Classical Music - Orchestra - Traditional Music Events in Tacoma, United States

Featuring vocal sensation Taylor Raven and area youth from Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center, Tacoma Youth Chorus and Tacoma Youth Symphony, this program will inspire and move you. On the first half, Jessie Montgomery uses the stories behind five spirituals to weav ..

Enter a Shakespearean midsummer night's dream through Mendelssohn’s magical incidental music, where elves, fairies and spells have their way with we mere mortals. Puget Sound Revels partners for this performance, bringing the scenes to life with narration, costuming ..

J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations has obsessed performers and audiences for nearly 300 years. Beginning with a simple dance melody, Bach strings out seemingly endless fractals of variation and imagination. A trio of Northwest Sinfonietta musicians performs this brillia ..

Explore one of music's greatest mysteries with Northwest Sinfonietta, the identity of Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved." In a new violin concerto composed by Nancy Ives for NWS Concertmaster Denise Dillenbeck, Ives tells the stories of three women in Beethoven's life, e ..

Award-winning cellist Efe Baltacıgil joins Northwest Sinfonietta for a moving performance of Fazil Say's Cello Concerto Never Give Up, a story of resilience and hope during a time of harrowing terrorist attacks in Europe and Istanbul. Ligeti's Concert Românesc (Roman ..

Join Northwest Sinfonietta for a monster of a double feature this Halloween season. H.K. Gruber's Frankenstein!! features baritone Darren Drone in a hair-raising pan-demonium for chansonnier and small orchestra with toy instruments and creepy children's rhymes. Then ..

Double bassist Xavier Foley joins Northwest Sinfonietta and conductor Jeffery Meyer, performing Bottesini's virtuosic Gran duo concertante with violinist Denise Dillenbeck, and his own powerful composition, For Justice and Peace. Clarice Assad's playful Suite for Low ..

Drawing inspiration from music from all over the world – crossing genres of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop – Thomas Lauderdale founded Pink Martini in 1994 to provide more beautiful and inclusive musical soundtracks for political fundraisers for causes such as ..

SKY AND SEA Northwest Sinfonietta Mei-Ann Chen, conductor Matt Drumm, Mark Goodenberger, Jeff Lund and Bonnie Whiting, solo percussion quartet Marjan Mozetich, Postcards from the Sky Viet Cuong, Re(new)al Debussy (arr. Helder), La Mer Inspired by our beaut ..