For over four decades, Perry Robinson has been the sui generis master of the clarinet in jazz, folk and avant-garde music. He's joined by Seattle musicians Marc Smason (trombone/vox), Ahamefule Oluo (trumpet), Talia Marcus (violin/viola), Dalton Davis [...]
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Vance Galloway/Rafael Irisarri/Kelly Wyse
The Fading Winter Lights Will Guide You Home is an evening of post-minimalist, modern classical and electronic music with Rafael Anton Irisarri, Vance Galloway, and Kelly Wyse, with live video projections by KillingFren [...]
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Christopher DeLaurenti + Phonographers Union
The Seattle Phonographers Union celebrate the release of their new CD with two concerts, each night featuring a different subset of the group and opened with a solo set by a different band member. Tonight's line-up consists of Perri Lynch, Dale Lloyd, [...]
Friday, December 11, 2009
Perri Lynch + Phonographers Union
The Seattle Phonographers Union celebrate the release of their new CD with two concerts, each night featuring a different subset of the group and opened with a solo set by a different band member. Tonight's line-up consists of Doug Haire, Christopher [...]
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Affinity Chamber Players
Affinity Chamber Players opens its 2009-2010 season with a concert showcasing three works recently submitted in response to Affinity's call for scores: Christopher Gainey's ballet score, No Sleep for the Wicked; Arthur Gottschalk's poignant cycle of [...]
Friday, December 4, 2009
James Garlick & Judith Cohen
Violinist James Garlick and pianist Judith Cohen present a recital of 20th century masterpieces. The program features Charles Ives' Sonata No. 2 (1902-1910) and Bartok's last published work, his monumental Sonata for Solo Violin (1944). Also on the program [...]
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Makino/Manousakis/Pan: dis/continuity
Presented with support from DXARTS. Music for live electronics and solo voice with Yutaka Makino, Stelios Manousakis, and Stephanie Pan. The program includes Sequenza III for solo voice by Luciano Berio, Stelios Manousakis' Fantasia On A Single Number [...]
Monday, November 23, 2009
Joel Palmer & Scott Ezell: Electroacoustic Daydreams
Seattle guitarist Joel David Palmer pursues dreamy, swirly realms of richly harmonic and melodic electric guitar improvisations. Lush washes of sound are punctuated with stabs and eruptions of sonic crystals, the whole melting into a breath-like ebb [...]
Saturday, November 21, 2009
John Luther Adams
Nonsequitur presents the first Seattle concert devoted entirely to the music of Alaskan composer John Luther Adams. The program opens with two solo piano pieces performed by Seattle pianist Cristina Valdes, Nunataks (originally commissioned by Music [...]
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Rendez-vous à Paris: Franck, Enescu, Szymanowski, Shostakovich
Violinists Victoria Parker, Arthur Zadinsky (first violinist with the Seattle Symphony) and pianist Oana Rusu Tomai have chosen this program after reflecting on how expatriate composers bring to their host country colorful characteristics of their native [...]
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Bad Luck: CD Release Concert
Co-led by drummer Chris Icasiano and saxophonist Neil Welch, Bad Luck is about sound art, slowly developed loops and pedals used to propel the music into new aural fields. Tight-knit original compositions meet sonic mosaics in a musical relationship [...]
Friday, November 13, 2009
Lori Goldston / Dylan Carlson / KnotPineBox
Solo sets by three strong, quirky, and carefully realized voices that travel freely across stylistic borders: Dylan Carlson, electric guitar; Lori Goldston, amplified cello; KnotPineBox (Karen Hancock), electric guitar and voi [...]
Thursday, November 12, 2009
bst.cr: Bennett/Jewell/Shook
Presented by the Gallery 1412 collective with funding from 4Culture and the King County Lodging Tax.This heretofore unnamed vessel (pronounced Bee Ess Tee See Arrrrgh) comprises a core trio of Ben Bennett (drumheads), Ryan Jewell (snare drum), and Wilson [...]
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Earshot: Hans Koch + Paul Kikuchi's Portable Sanctuary
Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival.Swiss reedman Hans Koch, one of the most fearless improvisers in music, performs solo on bass clarinet. Koch left his career as a classical clarinetist and has worked since with Fred Frith, Cecil Taylor, and Andrew [...]
