The Three Duos are, first of all, Ronin with Kenny Mandell on saxes, flutes, and percussion and Don Berman on drums and percussion. The second duo will feature percussionist, composer, and instrument builder Paul Kikuchi along with Steve Barsotti, an [...]
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
Julian Priester Quartet
Presented by Nonsequitur. Julian Priester is the most distinctive solo voice on the trombone in jazz today. In a career spanning five decades, he's been part of some of the most groundbreaking and important contemporary music to date. Tonight he leads [...]
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Sounds Outside Benefit 2/3
Presented by Monktail Creative Music Concern. For five years, Sounds Outside: A Celebration of Adventurous Music & Community has brought creative music of the highest caliber to audiences, for free, in Seattle's Cal Anderson Park. Due to tremendous [...]
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Rafael Anton Irisarri & Benoît Pioulard
The Fading Winter Lights Will Guide You Home Vol. 2: an evening of post-minimalist, modern classical and ambient electronic music featuring BENOÎT PIOULARD and Rafael RAFAEL ANTON IRISARRI, with special guests KELLY WYSE (also performing live Aphex Twin's [...]
Friday, December 10, 2010
Jesse Canterbury & Crosstalk
Crosstalk is Jesse Canterbury (clarinets), Tiffany Lin (piano), Brian Cobb (bass), and Paul Kikuchi (drums). This new group pushes the boundaries of jazz and improvised music. The music draws on such disparate influences as Charles Ives, John Luther [...]
Monday, December 6, 2010
Endangered Blood + Wayne Horvitz Quartet
Endangered Blood (NYC) is a dynamic ensemble featuring renowned tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Chris Speed (HumanFeel, ClaudiaQt., Bloodcount, Pachora, yeahNO), with Jim Black (Laurie Anderson, Bloodcount, Alas No Axis), Trevor Dunn (Fantamos, Mr. [...]
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Robert Krupnik: Lentz, Golijov, Berio
Pianist Robert Krupnick plays the world premiere of Dorcester Tropes (2008) by Daniel Lentz. The program also includes: ZZ's Dream (2008) and Levante (2004) by Argentinian Osvaldo Golijov, and the still outrageous Sequenza IV (1966) of Luciano Ber [...]
Friday, December 3, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
S. Eric Scribner et al: StormSound Cycle
In a preview for the performance of the entire 21-movement StormSound Cycle next year, Seattle composer and pianist S. Eric Scribner presents three pieces from that larger work. A recent set of aleatory/improvisational compositions for various instruments [...]
Friday, November 19, 2010
Acoustic Ecology Meeting + Seattle Phonogs Union
Inaugural meeting of the newly formed Pacific Northwest Chapter of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology - anyone with interest in examining issues surrounding sound and the environment across the disciplines is welcome to attend! The meeting will [...]
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Keith Eisenbrey/Aaron Keyt/Neal Meyer
Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, and Neal Meyer have been conversing, collaborating and engaging in creative discussion for nearly three decades under the guise of Banned Rehearsal. This program represents the current state of the discussion through four [...]
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Cristina Valdes, solo piano
Presented by Nonsequitur. Fearless pianist Cristina Valdes performs a challenging program of solo piano works: Olivier Messiaen's Petites Esquisses D'Oiseaux, Giacinto Scelsi's Quattro Illustrazioni, Jonathan Harvey's Le Tombeau de Messiaen, Helmut Lachenmann's [...]
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Ann Cummings & Talman Welle
Pianists Talman Welle and Ann Cummings play solo on the first portion of the program, with Welle playing Hommage to Chopin (1949) and Rudepoema (1921-1926), by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos; Cummings presents her signature, multi-media presentation [...]
Friday, November 12, 2010
Three Butoh Solos
Three butoh solos with live music: Briana Jones / noisepoetnobody; Mer Sedna / vox vespertinus; Vanessa Skantze / Beth Flee [...]
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Fandrich & Seman: Sounds Outside Benefit 1/3
Presented by Monktail Creative Music Concern. For five years, Sounds Outside has brought creative music of the highest caliber to audiences in Seattle's Cal Anderson Park. Due to financial difficulties that have impacted our local economy, the festival [...]
