New music – Upcoming Concerts
New Music Gathering 2021: Morgan Schoonover, Clara (Da) Yang, & Rachel Mangold; Gregory Oakes; Dameun Strange
Friday, August 13, 2032 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Morgan Schoonover, Clara (Da) Yang, & Rachel Mangold – grief. acceptance. resistance. money?
Jessie Cox – Light-Dots on a Deep-Space-Image for Quarter Tone Clarinet
Dameun Strange – Our Boat: Notes on Senegal
Jessie Cox – Light-Dots on a Deep-Space-Image for Quarter Tone Clarinet
Dameun Strange – Our Boat: Notes on Senegal
Free (Free (registration required))
New Music Gathering 2021: The Sonoglyph Collective & Zeitgeist
Saturday, August 14, 2032 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
The Sonoglyph Collective performs music & poetry that interrogate the theme of money. Zeitgeist presents music by Minnesota composers.
Free (Free (registration required))
Grand Teton Music Festival: Festival Orchestra – Bronfman Plays Beethoven
Saturday, August 14, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Richard Strauss – Don Juan, Op. 20
Jessie Montgomery – Five Freedom Songs
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Jessie Montgomery – Five Freedom Songs
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Free (Free (in-person tickets are SOLD OUT))
New Music Gathering 2021: Sasha Kaoru Zamler-Carhart & Samn Johnson; Thiago Ancelmo; Andrea Mazzariello; Melody Loveless
Saturday, August 14, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 7:10pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Sasha Kaoru Zamler-Carhart & Samn Johnson – Consolation: trans monastic microtonal dungeon
Thiago Ancelmo – Contrasts: Music for clarinet and electronics
HEADLINER: RECAP
Andrea Mazzariello – War Footing
Melody Loveless – Live code set
Thiago Ancelmo – Contrasts: Music for clarinet and electronics
HEADLINER: RECAP
Andrea Mazzariello – War Footing
Melody Loveless – Live code set
Free (Free (registration required))
Joey Largent & Katrina Wolfe: Dreams of the Forty Whales of the Harmonic Reed System
Saturday, August 14, 2032 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Joey Largent joins his quartet, Glacial Time Communion, in presenting a new, long-duration composition for 4 re-tuned reed boxes in collaboration with interdisciplinary visual/performing artist Katrina Wolfe.
$5-$15 suggested donation
La Jolla Music Society: Grand Duos
Thursday, August 19, 2032 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major for violin, viola, & orchestra, K. 364 / 320d
Tamar Muskal – Facing the Automaton (world premiere)
Ernest Chausson – Concerto for violin, piano, & string quartet in D major Op. 21
Tamar Muskal – Facing the Automaton (world premiere)
Ernest Chausson – Concerto for violin, piano, & string quartet in D major Op. 21
Free (Free (in-person tickets $45-$95))
Composers Concordance: Gene Pritsker @ 50
Sunday, September 5, 2032 @ 3:00pm – 5:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Composers Concordance kicks off its 2021/2022 concert season with a concert celebrating the 50th birthday of composer/performer Gene Pritsker. Performances by Sound Liberation, B3+, violinist Lara St. John, & more.
Free (Free ($15 in-person))
Mary Halvorson: Amaryllis & Belladonna
Wednesday, September 8, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
2 new composition projects by guitarist/composer/MacArthur fellow Mary Halvorson: Belladonna, featuring Halvorson with the Mivos String Quartet; & Amaryllis, for improvising sextet.
Free (Free (in-person ticket price TBD))
Mary Halvorson: Amaryllis & Belladonna
Thursday, September 9, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
2 new composition projects by guitarist/composer/MacArthur fellow Mary Halvorson: Belladonna, featuring Halvorson with the Mivos String Quartet; & Amaryllis, for improvising sextet.
