Recent Posts in Concerts

"Passionate and Fascinating": Schumann's Fourth

Mar 16, 2025

In this video, music director, Adam Stern, takes a deeper look at the music we are presenting at our upcoming concert, March 29, 2025 at 2:00 pm at Benaroya Hall.

A Ruth Gipps Premiere

Apr 24, 2021

One of the hallmarks of the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra is to perform pieces by composers that, for various reasons, never got the platform they deserved. Such is the case of Ruth Gipps. The Seattle Philharmonic performed the U.S. Premiere of her second symphony on March 31, 2018. The following excerpt is from the program notes […]

"Serene Cheer and Warm Sunshine": Brahms' Second

Mar 1, 2021

The Philharmonic presents the third U.S. premiere of the season: Pyramid, a stirring tone poem by Sweden-based American composer Molly Kien (“a major new voice” — Fanfare Magazine). The winner of the Philharmonic’s 2019 Don Bushell Competition, the radiant soprano Allison Pohl, will be heard in a selection of lieder by Richard Strauss. Closing the […]