Border Crossings: New Music from US & Canada

Seattle composer Brad Sherman and Christopher Gainey (University of BC) team up again for a concert of new and exciting music by Canadian and USA composers. They each have premieres on the concert: Stipple and Crosshatch for guitar and violin, and Whiskey [...]

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Girma Yifrashewa + Amy Rubin

Presented by Nonsequitur & Unseen Worlds.Girma Yifrashewa is Ethiopia’s most famous living pianist and composer. Using traditional tunes as a foundation, Yifrashewa’s compositions combine the ecstasy of Ethiopian harmony with the grandeur of virtuoso [...]

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Earshot: Eric Ring + Paul Kikuchi's Autonomic Ensemble

Presented by Earshot Jazz. Pianist Eric Ring’s solo piano submission to Second Century shows the pianist in a pensive mode. He writes: “This music is an exploration of texture, voicing and song in small compositions...these pieces are deliberately quiet.” [...]

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New Music from the Deep North

Cellist Karl Knapp and percussionist Bonnie Whiting travel south from Alaska to present new works by Seattle composers Nat Evans and John Teske, along with music by Martin Bresnick, Qu Xiao-Song, and John Steinmetz. [...]

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Substrata 1.3 : Day 3

Concluding Substrata’s evening performance program, this showcase presents an amalgam of the most acutely distinct vocabularies to be heard in the sub-genres of post-minimalist and electro-acoustic music. Pure digital programming giving voice to glistening [...]

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Substrata 1.3: Day 2

The second night of Substrata plays host to an evening of the 21st century continuance of folk, psychedelic, free form and non-rock traditions of the electric guitar. Far removed from its central pop culture role as the locus of the rock band, these [...]

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Substrata 1.3: Day 1

Substrata Festival explores varying perspectives of scale though the use of sound, composition and visuals. Tonight we offer electronic structures and rhythms drawing on conceptual references ranging as far as the isolated landscapes of Iceland, the [...]

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Jeph Jerman

For over twenty-five years, Jeph Jerman has been a seeker of sound. In 2010 he recorded a series of drone pieces using pot lids and metal bowls, played in the manner of Tibetan singing bowls. Titled arrastre, these were released as a three-part work [...]

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Earshot: Syrinx Effect + Chemical Clock

Presented by Earshot Jazz. Jazz: The 2nd Century is Earshot's annual juried showcase featuring Seattle artists performing original, forward-looking music, in a concert setting. Syrinx Effect is an experimental platform for trombonist Naomi Siegel and [...]

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Stuart Dempster & Dennis Rea: Double Tanabata Birthdays!

Presented by Nonsequitur.Seattle composers Stuart Dempster and Dennis Rea celebrate their shared birthday that falls on July 7, which is also the Japanese Tanabata festival. Dempster premieres Seventy Seven Sevens, featuring nine trombonists surrounding [...]

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Seattle Composers' Salon

The Seattle Composers’ Salonfosters 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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