Presented with assistance from DXARTS. UK composer Charles Celesté Hutchins comes to Seattle as part of his west coast tour and is joined by Seattle composers and performers Don Craig, Ewa Trebacz, Hector Bravo Benard, and Joshua Parmenter for an evening of digital and experimental music with video.

YESOD is Bill Wolford (banjo, guitar, mandolin, ukulele, trumpet, harmonica, found objects), Ahmad Yousefbeigi (percussion, found objects), and Jerry Schroeder (bass, effects, percussion, found objects). The group dissects, digests and reshapes their individual influences and experiences into a uniquely familiar musical sum, delivering deep rhythms and delicate acoustic textures. Vocalist Infinite Milam brings her warm, soulful voice and shamanistic depth to the mix. 

A meeting of four drummers on the Seattle creative music scene: Don Berman, Greg Campbell, Chris Icasiano, and Gregg Keplinger. The first half features a solo by each musician; post-intermission, they team up for a quartet.

Presented by Nonsequitur. NYC-based bassoonist and instrument builder Leslie Ross performs a series of pieces for micro-amplified bassoon and quadraphonic speakers, with/without laptop. With fifteen microphones placed directly on the tone holes of the bassoon, the signals are directed to four speakers, taking apart the sound of the instrument to create a thickly textured listening environment.

Composer/saxophonist Ivan Arteaga presents an evening of new works. Ivan Arteaga – compositions, alto saxophone; Neil Welch – tenor saxophone; Greg Sinibaldi – baritone saxophone; Jared Borkowski – guitar; Katie Jacobson – voice; Cameron Sharif – piano; Evan Woodle – drums; Greg Belisle-Chi – guitar.

For its season finale, Seattle Modern Orchestra is very excited to present three pieces of contemporary classical music that each use space in a unique and nontraditional format: György Kurtág’s ….una quasi fantasia…, Iannis Xenakis’ Eonta, and EisBerg, by SMO’s own Jérémy Jolley. With guest pianists Cory Hamm and Cristina Valdes.

Mouth of Gravity consists of Denney Goodhew on piano, guitarist Mark Oi, and drum ace Adam Kessler. Movement artist Alia Swersky is a performer and teacher engaged deeply in the vital act of dance improvisation. Together they delve into vacillating kaleidoscopes of color, shape and velocities one moment, a piercing whisper the next, the bull’s rush of a butterfly’s breath.

Cellist and composer Lori Goldston performs composed and improvised works, a warm-up for her first solo tour of Europe. She will also be joined by violinist Julie Baldridge and percussionist Greg Campbell.

The Tom Varner Quintet (Varner, French horn/composer; Mark Taylor, alto saxophone; Eric Barber, tenor saxophone; Phil Sparks, bass; Byron Vannoy, drums) present a mix of improvisations, new works for quintet and selected works from Tom’s three acclaimed 1990s quintet CD’s, The Mystery of Compassion, Martian Heartache, and Swimming. Also, a couple of new pieces adapted from Tom’s newest recording project, Nine Surprises, a new work for nonet, to be released this Fall.

Don’t miss the truly amazing rumbly sounds of brand new bass clarinet duets by local composers as played by Jenny Ziefel and Beverly Setzer. Come hear the world premieres of Jazz Set for two bass clarinets by William O. Smith, Three Dances by Jim Knodle, and Cobweb by Daniel Barry, along with Colombian Dances by Mauricio Murcia Bedoya and Dark Embers by Theresa Martin.