Clarinettissimo 2021

Saturday, October 2, 2021 @ 1:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
SPU Nickerson Studios, Seattle, WA, United States
Seattle's premiere clarinet festival meets for its 21st year for 1 day only. Featuring masterclasses; an ornamentation workshop; clarinet choir; & performers from the Metropolitan Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, & beyond.

Free (Free)

Wayward Music Series: Puget Sounds Wind Quintet

Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Eric Ewazen – Roaring Fork
Frank Ticheli – In C Dorian
Don Bowyer – 5-4-3 Miniatures
Valerie Coleman – Umoja
David P. Jones – New work TBA (world premiere)

Free

Tamara Zenobia: Galactic Pyramid Transmissions

Friday, September 24, 2021 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Using her voice, singing bowls, pan drum, & other world instruments, Tamara Zenobia shares stories & "galactic messages from within her self-built pyramid" in this special performance.

$20 in advance

Jacobsen Series: When the Violin Sings

Friday, September 24, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Reena Esmail – When the Violin
Trevor Weston – Juba for Strings
William Grant Still – Suite for violin & piano
George Enescu – Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 25

$20 ($15 senior/military/UPS, students free)

Seattle Symphony: Free Opening Weekend Concert

Sunday, September 19, 2021 @ 12:30pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
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))

Seattle Symphony: Opening Night Gala

Saturday, September 18, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
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 Chamber Music Society: Music Under the Stars Film Screening

Friday, September 3, 2021 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Freeway Park, Seattle, WA, United States
Outdoor concert film screening of selections from Seattle Chamber Music Society's 2021 Online Summer Festival. Works by Johannes Brahms, Florence Price, & Franz Schubert. Includes movie snacks & door prizes!

Free (Free)

Key to Change: Summer Finale Concert

Saturday, August 14, 2021 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Renton IKEA Performing Arts Center, Renton, WA, United States
Key to Change's first in-person concert in almost 2 years features the music of composer-in-residence Caleb Vaughn-Jones.

Free (Free (RSVP required))

Whidbey's Saratoga Orchestra & PNW Conducting Institute Concert

Saturday, August 7, 2021 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Langley, WA, United States
Whidbey's Saratoga Orchestra plays host to orchestra conductors from around the globe in this final concert of the PNW Conducting Institute. Works by Antonín Dvořák, Grażyna Bacewicz, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, & Hanna Benn.

$25

Seattle Chamber Music Society: Price, Brahms

Sunday, August 1, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Florence Price – String Quartet in G major
Johannes Brahms – Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 60

$75

Second City Chamber Series: How Suite It Is

Thursday, July 22, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Lakewold Gardens, Lakewood, WA, United States
Pianist Lisa Bergman & violinist Svend Rønning re-inaugurate Lakewold Gardens as SCCS's summer home in a concert of sweet suites by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Dawn Sonntag, William Grant Still, & Igor Stravinsky.

$50

Listen Live at Lunch: Corvid Ensemble – A Flight of Song

Wednesday, July 14, 2021 @ 12:00pm – 12:50pm (PDT)
First Lutheran Church Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, United States
Diverse program of music featuring birds & other flying things. Works by Johannes Brahms, Mikhail Glinka, H. Leslie Adams, Sammy Fain, Sally Whitwell, & more.

Free (Free)

Saratoga Orchestra: PNW Percussion on the Rock – Final Concert

Sunday, July 11, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Langley United Methodist Church, Langley, WA, United States
Culminating concert of Saratoga Orchestra's 4-day percussion workshop & festival, featuring the Orchestra's percussionists. Program to include works by John Cage, Alan Hovhaness, Johanna Beyer, Carlos Chávez, & more.

Free (Free (RSVP required))

Listen Live at Lunch Summer Concert Series: Wyatt Smith, organ

Wednesday, July 7, 2021 @ 12:00pm – 12:50pm (PDT)
First Lutheran Church Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, United States
Carson Cooman – Concertino, Op. 1081
Florence Price – Adoration
Emma Lou Diemer – Triptych
Gwyneth Walker – "Reverence" from Sanctuary
Craig Phillips – Suite Breve

Free (Free)

Orchestra Seattle & Seattle Chamber Singers: Origins

Saturday, October 5, 2019 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
First Free Methodist Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Carlos Garcia – Vast Array (world premiere)
Darius Milhaud – La Création du monde, Op. 81a
Carol Sams – The Earthmakers

$25 / $20 / $10 / FREE for youth