Whidbey Island Music Festival: Handel's Roman Holiday

Friday, August 2, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
St. Augustine's in-the-Woods Episcopal Church, Freeland, WA, United States
A program of dramatic, passionate, and virtuosic music written while George Frideric Handel was a young man in Rome.

$22 / $10 / FREE for children

Whidbey Island Music Festival: Handel's Roman Holiday

Sunday, August 4, 2030 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
St. Augustine's in-the-Woods Episcopal Church, Freeland, WA, United States
A program of dramatic, passionate, and virtuosic music written while George Frideric Handel was a young man in Rome.

$22 / $10 / FREE for children

Northwest Film Forum Puget Soundtrack: Postcard from the Badlands present 'Naer Vaer'

Sunday, August 4, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA, United States
Music that explores the intersection of Americana, modern chamber music, and instrumental rock, alongside footage representing themes of creation, community, conquest, migration, labor and play.

$16 ($13 NWFF members)

Olympic Music Festival: Transcendence

Saturday, August 10, 2030 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA, United States
Johannes Brahms – Viola Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 120 No. 2
Dmitri Shostakovich – Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67
Franz Schubert – String Quintet in C major, D. 956

$20-$40 (age 7-12 free)

Olympic Music Festival: Musical Forefathers

Sunday, August 11, 2030 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA, United States
Johann Sebastian Bach – Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in D major, BWV 1054
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quintet No. 3 in C major, K. 515
Ludwig van Beethoven – 7 Variations on The Magic Flute, WoO 46 for cello and piano
Felix Mendelssohn – Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66

$20-$40 (age 7-12 free)

Music Northwest: Masterpieces for Strings & Piano

Sunday, August 11, 2030 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
First Lutheran Church of West Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478
Ernő Dohnányi – Serenade in C major, Op. 10 for string trio

$18 (seniors $16)

Groupmuse House Concert: Rossini, Bartók, Popper, & Vivaldi in the Admiral District

Sunday, August 11, 2030 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Private home in West Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Gioacchino Rossini – Duet for Cello and Double Bass in D major: mvt. I & II
Béla Bartók – Romanian Folk Dances, Sz.56
David Popper – Suite for 2 Cellos, Op. 16: mvt: I & III
Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for 2 Cellos in G minor, RV 531: mvt. I & II
David Popper – Hungarian Rhapsody, Op. 68

$10+ donation, RSVP required

Olympic Music Festival: Passion in Paris

Saturday, August 17, 2030 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA, United States
Claude Debussy – Petite Suite, L. 65 for piano four hands
César Franck – Piano Quintet in F minor
Gabriel Fauré – Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45

$20-$40 (age 7-12 free)

Helios Symphony Orchestra: The First Dance

Saturday, August 17, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Plymouth Congregational Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Antonín Dvořák – Carnival Overture
Astor Piazzolla – Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (arr. Leonid Desyatnikov)
Arturo Márquez – Danzon No. 2
Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 3

$15 / $12.50 / $10 (youth free in adv.)

Wayward Music Series: McDonas, Denio, & Boshnack

Saturday, August 17, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Three musicians approach music with precision and abandon, fierceness and joy as they explore the infinite possibilities of their instruments and their relationship to each other.

$5-$15 donation

Olympic Music Festival: New Worlds

Sunday, August 18, 2030 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA, United States
Georges Enescu – Konzertstück for viola and piano
William Walton – Piano Quartet in D minor
Frederic Chopin – Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C major, Op. 3 for cello and piano
Antonín Dvořák – String Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 97 "American"

$20-$40 (age 7-12 free)

Music on the Ridge: Coho String Quartet

Thursday, August 22, 2030 @ 7:00pm – 9:35pm (PDT)
St. John United Lutheran Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartet in A major, K. 464
Mark Kuss – Elegy (West Coast premiere)
Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 74 "Harp"

Free (Free)

Wayward Music Series: Bassett, Samara, Suzuki, Krausbauer, Kelley, & Millis

Thursday, August 22, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Touring duos Marcia Bassett & Samara Lubelski (NYC), and Kaori Suzuki & John Krausbauer (Oakland) perform at the Chapel Performance Space with Seattle’s Greg Kelley & Rob Millis.

$8-$15 suggested donation at the door

Wayward Music Series: Kyte Mika & Peter Colclasure

Saturday, August 24, 2030 @ 7:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Post-classical composers and pianists play original work aiming for a soothing, ambient, and beautiful sonic landscape.

$10 suggested donation

Olympic Music Festival: Russian Tributes

Saturday, August 31, 2030 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA, United States
Nikolai Medtner – Sonata Reminiscenza in A minor, Op. 38 No. 1
Sergei Prokofiev – Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50

$20-$40 (age 7-12 free)

Olympic Music Festival: Secret Love

Sunday, September 1, 2030 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA, United States
Johannes Brahms – Clarinet (Viola) Trio in A minor, Op. 114
Clara Schumann – Mazurka in G major from Soirées musicales, Op. 6 No. 5
Robert Schumann – Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6
Johannes Brahms – Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60

$20-$40 (age 7-12 free)

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)

Byron Schenkman & Friends: Clara Schumann Bicentennial Celebration

Sunday, September 15, 2030 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Franz Joseph Haydn – Piano Trio in F major, Hob. XVI:6
Clara Schumann – Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17
Clara Schumann – Romance in A-flat major, Op. 7 No. 2
Robert Schumann – Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47

$48 / $41 / $10

Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra Secret Chamber Music Season Kickoff

Tuesday, September 24, 2030 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Private home in Ballard, Seattle, WA, United States
Johannes Brahms – String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70

$25

Pacifica Chamber Orchestra: Nielsen, Hindemith, Coricelli, & Hovhaness

Sunday, September 29, 2030 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Trinity Episcopal Church, Everett, WA, United States
Carl Nielsen – Humorous Bagatelles, Op. 11 for winds
Paul Hindemith – The Four Temperaments for piano and strings
Silvia Coricelli – Argentine Encores for winds
Alan Hovhaness – Sinfonia No. 31, Op. 294 for strings

$20 ($15 student / senior)