Concerts

Presented by Nonsequitur and Washington Composers Forum. Well known as a classical music writer for the Seattle Weekly and radio commentator on KUOW, Borchert is also an accomplished composer whose works are heard all too infrequently. Performing along with the composer/pianist will be an ace ensemble of local musicians: soprano Hope Wechkin, pianists Amy Rubin …

Pianist, composer, and photographer Amy Rubin & Friends in Motion, featuring Matthew Weiss, violin; Jacques Willis, vibes and percussion; and Alex Sprout Guy, viola. VJ Hugo Solis joins the ensemble in the premiere of Rubin’s new work The Hidden Life of Flowers, in which he uses a computer to manipulate and transform Amy’s photographs in …

Frederic Rzewski is one of America’s great maverick composers and a virtuoso pianist. A student of Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt, and Luigi Dallapiccola, his music freely combines elements of minimalism, atonality, improvisation, folk songs, and political texts. Rzewski was a co-founder, with Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum, of MEV (Musica Elettronica Viva), a …

Chapel Performance Space; co-presented with Seattle Improvised Music as part of the 23rd annual Seattle Improvised Music Festival. Dutch musician Jozef Van Wissem plays perhaps the most unlikely instruments in the world of contemporary improvised music: the Renaissance and Baroque lute. He has accomplished the odd feat of bridging the idiom of seventeenth century lute …

Celebrating 25 years of Illusion of Safety, as well as two new releases, core member Daniel Burke intrepidly charts the terra incognita where sound, silence, noise and music intersect. Using conventional instruments, sound generating devices and random objects, IOS hews sonic sculptures that deliberately provoke, mesmerize and even affront listeners. Expect minimal drone, maximum power, …