Concerts

Karen Bentley Pollick gives the Seattle premiere of four new compositions for violin with electronics by Alabama composers a week after their world premiere at the Birmingham Museum of Art. In collaboration with video artist Sheri Wills, Charles Norman Mason‘s Metaman explores the concept of soloist as a visual and aural landscape. Dorothy Hindman fuses …

A solid working unit for many years but operating under the radar of the mainstream jazz world in the Los Angeles area, the Crepuscule Trio represents the most fundamental and vital aspects and values of what came to be termed “free jazz.” Consisting of three outstanding musicians – saxophonist Ken Kawamura, bassist Anthony Shadduck, and …

Presented in partnership with Unseen Worlds Records. Read a preview in The Stranger. Ukrainian-Canadian composer/pianist Lubomyr Melnyk‘s Continuous Music is based on the principle of a ”continuous” and unbroken line of sound from the piano, created by generating a constant flow of rapid notes, usually with the pedal sustained non-stop. As in the music of …