Category Archives: Event

Solo performance by Marcin Pączkowski, followed a trio featuring Don Berman, Heather Bentley, and Ewa Trębacz in their first appearance together since their show last summer at the Olympia Free Jazz Festival. 

Marcin Pączkowski, a Seattle-based composer, conductor, digital artist, and violinist, holds the position of Music Director for the Evergreen Community Orchestra. He earned his PhD from the University … Read More →

The Kora Dance Ensemble combines West African traditional songs and strategies,  jazz influences on upright bass and clarinets, and the silent music that is dance.

This ensemble consists of four members: Janelle Bel Isle (dance), Eric Likkel (clarinets), Brady Kish (upright bass) and Chet Corpt (kora). We draw on our experiences within many genres – jazz, blues, soul, Western classical, Turkish … Read More →

A live evening of free guitar improvisation by Carlos Cotallo Solares and Ryan Carraher, each unfolding a distinct approach to the instrument and its electronic extensions. Together, in duo and solo configurations, they engage the guitar’s uncanny versatility within a framework of spontaneous composition. Perussionist Aaron Michael Butler joins to present a new work for vibraphone and electronics by … Read More →

The Red Pants Collective, a movement and sound project formed by father/daughter duo Giordana and James Falzone, are joined by very special guests from NYC and Seattle. The evening will weave improvised moments with Klezmer music and lefty political songs in Yiddish.  

Tariq Mitri: movementAlyza DelPan-Monley: movementGiordana Falzone: movementBonnie Whiting: percussionHanz Araki: shakuhachiAndrew Drury: drums and percussionMichael Winograd: clarinetIra Temple: accordionJames Falzone: … Read More →

MICHIKO O (Michiko Ogawa) (Tokyo/Berlin/San Diego) is a researcher-composer touring work from her just-released album, Pancake Moon (Futura Resistenza, Belgium). These compositions are for shō and pre-recorded materials, her shō-playing “like a device that warps and expands time and space”.

Andrew Drury returns to Seattle from Brooklyn, NY, here to join the Seattle/Tracyton spontaneous composition duo known as ‘what‘ (A.F. Jones, steel guitars/electronics; … Read More →

Sid Samberg, a composer-pianist originally from Chicago (based in Seattle since 2020) is honored to perform in the Wayward Music Series for a third time, sharing a warm evening of music in the cold final days of autumn. He will perform his original works for piano solo, which explore meditations on dreams, nature, close personal relationships, and the global climate … Read More →

Stephen Fandrich is a piano soloist, composer, builder of instruments and creator of interactive sound installation. The piano and piano prepared with various sound altering additions to the strings, combined with a physically modeled Fender Rhodes, will showcase his piano playing, improvisational talents and gifts for instrument making and sound design. Fandrich’s Improvisations are long in form, erase time and … Read More →

Sh’ma is the project of musician Trevor Eulau, among collaborators, aimed at bringing together contemplative practice, meditation, and elements of Jewish mysticism together with various types of improvisation. Sh’ma is the Hebrew word for “listen”, and also the name of the central mantra and prayer in Jewish meditation. It is precisely what we seek to embody in this project, … Read More →

Michele Khazak was so excited to perform for you on November 20th. Very sadly, Michele suddenly and unexpectedly passed away on October 17th. In the wake of this tragic loss, we are turning November 20th into a tribute concert for her. You will still get to hear Michele’s voice, as well as experience arrangements and improvisations from many members … Read More →

thee dialectic, a new piece by Gust Burns, explores dynamics engendered by the difference between the continuous and the discrete. Through compositional strategies of syncope and sustain, this most basic of dialectical relations is clarified, developed, and complexified across an open compositional framework for sextet (2 basses, 2 violins, 2 saxophones). Improvising trio Fidelities (Gust Burns, piano; Troy Schiefelbein, vocals; Mark Kaylor, drums) moves across … Read More →