Upcoming Concerts & Events

Past Events

• May 31, 2025 - "Musical Migration: Celebrating 200 years of Norwegian immigration to the US" @ Horizon House, Seattle

• May 26, 2025 - Performance with Seattle Opera's Veterans Choir @ NW Folklife Festival, Seattle

• May 19, 2025 - "Musical Migration: Celebrating 200 years of Norwegian immigration to the US" @ Vesterdalen Lodge, Sons of Norway, Auburn, WA

• May 17, 2025 - Performance with Seattle Mannskor for Ballard's 17th of Mai Festivities, Seattle

• May 15, 2025 - Performance with Seattle Opera's Veterans Choir, Lynnwood, WA

• May 9, 2025 - "Musical Migration: Celebrating 200 years of Norwegian immigration to the US" @ Skyline Retirement Community, Seattle

• May 4, 2025 - "Musical Migration: Celebrating 200 years of Norwegian immigration to the US" @ Lakewold Gardens, Lakewood, WA

• May 2, 2025 - "Musical Migration" on 98.1 Classical KING FM's Northwest Focus Live 

• April 27, 2025 - "Musical Migration: Celebrating 200 years of Norwegian immigration to the US" @ Ballard First Lutheran, Seattle, WA

• March/April 2025 - Pianist for Seattle Opera's touring production of "Earth to Kenzie" (32 shows), Seattle/Tacoma/Everett/Yakima/Quincy, WA

• March 30, 2025 - "Musical Migration: Celebrating 200 years of Norwegian immigration to the US" @ Vinland Lutheran Church, Poulsbo, WA

• March 29, 2025 - "Musical Migration: Celebrating 200 years of Norwegian immigration to the US" @ Cascadia Art Museum, Edmonds, WA

• March 22, 2025 - "Musical Migration: Celebrating 200 years of Norwegian immigration to the US" @ Jacklin Arts Center, Post Falls, ID

• March 15, 2025 - "Musical Migration: Celebrating 200 years of Norwegian immigration to the US" @ Nordic Hall, Coupeville, WA

• February 27, 2025 - "Recital: The Music of Steven Luksan" - The Ladies Musical Club of Seattle, Tagney Jones Hall @ Seattle Opera Center, Seattle

• February 15, 2025 - "Lines for Valentines" - Recital with Virginia Elizondo (soprano), Art Center at Buxton's, Anacortes, WA

• February 14, 2025 - Performance with the Seattle Opera School Opera Tour cast on Classical KING FM's NW Focus Live, Seattle

• February 14, 2025 - "An Afternoon in Britain" - Recital with Nerys Jones (mezzo soprano) at Skyline Retirement Community, Seattle

• February 1, 2025 - "Music by Melartin" - Recital with Laura Loge (soprano) celebrating Erkki Melartin's 150th Birthday Jubilee, Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• January 19, 2025 - Performance of Luksan's compositions and transcriptions at the Organ Plus series by Laura Loge (soprano) and John Stuntebeck (organ), St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle

• January 12, 2025 - "An Afternoon in Britain" - Recital with Nerys Jones (mezzo soprano) at the Nordic Chamber Music Series, Ballard First Lutheran, Seattle

• January 4, 2025 - Performance with the Norwegian Male Chorus of Everett and the Seattle Mannskor, Normanna Hall, Everett, WA

• January 2, 2025 - An afternoon of Musical Theater Favorites with Clarice Alfonso (soprano), Mirabella, Seattle

• December 21, 2024 - Recital with Clarice Alfonso (soprano) and Chad DeMaris (tenor), Horizon House, Seattle

• December 15, 2024 - Julekonsert: Performance with the Seattle Mannskor (Norwegian Male Chorus of Seattle), Ballard, Seattle

• December 14, 2024 - Jul Banquet: Laura Loge and Steven Luksan perform "Musical Migration" program for Scandinavian Cultural Center, PLU, Tacoma

• December 7, 2024 - Seattle Opera "Community Serenade" (with Myah Rose Padden, mezzo-soprano), Black & Tan Hall, Seattle

• December 6, 2024 - Seattle Opera "Community Serenade" (with Mariana Sandoval, mezzo-soprano), Casa Latina, Seattle 

• November 24, 2024 - UW Premiere of Luksan's "Three Dances for Saxophone Quartet" (Soren Hamm, Fred Winkler, Erik Steighner, & Evan Smith, saxophones). Nordic Chamber Music Series, Seattle

• November 23, 2024 - Recital of original piano compositions. Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• November 22, 2024 - Recital of original piano compositions. Music Center of the NW, Seattle

• October 27, 2024 - Performance of Steven's composition "Norwegian Rhapsody" by Luke Fitzpatrick (violin), Erin Wight (viola), and Michelle Huang (piano), Tacoma, WA.

