Lecture-concert – Upcoming Concerts
Pivot Convocation Series: Paul Taub
Tuesday, March 20, 2029 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Flutist Paul Taub reflects on his 38 years at Cornish in conversation with former faculty member and composer Janice Giteck.
Free
Pivot Convocation Series: Emerald City Music
Thursday, March 22, 2029 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Pivot Convocations are an opportunity to hear a short set by featured alumni or visiting artist. This installment will feature Emerald City Music.
Free
Baltic Centennial: 100 Years of Statehood
Redmond Chorale,
Illumni Men’s Chorale,
Mägi Baltic Ensemble,
Seattle Choral Company,
Ancora,
Columbia Choirs, and
Seattle Girls Choir
Saturday, March 24, 2029 @ 8:00pm – 10:15pm (PDT)
Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA, United States
The finest contemporary choral music today from Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania.
$25 / $20 / $5 (children age 6-10 free)
Paul Roberts Lecture-Recital: 'In the Mind's Eye – The Piano Music of Claude Debussy'
Monday, April 2, 2029 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Pianist Paul Roberts presents a lecture-recital honoring the 100th anniversary of the passing of composer Claude Debussy.
Free
Pivot Convocation Series: Gregg Belisle-Chi
Tuesday, April 10, 2029 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Pivot Convocations are an opportunity to hear a short set by featured alumni or visiting artist. This installment will feature Gregg Belisle-Chi.
Free
Pivot Convocation Series: Adrienne Varner
Thursday, April 19, 2029 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
An opportunity to hear a short set by featured alumni or visiting artist. This installment will feature Adrienne Varner.
Free
Seattle Opera: Community preview of 'Aida'
Sunday, April 29, 2029 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, United States
In Verdi’s famed tragedy, conflicted loyalties spell doom for star-crossed lovers in ancient Egypt...
Free (Free)
Live Music Project 4th Annual Lecture-Concert w/ Mikhail Shmidt & Casey Middaugh
Tuesday, May 1, 2029 @ 6:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Naked City Brewery and Taphouse, Seattle, WA, United States
A violinist and a cyborg walk into a bar... LMP celebrates its 4th birthday with a scintillating lecture, a fantastic musical performance, and the most adorable cupcake toast this side of the Cascades. Come one, come all!
$20-$30
Intersections: Music, Words, & Pictures – Lecture with Ronald Moore
Sunday, May 6, 2029 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Liszt – "Vallée d'Obermann" from Années de pèlerinage
Prokofiev – Scenes from Romeo and Juliet
Prokofiev – Scenes from Romeo and Juliet
Free
Abra-KEY-dabra: Rachmaninoff's Piano Magic
Sunday, May 20, 2029 @ 5:00pm – 6:30pm (PDT)
Icicle Creek Center for the Arts – Snowy Owl Theater, Leavenworth, WA, United States
Performance and lecture/demonstration of Rachmaninoff's 24 Paganini Variations by Adult Piano Retreat faculty Lisa Bergman and Jerry Borshard, Duo Pianists.
$22 (Students $12, Youth 12 & under are free)
Seattle Bach Choir presents: Abide With Us
Sunday, June 3, 2029 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Trinity Parish Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Frank Martin – Mass for Double Choir
Thomas Tallis – If Ye Love Me
Anton Bruckner – Locus Iste
Josef Rheinberger – Abendlied
Rosephayne Powell – Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Ola Gjeilo – Ubi Caritas
Shawn Kirchner – Unclouded Day
Thomas Tallis – If Ye Love Me
Anton Bruckner – Locus Iste
Josef Rheinberger – Abendlied
Rosephayne Powell – Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Ola Gjeilo – Ubi Caritas
Shawn Kirchner – Unclouded Day
$20 ($18 senior/student)
New Music on the Rock: Earth Music – Raising Our Elemental Awareness
Saturday, June 23, 2029 @ 4:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Venue unknown, WA, United States
Two concerts and a composers' forum, featuring works by Spencer Arias, Sarah Bassingthwaite, Janice Giteck, Jerry Mader, Jacob Mashak, Nicholas Toombs, and Angelique Poteat.
$20-$35
Philharmonia Northwest: 2018-2019 Season Launch Party
Sunday, September 16, 2029 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Private home in Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Hear music from around the world, plus composer Sarah Bassingthwaighte talks about what inspired a recent work.
Free (Free (RSVP required))
Pivot Convocation: Amijai Shalev
Tuesday, September 25, 2029 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Bandoneon player Amijai Shalev joins the Cornish Music Department for a conversation about life as a musician.
Free
Cornish Pivot Convocation: Ryan Lewis & Josh Rawlings
Thursday, October 11, 2029 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Producer Ryan Lewis and pianist and composer Josh Rawlings join the Cornish Music Department for a conversation about life as a musician, the tension between art music and pop music, and arts entrepreneurialism.
Free
Cornish Pivot Convocation: Fay Victor
Thursday, October 18, 2029 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Vocalist, composer, and lyricist Fay Victor joins the Cornish Music Department for a conversation about life as a musician.
Free
UW Lecture Recital: Creativity in Hard Times & The Federal Music Project of the 1930s
Thursday, November 1, 2029 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
A multi-media piano recital telling the story of President Roosevelt's Arts Initiative, including music by William Grant Still, Ernest Bloch, Henry Cowell, Roger Sessions, Ruth Crawford, and Aaron Copland.
Free
Seattle Bach Choir presents ARMISTICE: Music of the 100th Anniversary of the End of World War I
Sunday, November 11, 2029 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Trinity Parish Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Music for choir and instruments in honor of the 100th Anniversary of the signing of the treaty that ended the most significant war the world had ever known.
$20 ($18 senior/student, FREE for veterans/military/first responders)
Gallery Concerts: Notes from the Margin
Saturday, January 12, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Queen Anne Christian Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Celebrating diversity in classical music with works by women and people of color including de St. Georges, Sancho, Ortega, and Mendelssohn-Hensel.
$35 / $30 / $15 (kids age 7-15 FREE)
Gallery Concerts: Notes from the Margin
Sunday, January 13, 2030 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Queen Anne Christian Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Celebrating diversity in classical music with works by women and people of color including de St. Georges, Sancho, Ortega, and Mendelssohn-Hensel.
$35 / $30 / $15 (kids age 7-15 FREE)