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Earshot: Thomas Marriott
Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival. Trumpeter Thomas Marriott performs with his new chamber ensemble, performing music from Constraints and Liberations, his new album of original compositions on Origin Recor [...]
Friday, November 5, 2010
Seattle Composers' Salon: Joël-François Durand
Presented by Seattle Composers' Salon. Composer Joël-François Durand, a professor at the University of Washington, discusses of his work and compositional process. We will hear several of Durand's works, and there will be the usual Q&A from the audience [...]
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Earshot: Wright/Burns/Kaylor
Presented by Earshot Jazz Festival.For more than twenty-five years, saxophonist/pianist Jack Wright has toured practically non-stop and rightfully claims that he has played in virtually every venue available to experimental improvised music in the United [...]
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Earshot: Matana Roberts' COIN COIN
Presented by Nonsequitur & Earshot Jazz Festival.Chicago born and bred, Matana Roberts is an alto saxophonist/ composer active in New York since 2001. She has appeared on recordings and performances worldwide with her own ensembles and with a variety [...]
Monday, October 25, 2010
Christoph Heeman
Christoph Heemann (born 1964 in Aachen, Germany) began his musical work in 1983 as a founding member of the group HIRSCHE NICHT AUFS SOFA, who released several albums of their surreal collagemusic between 1985 and 1993, drawing inspiration from such [...]
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Earshot: Eugene Chadbourne + MURAL
Presented by Nonsequitur & Earshot Jazz Festival.Hailing from North Carolina, Eugene Chadbourne (aka "Doc Chadula") is a legendary improvising guitarist/banjo player, as well as a virtuoso on various noisy instruments of his own design. A long-time [...]
Friday, October 15, 2010
Paul Hoskin
8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door.Veteran multi-reed player and founder of the Seattle Improvised Music Festival performs his annual concert of solo contrabass clarinet improvisatio [...]
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Natalie Lerch & Lucy Wenger: She said/He said
Soprano Natalie Lerch and pianist Lucy Wenger explore the writings of female poets as interpreted by male composers. With only a few known selections by Debussy and Poulenc, the duo have assembled a program of new music featuring piano solos and songs [...]
Friday, October 8, 2010
Open Graves (& Friends)
Open Graves is a duo consisting of Bay Area multi-instrumentalist Jesse Olsen and Seattle percussionist/instrument builder Paul Kikuchi. FLIGHTPATTERNS is the second Open Graves album to be recorded in the Dan Harpole Cistern in Port Townsend, WA. Joined [...]
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Seattle Percussion Collective
The Seattle Percussion Collective present a diverse program of chamber music for percussion and other instrumentalists. The concert features a world premiere of Seattle composer Greg Sinibaldi’s Quintet for percussion and piano (with pianist Tiffany [...]
Friday, October 1, 2010
Double Yoko + Orkes Manohara
Experimental performance duo Double Yoko (Beth Fleenor and Paris Hurley) weave their unusual blend of lush orchestral scoring, pointillism and keening noir-pop, using clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, voices and electronics. Orkes Manohara (Krusnedi Sukarwanto [...]
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Faith a Flag Waivers
Event auteur Sharon Alexander organizes another multi-media evening featuring Charles Karasek as Apocalyptic Preacher; Spencer Moody as Compelling Anti-Folk Constituent; Dan Raphael as Visceral Force of Nature. Music by Baby Guns, Krys Mason, Perpetual [...]
Friday, September 24, 2010
Foday Musa Suso
Presented by Nonsequitur.Foday Musa Suso is an internationally recognized musician and a Mandingo griot from the West African nation of Gambia. He formed the Mandingo Griot Society in Chicago, and after thirty-two years there he now lives in Seattle. [...]
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Danse Perdue: Irruptions
Butoh: Danse Perdue (Alex Ruhe, Kaoru Okumura, Vanessa Skantze)Sound: Noisepoetnobody, Joy Von Spain, loopoolAn exquisite night of structured improvisation encompassing surges and shocks, dancing the adaptive mutation of creatures and nature's unbridled [...]
