Port Townsend Symphony: Villa-Lobos, Karłowicz, Holst

Saturday, December 4, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PST)
Chimacum High School Auditorium, Chimacum, WA, United States
Heitor Villa-Lobos – Fantasia for saxophone, 3 horns, & strings, W. 490
Mieczysław Karłowicz – Serenade for String Orchestra in C major, Op. 2
Gustav Holst – Brook Green Suite, H. 190
Plus a Holiday Surprise!

Free

Port Townsend Symphony: Open Dress Rehearsal – Villa-Lobos, Karłowicz, Holst

Friday, December 3, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm (PST)
Chimacum High School Auditorium, Chimacum, WA, United States
Heitor Villa-Lobos – Fantasia for saxophone, 3 horns, & strings, W. 490
Mieczysław Karłowicz – Serenade for String Orchestra in C major, Op. 2
Gustav Holst – Brook Green Suite, H. 190
Plus a Holiday Surprise!

Free

WWU Wind Symphony: Maslanka, Bernstein, Orff

Wednesday, December 1, 2021 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
WWU Performing Arts Center, Bellingham, WA, United States
Online and in-person
David Maslanka – Concerto for Alto Saxophone & Wind Ensemble
Leonard Bernstein – Overture to Candide
Carl Orff – Carmina Burana (arr. for winds & percussion)

Free

Pacific Lutheran University: Saxophone Quartets & Jazz Combos

Tuesday, November 30, 2021 @ 5:30pm – 7:00pm (PST)
The Cave – Anderson University Center (PLU), Parkland, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Double bill featuring PLU student classical saxophone chamber ensembles & jazz combos.

Free

Roulette: Bob Bellerue – 'Radioactive Desire'

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PST)
Online and in-person
Experience a multidimensional sound world in this public premiere of Bob Bellerue's Radioactive Desire, a work for 6 improvising chamber musicians whose sounds are fed into a menagerie of unusual speaker systems.

Free (Free ($20-$25 in person))

Wayward Music Series: Neil Welch

Thursday, November 11, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Performance celebrating saxophonist/composer Neil Welch’s new album, featuring composer/performer Nat Evans; a work for solo saxophone; & an 11-member ensemble performing Welch's Concepción Picciotto.

$10-$20 at the door

Composers Concordance: Todd Rewoldt, saxophone & Lesi Mei, piano

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 5:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Composers Concordance features Todd Rewoldt & Lesi Mei in a concert featuring new compositions for alto saxophone & piano. Works by Lili Boulanger, Mark Kostabi, Carter Pann, Faye-Ellen Silverman, & more.

Free (Online: Free | In-person: $20)

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (USA): 27th Annual National Young Artist Competition

Sunday, October 17, 2021 @ 1:00pm – 3:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Chosen from over 100 nation-wide applicants, 9 young musicians compete to receive the opportunity to perform with the VSO in January 2022.

Free (Online: Free | In person: SOLD OUT)

Ensemble Dal Niente with Ken Vandermark at Washington University

Friday, October 8, 2021 @ 5:30pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Roscoe Mitchell – Last Trane to Clover Five for solo saxophone & ensemble (world premiere) Nicole Mitchell – Cult of Electromagnetic Connectivity for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, & percussion
Wang Lu – After some remarks by CW on his work for harp & clarinet
Anthony Braxton – Composition Nos. 193 + 228 for large ensemble

$15 online | $0-$20 in person

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: ~Nois with Annika Socolofsky

Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 6:30pm – 7:15pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Mathew Arrellin – Metasomatic V
Annika Socolofsky – New work TBA (world premiere)

Free (Free)

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Janice Misurell-Mitchell – Resistant Noise

Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 5:30pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
World premiere of Janice Misurell-Mitchell's Resistant Noise for vocal & instrumental ensemble & electronics, based on text by Jacques Attali.

Free (Free)

C4: Joy

Sunday, October 3, 2021 @ 11:30am – 12:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Works by Julius Eastman, Bernard Rands, Martha Sullivan, & more, plus a world premiere from Leah Ofman, in this performance from Saint John's In the Village in NYC.

Online ticket price TBD | $12 in-person

Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Ogni Suono

Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 10:15am – 11:00am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Ogni Suono (Noa Even & Phil Pierick, saxophones) present works by David Reminick, Chris-Fisher Lochhead, & Emily Koh.

Free (Free)

Roulette: Nick Dunston – 'La Operación: Reverberated'

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Nick Dunston presents La Operación: Reverberated, an "alternate reality-based inversion" of his 2019 work La Operación. Featuring Stephanie Lamprea (voice), Joy Guidry (bassoon), Anna Webber (tenor saxophone), & more.

Free (Free ($20-$25 in person))

Roulette: Lea Bertucci – 'A Visible Length of Light' + Duo with Ben Vida

Monday, September 27, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Lea Bertucci presents recent discoveries for alto sax, wooden venu flute, tape, & electronics from her most recent release, plus a collaboration with Ben Vida (accordion & electronics).

Free (Free ($20-$25 in-person))

Wayward Music Series: Orgone Donor + RN White

Saturday, September 25, 2021 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Obscure & Terrible presents a dual cassette release show featuring synthesizer/saxophone trio Orgone Donor & experimental/noise artist RN White with an opening set from guitarist John Saint-Pelvyn.

$10-$20 donation at the door

Roulette: Anna Webber’s Simple Trio // Idiom VI Large Ensemble

Thursday, September 23, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Woodwind player/composer Anna Webber performs works from her recent release, Idiom, featuring both her long-standing Simple Trio & a new large ensemble made up of jazz improvisors & contemporary classical music specialists.

Free (Free ($20-$25 in person))

Wayward Music Series: Right Brain Music Minifest

Saturday, September 18, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
1-night explosion of improvised music, featuring local virtuosos & spontaneous jams that will stretch your imagination.

$5-$15 donation

Ear Taxi Festival Spotlight Concerts: Matt Ulery's Mannerist 11

Friday, September 17, 2021 @ 6:30pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Chicago-based bassist/composer/bandleader Matt Ulery brings together an interdisciplinary ensemble of musicians for this concert of original works spanning the spectrum of jazz, classical, rock, pop, & folk.

Free (Donations appreciated ($15 in person))

New Music Gathering 2021: COULTER HILL, Girlnoise, John Dorhauer

Friday, August 13, 2021 @ 11:00am – 1:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
COULTER HILL – Concert
Girlnoise – For What, For Whom
John Dorhauer – The National Coin Shortage

Free (Free (registration required))