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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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