Friday, September 17, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
John Teske: Six Graphic Scores
John Teske is a composer, improviser and double bassist who writes music that provokes thought and reflection. These scores are based on the idea of sound coming in and out of focus. Each score will be performed twice: once with an instrumental ensemble [...]
Friday, September 10, 2010
Scrape: an original music string orchestra
Jazz geniuses Jim Knapp and Eyvind Kang unveil the first phase of a new musical project called Scrape, a conductor-less, democratic ensemble of 15 string players and 2 harpists with Eyvind as soloist/ improviser. The all-original music composed by Jim [...]
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Denney Goodhew & Beth Fleenor = BLING!
Screaming silence in a whirling pool of stillness, BLING! formed in 2004 to bring together mentor and student in a performance dynamic that investigates and activates new levels of awareness. The duo, featuring Denney Goodhew on piano and Beth Fleenor [...]
Friday, September 3, 2010
Seattle Composers' Salon
The Seattle Composers' Salon is an informal presentation of new music by regional composers. The salon meets the first Friday of every other month, and features finished works, previews, and works-in-progress. It brings together composers, performers [...]
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Wyndel Hunt Benefit: CGT/Horist/Galloway
Presented by Nonsequitur.On June 19, Seattle artist/experimental musician Wyndel Hunt was seriously injured in a bicycle accident. All money from this concert goes directly to his recovery fund. Climax Golden Twins is the inscrutable and ever-morphing [...]
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Eric Barber: Solo & Trio
Saxophonist Eric Barber presents new solo works for saxophone as well as trio improvisations featuring Paul Kemmish, bass, and Paul Kikuchi, percussion. This concert will showcase Eric's deep, personal sound world with complex rhythms and meters. Eric [...]
Friday, August 27, 2010
Brazilian pianist Ruth Serrão
Presented by Nonsequitur. Brazilian pianist Ruth Serrão performs a solo program of rarely-heard contemporary music by composers from Brazil: Heitor Villa-Lobos' Prelúdio, Claudia Caldeira's Pra Piano #1, Maria Helena Rosas Fernandes' Ciclo #3, Cesar [...]
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Raymond MacDonald plus 4
World-renowned alto saxophonist from Scotland Raymond MacDonald performs with four of Seattle's finest improvisers: Paul Hoskin, reeds; Tari Nelson-Zagar, violin; Lori Goldston, cello; Greg Campbell, percussi [...]
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Pulses: an evening of minimalism
Saxophonist/composer Ryan Marsh presents a program showcasing music of the minimalist era, and original new works that share a similar style and approach; music by John Adams, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and the premier of Marsh’s own Death and the Angel. [...]
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Michael Pisaro (ensemble)
Presented by Nonsequitur & Seattle Improvised Music. Tyler Wilcox, Gust Burns, Mara Sedlins, John Teske, Wilson Shook, and other Seattle improvisers perform selections from Michael Pisaro's harmony seri [...]
Friday, August 20, 2010
Michael Pisaro (solo)
Michael Pisaro performs the North American premiere of a new composition for solo guitar and sine waves, fields have ears (6). Guitarist/composer Michael Pisaro (born 1961, Buffalo, NY) is currently on the composition faculty at Cal Arts. A member of [...]
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Pran (Greg Powers & Stuart Dempster)
Pran celebrates the release of their new CD, Traveler's Todi. This unique brass duo performs the East Indian style of Dhrupad. Greg Powers is a pioneer in adapting Indian music to the trombone, and is the only trombonist in the world performing this [...]
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Joe McPhee
Presented by Nonsequitur as part of a nation-wide celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Improvisor magazine, the international journal of free improvisation. Free jazz saxophone/trumpet legend Joe McPhee plays a very rare Seattle solo show dedicated [...]
Friday, August 13, 2010
Pulse Emitter + Stella Haze + Spare Death Icon
Gift Tapes presents SYNTH NIGHT 3, an evening of meditative music showcasing distinct minimalist synth works by three NW artists: Pulse Emitter is the synthesizer music of Portland's Daryl Groetsch. Seattle-based Cristin Miller Stella Haze uses vocals [...]
