Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival: Time for Three

Friday, August 5, 2016 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Orcas Center, Eastsound, WA, United States
Recognized for an uncommon mix of virtuosity and showmanship, Time for Three programs include everything from Bach to Brahms to their own arrangements of bluegrass, folk tunes and ingenious mash-ups of pop hits.

$10-$39

Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival: Time for Three

Thursday, August 4, 2016 @ 5:30pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, Lopez Island, WA, United States
Recognized for an uncommon mix of virtuosity and showmanship, Time for Three programs include everything from Bach to Brahms to their own arrangements of bluegrass, folk tunes and ingenious mash-ups of pop hits.

$10-$25

Olympic Music Festival: Opening Celebration at Centrum

Sunday, July 17, 2016 @ 2:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA, United States
Bottesini – Gran Duo Concertante for violin, double bass, and piano
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414
Piazzola – The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

$65

Olympic Music Festival: Opening Celebration at Centrum

Saturday, July 16, 2016 @ 2:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA, United States
Bottesini – Gran Duo Concertante for violin, double bass, and piano
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414
Piazzola – The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

$65

Seattle Video Game Orchestra & Choir: Chamber Works from Games, Movies, & Anime

Saturday, July 9, 2016 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Kinokuniya Bookstore, Seattle, WA, United States
Vocalists and chamber musicians from the Seattle Video Game Orchestra will be performing video game, movie, and anime chamber pieces.

Free (Free)

Inverted Space Long Piece Fest IV: Aperghis & Xenakis

Tuesday, June 28, 2016 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Xenakis – XAS for saxophone quartet
Aperghis – Jeu à quatre for alto saxophone quartet
Xenakis – Dikhthas for violin and piano
Xenakis – Morsima-Amorsima for violin, cello, double bass, and piano

$5-$15 suggested donation

The Daphnes

Friday, June 10, 2016 @ 5:30pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Hotel Sorrento, Seattle, WA, United States
Mesmerizing compositions for strings and voice.

Free (Free)

The Daphnes / The Blue Janes

Friday, June 3, 2016 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Garden House, Seattle, WA, United States
Two local trios woo and delight with beautiful vocals and strings of all sizes.

$10-$12

Barry Lieberman & Friends: Ted Botsford

Sunday, May 22, 2016 @ 2:00pm – 3:30pm (PDT)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Patrick Neher – Reflet sur Cher
Olivier Messiaen – Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus from Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps
Lowell Liebermann – Sonata for Contrabass and Piano
Edgar Meyer – selections from Concert Duo for Violin and Bass, transcribed and arranged for Viola and Bass

Free (Free)

UW Guest Artist Masterclass: Ted Botsford

Saturday, May 21, 2016 @ 2:00pm – 3:00pm (PDT)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Seattle Symphony bassist Ted Botsford leads a masterclass with students of Barry Lieberman.

Free (Free)

Sound of Late: What Water Knows

Friday, April 29, 2016 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Center for Wooden Boats, Seattle, WA, United States
The shimmering, colorful music of composers Emily Doolittle, Nicole Portley, Bright Sheng, and Toru Takemitsu will be featured alongside music and poetry of marine biologists and commercial fishers.

$10

Patrick Aubyrn Double Bass Recital

Tuesday, March 1, 2016 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
UW student Patrick Aubyrn performs a DMA recital on double bass. Free and open to the public.

Free (Free)

Dr. Jack Unzicker Double Bass Recital

Sunday, February 28, 2016 @ 2:00pm – 3:30pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Adolf Míšek – Legende, Op. 3
Ned Rorem – Nocturne, for Double Bass and Piano
Paul Hindemith – Trauermusik, for Solo Viola and String Orchestra
Miloslav Gajdoš – Invocation, for Solo Double Bass
José Bragato – Milontan, para Violoncello y Piano
Astor Piazzolla – Tanti anni prima, for Oboe and Piano
Astor Piazzolla – Contrabajeando
Madeleine Dring – Danza Gaya, for Oboe and Piano

Free

Master class: Dr. Jack Unzicker, double bass

Saturday, February 27, 2016 @ 2:00pm – 3:00pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Dr. Jack Unzicker, Assistant Professor of Double Bass at the University of Texas, Arlington, leads a masterclass with students of Barry Lieberman.

Free

Cascade Youth Symphony Orchestras: Youth Winter Concert

Sunday, February 21, 2016 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Shorewood Performing Arts Center, Shoreline, WA, United States
With concerto winner Mason Fagan, string bass.

$6-$15