Friday, November 6, 2009
Seattle Composers' Salon
The Seattle Composers’ Salon fosters the development, performance and appreciation of new music by regional composers and performers. At bi-monthly, informal presentations, the Salon features finished works, previews, and works in progress. Composers, [...]
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Nu:BC Collective
Presented by WA Composers Forum as part of their Transport Series.The Nu:BC Collective, ensemble-in-residence at the University of British Columbia, presents a program of works by Canadian, French and American composers, written for chamber ensemble [...]
Monday, November 2, 2009
Earshot: Kaufmann/Gratkowski/de Joode
Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival & Polestar.The astounding trio of Achim Kaufmann (piano), Frank Gratkowski (alto saxophone & clarinets), and Wilbert de Joode (bass) incorporates aspects of contemporary classical music, free improvisation, [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Earshot: Tom Varner Tentet + Sjenka
Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival.The French horn has a rather short list of jazz masters, usually led by Julius Watkins. One of Watkins’s foremost proponents, Tom Varner presents his tentet performing their new CD, Heaven and Hell. The new work showcases [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Earshot: Wash. Composers Orchestra (WACO)
Presented by Nonsequitur and Earshot Jazz Festival.Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz, and Tom Varner lead this adventurous 15-piece ensemble featuring top-flight Seattle improvisers and composers including Mark Taylor, Thomas Marriott, Eric Barber, Byron Vannoy, [...]
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Earshot: Phantom Orchard + Peggy Lee & Saadet Türköz
Presented by Nonsequitur and Earshot Jazz Festival.Long-time collaborators at the forefront of the Downtown NYC avant garde, electronic percussionist Ikue Mori and electronic/acoustic harpist Zeena Parkins (aka PHANTOM ORCHARD) weave a mix of beauty [...]
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Rachel Grimes + Gretchen Yanover
Presented by Nonsequitur. Co-founder of Louisville indie chamber group Rachel’s, pianist Rachel Grimes performs her new solo album of lyrical piano compositions, Book of Leaves, along with music by Erik Satie. Seattle cellist Gretchen Yanover combines [...]
Monday, October 19, 2009
Earshot Jazz Festival: 3rd Man
Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival.3rd Man is a trio of Dutch "drummer" Han Bennink (Instant Composers Pool), American expat and fellow ICP member Michael Moore, and accordionist Will Holshouser (David Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness, Matt Munisteri, etc.). [...]
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Jesse Canterbury & Friends
Seattle clarinetist Jesse Canterbury joins forces with Brian Cobb (bass), Tiffany Lin (piano), and Paul Kikuchi (drums & percussion), playing a new suite of his original compositio [...]
Friday, October 16, 2009
Paul Hoskin
Seattle veteran improviser Paul Hoskin does his annual 80-minute solo contrabass clarinet improvisati [...]
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Richard Craig
Presented by WA Composers Forum.Scottish/Swedish flutist Richard Craig makes his premiere US performance here at the Chapel, performing recent works for solo flute (with and without electronics), including many US premieres (*): Donald Stewart: os justi [...]
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Nicolás Varchausky: SPK
Presented by DXARTS, in collaboration with Archivo P.A.I.S. (Programa Teatro Acústico-UNQ). Nicolás Varchausky performs with his SPK (Speaker Performing Kiosk), an autarchic performing device that uses the speaker not as an object that reproduces sound [...]
Friday, October 9, 2009
EQLateral Ensemble: Half-Light
Featuring sublime to frenetic strings, ethereal voxings and hypnotic rhythms enhanced by experimental/electronic soundings and of-the-moment inspiration, EQlateral's dramatic soundscapes range from the sensual to the cosmic and back again. With John [...]
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Subtext: David Buuck + Joel Felix
NOTE: This is the final Subtext reading for the time being, as the collective considers possible futures.David Buuck is author of The Shunt (Palm) and Buried Treasure Island (Barge/YBCA). Founder of Bay Area Research Group in Enviro- aesthetics, co-founder [...]
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
!!ArtsLaunch!!
Sponsored by Allied Arts Foundation, !!ArtsLaunch!! is a series of informal evenings of performance and inter-disciplinary dialogue, presenting works-in-progress by emerging and established Seattle artists. This edition features choreographers Vidya [...]
