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 imagination to carry you away to the hills of Transylvania. Featuring Victoria Parker, violin, Arthur Zadinsky, violin, Eric Gaenslen, cello, Oana Rusu Tomai, piano, Derek Zadinsky, bass and Parker Duo, violin and guitar.

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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 works for both classical and electric guitar by composers Lou Harrison, Toru Takemitsu, Jacob ter Veldhuis, Robert Beaser, Barbara Kolb and Michael Nicolella.

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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 Wilson Shook (saxophone), Mara Sedlins (viola), and Mark Collins (bass).

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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 composers, including Henryk Gorecki, Wayne Horvitz, and Peter Vukmirovic Stevens, featuring new works for piano and Buddha Machine.

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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, recorded during an Artist Support recording residency at Jack Straw Productions.

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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 (accordion) and Philip Gelb (shakuhachi). She has worked with bassists Lisle Ellis, Barre Phillips, Jöelle Léandre, Peter Kowald, and Matthew Sperry, as well as saxophonist Joe McPhee, trombonist George Lewis, and saxophonist Jon Raskin. She currently leads a trio with bassist Dominic Duvall and drummer Tim DuRoche.

Sharing the evening will be Vancouver pianist, Lisa Miller. Her work combines her interests in jazz, modern composition, and free improvisation in a vibrant and challenging context. She performs with Eyvind Kang, Dylan van der Schyff, Peggy Lee, Jeremy Berkman, Jesse Zubot, Ron Samworth, Alita Dupary, Steve Smith, the NOW Orchestra, ion zoo, and stop time.

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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 trademark electric prepared guitar improvisations.

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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 of the Arts, where Fleenor studied privately and in ensemble settings, the two began performing together professionally in 2004 in Goodhew's band, the Qhromatics. Bling! began in 2005 as an outlet for the duo to further explore motion, tone and color, in the form of improvised chamber music.

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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), Keith's 2006 completion of Benjamin Boretz's intriguingly unfinished Liebeslied (1974), together with two large scale works that branch directly from it: Boretz's 1976 (“...my chart shines high where the blue milks upset...”), and the pianist's 2010 Sonata Liebeslied.

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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 No. 5. There will also be an excerpted stage reading from A White White Day, a work-in-progress being created for his 2011 residency at New City Theater in Seattle. Music by the folk-grass duo The Gloria Darlings.

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