• October 25, 2024 - Performance of Steven's composition "Norwegian Rhapsody" by Luke Fitzpatrick (violin), Erin Wight (viola), and Michelle Huang (piano), Poulsbo, WA.

• October 25, 2024 - Lecture: "Leif Erikson in Seattle: Gerard Tonning and Norwegian Opera in the New World".  A presentation of Steven's original research to UW Music History students, University of Washington, Seattle

• October 19, 2024 - Performance of Steven's composition "Norwegian Rhapsody" by Luke Fitzpatrick (violin), Erin Wight (viola), and Michelle Huang (piano).  Shoreline, WA.

• October 18, 2024 - Masquerade Gala (with Clarice Alfonso, soprano, and Chad DeMaris, tenor) - ARC Dance, Seattle

• September 21, 2024 - Performer in selections from Griffin Candey's "Sweets by Kate" with Lowbrow Opera Collective, Tagney Jones Hall, Seattle Opera

• September 21, 2024 - Recital with Seattle Opera's Teen Vocal Studio, Tagney Jones Hall, Seattle Opera

• September 14, 2024 - Art Gallery Recital (with Nerys Jones, mezzo-soprano, and Charles Robert Stephens, baritone), Gray Sky Gallery, Seattle

• September 13, 2024 -  Luksan's opera "Valparaiso", Women's Universtiy Club, Seattle

• September 8, 2024 - Seattle Opera Community Serenade (with Ibidunni Ojikutu, soprano), Seattle Arts and Culture Week Kickoff Event, Seattle

• June 29, 2024 - Pianist for Sangerfest 2024, Pacific Coast Norwegian Singers' Association, Federal Way, WA

• June 21 & 23, 2024 - Performer in new works by young composers, Seattle Opera Creation Lab, Seattle

• June 20, 2024 - Performance of a new work for chamber orchestra and a new arrangement of Grieg's "Holberg Suite" by the Sound Ensemble, Seattle

• June 9, 2024 - Performance of a new work for chamber orchestra and a new arrangement of Grieg's "Holberg Suite" by the Sound Ensemble, The Seasons, Yakima, WA

• June 8, 2024 - Performance of a new work for chamber orchestra and a new arrangement of Grieg's "Holberg Suite" by the Sound Ensemble, Kenworthy Performing Arts Center, Moscow, ID

• June 1, 2024 - "Valparaiso", Music Center of the Northwest, Seattle

• May 27, 2024 - Pianist for Seattle Opera's Veterans Choir, Northwest Folklife Festival, Seattle

• May 10, 2024 - "Leif Erikson in Seattle: Gerard Tonning and Norwegian Opera in the New World" (Original research), A lecture recital, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies (SASS) Annual Conference, Seattle

• May 4, 2024 - Alf Hurum Centennial (with Laura Loge, soprano, and Svend Rønning, violin), Cascadia Art Museum, Edmonds, WA

• May 3, 2024 - Live Radio broadcast of Alf Hurum's solo piano music and Violin Sonata No. 1 (with Svend Rønning, violin), NW Focus LIVE, Classical KING FM 98.1 Seattle

• April 27, 2024 - Alf Hurum Centennial (with Laura Loge, soprano, and Svend Rønning, violin), Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

• April 13, 2024 - "Valparaiso", Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• March 24, 2024 - "Valparaiso", Horizon House, Seattle

• March 22, 2024 - World Premiere of Steven Luksan's opera "Valparaiso", Horizon House, Seattle

• March - May 2024 - Performances of "Monkey and Francine in the City of Tigers", Seattle Opera Touring Production

• March 9, 2024 - Alf Hurum's Songs and Piano Works (with Laura Loge, soprano), Hawaii State Library, Honolulu, HI

• March 4, 2024 - Alf Hurum's Violin Sonata and Piano Works (with Darel Stark, violin), First Lutheran Church of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI

• January 12, 2024 - "Hidden Gems & New Pathways" (with Mike Heimann, baritone), Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• December 3, 2023 - Amy Beach's Art Songs (with Laura Loge, soprano), presented by Puget Sound Concert Opera, Bellevue, WA