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Tom Varner Quintet
French horn ace Tom Varner and his four top guests — Chris Fagan, alto sax, Eric Barber, tenor sax, Phil Sparks, bass, Byron Vannoy, drums — present an evening of summer sound meditations, new works, selections from Tom's new tentet CD Heaven and Hell, [...]
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Ask the Ages
Ask the Ages brings together new and old friends from several worlds: Greg Campbell, drums; John Seman, bass; Matt Reid, trumpet & electronics; and Brian Heaney, electric guitar and compositions. Joining the quartet are trombonist Stuart Dempster, [...]
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Earshot: Trio Illogic + Helix
Presented by Earshot Jazz as part of their Jazz: the 2nd Century series. Helix is an ensemble with an unusual lineup: two saxophones and two percussionists. Eric Barber and Greg Sinibaldi perform on tenor saxophones, while Paul Kikuchi and Greg Campbell [...]
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Paul Taub & Cristina Valdes
Paul Taub, flute and Cristina Valdes, piano perform music from this century and the last: Aaron Copland, Duo for Flute and Piano; Julie Mandel, Blues for Paul; Olivier Messiaen, Le Merle Noir from Petites Esquisses D’Oiseaux; Jovino Santos Neto, Sertao [...]
Saturday, July 24, 2010
S. Eric Scribner & Neal Meyer
S. Eric Scribner is a pianist, composer, and improviser. Much of his music is involved with aleatory sequences and improvisation. Discarded Poems is a theatrical piece in which the performers gradually move from sounds of the here-and-now into sounds [...]
Friday, July 23, 2010
Andy Hayleck & Paul Neidhardt
Presented by Seattle Improvised Music.Andy Hayleck and Paul Neidhardt, both percussionists from Baltimore dedicated to exploring new sounds and forms through surface and vibration (with Hayleck on computer and electronics as well), are core members of [...]
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Affinity Chamber Players
The Affinity Chamber Players perform music by four contemporary composers, including one world premiere and two local premieres. The program includes Eric Flesher's Three Movements from “Wandering Rocks”, Stephen Lilly's A Sextet of Seven for Ecstya, [...]
Friday, July 16, 2010
Lara Candland & Christian Asplund
Utah-based poet and singer, Lara Candland and composer-performer Christian Asplund have evolved a unique style of performance involving an ethereal and lush mix of speech, singing, live sampling, looping, layering, drones, and electronics. They will [...]
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Gust Burns & Adrienne Varner
Two of Seattle's most notable pianists explore directions in 20th century and contemporary piano music. Adrienne Varner performs Yuji Takahashi's 3 Poems of Mao Tse-Tung and Chained Hands in Prayer, as well as Cage's Music for Marcel Duchamp, for prepared [...]
Friday, July 9, 2010
Boris Savoldelli with Dennis Rea
Italian singer Boris Savoldelli is an inimitable performer who has gained international acclaim for exploring the extraordinary possibilities of the human voice. With a background in classical vocal techniques and jazz singing (under the tutelage of [...]
Friday, July 2, 2010
Seattle Composers' Salon
The Seattle Composers' Salon is an informal presentation of new music by regional composers. The salon meets the first Friday of every other month, and features finished works, previews, and works-in-progress. It brings together composers, performers [...]
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Robert Rich
Nonsequitur presents ambient music pioneer Robert Rich, performing in support of his new album, Ylang, using live electronics with analog modular synthesizer, keyboards and computer, along with his signature handmade flutes and steel guitar to create [...]
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Dance, Tanze, Dança!
Schoenfield’s Samba and rambunctious Square Dance will fiercely contrast with Turina’s Second Piano Trio, while the nostalgic sounds of Tin Pan Alley will complement the Tangos by Albéniz and Piazzolla. Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances will inspire your [...]
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Michael Nicolella & Friends
Classical guitarist Michael Nicolella, along with violinist Irene Mitri, flutist Jim O'Halloran and percussionist Andrew Schloss (all members of Cuban music ensemble Charanga Danzon) will perform a concert of 20th and 21st century chamber music featuring [...]
