Confluence/Influence

The Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble has joined forces with Karin Stevens Dance to produce an evening of new work created through an idiosyncratic Composer/Choreographer pairing. Four composers have been paired with four choreographers to generate the new work, together, from the ground up. Featured artists: Karin Stevens Dance + Michael Owcharuk, UMAMI Performance + Beth Fleenor, Amy Weaver + Catherine Grealish, and Khambatta Dance Company + Stephen Fandrich.

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Confluence/Influence

The Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble has joined forces with Karin Stevens Dance to produce an evening of new work created through an idiosyncratic Composer/Choreographer pairing. Four composers have been paired with four choreographers to generate the new work, together, from the ground up. Featured artists: Karin Stevens Dance + Michael Owcharuk, UMAMI Performance + Beth Fleenor, Amy Weaver + Catherine Grealish, and Khambatta Dance Company + Stephen Fandrich.

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Pacific Exchange 2012

The Pacific Exchange concert series brings composers and performers from diverse areas of the Pacific Rim together in order to exchange ideas and emphasize their commonalities. This year’s Pacific Exchange events have taken place in Tokyo, the SF Bay Area, and now Seattle, featuring new music and collaborations by Paul Kikuchi (Seattle) with his group Portable Sanctuary, and the Thingamajigs Performance Group (Oakland). Pacific Exchange 2012 is co-presented by Prefecture Records.

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Adrienne Varner, piano

Pianist Adrienne Varner performs music for solo piano: Philip Glass, Opening; Janice Giteck, Tara's Love Will Melt the Sword; Henry Cowell, The Tides of Manaunan and The Voice of Lir; Jarrad Powell, Ellie and Prelude; John Cage, In A Landscape and Dream; Bunita Marcus, Sugar Cubes (for John Cage).

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Gavin Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic

Presented by Nonsequitur. Composer Steve Peters and over thirty Seattle artists commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Titanic tragedy with an epic realization of The Sinking of the Titanic (1969), by British composer Gavin Bryars. The three-hour performance features six different half-hour segments of improvisations based on hymns played by the ship's band as she sank: winds (trombonist Stuart Dempster, trumpeter Lesli Dalaba, clarinetist Beth Fleenor, contrabass clarinetist Paul Hoskin, French hornist Greg Campbell); strings (violinists Claude Ginsburg, Tari Nelson-Zagar, and Mara Sedlins, cellists Paul Rucker and Lori Goldston, bassist Evan Flory-Barnes); free reeds (Amy Denio, Marchette DuBois, Steven Arntson, Tiffany Lin); solo piano by Robin Holcomb; and chorus. Also: Toy piano by Tiffany Lin! Period 78s on vintage Victrolas by Climax Golden Twins! Field recordings by the Seattle Phonographers Union! Electronic processing by Joshua Parmenter! Percussion by Dean Moore and Dale Speicher! Video projections by Killing Frenzy!

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Natalie Lerch & Guinever Saenger

Come experience the visions of spring through the music of Messiaen, Crumb and Heggie - and featuring music by Seattle composers, David Duvall and Don Skirvin. The music in this concert evokes images of birdsong, rustling leaves, moonlight and the spring-like weather we crave! Performed by soprano Natalie Lerch and pianist Guinevere Saenger.

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Jay Hamilton: Who are you, and how do you know?

Jay Hamilton & the Turtling Dithers ( Maurice Colasurdo, Roger Nelson, Paul Karaitis). Who are you, and how do you know? explores how we perceive ourselves, how we think we are perceived, and how we are remembered. The piece is in three sections: the Overture sets out some ideas about this; Lir, based on a story in Brut by a secular English priest circa 1200, is about building an empire to be remembered. Enkidu, from Gilgamesh legend, is about how even shards can keep us remembered thousands of years later.

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Clifford Dunn, Anne LaBerge, Lisa Miller

Improvisations and compositions by Clifford Dunn, flute and electronics; Anne LaBerge, flute; Lisa Miller, piano; with guests Tom Baker, guitar and Jessika Kenney, voice.

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SCRAPE + Bill Frisell: Village

Scrape, an original music string orchestra, performs a selection of recent music by Bill Frisell, including pieces from the Sign of Life and Kaddish suites, composed at the Vermont Studio Center in 2010/11. Also on the program are pieces by Eyvind Kang and James Knapp, featuring Bill Frisell as soloist, and vocalist Jessika Kenney.

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SCRAPE + Bill Frisell: Village

Scrape, an original music string orchestra, performs a selection of recent music by Bill Frisell, including pieces from the Sign of Life and Kaddish suites, composed at the Vermont Studio Center in 2010/11. Also on the program are pieces by Eyvind Kang and James Knapp, featuring Bill Frisell as soloist, and vocalist Jessika Kenney.

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