Winds – Past Concerts near Seattle, WA
Jacobsen Series: American Soundscapes
Friday, October 23, 2015 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Schneebeck Concert Hall at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, United States
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
From Darkness to Luminosity
Saturday, October 17, 2015 @ 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
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)
Synthesis: University of Puget Sound Wind Ensemble
Thursday, October 15, 2015 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Schneebeck Concert Hall at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, United States
Music for winds, percussion, electronics, and video.
Free
Cornish Presents: IWO Flute Quartet
Monday, October 12, 2015 @ 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
ETHEL with special guest Robert Mirabal presents: The River
Thursday, October 8, 2015 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
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
Music Works Northwest: Flights of Fancy
Sunday, October 4, 2015 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Resonance at SOMA Towers, Bellevue, WA, United States
Bring your entire family for this quirky, yet ultimately exquisite combination of sounds, moods, and flights of fancy.
Free
LMC at the Seattle Art Museum
Thursday, October 1, 2015 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
Bach – “Hört, ihr Augen, auf zu weinen” (Kantata BWV 98)
Barber – Hermit Songs (selections)
Fauré – Automne
Debussy – Il pleure dans mon Coeur
Debussy – Paysage sentimental
Bemberg – Il Neige
Mozart – “Chi sa qual sia,” K. 582
Baldwin – "Oklahoma Sonata" for Oboe and Piano
Kalliwoda – Divertissement Op. 58
Barber – Hermit Songs (selections)
Fauré – Automne
Debussy – Il pleure dans mon Coeur
Debussy – Paysage sentimental
Bemberg – Il Neige
Mozart – “Chi sa qual sia,” K. 582
Baldwin – "Oklahoma Sonata" for Oboe and Piano
Kalliwoda – Divertissement Op. 58
Free
Popstronauts + Clifford Kimbrel-Dunn
Saturday, September 12, 2015 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Popstronauts performs non-apologetic free improvisation taking influence from free jazz, Carribbean and African rhythmic forms, electronic noise, and popular music. Clifford Kimbrel-Dunn pushes the limits of the flute’s capabilities.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Wayward Music Series: Douglas DeVries & Yvonne Chen
Thursday, August 13, 2015 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A program of new American works by Alexandra T. Bryant, Evan Fein, Alishan Gezgin, Jake Heggie and Daniel Knaggs.
$10-$15
Seattle Chamber Music Society: Music Under the Stars
Friday, July 17, 2015 @ 7:15pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Freeway Park, Seattle, WA, United States
Bliss Quintet performs Oboe Quintet, followed by an audio broadcast live from Benaroya Hall (Britten, Brahms, Strauss).
Free
Seattle Chamber Music Society: Beethoven & Kirchner
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Beethoven – Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat major, Op. 16
Kirchner – Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (1954)
Beethoven – String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2
Kirchner – Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (1954)
Beethoven – String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2
$48 ($16 Student)
Seattle Wind Symphony presents: Star-Spangled Spectacular
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Favorite patriotic tunes decorate this birthday party for America.
Free
Chamber Music in Greenlake: Mozart, Arnold, Fauré, Bach
Saturday, June 27, 2015 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Bethany Lutheran Church (Greenlake), Seattle, WA, United States
Mozart – Quartet in F major, K. 370
Arnold – Oboe Quartet Op. 61
Fauré – Pavane Op. 50
Bach – Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor
Arnold – Oboe Quartet Op. 61
Fauré – Pavane Op. 50
Bach – Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor
Free
2015 Frances Walton Competition: Finals and Winners' Concert
Saturday, June 6, 2015 @ 9:00am – 7:00pm (PDT)
Bethany Lutheran Church (Greenlake), Seattle, WA, United States
A day of competition finals, followed by the winners' concert.
Free
Friction Quartet & Christian Pincock
Friday, June 5, 2015 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Friction Quartet (SF) premieres works by Pacific Northwest composers, and performs John Adams' First Quartet. Christian Pincock opens with solo works on trombone and computer.
$10-$15 suggested donation
The Washington Wind Symphony presents 'Romance'
Sunday, May 31, 2015 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Kirkland Performance Center, Kirkland, WA, United States
R. Strauss – Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare
Debussy – The Engulfed Cathedral
Lynch – Were You There?
Mendelssohn – Overture for Winds
Grainger – My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone
Tull – Sketches on a Tudor Psalm
Hindemith – March from Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Debussy – The Engulfed Cathedral
Lynch – Were You There?
Mendelssohn – Overture for Winds
Grainger – My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone
Tull – Sketches on a Tudor Psalm
Hindemith – March from Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
$18 ($13 youth/senior)
Maderna Fest: 2015
Saturday, May 30, 2015 @ 8:30pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Stone Way Cafe, Seattle, WA, United States
Come join us for a night on the "other side" of classical music, featuring works for saxophone, percussion, and cello from composers George Crumb, Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna.
Free
Bruno Maderna's Don Perlimplin
Friday, May 29, 2015 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
A semi-staged production of Bruno Maderna’s 1962 experimental opera Don Perlimplín.
$15 ($10 youth/senior)
WSCO: Overture to Summer
Friday, May 29, 2015 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Chief Sealth International High School Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Reed – A Festive Overture
Carter – Overture for Winds
Ticheli (arr.) – Amazing Grace
Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5, Finale
Brahms – Academic Festival Overture
Rachmaninoff – Vocalise
J. Strauss, Jr. – Blue Danube Waltz
Mussorgsky – Night on Bald Mountain
Carter – Overture for Winds
Ticheli (arr.) – Amazing Grace
Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5, Finale
Brahms – Academic Festival Overture
Rachmaninoff – Vocalise
J. Strauss, Jr. – Blue Danube Waltz
Mussorgsky – Night on Bald Mountain
Free
Prized: Premio Roma
Thursday, May 28, 2015 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
Huck Hodge – from the language of shadows
Norman Dello Joio – Satiric Dances
Vittorio Giannini – movements from Symphony No. 3
Bohuslav Martinů – Concertino for Cello, Winds, Percussion and Piano in C minor
Norman Dello Joio – Satiric Dances
Vittorio Giannini – movements from Symphony No. 3
Bohuslav Martinů – Concertino for Cello, Winds, Percussion and Piano in C minor
$15 ($10 student/senior)