Perry Robinson, Marc Smason & friends

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 (drums), plus winter spirit choir and butoh dance.

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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 KillingFrenzy.

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Eye Music

Eye Music performs graphic scores by Mieko Shiomi, William Hellerman, Cornelius Cardew, Boguslaw Schaffer, Greg Bright, Malcolm Goldstein, and Earle Brown. Ensemble members include Eric Lanzillotta, Dean Moore, David Stanford, Jonathan Way, Esther Sugai, Amy Denio, Stuart Dempster, Robert Kirkpatrick, Carl Lierman, and Dave Knott.

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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, Pete Comely, Steve Peters, and Rob Millis. Christopher DeLaurenti premieres What is Happening in Darfur?, along with urban recordings that capture unusual confluences of sound, speech, music, and silence. DeLaurenti's set is made possible with support from 4Culture.

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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 DeLaurenti, Susie Kozawa, Jonathan Way, and Steve Barsotti. Perri Lynch presents Towards Mamori, using field recordings collected from the Mamori Lake region of the Amazon. Her performance is funded by the City of Seattle's CityArtist program.

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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 Dark Songs, with texts by Walt Whitman; Neil Thornock's Spin; also, the haunting Eleven Echoes of Autumn by the great American composer George Crumb. The acclaimed Seattle-based mezzo-soprano Melissa Plagemann joins the ensemble, conducted by Jonathan Pasternack.

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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 are Corigliano's Selections from the Red Violin Caprices (2001), Debussy's Sonata for Violin and Piano (1916-1917), and JS Bach's D minor Chaconne.

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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 for digital feedback with live electronics, The Blackest Flux for live electronics, by Yutaka Makino, and Our Lady Of Late, inspired by and excerpts from Our Lady of Late (1972) by Meredith Monk, for voice and wineglass.

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