Friday, June 25, 2010
Gust Burns & Tyler Wilcox: Eulachon
Gust Burns (piano) and Tyler Wilcox (saxophone) present duo improvisations and compositions written for specific musicians, exploring, among other things, the uses of duration, and silence within improvisation and composition. Other performers include [...]
Friday, June 18, 2010
Seattle Pianist Collective: Fine Pop
The Seattle Pianist Collective (Peter V. Stevens, Kelly Wyse and Michael Owcharuk) is committed to the presentation of engaging and open programs of new and used music for piano. Tonight they perform an eclectic and dynamic program of music by living [...]
Thursday, June 17, 2010
The Golden Tree Story
Presented by Jack Straw Productions. The Golden Tree Story (songwriter/vocalist/pianist Cynthia Dillard, guitarist Cameron Peace, bassist Birch Pereira, and drummer Dave Bush) are joined by various friends to perform music from their new CD, Openings, [...]
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Dana Reason + Lisa Miller: Piano Solos
Dana Reason is a leading figure in the new generation of pianists who are equally comfortable on both the jazz and classical concert stages. Born in Toronto, she began studying piano at age three. She was a member of The Space Between, with Pauline Oliveros [...]
Friday, June 11, 2010
Bill Horist
Bill Horist (Master Musicians of Bukkake, Ghidra, Nervewheel) celebrates the release of his latest CD, Covalent Lodge, with two solo sets. The first will represent new acoustic works and pieces from Covalent Lodge. The second set will consist of Bill's [...]
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Beth Fleenor & Denney Goodhew are BLING!
8:00 PM; $5 - $15 sliding scale suggested donation at the door.Beth Fleenor (clarinet) and Denney Goodhew (piano) have collaborated on a variety of projects over the last eight years. Growing out of Goodhew's mentorship of Fleenor at Cornish College [...]
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Keith Eisenbrey
Seattle composer/pianist Keith Eisenbrey will perform his own compositions, as well as exciting new works by local composers Richard Johnson, Brian Cobb, and Sean Osborn. The thematic focus of the recital will be performances of Liebeslied (Amended), [...]
Friday, June 4, 2010
Curtis Taylor: Séance
Filmmaker and theater artist Curtis Taylor presents a brief variety show in the form of a séance. Redd Foxx and Andrei Tarkovsky will both be summoned forth by a concealed medium. Mr. Taylor will screen two short music films, Church Weather and Bachianas [...]
Friday, May 28, 2010
Jessika Kenney & Friends
Presented by Nonsequitur.Jessika Kenney is well known to Seattle audiences as a long-time member of Gamelan Pacifica and Seattle Harmonic Voices. Tonight she will be joined by violist Eyvind Kang, Iranian tar player and vocalist Parvaneh Daneshvar, and [...]
Friday, May 21, 2010
Richard Webb: Lullabies for Falling Empires
Lullabies for Falling Empires was formed by composer Richard Webb after recording Under the Sour Trees, released as a split CD with producer/musician Jherek Bishoff. The group has been writing a collaborative song cycle that consists of chamber music, [...]
Saturday, May 15, 2010
An Evening of Paper
Pilot Books presents An Evening of Paper – unfolding as probable and improbable geography of the arts. Creative events auteur Sharon Alexander has arranged a montage of ideas, images and sounds for your experience and enjoyment. The early evening tabling [...]
Friday, May 14, 2010
SOMF: Anna Homler & Friends
Presented by Nonsequitur & Seattle Occultural Music. Los Angeles vocalist Anna Homler sings in a spontaneous mystery language, extending the possibilities of meaning and communication and blurring the line between words and music. She is joined by [...]
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Seattle Occultural Music Festival
The Third Annual Seattle Occultural Music Festival celebrates new and experimental music in the Pacific Northwest of psychic, ecological, or otherwise deeply resonant importance. Our diverse program incorporates performers and composers spanning the [...]
