Second Inversion and the Live Music Project create a monthly calendar featuring contemporary classical, cross-genre, and experimental performances in Seattle, the Eastside, Tacoma, and places in between!
Keep an eye out for our this flyer in concert programs and coffee shops around town. Feel free to download, print, and distribute it yourself! If you’d like to be included on this list, submit your event to the Live Music Project at least 6 weeks prior to the event and be sure to tag it with “new music.”
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Racer Sessions
A weekly showcase of original music with a jam session based on the concepts in the opening presentation.
Every Sunday, 8-10pm, Cafe Racer | FREE
Wayward Music Series
Concerts of contemporary composition, free improvisation, electronic/electroacoustic music, & more.
Various days, 7:30/8pm, Good Shepherd Chapel | $5-$15
waywardmusic.org (check website for complete listings)
Northwest Sinfonietta: Art for Art’s Sake
This multidisciplinary program features collaborations with Museum of Glass, Dale Chihuly, and Spectrum Dance Theater and a world premiere by Heather Bentley.
Fri, 3/31, 7:30pm, Nordstrom Recital Hall | $21.50-$36.50
Sat, 4/1, 7:30pm, Rialto Theatre, Tacoma | $15-$25
Sun, 4/2, 2pm, Pioneer Park Pavilion, Puyallup | $37
Seattle Collaborative Orchestra: Higdon’s Violin Concerto
SCO presents a feast of new music, including a world premiere by Andy Clausen and Jennifer Higdon’s violin concerto performed by Maria Larionoff.
Tues, 4/4, 7:30pm, Roosevelt High School Auditorium | $10-$20 (students under 18 FREE)
The Esoterics: Intimas: Cultivating community
The Esoterics will present three works on the theme of intimacy by Christopher Theofanidis, Aaron Jay Kernis, and Eric Banks.
Fri, 4/7, 8pm, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church | $15-$22
Sat, 4/8, 8pm, Holy Rosary Catholic Church | $15-$22
Sun, 4/9, 7pm, Christ Episcopal Church, Tacoma | $15-$22
Coming Together
Bohemia meets punk rock in a night of music for realists and idealists featuring works by Louis Andriessen, James Tenney, and Frederic Rzewski.
Sat, 4/8, 8pm, On the Boards | $20
NOCCO: The Silken Ladder
New meets old on this program featuring Rossini & Haydn alongside a world premiere by NOCCO’s principal clarinetist and composer, Sean Osborn.
Sat, 4/8, 2pm, University Christian Church | $15-$25 (under 18 FREE)
Sun, 4/9, 7:30pm, Royal Room | $15-$25 (under 18 FREE)
Live Music Project: The Astronaut, the Electric Theorbo, and the Plan that Wasn’t
Aaron Grad takes the stage with six beers, fourteen strings, and no idea what he’s going to play. Taste along with Aaron as each Naked City brew launches a fresh improvisation on his trusty electric theorbo, an instrument he designed and built himself (with inspiration from an oversized lute).
Tues, 4/11, 6:30pm, Naked City Brewery | $15
Emerald City Music: Without Words
The best of opera, without words. This program features music composed for and inspired by operatic masterworks from Mozart to David Schiff.
Fri, 4/14, 8pm, MadArt Gallery | $45
Sat, 4/15, 7:30pm, Washington PAC, Olympia | $10-$43
Inverted Space: Jeff Bowen
Inverted Space presents a newly composed Long Piece by Inverted Space co-director Jeff Bowen.
Sat, 4/15, 8pm, Good Shepherd Chapel | $5-$15
Seattle Rock Orchestra Quintet feat. Tamara Power-Drutis
The SRO Quintet and Tamara Power-Drutis transform popular song into art song, performing a program that reimagines both classic and modern songs. Presented by KING FM/Second Inversion.
Sat, 4/15, Resonance at SOMA Towers, Bellevue | $20
Live @ Benaroya Hall: Jóhann Jóhansson & ACME
Joined by the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, this program by Jóhann Jóhansson explores and unifies natural acoustic sounds and electronics.
Thurs, 4/20, 7:30pm, Nordstrom Recital Hall | $30-40
Seattle Symphony: [untitled] 3
Enter the twisted worlds of two of America’s most confounding cultural icons. The ironic wisdom of Andy Warhol meets the wild, whirling personality of Thelonious Monk.
Fri, 4/28, 10pm, Benaroya Hall | $16