Concerts

Lung Tree is a trio of Bay Area composer/improviser Eric Glick Rieman (prepared Rhodes Electric Piano and piano) and Seattle musicians Lesli Dalaba (trumpet), and Stuart Dempster (trombone.) Brought together by Glick Rieman in 2004, the trio has released one CD on the ReR Megacorp label and performed sporadically since then. Coming from the subtle …

Co-presented by Subtext Reading Series and Nonsequitur. The Dada intermedia artist Kurt Schwitters‘ epic Ur Sonata is arguably the great sound poem to emerge from the various experimental art movements of the early 20th century. Structured in a classic four-movement sonata form (plus introduction, finale, and cadenza), the work explodes language (German) and recasts the …

Co-presented by Earshot Jazz Festival & Nonsequitur. Marilyn Crispell has established herself as one of the most virtuosic and fiercely expressive pianists around, performing complex music with extraordinary precision, power, and grace. A string of successful albums for ECM debuted her trio of Gary Peacock and Paul Motian. Crispell’s most recent solo effort, Vignettes, presents …

Friday, October 17 & Saturday, October 18. Listen to an interview with Garrett Fisher on KUOW. Seattle composer Garrett Fisher and his ensemble return to the Chapel with the definitive version of their latest chamber opera. Psyche tells the story of wrathful Aphrodite’s quest to ruin Psyche, a mortal who is considered to be more …

October 8, 9, & 10; co-presented by SLAM and Nonsequitur, with support from 4Culture and the Viva la Musica Club. SLAM! returns for its second year with a focus on solo, chamber, and electro-acoustic music by Latin American composers of our time. This year’s featured composer-in-residence is Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil). Local and visiting performers …