Celebrate live music in your region with the Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Winter Festival, Northwest Focus Live, and local concerts all on Classical KING! 

 

Northwest Focus Live 

Seattle Opera: Songs of Pride 

Friday, January 30 | 7pm 

Host: Maggie Molloy 

This week on Northwest Focus Live, Seattle Opera presents Songs of Pride, a recital featuring members of the Fellow Travelers cast in a program curated by composer Gregory Spears. Colin Aikins and Joseph Lattanzi perform a wide range of selections from past and present that honor and celebrate the queer and LGBTQIA+ community. The program features works by Smyth, Hahn, Rorem, Tchaikovsky, and Spears. For more information, visit classicalking.org/show/nw-focus-live. 

 

Broadcast Concerts 

Seattle Chamber Music Society Winter Festival 2026: Biber, Mozart, Schubert, Ravel 

Saturday, January 31 | 7:30pm 

Host: Sean MacLean and Michelle Maestas Simonsen 

This program will be broadcast live from the Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, and features string and piano works by Biber, Mozart, Schubert, Ravel. Michelle Maestas Simonsen interviews violist Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt at intermission. Tune in to the SCMS Virtual Concert Hall for behind-the-scenes content at classicalking.org/scms  

 

Seattle Chamber Music Society Winter Festival 2026: Beethoven, Chausson, Dvořák 

Sunday, February 1 | 2pm 

Host: Sean MacLean and Dave Beck 

This program will be broadcast live from the Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, and features string and piano works by Beethoven, Chausson, and Dvorak. Dave Beck interviews pianist Anton Nel at intermission. Tune in to the SCMS Virtual Concert Hall for behind-the-scenes content at classicalking.org/scms 

 

Northwest Focus Concert Calendar 

Music of Remembrance: Art from Ashes – Vedem 

Monday, January 26 | 5:30pm | Nordstrom Recital Hall, Seattle 

Hear Music of Remembrance and the Northwest Boychoir perform Lori Laitman’s Vedem: A Holocaust Oratorio, this Monday in Seattle. 

 

Seattle Philharmonic: Handel’s Water Music 

Saturday, January 31 | 2pm | Benaroya Hall, Seattle 

Handel’s Water music and Ruth Gipps’ First Symphony, this Saturday at Benaroya Hall! 

 

Octava Chamber Orchestra: Brahms Serenade No. 1 

Saturday, January 31 | 7pm | Maple Park Church, Lynnwood 

Chamber music by Brahms and more, this Saturday in Lynnwood! 

 

Washington Wind Symphony: Passports and Postcards 

Sunday, February 1 | 2pm | Roberston Performing Arts Center, Redmond 

Take a trip around the world without leaving Redmond! 

 

The Score with Edmund Stone 

Compose, Direct, Action! 

Saturday, January 31 | 4pm 

This week on The Score Hollywood insider Edmund Stone takes a listen to the unique talents of composers that also direct their own films in Compose, Direct, Action! Enjoy music from the multi-talented Michael Giacchino and Werewolf by Night; Alejandro Amenabar and The Others, Clint Eastwood with Mystic River and more. Next time on The Score. 

 

The Best of Us, Part 2: Cinematic Inspirations 

Sunday, February 1st | 4pm 

t’s Part Two of Edmund Stone’s The Score, “The Best of Us,” an uplifting show featuring some of cinema’s most inspiring characters and stories including Casablanca, Forest Gump, Wonka and more. This week on The Score.   

 

The Metropolitan Opera 

Strauss: Arabella 

Saturday, January 31 | 10am 

The glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna from the Met Opera stage! 

 

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