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Shelley Hirsch
Presented by Nonsequitur. Based in New York City, Shelley Hirsch is an unorthodox, extraordinary fusion of vocalist, composer, and performance artist whose work encompasses story telling, staged performances, compositions, improvisations, collaborations, [...]
Friday, May 7, 2010
Seattle Composers' Salon
The Seattle Composers' Salon is an informal presentation of new music by regional composers. The salon meets the first Friday of every other month, and features finished works, previews, and works-in-progress. It brings together composers, performers [...]
Thursday, May 6, 2010
WA Composers Forum 25th Anniversary
Presented by Washington Composers Forum and Jack Straw Productions as part of WCF's Transport Series.Washington Composers Forum celebrates its 25th anniversary with a concert of world and regional premieres featuring the Icicle Creek Piano Trio, Pacific [...]
Friday, April 30, 2010
Rachel Matthews: New Chamber Music
Presented by Jack Straw Productions with assistance from 4Culture.Long known to Seattle-area audiences as a pianist, Rachel Matthews presents an evening of her recent compositions. The program includes Voices of Trees for clarinet and piano, featuring [...]
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Peter Garland: Solo Piano Concert
Presented by Nonsequitur and Washington Composers Forum.The reclusive Maine composer Peter Garland (see previous post for bio) performs his own works for solo piano spanning four decades: Three Dawns (1981-82), After the Wars (2007-08), Bush Radio Calling [...]
Friday, April 23, 2010
Peter Garland: Music for Small Ensembles
Presented by Nonsequitur and Washington Composers Forum.Peter Garland is one of the great heirs of the cranky American Experimental Tradition that includes composers such as Ives, Ruggles, Cowell, Cage, Harrison, Nancarrow, and Partch. Currently living [...]
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Wally Shoup/Gust Burns/Mark Ostrowski Trio
Three of Seattle's most experienced free improvisers join forces to present an evening of "Heavy Chamber Jazz". Saxman Wally Shoup, pianist Gust Burns, and drummer Mark Ostrowski combine intuitive interaction, harmonic exploration and rhythmic propulsion [...]
Friday, April 16, 2010
Cuong Vu + Greg Sinibaldi & Goat
Presented by the Improvised Music Project and Earshot Jazz.Join Cuong Vu’s internationally acclaimed quartet (with Stomu Takeishi, Ted Poor and Luke Bergman) for a live recording of Vu’s originals along with the group’s interpretations of a set of standards [...]
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Cuong Vu + Bad Luck + Operation ID
Presented by the Improvised Music Project and Earshot Jazz.Cuong Vu’s quartet teams up with Bad Luck and Operation ID. Bad Luck offers tightly-woven original compositions and is co-led by drummer Chris Icasiano and saxophonist Neil Welch (both UW Music [...]
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Cuong Vu + Heatwarmer
Presented by the Improvised Music Project and Earshot Jazz.Join Cuong Vu’s internationally acclaimed quartet (with Stomu Takeishi, Ted Poor and Luke Bergman) for a live recording of Vu’s originals along with the group’s interpretations of a set of standards [...]
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Jay Hamilton: FRED
Composer Jay Hamilton and the Turtling Dithers (Maurice Colasurdo, guitars; Darryl Estes, winds; Gordon Frazier, other stuff) present Fred, a new work that is the sequel to Cassero [...]
Friday, April 9, 2010
Gebhard Ullman Trio + JA Deane
Presented by Earshot Jazz & Nonsequitur, with support from the Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department and the Goethe Institute.German multi-reed virtuoso Gebhard Ullmann is considered one of the leading personalities in today's Berlin and international [...]
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Danse Perdue: "Atrocity Exhibition: Prequel"
Presented by Danse Perdu. This performance is an initial foray into explorations based on original writing by Alex Ruhe and inspired by the nakedly empathetic witnessing of everyday violence by artists and writers such as our teacher Atsushi Takenouchi, [...]
Friday, April 2, 2010
Zachary Watkins & Tiffany Lin
Presented by Nonsequitur. Movable, long commutes between loved ones, music for motors and resonant strings is the elusive yet evocative title for the new composition by Bay Area composer Zachary James Watkins. This new evening length work, premiered [...]
