Lecture-concert – Upcoming Concerts
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)
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)