• December 2, 2023 - Amy Beach's Art Songs (with Laura Loge, soprano), presented by Puget Sound Concert Opera, Seattle

• November 18, 2023 - Presentation "Bjarne Rolseth: The Life and Works of a Norwegian-American Composer" (original research), International Edvard Grieg Society Conference, Griegakademiet, Bergen, Norway

• November 10, 2023 - Performance of "Norwegian Rhapsody" at the Cascadia Art Museum, Edmonds, WA

• October 22, 2023 - "Nordic Chamber Music: Sweden" - Performance of Steven Luksan's "Under the Harvest Moon" by Laura Loge and the Skyros Quartet, Seattle

• October 7, 2023 - "KoriUSA" Performance of Norwegian art songs by Luksan, Grieg, and Hurum (with Laura Loge, soprano), Seattle

• October 6, 2023 - "KoriUSA" Performance of Norwegian art songs by Luksan, Grieg, and Hurum (with Laura Loge, soprano), Tacoma, WA

• September 24, 2023 - "Love, Travails, Dreams: A Journey of African American Song and Poetry" (with Chandry Abreu, soprano), Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, Seattle

• September 23, 2023 - Performance of Erika Meyer's "Achilles and Patrocles" with Lowbrow Opera Collective at the Seattle Opera Open House, Seattle

• September 22, 2023 - Radio broadcast of a performance of three songs by Steven Luksan by members of the Ladies Musical Club of Seattle, live on NW Focus LIVE, KING FM 98.1 Seattle

• September 16, 2023 - "Silence and Shadows: Piano Music by Erkki Melartin", Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• June 17, 2023 - "Pride: Songs by Queer Composers" (with Darrell J. Jordan, baritone), Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• June 11, 2023 - "Drama" (performances of Steven Luksan's new translation of Grieg's "Bergliot", a new arrangement of "Foran Sydens Kloster", and more), Puget Sound Concert Opera, Bellevue, WA

• June 9, 2023 - "Drama" (performances of Steven Luksan's new translation of Grieg's "Bergliot", a new arrangement of "Foran Sydens Kloster", and more), Puget Sound Concert Opera, Seattle, WA

• May 20, 2023 - "Constitution Day Concert" (with Laura Loge, soprano), Kingston, WA

• May 13, 2023 - "Spring Rhapsody" (with Rachelle Moss, contralto), Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• April 2, 2023 - "Welcome Spring!" (with Laura Loge, soprano), Leif Erikson Lodge, Ballard, Seattle

• February - May 2023 - Performances of "Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Girl in the World", Seattle Opera Touring Production

• February 25, 2023 - "Flute Fantasy" (Performing Grieg, Sommerfeldt, Luksan, Hurum, Ørbeck - with Cassie Lear, flute, and Laura Loge, soprano), Icicle Creek Center for the Arts, Leavenworth, WA

• February 18, 2023 - "Flute Fantasy" (Performing Grieg, Sommerfeldt, Luksan, Hurum, Ørbeck - with Cassie Lear, flute, and Laura Loge, soprano), Nordia House, Portland, OR 

• February 12, 2023 - "Flute Fantasy" (Performing Grieg, Sommerfeldt, Luksan, Hurum, Ørbeck - with Cassie Lear, flute, and Laura Loge, soprano), Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• February 11, 2023 - "Flute Fantasy" (Performing Grieg, Sommerfeldt, Luksan, Hurum, Ørbeck - with Cassie Lear, flute, and Laura Loge, soprano), Cascadia Art Museum, Edmonds, WA

• December 17, 2022 - Julekonsert (with the Seattle Mannskor and Laura Loge, soprano), Ballard First Lutheran Church, Seattle, WA

• December 3, 2022 - "Songs of Prayer and Promise" (with Ellaina Lewis, soprano), Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• October 30, 2022 - "Grieg for Four" (Performance of "String Quartet), Tacoma, WA

• October 28, 2022 - Performance of "String Quartet" (given by the Skyros Quartet), live on NW Focus LIVE, KING FM 98.1 Seattle

• October 23, 2022 - "Grieg for Four" (World Premiere of "String Quartet), National Nordic Museum, Ballard, Seattle

• October 1, 2022 - "Folk Impressions" (Music by Hurum, Backter-Grøndahl, and Kennedy-Fraser), Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• September 30, 2022 - "Folk Impressions" (Music by Hurum, Backer-Grøndahl, and Kennedy-Fraser), Music Center of the NW, Seattle

