Lecture-concert – Past Concerts
Seattle Symphony: An Evening with Itzhak Perlman
Tuesday, January 18, 2022 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Go behind the music for a special multimedia evening of music & storytelling, as Itzhak Perlman shares anecdotes from his life & career, & performs with his longtime collaborator Rohan De Silva.
Ticket price TBD
Wine Down Mondays: Sandbox Percussion
Monday, November 29, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm (PST)
415 Westlake, Seattle, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Sandbox Percussion gives ECM a behind-the-scenes look at their upcoming performance of Andy Akiho's Seven Pillars.
Free (Free (registration required))
Town Hall Seattle: Gretchen Yanover Scratch Night – Past & present work on cello
Saturday, November 6, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Town Hall Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Seattle cellist/composer Gretchen Yanover shares a collection of her past & present work, sharing the stories behind her work & discussing the meaning we draw from titles associated with otherwise wordless music.
Free (Free (registration required))
Wine Down Mondays: Erika Dohi
Monday, October 25, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
415 Westlake, Seattle, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Multifaceted musician Erika Dohi returns to ECM with a program featuring piano, voice, & synthesizer.
Free (Free (registration required))
Composers Concordance & Austrian Cultural Forum New York: CompCord & Entertaining Science
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Concert combining a short lecture by renowned scientist/facial recognition specialist Christina Pressl, with performances by trumpet soloist Franz Hackl, drummer Jonathan Kane, & the CompCord String Quartet.
Free (Free (RSVP required to attend in person))
Music@Menlo 2021 Festival Chamber Music Institute: The Magic of the Piano Quartet
Saturday, July 24, 2021 @ 8:30am – 10:30am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Join pianist & Young Performers Program Co-Director Hyeyeon Park on a journey through new colors, textures, & sounds — all part of the magic of the piano quartet.
Free (Free (registration required))
University of Washington: Fantasies, Folk, and Fairy Tales
Sunday, March 1, 2020 @ 4:00pm – 5:30pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
UW music students and guests perform works by Tchaikovsky, Ravel, and others, plus a pre-concert lecture by UW Department of Classics faculty member Olga Levaniouk.
Free (Free)
UW Faculty Lecture-Recital: Bach Cello Suite No. 2
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 @ 1:30pm – 2:30pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
UW Faculty cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir presents a lecture-recital on Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008.
Free (Free)
Jacobsen Series: The Legacy of George Walker
Friday, February 21, 2020 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Schneebeck Concert Hall at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, United States
Dr. Gregory Walker joins Puget Sound music faculty and guests for this celebration of music by his father, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Walker.
$20 / 15 / free
SPU Faculty Artist Series: The Legacy of Leopold Godowsky
Friday, February 14, 2020 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
SPU Nickerson Studios, Seattle, WA, United States
Cuban American pianist Antonio Iturrioz presents a lecture-recital on legendary pianist, composer, and pedagogue Leopold Godowsky.
Free (Donations welcome)
UW Faculty Lecture-Recital: Bach Cello Suite No. 3
Tuesday, February 11, 2020 @ 1:30pm – 2:30pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
UW Faculty cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir presents a lecture-recital on Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009.
Free (Free)
Harry Partch Ensemble Residency: The Harry Partch Ensemble in Concert
Saturday, February 8, 2020 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Schneebeck Concert Hall at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, United States
Lovers of art, science, and iconoclastic thinking are warmly invited to this introduction to composer Harry Partch's extraordinary musical instruments.
Free
Harry Partch Ensemble Residency: Informal Recital and Conversation
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 @ 12:00pm – 2:00pm (PST)
Schneebeck Concert Hall at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, United States
Lovers of art, science, and iconoclastic thinking are warmly invited to this introduction to composer Harry Partch's extraordinary musical instruments.
Free
University of Washington: Fantasies, Folk, & Fairy Tales
Sunday, December 1, 2019 @ 4:00pm – 5:30pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
UW music students perform music by Ravel, Schumann, and Ourkouzou, plus a pre-concert lecture by UW French and Italian Studies faculty member Denyse Delcourt, titled: "And the Wolf Ate Her: The Dark Side of Fairy Tales."
Free (Free)
Seattle Bach Choir: Beginnings
Sunday, November 24, 2019 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Trinity Parish Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Selections from Heinrich Schütz's Psalmen Davids frame this program of beginnings.
$20 ($18 seniors / students)
Seattle Chamber Music Series Summer Festival Preview: Music from the Heart of Europe – Enescu, Dvořák, & Kodály
Sunday, June 23, 2019 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Town Hall Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
SCMS and Town Hall present a special preview discussion and performance celebrating the work of Central European composers including Georges Enescu, Antonín Dvořák, and Zoltán Kodály.
$5
UW School of Music: 'The Innocents' w/ John Lane & Allen Otte
Thursday, May 16, 2019 @ 2:30pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
A lecture-concert for a performance art piece that is a response to the well-known Innocents Project, which works to exonerate wrongly convicted individuals and advocates for reforms to the criminal justice system.
Free
The Neuroscience of a One-Track Mind: A Lecture-Concert
Monday, May 6, 2019 @ 6:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Royal Room, Seattle, WA, United States
A scintillating lecture from neuroscientist Chantel Prat, a centuries-spanning solo marimba performance by Erin Jorgensen, and the most adorable cupcake toast this side of the Cascades.
$20-$30
Ladies Musical Club: Northwest Composers Spotlight
Saturday, April 27, 2019 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Music Center of the Northwest, Seattle, WA, United States
Heidi Fivash – Keeping Afloat
Sarah Mattox – Sea Change
Garrett Fisher – March into Spring
Karen P. Thomas – Song of Myself on texts by Walt Whitman
Jeffrey Moidel – Selections from Four Love Sonnets on texts by Pablo Neruda
Matthew James Briggs – Radiant Light
John Muehleisen – Apparitions: Six Nocturnes on poems by Walt Whitman
Alex Shapiro – Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano
Sarah Mattox – Sea Change
Garrett Fisher – March into Spring
Karen P. Thomas – Song of Myself on texts by Walt Whitman
Jeffrey Moidel – Selections from Four Love Sonnets on texts by Pablo Neruda
Matthew James Briggs – Radiant Light
John Muehleisen – Apparitions: Six Nocturnes on poems by Walt Whitman
Alex Shapiro – Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano
Free (Free)
DXARTS & Swedish Neuroscience Institute: Music of Today: Performing with the Brain
Friday, April 19, 2019 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Patients suffering from motor disability improvise with professional musicians in this performance led by composers and a neuroscientist.
Free
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