Category Archives: Event

SFI Recordings presents an Evening of Inner Reflections featuring performances by the troubadour of modern new age music, Future Museums, along with duo Elrond, who will be performing a set of tranquil synth soundscapes augmented by crystal singing bowls, as well as the live debut of Seattle’s New Frontiers (who released their debut album (of) Inner Dimensions on SFI recordings in … Read More →

Led by pianist/composer Wayne Horvitz, Gravitas Quartet explores the intersection of chamber music and improvisation, with a broad palette of texture, sonority, rhythm, and ensemble fluidity, and a unique instrumentation. Horvitz’s wide-ranging compositions provide a compelling platform for untethered improvisations, woven together by the dynamic ensemble interplay of four master practitioners: Wayne Horvitz (piano), Peggy Lee (cello), Sarah Schoenbeck … Read More →

Inverted Space presents an evening showcasing both the seeds and fruit of American Experimentalism. Starting with the early seeds, the group will perform John Cage’s Nocturne and 6 Melodies as well as Varied Trio by Lou Harrison. Then we will present two works by Vera Ivanova for solo piano, Black Echo and Karkata. Fresh off Seattle Symphony’s performance of Together, This Journey, Inverted Space will play a piece Charles Corey wrote for the ensemble … Read More →

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Clarinetist Rachel Yoder and composer Greg Dixon join forces as Odd Partials, transforming the clarinet through effects pedals, Max/MSP, and modular synthesis, in compositions by Yoder, Dixon, Jenni Brandon, Jessi Harvey, and William O. Smith.

Clarinetist Rachel Yoder is a Seattle-area contemporary music specialist and instructor of clarinet at Western … Read More →

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Right Brain Records hosts a concert of improvised music showcasing some of Seattle’s finest. Headlining are two internationally recognized performers, vocalist/saxophonist extraordinaire Amy Denio and experimental guitar virtuoso Bill Horist. You’ll also hear free improv quartet Levitation (Don Berman on drums, Carol J Levin on electric harp, Matt Benham on guitar/electronics, and Dick Valentine … Read More →

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Mutantrumpet composer/performer Ben Neill will perform Trove, a series of richly textured ambient pieces based on Fibonacci structures that emanate entirely from his instrument’s acoustic timbral improvisations.

Composer/performer Ben Neill is the inventor of the Mutantrumpet, a futuristic, electro-acoustic instrument, and is recognized as a musical innovator who creates “art music for the people” (Wired Magazine). Neill blends ambient, … Read More →

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In her first public performance in three years, Crystal Beth (aka: Beth Fleenor) returns to the Chapel to start fresh and reignite the cauldrons. In this solo incarnation, she uses amplified clarinet, wailing vocals, and electronics to weave a sonic universe all her own. Known for crafting aural rituals … Read More →

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Composer/sound artist Breana Tavaglione utilizes composition as a means to paint with sound, creating an immersive sensory experience in which she deconstructs conceptual themes in order to convey a specific mood or aesthetic, transporting listeners to an alternative sonic landscape. She graduated from California Institute of the Arts in … Read More →

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Pianist Ann DuHamel performs new and recently composed music — thought-provoking, imaginative, evocative music — about the climate crisis. 

Ann DuHamel’s performances have been praised as poetic and “… a delight for the ears and the soul” (Encuentro Universitario Internacional de Saxofón, Mexico City). She has performed in 18 countries, including concerts at … Read More →

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This evening, directed by Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh and composer Amy Denio, and co-created with the performers, celebrates the wayward girls who lived in the Good Shepherd Center, their lives real and imaginary. 

While attending a performance at the Chapel, which we do frequently, my husband exclaimed, “the house of the … Read More →