required))
Orca Concert Series: American Quintets
Wednesday, March 20, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Samuel Barber – Summer Music, Op. 31
John Steinmetz – Quintet
Sean Osborn – Preludes and Counterpoints (world premiere)
John Steinmetz – Quintet
Sean Osborn – Preludes and Counterpoints (world premiere)
$25 / $15 / Free for youth/students
Virtuoso Introspective w/ Swedish pianist Niklas Sivelöv
Thursday, March 21, 2030 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Venue unknown, WA, United States
Music by Bach, Beethoven, Scriabin, and Sivelöv.
$20 ($15 for museum members)
Pacific Northwest Ballet: Director's Choice
Thursday, March 21, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
An all-premiere program, handpicked by PNB director Peter Boal to highlight dancemakers who are evolving the ballet art form.
$37-$189
Seattle Symphony: Shostakovich Symphony No. 15
Thursday, March 21, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Johann Sebastian Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
John Harbison – What Do We Make of Bach?
Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141
John Harbison – What Do We Make of Bach?
Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141
$22-$122 (age 8-18 free)
DXARTS: Iterations
Thursday, March 21, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of performative experiments by DXARTS PhD students: Riah Buchanan, Chanee Choi w/ Sarah Lisette Chiesa, Cameron Fraser, R.M-TNKRT, Breana Tavaglione and Rihards Vitols.
$5-$15 at the door
An Index of Possibility feat. EarthToneSkyTone
Thursday, March 21, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Fred Wildlife Refuge, Seattle, WA, United States
Ethereal melodies, meditative ostinatos, and explosive waves of sound. A night of mesmerizing lights and percussion music transforming Robert Honstein's six-movement An Index of Possibility into a multimedia experience.
$10 ($15 @ door)
Pacific Northwest Ballet: Director's Choice
Friday, March 22, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
An all-premiere program, handpicked by PNB director Peter Boal to highlight dancemakers who are evolving the ballet art form.
$37-$189
Wayward Music Series: Mother Tongue
Friday, March 22, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A two-headed art making machine specializing in post-disciplinary creation, with guest artists poet, dancer, and trumpeter.
$5-$15 donation
Orca Concert Series & Harmony for Hope: American Quintets
Saturday, March 23, 2030 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Woodinville Unitarian Universalist Church, Woodinville, WA, United States
Samuel Barber – Summer Music, Op. 31
John Steinmetz – Quintet
Sean Osborn – Preludes and Counterpoints (world premiere)
John Steinmetz – Quintet
Sean Osborn – Preludes and Counterpoints (world premiere)
$25 / $15 / Free for youth/students
Seattle Symphony: Contemporary Music Marathon, Act I – Nightfall
Saturday, March 23, 2030 @ 5:00pm – 12:00am (PDT)
Octave 9 at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
A night of virtuosic performances by genre-defying artists and composers, featuring the Seattle Chamber Players, Maria Männistö (soprano), Eric Jacobs (clarinet), Seth Parker Woods (cello), Cristina Valdés (piano), Inbal Segev (cello), and Jacob Greenberg (piano).
$75
Northwest Chamber Chorus: The Singing Heart
Saturday, March 23, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Music that opens our hearts and inspires us to be alive and free, including works by Josef Rheinberger, Charles Stanford, Randall Thompson, Emma Lou Diemer, Gwyneth Walker, Leonard Cohen, and more.
$25 ($20 seniors & singers, FREE students)
Pacific Northwest Ballet: Director's Choice
Saturday, March 23, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
An all-premiere program, handpicked by PNB director Peter Boal to highlight dancemakers who are evolving the ballet art form.
$37-$189
Northwest Boychoir: Choral Tradition
Saturday, March 23, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Trinity Lutheran Church, Lynnwood, WA, United States
This program will feature John Rutter’s Gloria, and great choral works by Johannes Brahms, Claude Debussy, Morten Lauridsen, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Orff, and Josef Rheinberger.
$5-$28
Cascadian Chorale: William Byrd & Giselle Wyers
Saturday, March 23, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Medina, WA, United States
William Byrd – Mass for Four Voices
Giselle Wyers – And All Shall Be Well
Giselle Wyers – And All Shall Be Well
$20 ($15 students/seniors)
Symphony Tacoma: Rainier Sunrise
Saturday, March 23, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Pantages Theater, Tacoma, WA, United States
Karel Butz – Rainier Sunrise
Igor Stravinsky – Pulcinella Suite
Richard Wagner – Siegfried Idyll
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 364
Igor Stravinsky – Pulcinella Suite
Richard Wagner – Siegfried Idyll
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 364
$24-$78
Brass Band Northwest: 'The Armed Man' – a mass for peace
Saturday, March 23, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
First Free Methodist Church, Seattle, WA, United States
An hour-long work based on L'Homme armé, a secular melody that was used as the basis for mass settings in the Renaissance. By combining texts from Jewish, Muslim, and Christian traditions, the composer transformed this music into a plea for world peace.
$25 / $20 / $5 (kids age 6-10 free)