Seattle-based composer Samuel Adams boasts an impressive international profile. He has been commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Chicago Symphony and many more. The season’s first Octave 9 Series program features some of Adams’ recent close collaborations: pianist Conor Hanick performs his new Etudes, and percussionist Mari Yoshinaga joins a quartet of our orchestra musicians for the U.S. premiere and Seattle Symphony co-commission Devotions, integrating electronics with percussion and strings in a concert exploring architectural and resonant multi-movement forms.
You can immerse yourself in more of Samuel Adams’ work over on the Benaroya Hall mainstage the following week. His new piano concerto commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony, No Such Spring, will be performed by the Seattle Symphony on October 22 & 24 in the Symphonic Series.
Celebrate the centenary of renowned Hungarian composer György Kurtág with this kaleidoscopic program of music and film. Kurtág’s setting of naturalist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg’s aphorisms weaves together 22 unique musical worlds exploring themes of nature, religion and colonialism, all brought to life with the world premiere of an accompanying animated film by composer and animator Lembit Beecher. Additional works trace Kurtág’s influences and impact.
After his father’s unexpected death, pianist Adam Tendler used his inheritance — an envelope full of cash received in a parking lot — to commission new piano works from some of today's most recognized composers, exploring the theme of ‘inheritance’ itself. Woven into one program, these “little masterpieces” (The New York Times) tell a universal story of lineage and loss, and the complexities of confronting the past while facing the future. According to the Times, “You will be moved, profoundly and intensely.” Tendler is known as one of contemporary classical music’s most adventurous pianists. A pioneer of DIY culture in classical music, Tendler performed solo recitals in all 50 states as part of a grassroots tour, the subject of his acclaimed memoir, 88x50. He has since received Lincoln Center’s Emerging Artist Award, the Yvar Mikhashoff Prize, and appeared as a soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra and New Jersey Symphony, as well as on the mainstages of Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, the Barbican Centre, Sydney Opera House, BAM, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Milan Fashion Week and other leading series and stages worldwide.
The Olympic Peninsula’s Elwha River is the ancestral home of the Lower Elwha Klallam people and of five species of salmon, all of whom were abruptly dispossessed in 1910 when two dams were built without fish ladders. These dams cut the salmon off from 90 percent of their habitat, drove the tribe off their land and, through ensuing legislation, made it illegal for them to maintain their fishing rights — and with them, the tribe’s core sustenance and vital integral spiritual connection to the river. From 2011–2014, both dams were removed, leading to astounding environmental recovery and a sense of hope in our region and beyond. These dam removals have turned out to be models driving similar removals, not only here but in other countries. Composer Annea Lockwood and flutist Claire Chase immersed themselves in the Elwha River habitat and history to create a portrait of a resilient ecosystem and a resilient people.
Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist working with voice, live electronics, sampled sound and video. A pioneer of live looping, her performances combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, digital processing and custom-designed instruments that allow her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. She has toured throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan. Her work has been presented at venues and exhibitions including Bang on a Can (NY), the Japan Interlink Festival, Other Minds (SF), MoMA (NY), the Venice Biennale and Dakar Biennale. She has composed scores for dance, film and chamber ensembles (including Kronos Quartet and Eighth Blackbird). Her awards include the Rome Prize, Berlin Prize, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, MIT McDermott Award, the Guggenheim and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She will present a program of her own compositions specially curated for Octave 9.
Harpist and composer Brandee Younger continues to revolutionize the harp’s place in modern music, uniting spiritual jazz and classical grounding with the soulful pulse of R&B and hip hop. The first Black woman ever nominated for a GRAMMY for Best Instrumental Composition, she expands her sonic world with electronic textures, extended techniques and an Afrofuturist palette. This program features new experimental video and still imagery by bassist and collaborator Rashaan Carter alongside visuals created by renowned designer Marissa Wilson for Younger’s latest work, Gadabout Season, first premiered at SFJAZZ in March 2025.
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