ETHEL with special guest Robert Mirabal presents: The River

Thursday, October 8, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Critically acclaimed string quartet ETHEL continues its collaboration with Native American flutist and Grammy Award winner Robert Mirabal. Using rivers as inspiration for collaboration, their music explores water as the embodiment of spirit and its essential role in life on earth.

$35-$40

Cornish Presents: IWO Flute Quartet

Monday, October 12, 2026 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
IWO Flute Quartet (Sydney Carlson, Leonard Garrison, Jennifer Rhyne and Paul Taub) will perform a program that includes Second Grand Quartet for Sixteen Flutes – The White Labyrinth by Harvey Sollberger and Song and Dance by Seattle composer Angelique Poteat.

Free

Synthesis: University of Puget Sound Wind Ensemble

Thursday, October 15, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Music for winds, percussion, electronics, and video.

Free

From Darkness to Luminosity

Saturday, October 17, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Edgard Varèse – Octandre (1923)
Julia Wolfe – Singing in the dead of night (2008)
Morton Feldman – The Viola in My Life I (1970)
Orlando Jacinto Garcia – From Darkness to Luminosity (2015) – World premiere

$20 ($10 student/senior)

Jacobsen Series: American Soundscapes

Friday, October 23, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
A journey through nature as imagined by some of the best American contemporary composers. Works by David Biedenbender, Mason Bates, Jennifer Higdon, Evan Chambers and Robert Hutchinson.

$10-$15

Bach Collegium Japan: Vivaldi, Handel, Bach

Friday, October 23, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Town Hall Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
The lively music of three Baroque titans is performed by Bach Collegium Japan in its Seattle debut.

$20-$39

Wayward Music Series: Tomeka Reid / Mike Reed / Nicole Mitchell

Friday, October 23, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
From Chicago come three key figures of the new generation of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians collective: versatile cello experimenter Tomeka Reid, frequent jazz-flute poll winner Nicole Mitchell, and drummer Mike Reed.

$5-$15 donation

LUCO: Liszt, Martin, Ives

Saturday, October 24, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Town Hall Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Liszt – Die Ideale
Martin – Concerto for 7 Winds
Ives – Symphony No. 2

$18 ($13 senior/student)

UW Wind Ensemble Chamber Winds

Sunday, October 25, 2026 @ 1:30pm – 2:30pm (PDT)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Members of the UW Wind Ensemble perform works arranged for small ensembles.

Free (Free)

Washington Wind Symphony presents ‘In a galaxy far, far, away…’

Sunday, October 25, 2026 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Kirkland Performance Center, Kirkland, WA, United States
Michael Giacchino – Highlights from Star Trek Into Darkness (arr. Michael Brown)
Steven Bryant – Dusk
David R. Gillingham – Galactic Empires
Alexander Arutiunian – Concerto for Trumpet and Symphonic Band
Bela Keler – Apollo March (attr. Anton Bruckner)
John Williams – Star Wars Trilogy (arr. Donald Hunsberger)

$10-$20

Seattle Festival Orchestra: Brahms & Shostakovich

Saturday, October 31, 2026 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
New Hope Presbyterian Church, Kent, WA, United States
Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
Shostakovich – Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112 "The Year of 1917"

$15 ($10 student/senior)

Seattle Festival Orchestra: Brahms & Shostakovich

Sunday, November 1, 2026 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PST)
Town Hall Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
Shostakovich – Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112 "The Year of 1917"

$20 ($10 student/senior)

Inverted Space – Mind the Gap: Premieres & Encores

Wednesday, November 11, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
New works for chamber ensemble from the best of Seattle's emerging composers, featuring several world premieres.

$5-$15 suggested donation

SPU Symphony Orchestra & Symphonic Wind Ensemble

Friday, November 13, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
First Free Methodist Church, Seattle, WA, United States
The SPU Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Wind Ensemble in concert.

Free

LMC at the Frye: Mozart & Bach

Saturday, November 14, 2026 @ 2:00pm – 3:00pm (PST)
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, United States
Mozart – Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major, K. 526
J.S. Bach – Cantata No. 82 "Ich habe genug"

Free (Free)

Seattle Wind Symphony: Time and the Winds

Sunday, November 15, 2026 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Renton IKEA Performing Arts Center, Renton, WA, United States
A musical journey through the history of wind band music featuring works by Mendelssohn, Holst, Grainger, Fillmore, Dello Joio and more.

$5-$20

Seattle Symphonic Band Fall Concert

Sunday, November 22, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
North Seattle College, Seattle, WA, United States
Seattle Symphonic Band's Fall 2015 concert, honoring the memory of the North Seattle College students killed in the bus/duck crash in September.

TBA

The Pleasures of Pan

Sunday, December 6, 2026 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
University Christian Church, Seattle, WA, United States
J.G. Janitsch – Suonata da Camera Prima
Holst – Terzetto
W.F. Bach – Trio for oboe, flute, viola
Jean-Baptiste Wekerlin – Pastorale
C.P.E. Bach – Trio for flute, viola and harpsichord
Schubert – Nocturne, Op. 148

$15-$25 suggested donation

UW Wind Ensemble, Symphonic & Campus Bands: Luminaries

Thursday, December 10, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Highlights include the Northwest premiere of Joseph Schwantner’s Luminosity: Concerto for Wind Orchestra.

$10

WSCO: Wind Symphony Concert

Friday, December 11, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Providence Mt. St. Vincent Chapel, Seattle, WA, United States
Jacob – Earle of Oxford's Marche
Holst – Second Suite in F, 4 movements
Anderson – A Christmas Festival
Selected works for French horn quartet

Donations welcome