Music Events Calendar

JANUARY

Jan 29 – As part of the 20th Anniversary Littlefield Organ Series, majors present “Organ and Dance.”   Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall, UW.   3 pm.

Jan 29 – REVISED: The Brass Reflection performs.   Edmonds United Methodist Church.  3 pm.

Jan 30 – RESCEDULED:   Concert Spirituel’s Salish Sea Early Music Festival opens with “The Sun King’s Music.”   Christ Episcopal Church, Tacoma.  7:30 pm.

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FEBRUARY

Feb 4 – The Federal Way Symphony presents “Mother Goose Goes to the Symphony.”   St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Federal Way.  10 am and 11:30 am.
 
Feb 4 – Youth Music Festival.  Nearly 200 young singers present a concert to conclude the day’s music workshop. St. James Cathedral.  1 pm.

Feb 4 – Classical saxophonist Gary Louie performs with Kristen Taylor, pianist, in a program of works by Weigl, Decruck, Britten and Albright, two of them transcribed for saxophone by Louie. The Abbey Church, St. Martin’s Abbey and University, 8 pm.

Feb 8 & 14 – “A Renaissance Broken Concert,” referring to instruments of different families, is set Feb. 8 at Grace Lutheran Church, Tacoma, and Feb 14 at Christ Episcopal Church, Seattle, both at 7:30 pm.   Part of the Salish Sea Early Music Festival.  For other performances: www.scn.org/concert spirituel/

Feb 9,10,11,12 –How long since you’ve seen “The Pirates of Penzance”?     UPS Opera Theater presents four performances of the Gilbert and Sullivan work.  http.tickets.pugetsound.edu  

Feb 10 – 12 – Christophe Chagnard conducts scenes from Puccini operas.   Presented in Seattle, Tacoma and Puyallup.  www.northwestsinfonietta.org

Feb 11 – Natalya Ageyeva, Duane Hulbert and Jane Harty perform in Debussy Anniversary I:  The Piano Years,” presented by Music Northwest.  Olympic Recital Hall, SSCC.  7:30 pm.

Feb 12 – Brenda Portman, winner of the Royal Bank International Organ Competition in London who earned her master’s degree studying with Douglas Cleveland at Northwestern University, is featured in recital.   Plymouth Congregational Church.  2 pm.

Feb 17 – Joseph Pettit performs organ chorales of F.W. Markoll in this Third Friday event.   Christ Episcopal Church, Tacoma.  Noon.

Feb 17 – The Finisterra Piano Trio (Tanya Stambuk, piano; Brittany Boulding, violin; Kevin Krentz, cello) performs “Music From the Czech Republickia.”  UPS Schneebeck Concert Hall.  7:30 pm.

Feb 17 – Cathedral organist Joseph Adam performs a program of chant-based works, also featuring the Peregrine Chant Ensemble.   St. James Cathedral.  8 pm.
  
Feb 19 – Robert McCaffrey-Lent, the parish music director, performs classical guitar music as solo as well as in combination with violin, cello, flute, recorder and organ.  St. Joseph Parish, Capitol Hill.  2 pm.

Feb 18 & 19 – The Auburn Symphony presents romantic works by Berlioz, Liszt and Chausson.   Auburn Performing Arts Center.  Feb. 18 and 7:30 pm; Feb 19 at 2:30 pm.

Feb 24 – Joseph Adam performs works by Frank, deGringy, Mendelssohn and Widor.   Kilworth Memorial Chapel, UPS.   Noon.

Feb 26 – The Stanford University Organist, Robert Huw Morgan, plays works of well-known Baroque and Renaissance composers.  Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall, UW.   3 pm.

Feb 26 – Delbert Disielhorst, professor emeritus of the University of Iowa, presents an all-Bach recital on the Pasi organ.   Trinity Lutheran Church, Lynnwood.  7 pm.

Feb 28 – Renowned jazz trombonist Wycliffe Gordon is guest artist wth the UPS Jazz Band.   Schneebeck Concert Hall, UPS.   7:30 pm.

