New music – Past Concerts
Live @ Benaroya Hall: YIRUMA
Friday, November 24, 2017 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
A Korean contemporary classical musician who combines melodious Korean compositions with inspiration and emotion.
$99+
Music, Thanks, & Giving: A Benefit Concert of Healing & Love
Friday, November 24, 2017 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Christ Episcopal Church Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
A benefit concert combatting discrimination, harassment, and hate.
Free
Whatcom Symphony: Beethoven's Heroic
Sunday, November 19, 2017 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham, WA, United States
Sharon Farber – Bestemming: Concerto for cello, orchestra, and narrator
Beethoven – Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55, "Eroica"
Beethoven – Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55, "Eroica"
$15-$49; take-a-teen for free
Seattle Philharmonic Strings: Walton, Elgar, Bartók
Sunday, November 19, 2017 @ 2:15pm – 4:00pm (PST)
Norse Home, Seattle, WA, United States
Walton – Sonata for Strings
Elgar – Serenade
Bartók – Divertimento
Elgar – Serenade
Bartók – Divertimento
Free
Kin of the Moon
Saturday, November 18, 2017 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An innovative program of new electroacoustic and acoustic music that transcends genre and classification.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Matthew McCright, piano, Connecting Flights
Thursday, November 16, 2017 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A wide range of interconnected, contemporary composers.
$5-$15
Cornish Pivot Convocation: Frequency Ensemble
Thursday, November 16, 2017 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PST)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
A short set from the Frequency Ensemble.
Free (Free)
Passenger Pigeon / Mark Schlipper / Too Tired to Say Anything
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Wordless music that range from the droney and dissonant to the upbeat and melodic.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Amy Denio – Truth is Up for Grabs
Saturday, November 11, 2017 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Amy Denio presents Truth Is Up For Grabs, a song cycle of 8 new compositions for chamber ensemble.
$5-$25 donation
Seattle Baroque Orchestra: Forces of Nature
Saturday, November 11, 2017 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Early music and new music intertwine like never before, including the world premiere of a concerto for electric theorbo by Seattle-based composer Aaron Grad.
$40 (students $20)
Northwest Sinfonietta: Tales of Hope & Heroism
Saturday, November 11, 2017 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Broadway Center, Tacoma, WA, United States
Krasa – Overture for Small Orchestra
Sharon Farber – Bestemming: Concerto for Cello, Narrator, and Orchestra
Beethoven – Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
Sharon Farber – Bestemming: Concerto for Cello, Narrator, and Orchestra
Beethoven – Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
$20-$50
Meany Center presents: Juilliard String Quartet
Thursday, November 9, 2017 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PST)
Meany Hall for the Performing Arts, Seattle, WA, United States
Beethoven – Quartet in A major, Op. 18, No. 5
James MacMillan – Quartet No. 2 "Why is This Night Different?” (1998)
Dvořák – Quartet No. 11 in C major, Op. 61
James MacMillan – Quartet No. 2 "Why is This Night Different?” (1998)
Dvořák – Quartet No. 11 in C major, Op. 61
$44+
Northwest Sinfonietta: Tales of Hope & Heroism
Thursday, November 9, 2017 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Krasa – Overture for Small Orchestra
Sharon Farber – Bestemming: Concerto for Cello, Narrator, and Orchestra
Beethoven – Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
Sharon Farber – Bestemming: Concerto for Cello, Narrator, and Orchestra
Beethoven – Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
$21.50-$46.50
Ode to Hope: New Guitar Music & Poetry of the Americas
Thursday, November 9, 2017 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Centilia Cultural Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Field – Ode to Hope, Sephardic Folk Songs, Maria Poems
Free
Cornish Presents: Projeto Arcomusical
Monday, November 6, 2017 @ 8:00pm – 9:15pm (PST)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
A world music sextet reimagining the Afro-Brazilian berimbau through a repertoire of unique, powerful, original concert chamber music.
$20 ($15 seniors, $10 students, $5 Teen Tix)
BetaSounds II: AmericanSounds
Monday, November 6, 2017 @ 6:00pm – 7:00pm (PST)
The Conservatory Coffee Shop, Seattle, WA, United States
Terry Riley – Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector
Philip Glass – String Quartet No. 3 (movements I, III, IV, VI)
Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings
Jessie Montgomery – Strum
Philip Glass – String Quartet No. 3 (movements I, III, IV, VI)
Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings
Jessie Montgomery – Strum
$15 (children free with paying adult)
Music of Remembrance: Snow Falls
Sunday, November 5, 2017 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
World premieres of works by composers Ryuichi Sakamoto and Keiko Fujiie inspired by Japanese wartime experience, performed alongside Holocaust-inspired chamber music works.
$30-$45
Saratoga Orchestra presents Un/Questionable Visionaries
Sunday, November 5, 2017 @ 2:30pm – 4:30pm (PST)
First Reformed Church, Oak Harbor, WA, United States
Mozart – Symphony in G minor, K. 550
Louise Farrenc – Symphony No. 3 in G minor
Sean Brown – Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, "The Reverence"
Louise Farrenc – Symphony No. 3 in G minor
Sean Brown – Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, "The Reverence"
$25 / $20 / students free
Kronos Quartet
Saturday, November 4, 2017 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Federal Way Performing Arts and Event Center, Federal Way, WA, United States
Combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to continually re-imagining the string quartet experience.
$17-$73
Wayward Music Series: Paul Matthew Moore
Saturday, November 4, 2017 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Composer Paul Matthew Moore brings together 8 performers for an evening of intricate, quiet electro-acoustic music and dance that will ruminate on the tradition of west coast minimalism.
$5–$15 suggested donation