Public Concerts
Free Public Concert Series
LMC’s most visible face is its Public Concert Series that offers over 50 free classical music concerts from October through May by LMC member-musicians and guests. The classical music series is presented at a variety of venues throughout the Seattle metro area, including Seattle Art Museum, Frye Art Museum, Seattle Public Library, Central and West Seattle Branches, University House Wallingford, Mirabella, Bellevue’s Crossroads Community Center Theater and the Music Center of the Northwest in North Seattle.
These intimate, one-hour, music programs are free and open to the public. No advance tickets are required. On the day of the performance at the Frye Museum, attendees are asked to obtain a free ticket at the front desk to monitor auditorium seating.
Piano recital
selections TBA by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
selections TBA by Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Minju Kim, piano
Romantic Era music for cello and piano
selections TBA
Erika Pierson, cello
Annie Chang-Center, piano
Please note that seating is limited at the Frye Art Museum. It is still free but guests must have a ticket to enter. Patrons should plan to arrive at least 1/2 hour early to get a ticket. Advance reservations for this event will be available for our concerts at the Frye which can be made via this website or via the Frye website. The house will open to audience at 1:30pm on performance day.
Program:
The Life and Works of Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Transcription of Schumann’s song Widmung (Dedication), S. 566 (1848)
Valentina Rodov, piano
S’il est un charmant gazon (If there’s a lovely grassy plot) S. 284, no. 1 (1884)
“Comment?” disaient ils (“How then?” he asked) S.276, No. 1 (1882)
Es muss ein wunderbares sein (It must be a wonderful thing), S. 314 (1852)
Ya-Li Lee, soprano and Maria Khavin, piano
Sonetto No 123 del Petrarca (Petrarch’s Sonnet, No. 123), S. 161, No. 6 (1846)
Joyce Gibb, piano
Die Lorelei (The Loreley) S. 273 (1854)
Ah, quand je dors (Ah, when I sleep) s. 282 (1849)
Amber Rose Johnson, soprano and TBA, piano
La Lugubre Gondola (The mournful gondola ), S. 134 (1883)
Erika Pierson, cello and Annie Center, piano
Concert Etude No. 2, La Leggierezza (Lightness) S. 144, No. 2 (1849)
Emiko Hori, piano
Eun Hee Cho, flute
Ki-Jung Jun, soprano
Hannah Cho, piano
Irish, Scottish and Canadian folk songs, program TBA
Molly Tomlinson, soprano
Duo for violin and viola, K. 423 by W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
- Allegro
- Adagio
- Rondeau.Allegro
Duo for violin and viola, K. 424 by W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
- Adagio-Allegro
- Andante cantabile
- Tema con variazioni
Candice Chin, violin and TBA, viola
Songs by Renaldo Hahn, Miguel Sandoval, Johannes Brahms, Cole Porter
Catherine Treadgold, mezzo-soprano
Karin McCullough, piano
Trios for three oboes and two oboes, one English horn
Sharon Jung and Bernard Shapiro (guest artist), oboes
Gail Perstein, oboe and English horn
Vocalise Etude en forme de habanera by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
from Arie de Stile Antico (Arias in the old style) by Stefano Donaudy (1879-1925)
Vaghissima sembianza (Very charming image)
No, non mi guardate (No, don’t look at me)
O del mio amato ben perduto incanto! (O lost enchantment of my dearly beloved!)
Amorosi miei giorni (My amorous days)
Ah, mai non cessate (Ah, never cease)
Dormendo stai (You are sleeping)
Villanelle by Eva Dell-acqua(1856-1930)
Ya-Li Lee, soprano
Joan Lundquist, piano
Recorder sonata by Gordon Jacob (1895-1984)
Sabine Endrigkeit, recorder
Please note that seating is limited at the Frye Art Museum. It is still free but guests must have a ticket to enter. Patrons should plan to arrive at least 1/2 hour early to get a ticket. Advance reservations for this event will be available for our concerts at the Frye which can be made via this website or via the Frye website. The house will open to audience at 1:30pm on performance day.
Program:
“A Day of Music”
Art Songs and piano solos taking the listener from morning to evening
Music by Samuel Barber, Amy Beach, Melanie Bonis, John Duke and John Field.
Katie Hochman, soprano, Janet Anderson, piano
“A Day of Music” Art Songs and piano solos taking the listener from morning to evening featuring music by Barber, Beach, Bonis, Duke and Field.
Program TBA
Janet Anderson, piano
Katie Hochman, soprano
This year’s Art of Piano will feature talented member pianists playing their favorite solos on a theme to complement the SAM exhibit:
Claire Partington: Taking Tea
Taking Tea features an installation referencing Baroque painting and European porcelain factories, as well as a panel mounted with fragments from 17th- and 18th-century shipwrecks.
Specific program and artists are TBA.
Songs in English, Russian and Spanish. Program TBA
Susan Strick, soprano
Karin McCullough, piano
Sonatine by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Piano solos TBD by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Maria Khavin, piano