Free (Free (in-person ticket price TBD))
Archipelago Collective Summer Festival 2021: Chamber Music 3
Sunday, September 12, 2032 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Brickworks, Friday Harbor, WA, United States
Caroline Shaw – Thousandth Orange for piano quartet
Claude Debussy – Danse sacrée et danse profane
Anton Arensky – Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32
Claude Debussy – Danse sacrée et danse profane
Anton Arensky – Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32
$25 ($90 weekend pass)
Ear Taxi Festival Spotlight Concerts: rhythm is image
Thursday, September 16, 2032 @ 6:30pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Musical assemblage for 1, 2, or 3 people playing violin, electric guitar, paper, & a game. Works by Kotoka Suzuki, David Bithell, Dai Fujikura, Rebecca Saunders, & world premieres by Hannah A. Barnes & Christopher W. Jones.
Free (Donations appreciated ($10-$15 in person))
Bryant Park Picnic Performances & National Sawdust: Allison Loggins-Hull's Diametrically Composed
Friday, September 17, 2032 @ 4:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Collection of newly commissioned works featuring flute, voice, & piano – produced by flutist/composer Allison Loggins-Hull – that explore the duality of being a mother & an artist.
Free
Seattle Symphony: Opening Night Gala
Saturday, September 18, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Cocktail hour performances; a full concert with the Thomas Dausgaard & the orchestra, featuring Igor Stravinsky's Firebird Suite; & a formal dinner featuring Chef Kristi Brown.
$1000-$50,000
Seattle Symphony: Free Opening Weekend Concert
Sunday, September 19, 2032 @ 12:30pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Celebration including the unveiling of a commissioned work of Indigenous art, a cross-cultural musical performance, & a mainstage performance by the SSO at 2pm.
Free (Free (reservation required))
Ear Taxi Festival Spotlight Concerts: Fourth Coast Ensemble – 'A Brush With Our Time'
Sunday, September 19, 2032 @ 2:00pm – 3:15pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
4 vocalists move throughout the modular performance hall of Chicago's Newberry Library, while Zen artist Kazuaki Tanahashi paints large-scale calligraphy works, in this world premiere from composer Andrea Clearfield.
Free (Online: $20 ($10 student) | In-person: $45 ($25 student))
Roulette: JUNI ONE SET – Boy mother / faceless bloom [in process]
Wednesday, September 22, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
JUNI ONE SET (Eddy Kwon, Senga Nengudi, Haruko Crow Nishimura, & Joshua Kohl) presents this in-progress collaborative work combining ritual, dance, music, poetry, video, & sculptural installation.
Free (Free (in-person ticket price TBD))
Roulette: Anna Webber’s Simple Trio // Idiom VI Large Ensemble
Thursday, September 23, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Woodwind player/composer Anna Webber performs works from her recent release, Idiom, featuring both her long-standing Simple Trio & a new large ensemble made up of jazz improvisors & contemporary classical music specialists.
Free (Free ($20-$25 in person))
Seattle Symphony: R. Schumann Symphony No. 3
Thursday, September 23, 2032 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Natalie Dietterich – aeolian dust
Charles Ives – Three Places in New England (Orchestral Set No. 1)
Robert Schumann – Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 97 "Rhenisch"
Charles Ives – Three Places in New England (Orchestral Set No. 1)
Robert Schumann – Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 97 "Rhenisch"
Ticket price TBD
loadbang: Plays Well With Others
Saturday, September 25, 2032 @ 9:00am – 10:00am (PDT)
Online and in-person
New music ensemble loadbang celebrates the release of their new album Plays Well With Others with this live concert featuring works by Eve Beglarian, Reiko Füting, Scott Wollschleger, & more.
Free (Free ($10-$20 in person))
ROCO In Concert: Bursting at the Seams
Saturday, September 25, 2032 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Michael Abels – Delights & Dances
Domenico Cimarosa – Overture to Il maestro di cappella
Maxime Goulet – "I. Turmoil " from Ice Storm Symphony (world premiere)
Marcus Maroney – OK, Goodbye. for Flute, Viola d’Amore, & Chamber Orchestra (world premiere)
Domenico Cimarosa – Overture to Il maestro di cappella
Maxime Goulet – "I. Turmoil " from Ice Storm Symphony (world premiere)
Marcus Maroney – OK, Goodbye. for Flute, Viola d’Amore, & Chamber Orchestra (world premiere)
Free (Free to watch online; In-person tickets are Pay What You Wish)