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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Non Grata

The flagship big band of the Monktail Creative Music Concern, NON GRATA consists of all given members of the Monktail collective at a given point, and relies on patterns, textures and forms developed through ensemble practice. It is new composition in [...]
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