• May 22, 2022 - "Norwegian Suites for Strings" (world premiere of "Norwegian Rhapsody" - commissioned by the National Nordic Museum), National Nordic Museum, Ballard, Seattle

• March 26, 2022 - "The Nightengale Project: Celebrating Jenny Lind" (with Laura Loge, soprano), Coupeville, WA

• June 24, 2020 - Fête de la Musique!: A live concert broadcast with Alliance Française de Seattle (via Facebook Live)

• February 7, 2020 - A Little Lunch Music: Norwegian Noon (with Laura Loge, soprano), Music Center of the NW, Seattle

• January 25, 2020 - An Evening of English Art Song with Darrell J. Jordan, Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• December 6, 2019 - A Little Lunch Music: Flute & Piano (with Cassie Lear, flute), Music Center of the NW, Seattle

• November 23, 2019 - Faculty Spotlight Recital, Music Center of the NW, Seattle

• November 17, 2019 - Haller Lake Music Series: Une Soirée Parisienne (with Liz Frazer, soprano), Haller Lake UMC, Seattle

• October 26, 2019 - Saltwater Goes Baroque!, Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• October 13, 2019 - "From Bergen to Mt. Baker" (House Concert/Fundraiser), Seattle

• October 12, 2019 - Cinderella Sing-along!, Seattle Opera, Seattle

• September 15, 2019 - "Skål! A Toast to Edvard Grieg" (House Concert/Fundraiser), Seattle

• September 11, 2019 - "Music at Midweek: The Many Languages of Edvard Grieg" (Presentation with Laura Loge, soprano), University of Portland, Portland, OR

• August 24, 2019 - "Winds of Summer" (with Cassie Lear, flute, and the Onomatopoeia Trio), Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• July 28, 2019 - "A Young Person's Guide to the Opera" (with Liz Frazer, soprano): A GroupMuse House Concert, Woodinville, WA

• July 27, 2019 - Verdi Sing-along!, Seattle Opera, Seattle

• July 21, 2019 - Fête de la Musique: A recital with Liz Frazer, soprano, and the Alliance Francaise de Seattle Chorale, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

• June 12, 2019 - "A Tribute to Cole Porter and George Gershwin" (with Regina Thomas and Katie Hochman, sopranos), Music Center of the NW, Seattle

• May 18, 2019 - "A Love Song to the Salish Sea" (with Julia Benzinger, mezzo-soprano), Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• April 27, 2019 - Carmen Sing-along!, Seattle Opera, Seattle

• April 13, 2019 - World premiere of "Ceremony" (for the Onomatopoeia Trio), Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

• March 20, 2019 - "Edvard Greig: Scandinavia's Favorite Composer" (with Laura Loge, soprano, and Lori Ann Reinhall, narrator), Swedish Club, Seattle

• March 16, 2019 - "Sixteen Going on Seventeen", Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• March 9, 2019 - Une Soirée au Salon: A GroupMuse House Concert (with Liz Frazer, soprano), Phinney Ridge, Seattle

• February 16, 2019 - Performance of "Northwest Coast Pictures" (for two flutes), given by the Silver Edges Duo at the Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention, Reston, VA

• February 16, 2019 - NW Edvard Grieg Society House Concert, Lake Oswego, OR

• January 26, 2019 - "Then Sings My Soul: Songs and Spirituals from the American Experience" (with Cheryse McLeod Lewis, soprano), Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• November 17, 2018 - "Crush the Patriarchy!": A GroupMuse House Concert (with Liz Frazer, soprano), Seattle, WA

• October 28, 2018 - Performance of "4 Obstfelder Songs" (for soprano and piano), given by Laura Loge and Knut Erik Jensen, Trilogy at Redmond Ridge, Redmond, WA

• October 27, 2018 - "Echoes of the Great War", Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• October 18, 2018 - Performance of "Northwest Coast Pictures" (for two flutes), given by members of the US Army Field Band, Federal Way, WA

• September 16, 2018 - A Musical Tea Party with the NW Edvard Grieg Society. Mercer Island, WA

• August 25, 2018 - "Nordic Voyages" (with Laura Loge, soprano), Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• May 19, 2018 - Performance at the Everett Daughters of Norway, Normanna Hall, Everett, WA

