Concert – Upcoming Concerts
Passenger String Quartet at Folklife
Friday, May 22, 2026 @ 8:45pm – 9:15pm (PDT)
Seattle Center Armory | Center Theatre, Seattle, WA, United States
The Passenger String Quartet is an avant-garde, experimental neo-classical group formed by Northwest composer/violinist Andrew Joslyn
Free
Seattle Cello eXperiment at Folklife
Friday, May 22, 2026 @ 9:30pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Seattle Center Armory | Center Theatre, Seattle, WA, United States
Music spanning many musical genres, including popular, rock, film and television, classical, Latin and fiddling.
Free
Hamilton International Middle School Chamber Orchestra at Folklife
Saturday, May 23, 2026 @ 11:40am – 12:05pm (PDT)
Mural Amphitheatre at the Seattle Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A Folklife performance by the Hamilton International Middle School Chamber Orchestra.
Free
Maier Hall Concert Series: Onyx Chamber Players
Saturday, May 23, 2026 @ 7:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Peninsula College Maier Performance Hall, Port Angeles, WA, United States
Onyx Chamber Players combine a unique blend of early music performance style with the brilliance and virtuosity of modern instruments. Audiences and critics alike have hailed their musical energy, the exciting chemistry among the players and the musical intensity Onyx brings to their performances.
$15 (students $5 w/ID)
Saxophone: UNCOVERED
Saturday, May 23, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Expanding the contemporary classical saxophone repertoire, Kevin Baldwin will premiere new works by local Seattle composers, as well as lesser-performed pieces from famed composers Luciano Berio, Gerard Grisey and Giacinto Scelsi.
$5-$15
Seattle Mandolin Orchestra at Folklife
Sunday, May 24, 2026 @ 11:00am – 12:00pm (PDT)
Seattle Center Armory | Center Theatre, Seattle, WA, United States
Music from early 20th-century mandolin orchestra originals as well as other classics reimagined for plucked strings.
Free
Onyx Chamber Players at First Church Seattle
Sunday, May 24, 2026 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
First Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Music of Schubert, Weber and Mendelssohn.
$10-$25
Valse Café Orchestra at Folklife
Sunday, May 24, 2026 @ 9:00pm – 9:50pm (PDT)
Seattle Center Fisher Pavilion, Seattle, WA, United States
Postmodern renditions of dance-hall classics, a mélange of Viennese waltz and American jazz, plus Argentine tangos, rumbas, cha-chas, polkas, schottisches and the blues.
Free
1,000 Cellos
Monday, May 25, 2026 @ 1:30pm – 2:20pm (PDT)
Cornish Courtyard at Seattle Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Cellists from all over the region perform an original work for cello orchestra.
Free
Seattle Bach Choir at Folklife
Monday, May 25, 2026 @ 3:30pm – 4:50pm (PDT)
Intiman Stage, Seattle, WA, United States
Seattle Bach Choir will lead participants in singing a cappella literature.
Free
Music of Today: The Music of Harry Partch
Tuesday, May 26, 2026 @ 3:35pm – 4:35pm (PDT)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
UW Music students and faculty perform music by 20th century composer Harry Partch on the composer's unique hand-made instruments, now in residence at the University of Washington.
$20 ($12 student/senior)
UW Percussion Ensemble: World Percussion Bash
Wednesday, May 27, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
The UW Percussion Ensemble and the UW Steel Drum Ensemble (directed by Shannon Dudley) present music from a variety of musical traditions.
$15 ($10 student/senior)
Maderna Fest: 2015
Wednesday, May 27, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Berio – Flute Sequeza
Berio – Saxophone Sequenza
Maderna – Piece for Ivry
Maderna – Windmung
Maderna – Honeyreves
Maderna – Serenata per un Satellite
Berio – Saxophone Sequenza
Maderna – Piece for Ivry
Maderna – Windmung
Maderna – Honeyreves
Maderna – Serenata per un Satellite
$5-$15 suggested donation
UW Chamber Singers and University Chorale
Wednesday, May 27, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
The UW Chamber Singers and University Chorale present their spring quarter concert.
$15 ($10 student/senior)
Prized: Premio Roma
Thursday, May 28, 2026 @ 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)
Brechemin Piano Series
Thursday, May 28, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
UW music students perform works for piano.
$5 (cash or check at the door)
SPU Choirs
Thursday, May 28, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
First Free Methodist Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Performances by Seattle Pacific University's Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, Men's Choir and Women's Choir.
Free
Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5
Thursday, May 28, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Tchaikovsky – Suite No. 4 in G major, Op. 61, Mozartiana
Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219
Prokofiev – Excerpts from Cinderella, Op. 107
Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219
Prokofiev – Excerpts from Cinderella, Op. 107
$20-$120
Haller Lake Music Series: David Brooks, piano
Friday, May 29, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Haller Lake United Methodist Church, Seattle, WA, United States
CPE Bach – Sonata in A minor ("Wurttemberg No. 1")
Brooks – Escherisms (2014)
Mendelssohn – Fantasy, Op. 28 (“Scottish Sonata”)
Chopin – Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 1
Ginastera – Danzas Criollas, Op. 15
Brooks – Escherisms (2014)
Mendelssohn – Fantasy, Op. 28 (“Scottish Sonata”)
Chopin – Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 1
Ginastera – Danzas Criollas, Op. 15
$20
Bruno Maderna's Don Perlimplin
Friday, May 29, 2026 @ 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)