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Anton Batagov: Bells & Other Sounds
DoubleSharp presents the distinguished Russian pianist Anton Batagov in his Seattle debut, and his first public performance in 12 years. Heralded as “one of the most significant and unusual figures of Russian contemporary music” (Newsweek, 1997) and [...]
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Steve Peters: 50th Birthday Retrospective
Nonsequitur co-founder Steve Peters celebrates his 50th birthday with a concert of his music from the past thirty years: Chamber Music 5: Stained Glass (2008) site-specific sound installation (pre-show); Paris, once (1984) solo piano, performed by Robin [...]
Friday, September 25, 2009
Gamelan Pacifica
Seattle's Gamelan Pacifica performs music of ensemble member Jessika Kenney, including Bahar Amad (based on a poem of Mowlana Rumi) and Her Sword (based on a poem of Attar), which also feature the mercurial viola stylings of soloist Eyvind Kang. Her [...]
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Bill Horist
Guitarist Bill Horist celebrates his 17th anniversary (to the day) of landing on the shores of Puget Sound. The first set will be acoustic, featuring unreleased works and improvisations as well as pieces from the upcoming North Pole Records release Covalent [...]
Friday, September 18, 2009
David Haney/Julian Priester & Friends
David Haney and Julian Priester have recorded three CDs for CIMP and Cadence Jazz Records. With guest musicians Dan Blunck (reeds and flute), Marc Smason (trombone), Roslynn deRoos (clarinet), Dan O'Brien (bass), Ken Paine (drums), and Dalton Davis [...]
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Danse Perdue: El Asalto
Danse Perdue continues to probe the effects of social trauma and degradation upon the world body, using the dancer’s flesh and physio/psychological responses as a locus of experimentation and empathy. Based on the novel by Reinaldo Arenas, El Asalto [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
Seattle Composers' Salon
The bi-monthly Seattle Composers' Salon kicks off its eleventh season with music by composers David Mesler, William O. Smith, Doug Palmer, Keith Eisenbrey, and Paul Cla [...]
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Subtext: Corless-Smith + Shimoda
Subtext Reading Series presents Martin Corless-Smith and Brandon Shimo [...]
Saturday, August 29, 2009
AnyWhen Ensemble + Wayne Horvitz
The AnyWhen Ensemble (Eugene, OR) draws its influence from classical/new chamber music, jazz, and free improvisation, as well as rock, electronica, and folk music. The music is intimate and personal, blending the spontaneity of improvised music with [...]
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Rob Angus + Rich Mack
Seattle composer Rob Angus creates a 4-channel ambient surround mix of processed and looped sounds, joined by Lesli Dalaba (trumpet), Greg Powers (trombone), and Dean Moore (percussion). Rich Mack opens with digitally-transformed guitar sounds mixed [...]
Friday, August 21, 2009
Jones/Rawlings/Eubanks/Cogburn, night 2
Seattle Improvised Music presents a mini-festival/residency featuring four improvising musicians from around the country, each one engaged in making contemporary work and providing the physical spaces necessary for performance in their town: Bonnie Jones, [...]
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Jones/Rawlings/Eubanks/Cogburn, night 1
Seattle Improvised Music presents a mini-festival/residency featuring four improvising musicians from around the country, each one engaged in making contemporary work and providing the physical spaces necessary for performance in their town: Bonnie Jones, [...]
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Kelvin Pittman & Friends
Seattle Improvised Music presents Portland saxophonist Kelvin Pittman, playing improvised duets, quartets, and sextets with saxophonists Paul Hoskin, Wilson Shook, and Tyler Wilcox and bassists Mark Collins and John Tes [...]
Friday, August 14, 2009
Seattle Percussion Collective: RRRRRRRRRRRR!
The Seattle Percussion Collective (SPC) presents its debut concert of adventurous music written for percussion instruments. Comprised of Becca Baggenstoss, Greg Campbell, Dale Speicher, Bonnie Whiting Smith and Denali Williams, SPC unites some of Seattle's [...]
