New music – Upcoming Concerts
Landscape With Birds: Paul Taub, flute
Tuesday, April 30, 2030 @ 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)
UW School of Music & DXARTS: Music of Today w/ Bonnie Whiting & Cristina Valdés
Wednesday, May 1, 2030 @ 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)
BMC Night Beat presents: John Friesen, cello
Thursday, May 2, 2030 @ 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
Joe Oakes Cornish Senior Recital
Thursday, May 2, 2030 @ 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, 2030 @ 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
South Sound Classical Choir: Mozart, Dienes, Gjeilo
Friday, May 3, 2030 @ 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
The Alaska Suite: A Story of Beauty, Loss, & Hope
Friday, May 3, 2030 @ 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)
Pacific Sound Woodwind Quintet: Alyssa Morris' 'Melting Pot'
Sunday, May 5, 2030 @ 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
Bellevue Community Band Spring Concert
Sunday, May 5, 2030 @ 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
South Sound Classical Choir: Mozart, Dienes, Gjeilo
Sunday, May 5, 2030 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Mason United Methodist 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
Seattle Wind Symphony: Night at the Opera
Sunday, May 5, 2030 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Shorewood Performing Arts Center, Shoreline, WA, United States
Franz von Suppe – Overture to Light Cavalry
Giacomo Puccini – "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi
Giacomo Puccini – "Nessun dorma" from Turandot
George Gershwin – Porgy and Bess
Richard Wagner – "Elsa's Procession" from Lohengrin
Andrew Lloyd Webber – Phantom of the Opera
John Philip Sousa – El Capitan
Giacomo Puccini – "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi
Giacomo Puccini – "Nessun dorma" from Turandot
George Gershwin – Porgy and Bess
Richard Wagner – "Elsa's Procession" from Lohengrin
Andrew Lloyd Webber – Phantom of the Opera
John Philip Sousa – El Capitan
$20 / $18 / $5
Mostly Nordic: Denmark – Romantic Muse & Northern Spirit
Sunday, May 5, 2030 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Venue unknown, WA, United States
Members of Ensemble MidtVest perform music by Niels Gade, Clara Schumann, Per Nørgaard, and Johannes Brahms.
$30 ($25 museum members)
The Neuroscience of a One-Track Mind: A Lecture-Concert
Monday, May 6, 2030 @ 6:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Royal Room, Seattle, WA, United States
A scintillating lecture from neuroscientist Chantel Prat, a centuries-spanning solo marimba performance by Erin Jorgensen, and the most adorable cupcake toast this side of the Cascades.
$20-$30
Ladies Musical Club: Nicole Truesdell's 'Memories of You'
Friday, May 10, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
St. John's Episcopal Church Kirkland, Kirkland, WA, United States
LMC member composer Nicole Truesdell's Memories of You, plus music by Gabriel Fauré, Elliott Carter, Alexander Glazunov, and Ernest Bloch.
Free
Music of Today: International Experimental Music Ensemble
Friday, May 10, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
University of Washington faculty improv band Indigo Mist and special guests Ngô Trà My (Vietnam) and Jos Zwaanengburg (Netherlands) present an evening of experimental and improvised music.
$15 ($10 students/seniors)
Symphony Tacoma: Ode to Joy
Saturday, May 11, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Pantages Theater, Tacoma, WA, United States
World Premiere TBA
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
$24-$78
Resonance Masters Series presents: Philip Glass' 'Annunciation' Premiere feat. Paul Barnes & Skyros Quartet
Saturday, May 11, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Resonance at SOMA Towers, Bellevue, WA, United States
Christoph Willibald Glück (arr. Alexander Siloti) – "Ballet" from Orfeo ed Euridice
Philip Glass (arr. Paul Barnes) – Selections from Orphée, Suite for piano
arr. Seraphim Dedes – Today is Suspended
Victoria Bond – Simeron Kremate
Traditional – Hristos anesti ("Christ is Risen")
N. Takis (from John Sakellarides) – Communion Hymn of the Annunciation
Philip Glass – Annunciation (Washington premiere)
Philip Glass (arr. Paul Barnes) – Selections from Orphée, Suite for piano
arr. Seraphim Dedes – Today is Suspended
Victoria Bond – Simeron Kremate
Traditional – Hristos anesti ("Christ is Risen")
N. Takis (from John Sakellarides) – Communion Hymn of the Annunciation
Philip Glass – Annunciation (Washington premiere)
$30 (students $15)
Northwest Chorale: A Very Choral Springtime feat. John Rutter's 'Requiem'
Saturday, May 11, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
First Free Methodist Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Johann Sebastian Bach – Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230
Anton Bruckner – "Graduale" from Locus iste
Johannes Brahms – Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein rein Herz, Op 29 No. 2
S.T. Joshi – Sunset (world premiere)
Brian Butz – Absalom (world premiere)
John Rutter – Requiem
Anton Bruckner – "Graduale" from Locus iste
Johannes Brahms – Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein rein Herz, Op 29 No. 2
S.T. Joshi – Sunset (world premiere)
Brian Butz – Absalom (world premiere)
John Rutter – Requiem
Free
Choral Arts Northwest: The Big Blue Marble – Music, Nature, & the Environment
Saturday, May 11, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Plymouth Congregational Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Antonin Dvořák – Songs of Nature, Op. 63
Jake Runestad – Settings of the poetry of Henry David Thoreau and John Muir
John David Earnest – World premiere
Rick Asher – World premiere
Jake Runestad – Settings of the poetry of Henry David Thoreau and John Muir
John David Earnest – World premiere
Rick Asher – World premiere
$28 ($24 senior/military, FREE students)
Wayward Music Series: The Quartets Project
Saturday, May 11, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
This program features free improvisation utilizing the Chapel’s unique and beautiful acoustics.
$5-$15 donation