Feb 29 & Mar 3 –Jan Weinhold from Germany, harpsichord, and Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute, perform music from the Bach family.  Feb 29 at Christ Episcopal Church, Tacoma, and Mar 03 at Christ Episcopal Church, Seattle, both at 7:30 pm.   Part of Concert Spirituel’s Salish Sea Early Music Festival.    Check website for other performances.

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MARCH

Mar 2, 3, 4 – The Esoterics presents a program themed “Answering the ancient call of the elements,” featuring Mason Bates’ “Sirens.”   Mar 02, First Lutheran Church of Richmond Beach, 8 pm; Mar 03, First Congregational Church, Bellevue, 8 pm; Mar 04, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Olympia, 3 pm.    (See also Mar 10 & 11 listing for Capitol Hill and West Seattle.)

Mar 4 – Jack Mitchener of Oberlin is the recitalist on the Fritts organ.  Grace Lutheran Church, Tacoma.  3 pm.

Mar 5 – Douglas Cleveland plays Mendelssohn’s Sonata No. 3 and works by Vivaldi/Bach, Saint-Saens, Decker, Vierne, Mulet and Guilmant on the organ at Benaroya Hall.   7:30 pm.

Mar 9 – Christophe Mantoux of Paris performs on the Flentrop organ.  Saint Mark’s Cathedral, 7:30 pm.”

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Mar 10 – Anna Polonsky, who was described by The New York Times as playing “with sweep, color and authority,” is featured in a solo piano recital.    The Abbey Church, St. Martin’s Abbey and University, 8 pm.

Mar 10 & 11 – Seattle Pro Musica presents Bach’s “St. John Passion.”  St. James Cathedral.  8 pm both nights.

Mar 10 & 11 – The Esoterics presents a program themed “Answering the ancient call of the elements,” featuring Mason Bates’ “Sirens.”  Mar 10, St. Joseph Parish, Capitol Hill, 8 pm; Mar 11, Holy Rosary Church, West Seattle, 2 pm.

Mar 11 – Ann Marie Rigler, recitalist and scholar, performs on the Fritts organ.  Lagerquist Hall, PLU.  3 pm.

Mar 11 – Master Chorus Eastside presents “Erin Go Bragh,” music of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.  Kirkland Performance Center.  3 pm.

Mar 12 – The annual Young Organists Recital is co-sponsored by the Seattle Chapter, American Guild of Organists.   St. James Cathedral.  7:30 pm.

Mar 14 – Renowned Seattle composer John Muehleisen’s Pieta is given its premiere by Choral Arts.  Saint Mark’s Cathedral.  8:00 pm; discussion at 7:15.

Mar 16 – Thatcher Lyman, an Eastman School organ major, performs with Zachary Lyman, trumpet professor at PLU.   Christ Episcopal Church, Tacoma.   Noon

Mar 16 – 18 – Marie Rossano is the featured artist for the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in the Northwest Sinfonietta concert.   Presented in Seattle, Tacoma and Puyallup.   www.northwestsinfonietta.org

Mar 18 – A Lenten Choral Evensong is scheduled at Christ Episcopal Church, Tacoma.   5 pm.

Mar 18 & 24 – The Northwest Chamber Chorus presents “Americana: Folk Songs, Hymns and Spirituals.”  Mar 18, Green Lake United Methodist Church, 3 pm.   Mar 24, Phinney Ridge Lutheran, 7:30 pm.

Mar 24 – The Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble presents “From Captivity to the Holy City.”   St. James Cathedral, 8 pm.

Mar 25 – This Organ Plus program features Roger Sherman, organ, and Steve Alboucq, trumpet.   Thomsen Chapel, Saint Mark’s Cathedral.  2 pm.

Mar 30 – Soprano Madeline Bersamina and John Stuntebeck, organist, perform Boccherini’s Stabat Mater in the context of the Stations of the Cross devotion.   St. Joseph Parish, Seattle.  7 pm.

Mar 31 – The Most Rev. J. Peter Sartain, Archbishop of Seattle, gives the Abbott Desmond Lecture, entitled “The Sacred Liturgy and the New Evangelization,” part of the Abbey Church Events series.   St. Martin’s Abbey and University campus.   2 pm.

Mar 31 – Music Northwest’s second concert in its Debussy Anniversary series features chamber music.  Olympic Recital Hall, SSCC.  7:30 pm.

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