• May 19, 2018 - "Flute Dialogues" (with the Silver Edges Duo), Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• May 6, 2018 - Performance at the Grand Opening of the new National Nordic Museum, Ballard, Seattle

• April 22, 2018 - "Elemental" (with the Seattle Art Song Society), Queen Anne Christian Church, Seattle

• March 18, 2018 - Performance of "Northwest Coast Pictures" (for two flutes), given by the Silver Edges Duo, Long Beach, CA

• March 17, 2018 - "Une Soirée Parisienne" (with Liz Frazer, soprano), Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• March 3, 2018 - Performance of "Northwest Coast Pictures" (for two flutes), given by the Silver Edges Duo, Claremont, CA

• February 11, 2018 - "Norwegian Love" (with Laura Loge, soprano), Leif Erikson Lodge, Seattle

• February 4, 2018 - Performance of "Northwest Coast Pictures" (for two flutes), given by the Silver Edges Duo, Pomona, CA

• January 20, 2018 - "Pipes and Strings", Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• January 6, 2018 - "Concert at Yuletide End" (with Laura Loge, soprano), sponsored by the Seattle-Bergen Sister City Association, Seattle

• October 22, 2017 - "Musical Pairings: A House Concert" (with Laura Loge, soprano), Seattle

• October 21, 2017 - An Evening of Song with Rachel Duval, Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• October 4, 2017 - Steven Luksan in Recital, Wesley Terrace, Des Moines, WA

• August 26, 2017 - "Late Summer Nights", Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• August 26, 2017 - Performance @ Arts in Nature Festival (with Laura Loge, soprano, and Brian Armbrust, baritone), Camp Long, Seattle

• July 30, 2017 - "Random Acts of Art Song" (with Laura Loge, soprano), Alki Beach Sea Wall, Seattle

• July 29, 2017 - "Random Acts of Art Song" (with Dora Barnes, soprano), Steve Cox Park, White Center, WA

• July 23, 2017 - "Random Acts of Art Song" (with Kat Finder and Andrew Etherington), Cal Anderson Park, Seattle

• May 20, 2017 - "Norwegian Night!" (with Laura Loge, soprano), Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• March 18, 2017 - "Musical Americana", Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• February 15, 2017 - Steven Luksan in Recital, Wesley Terrace, Des Moines, WA

• January 14, 2017 - "Songs of the North", Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• October 22, 2016 - "History Rewritten", Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• August 20, 2016 - "Sacred Music for a New Century", Saltwater Music Series, Des Moines, WA

• June 9, 2016 - Performance of "I Call to the Earth and Sea" (for voice and piano), Auditorio Condeminas, Barcelona, Spain

• May 7, 2016 - Steven Luksan and Kerry Bollinger Blanton in Recital, Queen Anne Baptist Church, Seattle

• April 1, 2016 - Steven Luksan and Kerry Bollinger Blanton in Recital, Music Center of the NW, Seattle

• March 27, 2016 - Performance of "Prelude - Now the Green Blade Riseth", commisioned by the ringers of the Des Moines UMC Handbell Choir, Des Moines, WA

• February 28, 2016 - Performance of "Rite" (for flute, viola, and harp), by members of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Hovedbiblioteket, Trondheim, Norway

• February 21, 2016 - Performance of a new work with Kerry Bollinger Blanton, Music Center of the NW, Seattle

• February 13, 2016 - Performance of a new work with Kerry Bollinger Blanton, Queen Anne Baptist Church, Seattle

• January 20, 2016 - Steven Luksan in Recital, Wesley Terrace, Des Moines, WA

• October 20, 2015 - Performance of "Intermezzo" (for viola and piano), with Kerry Bollinger Blanton, Queen Anne Baptist Church, Seattle

• April 25, 2015 - Chamber Music Concert, Des Moines, WA

• April 27, 2013 - Premiere of "Prelude" (for flute choir), Rose City Flute Choir, Portland, OR

• February 16, 2013 - Performance of Fantasy (for viola and piano), Kent State University, Kent, OH

• February 9, 2013 - Chamber Music Recital, Des Moines, WA

• January 9, 2013 - Steven Luksan in Recital, Wesley Terrace, Des Moines, WA

• December 7, 2012 - Performance of "Dark Dances" (for full orchestra), Kent State University, Kent, OH

• November 30, 2012 - Performance of "All our stories" (for soprano, flute, and piano), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

• November 2, 2012 - Performance of 4 new works for solo piano, Seattle Composers' Salon, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle