November 2025

Mémoires en Chanson – Album Release Party!
Saturday, November 8 – 11am Pacific on Zoom
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Please join me in an online celebration of the release of Mémoires en Chanson, a new album by Mélanie Bourassa, bass clarinet and Kim Davenport, piano, performing works by women composers. The album features original works for bass clarinet and piano by Davenport, Mónica Cárdenas, Akiko Ogawa, and Ivana Loudová, as well as transcriptions of pieces by Louise Farrenc, Sophie Gail, and Nadia Boulanger.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 150th Birthday Tribute
Saturday, November 15 – 6pm
Kilworth Memorial Chapel, University of Puget Sound

Kim Davenport will join other University of Puget Sound faculty and students in a celebration of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s 24 Negro Melodies for solo piano.

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January 2026

Kevin Oldham: Piano Concerto Op. 14
Friday, January 23 – 7:30pm
Schneebeck Concert Hall, University of Puget Sound

Kim Davenport will perform Kevin Oldham’s Piano Concerto Op.14 with a wind ensemble comprised of members of the University of Puget Sound faculty and Tacoma Concert Band, conducted by Gerard Morris. The program will celebrate the legacy of Kevin Oldham (1960-1993) and other LGBTQ+ composers.

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March 2026

The Song Also Rises UK Tour – Dates Below
Sarah Watts, bass clarinet, and Kim Davenport, piano, will perform a recital of works by black composers, following the release of their album, The Song Also Rises. The program will include Watts’ own transcriptions of songs by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Florence Price, as well as original works by David N. Baker and Malcolm Solomon.

Thursday, March 19, 2026
Nottingham Cathedral, Nottingham

Friday, March 20, 2026
Firth Hall, University of Sheffield

Sunday, March 22, 2026 – 7pm
International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester
Tickets

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July 2026

Enoch Arden
Wednesday, July 29, 2026 – 12pm
First Lutheran Church, Tacoma

Paul Twedt, narrator, and Kim Davenport, piano, perform Richard Strauss’ moving and dramatic Enoch Arden, an 1897 setting of the poem of the same name by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The performance is part of the Listen Live at Lunch summer series. Performances are free, all are welcome, no tickets required!