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Wayne Horvitz/Briggan Krauss/Lê Quan Ninh
Presented by Earshot Jazz, with support from the CMA/FACE French-American Jazz Exchange. Featuring keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, tenor saxophonist Briggan Krauss, and percussionist Lê Quan Ninh, this is a diverse and crackling trio. The band, of course, [...]
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Clifford Dunn & Racketology
Seattle’s newest ensemble dedicated to new music, Racketology, gives its first public performance with a program full of new works intended to reinvigorate excitement for experimental music. Ensemble members include Clifford Dunn (flute), Brianna Atwell [...]
Friday, March 26, 2010
Occultural Music Festival Benefit
This fundraiser for the upcoming third annual Seattle Occultural Music Festival features ten very different guitarists performing 10-minute sets: Dave Knott, Lori Peterson, Ken Jacobson, Resistor, Tom Baker, Crystal Perez, Demian Johnston, Sky Lynn, [...]
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Danny Holt + Steven Arntson
Los Angeles-based pianist Danny Holt’s Piano/Percussion Project situates the pianist amidst an array of percussion instruments, as he is called on to perform on both simultaneously. An eclectic lineup of composers from around the globe has written works [...]
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Splash! – Contemporary Cowboy"
Seattle chamber group Splash! (Roger Nelson, piano; Janna Wächter, voice; special guest soprano Anneliese von Goerken) present an evening of traditional cowboy songs, Morton Feldman and Jarrad Powell piano works, Ivan Sokolov and Charles Ives songs, [...]
Friday, March 19, 2010
Karen Bentley Pollick: Violin & Alternating Currents
Presented by Nonsequitur. Karen Bentley Pollick gives the Seattle premiere of four new compositions for violin with electronics by Alabama composers: Charles Norman Mason's Metaman, Dorothy Hindman's Fantasia for Karen Alone, Capital Spheres by Michael [...]
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Splash! – Contemporary Cowboy"
Seattle chamber group Splash! (Roger Nelson, piano; Janna Wächter, voice; special guest soprano Anneliese von Goerken) present an evening of traditional cowboy songs, Morton Feldman and Jarrad Powell piano works, Ivan Sokolov and Charles Ives songs, [...]
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Crepuscule Trio + Vertigo
Presented by Nonsequitur. Operating for many years under the radar of the Los Angeles mainstream jazz world, the Crepuscule Trio represents the most fundamental and vital aspects and values of what came to be termed "free jazz." Saxophonist Ken Kawamura, [...]
Friday, March 12, 2010
Wyndel Hunt + Christopher DeLaurenti
Wyndel Hunt integrates melody and noise using electronics, acoustic instruments, field recordings, and the occasional piece of amplified trash. His recent work focuses on conceiving narrative, painting, and sculpture as analogues for structuring composition [...]
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Affinity Chamber Players: Young Adventurers
The Affinity Chamber Players plus soprano Kimberly Giordano, present a program of adventurous new music chosen from works submitted in response to Affinity’s call for scores, the call for scores for the Young Adventurers Competition, plus the music of [...]
Friday, March 5, 2010
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, March 4, 2010
Transport Series: Mari Kimura
Presented by Washington Composers Forum. Violinist Mari Kimura continues the great tradition of the virtuoso composer/performer. She embraces the worlds of extended violin techniques and interactive computer music, making them her own. She is also well [...]
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Lubomyr Melnyk: Continuous Music
Presented by Nonsequitur & Unseen Worlds Records. Read a preview in The Stranger.Ukrainian-Canadian composer/pianist Lubomyr Melnyk's Continuous Music is based on the principle of a continuous, unbroken line of sound from the piano, created by generating [...]
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Fisher Ensemble: At the Hawk's Well
The Fisher Ensemble, led by composer Garrett Fisher, present their eighth chamber opera, At the Hawk’s Well, based on a play by Irish poet W. B. Yeats. Reviewed in the Wall Street Journ [...]
Friday, February 26, 2010
Fisher Ensemble: At the Hawk's Well
The Fisher Ensemble, led by composer Garrett Fisher, present their eighth chamber opera, At the Hawk’s Well, based on a play by Irish poet W. B. Yeats, the first play in English that emulated Japanese Noh theater. Performers include vocalists Jeremiah [...]
