Contemporary (1945+) – Upcoming Concerts near Seattle, WA

Featuring pianist/composer/songwriter Samora Pinderhughes and The Westerlies.

Full festival schedule at www.westerliesfest.org.

Program includes works by Clara Schumann, Cécile Chaminade, Amy Beach, Vartan Aghababian, Rebecca Clarke, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Nancy Bachmann.

Reena Esmail — Malhaar: A Requiem for Water (Pacific Northwest premiere)

Daniel Barry — Beneath the Heavens (world premiere)
Gustav Holst — The Planets, Op. 32

Program includes works by Jessica French, Morten Lauridsen, Karen P. Thomas, Jacob Malpocker, Abraham Kaplan, John Michael Paulson, John Muehleisen, Sascha Beamer, Calvin Rice, Bern Herbolsheimer, Claudio Monteverdi, Reginald Unterseher, and Joan Szymko.

The Westerlies return to The Royal Room on May 11 for the closing night of Westerlies Fest 2024, featuring two sets of music premiering new…

Program includes works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jean Sibelius, Reinhold Glière, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Jason Robert Brown, Francis Poulenc, and Antonín Dvořák.

Reena Esmail — Malhaar: A Requiem for Water (Pacific Northwest premiere)

Program includes works by Clara Schumann, Cécile Chaminade, Amy Beach, Vartan Aghababian, Rebecca Clarke, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Nancy Bachmann.

Igor Stravinsky — The Firebird Suite
Jessie Montgomery — Soul Force
William Walton — Viola Concerto ("I. Andante comodo" & "II. Scherzo and trio"; Bryce Burgess, viola)

Spite House is a DIY venue in a very small live/work studio captured by an arm of Capitol Hill's runaway gentrification. It is also a room …

Daniel Peterson — Vanishing Portals (Part 1)
Laura Luna Castillo / Ashley Menestrina / Daniel Peterson / Ewa Trębacz — Recontre 1
Laura Luna Castillo / Carolina Marín / Ashley Menestrina — Enclavados Todos Juntos ("Enfolded all together")
Laura Luna Castillo / Carolina Marín / Ashley Menestrina / Daniel Peterson / Ewa Trębacz — Recontre 2
Daniel Peterson — Vanishing Portals (Part 2)

Unsuk Chin — subito con forza
Samuel Barber — Violin Concerto, Op. 14 (James Ehnes, violin)
Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21

Unsuk Chin — subito con forza
Samuel Barber — Violin Concerto, Op. 14 (James Ehnes, violin)
Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — String Quartet No. 14 in G major K. 387 "Spring"
Antonio Vivaldi — Violin Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269 "La primavera" ("Spring" from The Four Seasons)
Astor Piazzolla — "III. Primavera Porteña" from Las cuatro estaciones porteñas ("The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires")

Antonín Dvořák — Songs My Mother Taught Me, B. 104, Op. 55, No. 4
Clara Schumann — Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22
Amy Beach — Three Songs, Op. 2
Anna Clyne — Within Her Arms
Johannes Brahms — Wiegenlied, Op. 49, No. 4

Yifeng Yvonne Yuan — Ephemeral Bloom
Edward Elgar — Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
Johannes Brahms — Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90

Program includes works by Joseph Curiale, Leroy Anderson, Brian Balmages, James Curnow, William Latham, Robert W. Smith, Julie Giroux, Clifton Williams, Randall Standridge, Patrick Doyle, and Sean O'Loughlin.

Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastorale"
Cindy McTee — Circuits
Nicholas Sassé — 80 x 35 x 20

Leonard Bernstein — Selected works
Henry Thacker "Harry" Burleigh — Selected works
The Beatles — Selected works