Lecture-concert – Upcoming Concerts
Cornish Pivot Convocation: Sara Schoenbeck
Tuesday, February 5, 2030 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PST)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
A conversation about music and life as a career musician with bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck.
Free
Cornish Pivot Convocation: Kin of the Moon
Thursday, February 21, 2030 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PST)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
A conversation about music and the career of being a musician with Kin of the Moon, an ensemble featuring Cornish faculty members Kaley Lane Eaton (electronics and voice), Heather Bentley (viola), and Leanna Keith (flute).
Free
(Im)migration: Music of Displaced Peoples – Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Honegger, & Clarke
Sunday, March 3, 2030 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Sergei Prokofiev – Flute Sonata in D, Op. 94
Igor Stravinsky – Suite Italienne for cello and piano
Arthur Honegger – Danse de la chèvre, H. 39 for solo flute
Rebecca Clarke – Morpheus for viola and piano
Igor Stravinsky – Suite Italienne for cello and piano
Arthur Honegger – Danse de la chèvre, H. 39 for solo flute
Rebecca Clarke – Morpheus for viola and piano
Free
Cornish Pivot Convocation: Splinter Reeds
Tuesday, March 19, 2030 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
A conversation on music and the career of being a musician with the members of wind quintet Splinter Reeds.
Free
PLU Artist Series: Jeffrey Jacob, piano
Sunday, April 14, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Lagerquist Concert Hall at Pacific Lutheran University, Parkland, WA, United States
A lecture-concert showcasing George Crumb's Makrokosmos Volume II, "Twelve Fantasy Pieces After the Zodiac for Amplified Piano."
Free
DXARTS & Swedish Neuroscience Institute: Music of Today: Performing with the Brain
Friday, April 19, 2030 @ 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
Ladies Musical Club: Northwest Composers Spotlight
Saturday, April 27, 2030 @ 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)
The Neuroscience of a One-Track Mind: A Lecture-Concert
Monday, May 6, 2030 @ 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
UW School of Music: 'The Innocents' w/ John Lane & Allen Otte
Thursday, May 16, 2030 @ 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
Seattle Chamber Music Series Summer Festival Preview: Music from the Heart of Europe – Enescu, Dvořák, & Kodály
Sunday, June 23, 2030 @ 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
Seattle Bach Choir: Beginnings
Sunday, November 24, 2030 @ 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)
University of Washington: Fantasies, Folk, & Fairy Tales
Sunday, December 1, 2030 @ 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)
Harry Partch Ensemble Residency: Informal Recital and Conversation
Wednesday, February 5, 2031 @ 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
Harry Partch Ensemble Residency: The Harry Partch Ensemble in Concert
Saturday, February 8, 2031 @ 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
UW Faculty Lecture-Recital: Bach Cello Suite No. 3
Tuesday, February 11, 2031 @ 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)
SPU Faculty Artist Series: The Legacy of Leopold Godowsky
Friday, February 14, 2031 @ 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)
Jacobsen Series: The Legacy of George Walker
Friday, February 21, 2031 @ 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
UW Faculty Lecture-Recital: Bach Cello Suite No. 2
Tuesday, February 25, 2031 @ 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)
University of Washington: Fantasies, Folk, and Fairy Tales
Saturday, March 1, 2031 @ 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)
Music@Menlo 2021 Festival Chamber Music Institute: The Magic of the Piano Quartet
Saturday, July 24, 2032 @ 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))