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Seattle Improvised Music Festival
Presented by Seattle Improvised Music and Nonsequitur, with assistance from 4Culture. The 25th annual Seattle Improvised Music Festival concludes with music by Jeffrey McGrath (trumpet), Greg Powers (trombone), Chris Cochrane (guitar), Evan Gallagher [...]
Friday, February 19, 2010
Seattle Improvised Music Festival
Presented by Seattle Improvised Music and Nonsequitur, with assistance from 4Culture. The 25th annual Seattle Improvised Music Festival continues with music by Michael Johnsen (home made electronics); Kelvin Pittman (saxophones); Gust Burns (piano)/Mara [...]
Thursday, February 18, 2010
SPEAK: CD Release Concert
The bombastic post-jazz quintet speak celebrates the release of their debut CD on Origin records. Be prepared for soaring, beauteous melodies, cataclysmic free improvisations, pluck-at-your-heartstrings indie-rock ballads, muscular aggro-metal and sure-fire [...]
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Seattle Improvised Music Festival
Presented by Seattle Improvised Music and Nonsequitur, with assistance from 4Culture. The 25th annual Seattle Improvised Music Festival continues with music by Wilson Shook (alto saxophone)/Jack Wright (saxophone)/Robert Pedersen (electronics)/Paul Neidhardt [...]
Friday, February 12, 2010
Seattle Improvised Music Festival
Presented by Seattle Improvised Music and Nonsequitur, with assistance from 4Culture. 2010 marks the 25th Anniversary of the Seattle Improvised Music Festival with two consecutive weekends. Tonight: Birgit Ulher (trumpet)/Leonel Kaplan (trumpet)/Jaime [...]
Friday, February 5, 2010
Seattle Chamber Players
The Seattle Chamber Players perform an evening of music by Armenian composer/keyboardist Artur Avanesov. The program also features music of Tigran Mansurian, the leading composer of Armenia and a mentor of Avanes [...]
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Is That Jazz? Tom Baker Qt. + Cuong Vu Trio
IS THAT JAZZ? Festival is dedicated to daring and exploratory artists who are redrawing the boundaries of jazz. Presented by Seattle Composers' Salon, Present Sounds Recordings, Seattle Percussion Collective, and Nonsequitur, with support from 4Culture. [...]
Friday, January 29, 2010
Is That Jazz? Bad Luck + Jesse Canterbury & Vertigo
IS THAT JAZZ? Festival is dedicated to daring and exploratory artists who are redrawing the boundaries of jazz. Presented by Seattle Composers' Salon, Present Sounds Recordings, Seattle Percussion Collective, and Nonsequitur, with support from 4Culture. [...]
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Is That Jazz? Bill Smith Trio + Threat of Beauty
IS THAT JAZZ? Festival is dedicated to daring and exploratory artists who are redrawing the boundaries of jazz. Presented by Seattle Composers' Salon, Present Sounds Recordings, Seattle Percussion Collective, and Nonsequitur, with support from 4Culture. [...]
Friday, January 22, 2010
Is That Jazz? Sunship + Sun Ra Tribute Band
IS THAT JAZZ? Festival is dedicated to daring and exploratory artists who are redrawing the boundaries of jazz. Presented by Seattle Composers' Salon, Present Sounds Recordings, Seattle Percussion Collective, and Nonsequitur, with support from 4Culture. [...]
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Seattle Percussion Collective
See previews at Seattle Times and the Stranger.The Seattle Percussion Collective presents their second program, Metal and Breath: An Evening of Contemporary Music. The concert will include the rarely heard jazz-influenced All Set (joined by Brian Cobb, [...]
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Amy Denio + Beth Fleenor & Figeater
Presented by Nonsequitur.Amy Denio is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and singer based in Seattle. Since the mid-80s she has maintained a constant flurry of musical activity spanning many genres: free improvisation, art rock, scores for dance and [...]
Friday, January 8, 2010
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, [...]
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