BIPOC composers – Past Concerts
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: 5th Wave Collective
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 11:45am – 12:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Works for string quartet with & without oboe, by Shulamit Ran, Gabriella Smith, Stacy Garrop, Osnat Netzer, & Clarice Assad.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Ogni Suono
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 10:15am – 11:00am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Ogni Suono (Noa Even & Phil Pierick, saxophones) present works by David Reminick, Chris-Fisher Lochhead, & Emily Koh.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Sarah Plum & Nick Photinos
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 9:30am – 10:15am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Osnat Netzer – Olive Cotton
Tonia Ko – Moves and Remains
Sidney Corbett – Absconditus
Kyong Mee Choi – Flowering Dandelion
Tonia Ko – Moves and Remains
Sidney Corbett – Absconditus
Kyong Mee Choi – Flowering Dandelion
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Fonema Consort
Thursday, September 30, 2021 @ 10:45pm – 10:45pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Kelley Sheehan – Eyes On
Mathew Arrellin – Umbra II
Luis Fernando Amaya – Studies for Bestiario: seis
Mathew Arrellin – Umbra II
Luis Fernando Amaya – Studies for Bestiario: seis
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: KAIA String Quartet
Thursday, September 30, 2021 @ 6:45pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Shulamit Ran – String Quartet No. 3 “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory”
Gustavo Leone – String Quartet No. 3
Gustavo Leone – String Quartet No. 3
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Michael Hall, Michael Delfin, & Megan Ihnen Trio
Thursday, September 30, 2021 @ 6:00pm – 6:45pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Stacy Garrop – Krakatoa
Eric Malmquist – Song of the Rattling Pipes
Evan Williams – The Devil in The Belfry
Osnat Netzer – Contrapose
Eric Malmquist – Song of the Rattling Pipes
Evan Williams – The Devil in The Belfry
Osnat Netzer – Contrapose
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Lisa Goethe-McGinn, flutes
Thursday, September 30, 2021 @ 12:30pm – 1:15pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Kyong Mee Choi – Slight Uncertainty is Very Attractive
Lisa Goethe-McGinn – To Each Her Own…
Regina Harris Baiocchi – Autumn Night
Janice Misurell-Mitchell – Sometimes the City is Silent
Augusta Read Thomas – Angel Shadows
Lisa Goethe-McGinn – To Each Her Own…
Regina Harris Baiocchi – Autumn Night
Janice Misurell-Mitchell – Sometimes the City is Silent
Augusta Read Thomas – Angel Shadows
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Clare Longendyke, piano
Thursday, September 30, 2021 @ 10:45am – 11:15pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Florence Price – Fantasie nègre No. 4 in B minor
Alison Yun-Fei Jiang – Isles
Shawn Okpebholo – mi sueño: afro-flamenco
Augusta Read Thomas – Love Twitters
Alison Yun-Fei Jiang – Isles
Shawn Okpebholo – mi sueño: afro-flamenco
Augusta Read Thomas – Love Twitters
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Picosa
Thursday, September 30, 2021 @ 10:00am – 10:45am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Raven Chacon – Bilagáana ádin ("Dead White Men")
Xavier Beteta – Fragments of a Distant Dream
Jonathon Kirk – Meteore D’Inverno ("Winter Meteors")
Shulamit Ran – Mirage
Xavier Beteta – Fragments of a Distant Dream
Jonathon Kirk – Meteore D’Inverno ("Winter Meteors")
Shulamit Ran – Mirage
Free (Free)
Roulette: Nick Dunston – 'La Operación: Reverberated'
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Nick Dunston presents La Operación: Reverberated, an "alternate reality-based inversion" of his 2019 work La Operación. Featuring Stephanie Lamprea (voice), Joy Guidry (bassoon), Anna Webber (tenor saxophone), & more.
Free (Free ($20-$25 in person))
Ear Taxi Festival Spotlight Concerts: Liza Sobel & Jonathan Hannau / deaf rabbit
Sunday, September 26, 2021 @ 6:30pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Double bill featuring the duo of Liza Sobel, soprano & Jonathan Hannau, piano; & deaf rabbit (Rachel Peters, violin & Autumn Selover, harp). Includes world premieres from Liza Sobel & Oswald Huynh.
Free (Donations appreciated)
Sempre Chamber Music: An Evening of Clarinet Quintets
Sunday, September 26, 2021 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 10
Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
Free (Pay what you can ($15-$180 in-person))
Bellingham Symphony Orchestra: Soaring Notes
Sunday, September 26, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham, WA, United States
New concertmaster Dawn Posey is featured on Ralph Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending in this program book-ended by 2 Classical greats: Joseph Bologne's Symphony No. 2 & W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 29.
$15-$49
SFCM Orchestra Conducted by Edwin Outwater featuring PaviElle French
Saturday, September 25, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Sarah Kirkland Snider – Something for the Dark
PaviElle French – Requiem for Zula
Samuel Barber – Essay for Orchestra No. 1, Op. 12
Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring Suite
PaviElle French – Requiem for Zula
Samuel Barber – Essay for Orchestra No. 1, Op. 12
Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring Suite
Free (Free (registration required for in-person attendance))
Bellingham Symphony Orchestra: Soaring Notes
Saturday, September 25, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham, WA, United States
New concertmaster Dawn Posey is featured on Ralph Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending in this program book-ended by 2 Classical greats: Joseph Bologne's Symphony No. 2 & W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 29.
$15-$49
ROCO In Concert: Bursting at the Seams
Saturday, September 25, 2021 @ 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)
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)
Schneebeck Concert Hall at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, United States
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
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)
Early Music Vancouver: Mandinka Pilgrimage feat. Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko, kora
Friday, September 24, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Explore the epics of the Mandinka Kingdom with kora master Ablaye Cissoko & Montreal’s Ensemble Constantinople, in this concert that seeks to blend the sounds of West Africa & Persia.
Free ($17.52-$19.95 online / $33.48-$35.88 in person)
Roulette: JUNI ONE SET – Boy mother / faceless bloom [in process]
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 @ 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))