John Teske premieres “quartet for sustaining voices,” exploring the harmonic colors that arise between four voices as they blend in different combinations. Written for any four sustaining instruments, this performance realizes it for guitar, vibraphone, cello, and double bass. Performed by Matt Benham, Aaron Michael Butler, Lady Zade, and the composer.

Stephanie Wood fittingly premieres the first of … Read More →

Pianist-composer Jared Redmond performs works celebrating the centennials of composers Morton Feldman, György Kurtág, and Betsy Jolas, as part of his fall 2026 US and South Korean tour. Jolas’s lush, expressionistically dense dissonances, influenced by Balinese gamelan and Messiaen, contrast with the terse, crystalline miniatures of Kurtág’s Játékok (Games) series – offerings from two major figures of contemporary music … Read More →

Ted Poor is a Seattle-based drummer, composer, and producer whose adventurous, soulful playing has vaulted him to the stages of some of today’s most vital artists. Modern Drummer describes his playing as “adventurous, truly dynamic, and forward-thinking.” A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Ted has toured and recorded with renowned artists such as Paul Simon, John … Read More →

Brooklyn-based saxophonist, Caroline Davis‘ solo performances are chosen spontaneously, given the atmosphere of the room and the people present. She explores sonic textures offered by interactive technologies, sharing sounds from the saxophone that she considers to be distinctive and quirky and using Pure Data patches developed by the open source community surrounding the Organelle. The music during this … Read More →

Jaap Blonk, one of the most highly regarded improvising vocal artists and an important participant in the international improvised music community, will make a rare Seattle appearance. Jaap will perform solo works and will be joined by Seattle musicians Bonnie Whiting (percussion), Steph Richards (trumpet), and James Falzone (clarinet/piano) who, together, will play an opening set. 

Jaap Blonk (born … Read More →

Returning from their West Coast tour, Seattle’s somesurprises layers dream pop vocals over celestial guitars, synths, and samples, and Portland’s Ilyas Ahmed radiates cosmic solo guitar compositions. Morgan Henderson, best known as a member of Blood Brothers and Fleet Foxes, opens the night.

somesurprises is the Seattle-based band led by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Natasha El-Sergany. Born in Letterkenny, … Read More →

The Seattle Chamber Orchestra opens their 5th season with a concert built around a remarkable coincidence: two of the 20th century’s most singular composers, Hungarian miniaturist György Kurtág and American sound-sculptor Morton Feldman, were both born in 1926. That makes 2026 their shared 100th birthday, and SCO marks the occasion by putting their music side by side for an … Read More →

Oakland experimental duo Grex joins percussionist Chris Icasiano and bassist/composer John-Carlos Perea for an evening of songs and improvisations. Grex celebrates the release of its new album “Auntie + Tebs,” which explores stories of revolution in the Philippines and South Africa. Icasiano, Perea, and Grex will perform individual sets, convening for ensemble pieces at the end of the program.Grex has been … Read More →

Upright bassist, singer and composer Carmen Quill presents music from her forthcoming album Harmless. The Seattle-born, Brooklyn-based artist’s songs are unconventional and unassumingly virtuosic, with vivid countermelodies, improvised responses, and richly arranged development sections often directly reflecting her pithily insightful lyrics. Quill will be joined by longtime Scree bandmates Ryan El-Solh on guitar and Jason Burger on drums, … Read More →

Breakfast Calculus is a duo project of Teagan Faran (strings) and Leo Sussman (winds). Based in Ithaca, NY, the nesting pair met while personifying various rare birds in a John Luther Adams piece, and they haven’t stopped squawking and honking together ever since. Dedicated to rambunctiously pluralistic noise-making, Leo and Teagan celebrate life’s simple pleasures – from buttermilk … Read More →

Doors open 7 PM.

Morgan O. celebrates the release of her new album “Now Time” and performs songs from the album. The songs were written for a theater show entitled The Unicorn Crosses the Stream by Emmy Smith Stewart and Jeffrey Azevedo. The show explores grief for queer elders lost during the AIDS epidemic, the effects of an … Read More →

Composer Nat Evans performs his new album, What Are Days For. Written over the course of three years, this new album by Nat Evans considers the grief of losing loved ones, relationships with plants, surfing, home, and the light of the west coast. 

Fuzzy radios, bass and warm guitar tones drift through field recordings and clouds of synthesizers humming … Read More →

Explore hidden acoustic worlds and immersive soundscapes during a boundary-pushing night of electroacoustic music, featuring concrete experimentalists Kamran Shafii, CAEN (Gordon Ashworth), and BLSPHM (Demian Johnston).

Kamran Shafii (Persian: کامران شفیعی) is an Iranian sound artist working in the field of electroacoustic music. His recent work is characterized by its concern with anthropogenic sound and complex auditory experiences, drawing … Read More →

Co-presented by South Hudson Music Project and Nonsequitur. Full festival details here.

Recipient of the 2019 American Prize in Orchestral Composition and the 2016 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, composer Wayne Horvitz has created new work for The Kitchen, BAM, Seattle Symphony, Kronos Quartet, Berlin Jazz, Nocco, Vienna Radio Orchestra, Centrum, and ACT among others. Coming of age in NYC … Read More →