Category Archives: Event

A daring program by the arx duo and Skyros Quartet mixes rhythm and melody in an intricate and beautiful tapestry. New works commissioned by the ensembles are featured alongside other wonderful pieces from the 20th and 21st centuries. Featuring new works from Michael Laurello and Christopher James Dietz, the combination of string quartet and percussion is powerful and unique.

Founded in 2011, Seattle’s … Read More →

A celebration of the life and works of Ashley Pær Svn. 

Doors at 7:30, music starts at 8 PM. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.

Please join us as we grieve, rejoice and share gratitude for Ashley Pær Svn. Ashley Svn’s contributions to the experimental music in the Northwest have ranged in scale from the individual … Read More →

Libby Gray, flute, and Julie Ives, piano, present a recital of music chosen to reflect the turmoil and grace of the human experience during the recent pandemic. Featuring music from Sofia Gubaidulina, Cathy Collinge Herrera, Charles Ives, Allison Loggins-Hull, Joseph Schwantner, William Grant Still, and Toru Takemitsu, this program presents meditations on nature and the African American experience from … Read More →

What Is Man and What Is Guitar?, a short film about iconic abstract musician Keith Rowe (U.K., France), directed by Bob Burnett and Seattle-area musician Alan F. Jones, is presented in its first Seattle screening.

“…one of the best films about a musician I’ve seen. ” — Sasha Frere-Jones

Keith Rowe has spent a lifetime exploring the relationship between sound and … Read More →

Improvisations and Meditations for Julius Watkins

Join top French horn improviser Tom Varner for a series of works with Neil Welch, Greg Campbell, Samantha Boshnack, Jim Knodle, and more. In the concert’s second half, these improvisers will be joined by ten French horn players in a “sound meditation” honoring Tom’s hero, the great French horn pioneer Julius Watkins (1921-1977), who … Read More →

Puget Sounds Wind Quintet members perform with Village Theatre, Fifth Avenue Theatre, Symphony Tacoma, Seattle Symphony/Opera and other groups, and come together to produce their own music in the form of a quintet representing the winds of the orchestra.The Living & Breathing Wind Music program presents an array of contemporary classical selections by five living composers, ranging from the literal representation of nature … Read More →

A night of spontaneous compositions from three of Seattle’s finest musicians and longtime members of the creative music scene.

Internationally recognized composers Sam Boshnack (trumpet, flugelhorn) and Amy Denio (alto sax, clarinet, accordion, voice) join renaissance man Greg Campbell (drums, percussion, gongs, french horn) for a night of spontaneous composition and musical exploration.  Working with loose themes, these accomplished beacons … Read More →

Obscure & Terrible presents a dual cassette release show featuring Orgone Donor and RN White with an opening set from John Saint-Pelvyn.Originally assembled as an aural complement to a paranormal-themed museum opening show, Orgone Donor (V.Vecker, Dustin WIlliams, Riley Reasor) are a dense fog of electronics and saxophone. After their first show slated to take place March 13th, 2020, was cancelled and much of the … Read More →

Tamara Zenobia will share her work as Vocal Alchemist using her voice to transcend space and time and bring you galactic messages from within her self-built pyramid. In this performance she will be using singing bowls, pan drum, and other world instruments to bring her stories together. 

Seating will be primarily on the floor, with chairs arranged for those who would like them. … Read More →

Kyle Hanson is a non-traditional accordionist and has developed an oscillating bellows technique that produces shimmering waves of sound. This evening’s set will consist of luscious clouds of rhythmically articulated, slowly-unfolding tone clusters, populated with ghostly suggestions of melody, notes hovering in the air.Erin Jorgensen will play a half-improvisatory, half-structured set of meditative, dreamy landscapes on her five-octave marimba. … Read More →