Author Archives: Steve Peters

The Creative Horn Collective, comprised of the Pacific Northwest’s best improvising French horn players, performs their original and specially arranged compositions unlike anything you have experienced before.

Led by Matt Shevrin, horn player, composer and arranger, the CHC is making its debut performance at Good Shepherd’s Chapel Performance Space. Originally appearing as The Jazz French Horn All Stars in 2025 … Read More →

Under the moniker, esc, Rawivati’s current musical endeavor “Mother of the Pearl; the Annihilator” is an effort inoculated in years as a musician and circus performer. A piano based experimental musical work that raises a physical veil to reveal a more vulnerable self hidden beyond the body. A meshed network of veiled objects too vast to express themselves in … Read More →

Formed in the Summer of 2025, the duo of rising star DoYeon Kim and native Seattlite Andrew Drury brings together two visceral and pioneering musicians who channel Korean and radical percussion traditions. The performance will feature wide-ranging musical improvisation (with embedded compositions) evoking chaos, order, catastrophe, and calm.

DoYeon Kim (b. 1991, Seoul) is internationally recognized for introducing the gayageum, a … Read More →

Elias Hampton is a Seattle-based musician known in jazz-adjacent spheres as a guitarist. While guitar-playing may be the most densely forested neck of his musical ‘woods’, his work with different artists lends itself toward other nestled roles like producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter. He recently played at the Earshot Jazz Festival alongside some of the area’s finest musicians. He’s played … Read More →

Ryosuke Kiyasu (Tokyo, Japan) is an internationally acclaimed snare drum soloist, active since 2003. He has performed in 60+ countries, energetically displaying deconstruction of the drummer and the instrument.

Globe Discount Center (Shanghai, China): Consumer-gear driven AV failures. Cables lead nowhere or don’t get plugged in. Things break. There are voices.

Toothsayer (Seattle): Quartet combining two duos, Strange Bedfellows and Till … Read More →

Join Matt Sargent, Ben Luca Robertson, & Aaron Michael Butler for an evening of actuated strings, microtonal guitar, percussion, & bespoke instrumentation. 

Matt Sargent is a composer, guitarist, recording engineer, and music technology specialist based in upstate New York, where he is an assistant professor of music at Bard College. His music grows from resonance, memory, the making/breaking of patterns, … Read More →

Seattle Guitar Circle culminates a weekend intensive retreat with a performance featuring the ensemble and special guests, with ambient support from our friend and collaborator Travis Metcalf.

Seattle Guitar Circle is a multicultural guitar ensemble founded in 1993, representing an international community of music and education founded with Guitar Craft in 1985.  Its members and composers hail from many different … Read More →

Nonsequitur kicks off the 2026 NonSeq concert series with a special performance introducing this year’s team of Community Curators:

RM Francis is an artist working with computer-generated sound, with a focus on the unique perceptual effects of the simulated human voice and the unstable auditory personae that emerge from artificial speech systems. Alongside this inquiry into the material properties of … Read More →

Enter a world where sound is spirit, and every performance is a ceremony. Tiger Poems, a trio of visionary explorers, conjures a unique universe where the rigorous spontaneity of free improvisation meets the primal pulse of animistic trance ritual.

Hear the voice as a wild, untamed instrument. Arrington de Dionyso (Old Time Relijun, Malaikat dan Singa) channels guttural overtone singing … Read More →

James Falzone presents Mystery of Winter Skies, new music for the rare combination of string quartet and penny whistles. Commissioned and premiered in 2025, the work is a meditation on the mystery of existence and natural beauty. 

Featuring: 

James Falzone: composer and penny whistlesAlex Guy: violinLuke Fitzpatrick: violinErin Wight: violaRose Bellini: cello 

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