Woodwinds – Upcoming Concerts
Bern Herbolsheimer Musical Memorial
Sunday, January 13, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Bern Herbolsheimer – Five Elegies for solo cello
Bern Herbolsheimer – Shakespeare Songs for soprano, clarinet and piano
Bern Herbolsheimer – Variationes Ventorum for woodwind quintet
Bern Herbolsheimer – Kassandra for piano four-hands
Bern Herbolsheimer – Shakespeare Songs for soprano, clarinet and piano
Bern Herbolsheimer – Variationes Ventorum for woodwind quintet
Bern Herbolsheimer – Kassandra for piano four-hands
Free (Free (RSVP recommended))
OSSCS Chamber Concert 1: Poulenc, Mendelssohn, Brahms
Sunday, February 17, 2030 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (PST)
Resonance at SOMA Towers, Bellevue, WA, United States
Francis Poulenc – Sextet for Piano and Winds
Felix Mendelssohn – Piano Trio No. 1
Johannes Brahms – Quintet for Clarinet and Strings
Felix Mendelssohn – Piano Trio No. 1
Johannes Brahms – Quintet for Clarinet and Strings
$25 (includes 1 drink)
Wayward Music Series: Kurdish Rhythm & Free Improvisation
Friday, February 22, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of free improvisations based on Kurdish rhythms, featuring percussion virtuoso Ahmad Yousefbeigi, Arrington de Dionyso, and Amy Denio.
$5-$15 donation
Emerald City Music: Reich's Music for 18 Musicians
Friday, March 1, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
415 Westlake, Seattle, WA, United States
Reich – Music for 18 Musicians
$45 ($10 students)
Emerald City Music: Reich's Music for 18 Musicians Night (re)Cap
Friday, March 1, 2030 @ 10:30pm – 11:55pm (PST)
415 Westlake, Seattle, WA, United States
A late-night format enhanced with intimate lighting and a casual setting: snag a chair, bring pillows, dance, walk around; just be yourself!
$45 ($10 students)
Emerald City Music: Reich's Music for 18 Musicians
Saturday, March 2, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts, Olympia, WA, United States
Reich – Music for 18 Musicians
$28-$43 (students $10)
East of the River: Sultana – Musica of the Sephardic Diaspora
Sunday, March 17, 2030 @ 2:30pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, Seattle, WA, United States
Infectious Eastern rhythms played by woodwind virtuosos – a performance steeped in the art of improvisation.
$20-$45
Northwest Clarinet Choir: Grainger, Cardon, Puccini, Grieg
Sunday, March 17, 2030 @ 6:00pm – 7:15pm (PDT)
Music Center of the Northwest, Seattle, WA, United States
Music for large clarinet ensemble including Irish folk tunes, classical, contemporary, opera, and ragtime.
Free
East of the River: Sultana – Musica of the Sephardic Diaspora
Sunday, March 17, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Temple Beth Am, Seattle, WA, United States
Infectious Eastern rhythms played by woodwind virtuosos – a performance steeped in the art of improvisation.
$20-$45
Cornish Presents: Splinter Reeds
Tuesday, March 19, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
The West Coast's first reed quintet, comprising five innovative musicians with a shared passion for new music.
Free (Free (RSVP required))
Music Center of the Northwest: US Coast Guard Woodwind Quintet
Saturday, April 6, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Music Center of the Northwest, Seattle, WA, United States
Nino Rota – Petite Offrande Musicale
Liduino Pitombeira – Suite Hermética, Op. 95
Giuseppe Cambini – Concertante Quintet No. 1, Op. 4 No. 1
Paul Valjean – Dance Suite
John Harbison – Quintet for Winds
Liduino Pitombeira – Suite Hermética, Op. 95
Giuseppe Cambini – Concertante Quintet No. 1, Op. 4 No. 1
Paul Valjean – Dance Suite
John Harbison – Quintet for Winds
Free (Free (RSVP recommended))
Seattle Flute Society Flute Choir Spring Concert
Sunday, April 7, 2030 @ 7:00pm – 8:15pm (PDT)
Redmond United Methodist Church, Redmond, WA, United States
A 25-member flute ensemble including piccolo, C flute, alto flutes, bass flutes and contra-bass flutes.
Free (Free)
The Sound Ensemble Presents: Songwriter Showcase
Saturday, May 4, 2030 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Cross-genre collaborations in partnership with singer/songwriters.
$20 ($15 student/senior)
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
PLU Music: Woodwind Students
Saturday, May 11, 2030 @ 3:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Lagerquist Concert Hall at Pacific Lutheran University, Parkland, WA, United States
Pacific Lutheran University Department of Music presents a performance featuring the students of the woodwind studios.
Free
Port Townsend Summer Band Memorial Day Concert & Ceremony
Monday, May 27, 2030 @ 11:30am – 1:00pm (PDT)
Port Townsend American Legion Post #26, Port Townsend, WA, United States
Patriotic music to accompany Port Townsend's annual Memorial Day ceremony, including marches, an Armed Forces Salute, and two original works written by local composer Karl Bach.
Free
Northwest Clarinet Choir: Mendelssohn, Poulenc, Fauré, & more
Sunday, June 2, 2030 @ 6:00pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Music Center of the Northwest, Seattle, WA, United States
Large clarinet ensemble performs classical, contemporary, 12-tone, and jazz music by Felix Mendelssohn, Francis Poulenc, Gabriel Fauré, Ernst Krenek, and Astor Piazzolla.
Free
Seattle Symphonic Band: Holst's 'Mars'
Sunday, June 9, 2030 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
North Seattle College, Seattle, WA, United States
Gustav Holst – "Mars" from The Planets
Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story
Trad. – Shenandoah
Percy Grainger – Children's March
Gustav Holst – 1st Suite for Band
John Philip Sousa – Fairest of the Fair
Ralph Hultgren – Whirr, Whirr, Whirr!!!
Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story
Trad. – Shenandoah
Percy Grainger – Children's March
Gustav Holst – 1st Suite for Band
John Philip Sousa – Fairest of the Fair
Ralph Hultgren – Whirr, Whirr, Whirr!!!
Free ($5 suggested donation)
Tale Retold, by Emerald City Music
Saturday, September 14, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts, Olympia, WA, United States
Old meets new in the retelling of Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale as a cast of NYC Ballet dancers join forces with librettist Mark Campbell, followed by an edgy world premiere by Seattle’s own Angelique Poteat.
$28-$43 ($10 students)
Seattle Flute Society's Flute Celebration Day
Sunday, September 22, 2030 @ 2:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Music Center of the Northwest, Seattle, WA, United States
Chamber music featuring members of the Seattle Symphony, Ah Tempo Flute Choir, Bellevue Youth Symphony, the Jolly-Jones Duo, and Flûtes-en-Bois, plus contemporary music by Steven Luksan, Sarah Bassingthwaighte, Leanna Keith, Bun-Ching Lam, Stuart Zobel, and Naoyuki Sawada.
Free