Early Music Underground: The Extraordinary Ignatius Sancho

Saturday, January 15, 2028 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Northwest Cellars, Kirkland, WA, United States
Composer, author, playwright, abolitionist, and businessman Ignatius Sancho was born on a slave ship in 1729 and became the first Black Briton to vote in a parliamentary election. Join acclaimed tenor Zach Finkelstein and the EMU House Band for a celebration of Sancho's extraordinary life through his music, writings, and the music of his London contemporaries.

$25, includes wine tasting

Ladies Musical Club: Beethoven & Shostakovich

Saturday, January 15, 2028 @ 3:00pm – 4:00pm (PST)
Mirabella Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Beethoven – Violin Sonata No. 5, Op. 24 (“Spring”)
Shostakovich – Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67

Free

Choral Arts Northwest: Rachmaninoff’s Vespers ('All-Night Vigil')

Saturday, January 15, 2028 @ 4:30pm – 6:30pm (PST)
Washington State Capitol Campus, Olympia, WA, United States
Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil (Vespers) performed in the rotunda of the Washington State Capitol building.

$24-$28

Early Music Underground: The Extraordinary Ignatius Sancho

Monday, January 17, 2028 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Naked City Brewery and Taphouse, Seattle, WA, United States
Composer, author, playwright, abolitionist, and businessman Ignatius Sancho was born on a slave ship in 1729 and became the first Black Briton to vote in a parliamentary election. Join acclaimed tenor Zach Finkelstein and the EMU House Band for a celebration of Sancho's extraordinary life through his music, writings, and the music of his London contemporaries.

$20

Fulton Street Chamber Players Serve Up a Trout

Monday, January 17, 2028 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PST)
Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, Seattle, WA, United States
Mozart – Piano Quartet in E-flat major, K. 493
Schubert – "Trout" quintet

$10-$20

Seattle Symphony: Shostakovich Concerto Festival I

Wednesday, January 19, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:50pm (PST)
Shostakovich – Piano Concerto No. 1
Shostakovich – Violin Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich – Cello Concerto No. 1

$21-$111

Seattle Phonographers Union & Guests

Wednesday, January 19, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A collective of artists improvising with unprocessed field recordings performs one of their infrequent “ambient” sets.

$5-$15 suggested donation

Music at St. James Cathedral: Organist Ken Cowan in Concert

Thursday, January 20, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
St. James Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
Cowan dazzles through his immaculate technique and dramatic interpretations of orchestral music.

$15

Ladies Musical Club: Grieg, Prokofiev, & Kapustin for piano & cello

Thursday, January 20, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Crossroads Community Center, Bellevue, WA, United States
Grieg – Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 36
Prokofiev – Cello Sonata in C minor, Op. 119
Nikolai Kapustin – Burlesque Op. 97

Free

Russian Music of the 1960s: Brendan Kinsella, piano

Thursday, January 20, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
1960s-era violin sonatas by Edison Denisov, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Alfred Schnittke.

$10-$20

Bremerton Symphony: Winterlude

Thursday, January 20, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
First Lutheran Church Poulsbo, Poulsbo, WA, United States
Selections by Ravel, Chopin, and Stravinsky's iconic Rite of Spring.

$10-$33

Seattle Chamber Music Society: Bach, Corigliano, Brahms

Thursday, January 20, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
J.S. Bach (arr. Dmitri Sitkovetsky) – 15 Sinfonias for String Trio
Corigliano – Sonata for Violin and Piano
Brahms – Quartet for Piano and Strings in C minor, Op. 60

$16-$52

She has wings

Thursday, January 20, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Trinity Lutheran Church, Lynnwood, WA, United States
The Radcliffe Choral Society joins Northwest Girlchoir Amore and the small ensembles of Seattle Pro Musica for a collaborative concert.

$15 (26 & under free)

Seattle Symphony: Shostakovich Concerto Festival II

Thursday, January 20, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:20pm (PST)
Shostakovich – Cello Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich – Piano Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich – Violin Concerto No. 1

$21-$111

Thalia Symphony Orchestra: Mendelssohn's 'Italian' Symphony

Thursday, January 20, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Nielsen – Helios Overture
Villa-Lobos – Bachianas Brasileiras No. 3
Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 4, "Italian"

$20

Universal Language Project: concrete-lines-fluid-curves

Thursday, January 20, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Resonance at SOMA Towers, Bellevue, WA, United States
New chamber works that spin out from themes emerging in poetry and found sounds: life cycles, birth and rebirth, change and becoming, fusion and elision, flow and process, eternal recurrence.

$15-$25

Saratoga Orchestra presents: J.S. Bach, Arnold, Elgar & Shaw

Friday, January 21, 2028 @ 2:30pm – 4:00pm (PST)
Island Church of Whidbey, Langley, WA, United States
J.S. Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Malcolm Arnold – Concerto for Flute
Caroline Shaw – Entr'acte for String Orchestra
Edward Elgar – Serenade for Strings

$25/$20/Free

Seattle Festival Orchestra: Russian Masterworks

Friday, January 21, 2028 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
New Hope Presbyterian Church, Kent, WA, United States
Mussorgsky – Khovanshchina: Introduction, Dawn on the Moskva River
Tchaikovsky – Sleeping Beauty Suite, Op. 66a
Kalinnikov – Symphony No. 1 in G minor

$10-$15

Gallery Concerts presents: The Three Gambists

Friday, January 21, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Queen Anne Christian Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Three of the world’s leading violists da gamba play music of J. S. Bach.

$15-$32

Seattle Chamber Music Society: Mozart, Higdon, Fauré

Friday, January 21, 2028 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Mozart – Duo for Violin and Viol in B-flat major, K. 424
Jennifer Higdon – Piano Trio
Fauré – Quartet for Piano and Strings in C minor, Op. 15

$16-$52