Friday, August 7, 2009
Jacob Zimmerman: solo saxophone
Saxophonist and composer Jacob Zimmerman is a graduate of Garfield High School in Seattle, and studied at the renowned New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He is currently a Masters Composition student at Mills College. Most recently he has been [...]
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Subtext: Norma Cole + Will Owen
Presented by Subtext Reading Series.Norma Cole is a poet, painter and translator. Her most recent book is Where Shadows Will, Selected Poems 1988-2008 (City Lights). Canadian by birth, Cole migrated via France to San Francisco where she has lived since [...]
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Gust Burns & Adrienne Varner
Two local pianists of diverse musical persuasions come together for an evening of varied music spanning the last century to the present moment. Adrienne Varner performs Henry Cowell's Three Irish Legends (1912, 1919, 1922), Leo Ornstein's Impressions [...]
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Earshot: 2nd Century Savage
Presented by Earshot Jazz.2nd Century Savage is saxophonist, flutist, and composer John C. Savage with electronica artist, Vusac (aka Isaac Peachin). Together they merge contemporary jazz improvisation with electronic instruments and live production [...]
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Richard Lerman + Susie Kozawa
Presented by Nonsequitur.Pioneering audio artist Richard Lerman performs works for home-made transducers and instruments with video and film, assisted by Eric Lanzillotta and members of the Eye Music ensemble. Seattle treasure and sound collector/instrument [...]
Friday, July 24, 2009
Jeffrey Allport & Tyler Wilcox, et al
Presented by Seattle Improvised Music.Jeffrey Allport (percussion, Vancouver) and Tyler Wilcox (soprano saxophone, formerly Bellingham, now Seattle) perform duo improvisations and in collaboration with Seattle improvisers Mara Sedlins (viola), Mark Collins [...]
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Earshot: Seattle Phonographers Union
Presented by Earshot Jazz.The Seattle Phonographers Union is a collective of veteran sound artists who improvise using only their extensive personal libraries of field recordings made around the world. They forego processing the raw sound materials with [...]
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Matt Shoemaker + Jesse Paul Miller
Local electronic composer Matt Shoemaker gives this farewell performance before moving to the Bay Area. He is joined by multimedia artist Jesse Paul Miller, who will be working with field recordings made during his travels in SE As [...]
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Earshot: Andy Clausen & Sjenka
Presented by Earshot Jazz. Although still a year shy of high-school graduation, Andy Clausen has been making a big splash on the local scene. The Roosevelt High stand-out plays trombone in the school’s acclaimed jazz band, composes for his own sextet, [...]
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Earshot: Jim Norton Quartet
Presented by Earshot Jazz. Jim Norton’s musical career has taken him all around the world. He plays with great skill a range of common jazz instruments – saxophones, flutes, and clarinets – as well as some less often-heard ones, such as bassoon and contra-bassoon. [...]
Friday, July 3, 2009
Seattle Composers' Salon
8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale donation at the door.The Seattle Composers' Salon is an informal presentation of new music by regional composers. The salon meets the last Friday of every other month, and features finished works, previews, and works-in-progress. [...]
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Subtext: Stacey Szymaszek + Don Mee Choi
Presented by Subtext Reading Series. Stacy Szymaszek is the author of Emptied of All Ships (Litmus, 2005) as well as many chapbooks. The complete Hyperglossia will be published by Litmus Press in 2009. She is the editor of Gam and the Artistic Director [...]
Friday, June 26, 2009
Clifford Dunn
Flutist/composer Clifford Dunn presents a performance of new music for flute and live electronics by local and international composers, including Seattle composers Clifford Dunn, Doug Niemela, and Joshua Parmenter; Canadian composer Renée Walrafen; and [...]
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Novi_Sad + Colin Andrew Sheffield
Novi_sad (Thanasis Kaproulias) lives and works in Athens, Greece. Influenced by the pioneers of audio assault, his artistic output displays a high level of technical ability, as well as a sensitivity to the nuances of location. Amplified environmental [...]
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Affinity Chamber Players
Presented by Washington Composers Forum. The Affinity Chamber Players premieres works by Northwest composers, including Sarah Bassingthwaighte's Hacia el sueno, a new piece by Chris Stover, Ryan Hare's Chamber Concerto, Clifford Dunn's A New Role for [...]
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