First Lutheran Church of Tacoma: Listen Live at Lunch – Chamber Music

Wednesday, August 14, 2030 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
First Lutheran Church Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, United States
Gian Carlo Menotti – Trio for violin, clarinet, and piano
Darius Milhaud – Suite for violin, clarinet, and piano, Op. 157b
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Trio in E-flat major, K. 498 "Kegelstatt"

Free

Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival: Dedication for Martin Friedmann

Wednesday, August 14, 2030 @ 5:30pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Orcas Center, Eastsound, WA, United States
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartet No. 17 in B-flat major, K. 458 "The Hunt"
Kevin Puts – Arcana for solo cello and string quintet
Franz Schubert – "Andante con moto" from String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, "Death and the Maiden"
Clara Schumann – Scherzo No. 2 in C minor, Op. 14 for solo piano
Johannes Brahms – Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

$35 ($10 ages 18 & under)

Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival: World Premiere Finale on Lopez Island

Thursday, August 15, 2030 @ 5:30pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, Lopez Island, WA, United States
Hugo Wolf – Italian Serenade
TBA – Selected works for guitar and violin
Kevin Puts – New work for string quartet (world premiere)
Kevin Puts – Air for violin and piano
Ernest Chausson – Concerto in D major, Op. 21 for violin, piano, and string quartet

$40 ($10 ages 18 & under)

Sammamish Symphony: Summer Pops Concert

Thursday, August 15, 2030 @ 6:30pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Pine Lake Park, Sammamish, WA, United States
Bring the whole family and enjoy an outdoor picnic at Pine Lake Park as the Sammamish Symphony presents the first of their two free summer concerts in August.

Free

Third Fridays at Noon: Samuel Libra, organist

Friday, August 16, 2030 @ 12:10pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
Christ Episcopal Church Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, United States
Samuel Libra plays music by Johannes Brahms, Jean-François Dandrieu, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, and Ethel Smyth on the renowned Brombaugh pipe organ.

Donation

Music at St. James Cathedral Summer Organ Concerts w/ Gregory Peterson

Friday, August 16, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
St. James Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
A recital from the classic organ repertoire with music by Johann Sebastian Bach, César Franck, Herbert Howells, Johann Gottfried Walther, Claude Debussy, Gerald Near, and Craig Phillips.

$18

Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival: World Premiere Finale

Friday, August 16, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Orcas Center, Eastsound, WA, United States
Hugo Wolf – Italian Serenade
TBA – Selected works for guitar and violin
Kevin Puts – New work for string quartet (world premiere)
Kevin Puts – Air for violin and piano
Ernest Chausson – Concerto in D major, Op. 21 for violin, piano, and string quartet

$35 ($10 ages 18 & under)

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)

Symphony for Climate Change

Saturday, August 17, 2030 @ 4:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Christophe Chagnard's Terra Nostra ("Our Earth") – an acclaimed multimedia symphonic creation featuring music, film, and poetry about climate change – is featured as part of a community event to address climate change.

Free (Free)

Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival: World Premiere Finale

Saturday, August 17, 2030 @ 5:30pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Orcas Center, Eastsound, WA, United States
Hugo Wolf – Italian Serenade
TBA – Selected works for guitar and violin
Kevin Puts – New work for string quartet (world premiere)
Kevin Puts – Air for violin and piano
Ernest Chausson – Concerto in D major, Op. 21 for violin, piano, and string quartet

$40 ($10 ages 18 & under)

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)

Professor Gadget Sax Quintet at the Ballard Locks

Sunday, August 18, 2030 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Hiram Chittenden Locks (Ballard Locks), Seattle, WA, United States
Join the Professor Gadget Sax Quintet for a free outdoor concert at the Ballard Locks.

Free

Compline Choir: The Office of Compline

Sunday, August 18, 2030 @ 9:30pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
Every Sunday evening at 9:30 p.m. in the Cathedral's nave, the all-male Compline Choir leads this formal choral service that is a Seattle tradition.

Free

Listen Live at Lunch: Duo Soprello

Wednesday, August 21, 2030 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
First Lutheran Church Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, United States
A program of original music and transcriptions including arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gaetano Donizetti, selections from cello sonatas by Gabriel Fauré and Dmitri Shostakovich, and more.

Free (Free)

Beetle Box at Substation

Wednesday, August 21, 2030 @ 8:30pm – 10:30pm (PDT)
Substation, Seattle, WA, United States
Beetle Box is an experimental composer, keyboardist, and solo artist who creates original, piano-centered electronic music for live performance.

$10

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)

Opera On Tap: Under the Stars

Thursday, August 22, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Chophouse Row, Seattle, WA, United States
Seattle’s original opera in a new outdoor location – local, grassroots, and very fun.

$5-$15 suggested donation

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