The Any Ensemble performs a hybrid of composed and improvised music, written to be interpreted by any group of instruments. The ensemble for this show includes Taina Karr, oboe; Kate Olson, clarinets; Emma Ashbrook, bassoon; Alex Guy, viola; Natalie Mai Hall, cello; John Teske, double bass; Paul Kikuchi, percussion. They will perform new music composed by Paul Kikuchi, John Teske, and other Seattle composers.

Presented by Nonsequitur. This tribute to the brilliant Butch Morris, who passed away earlier this year, features two of his close friends and colleagues – Wayne Horvitz (Seattle) and JA Deane (New Mexico) – using the conduction techniques developed and pioneered by Morris with the Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble, featuring some of Seattle’s finest improvisers: Ivan Arteaga, Sam Boshnack, Ryan Burns, Chris Credit, Eric Eagle, Beth Fleenor, Craig Flory, Geoff Harper, Jacob Herring, Al Keith, Steve O’Brien, Christian Pincock, Naomi Siegel, and Jacob Zimmerman.

Two long-time collaborators share a piano concert of epic stillness.

Neal Meyer continues his exploratory celebration of the silence of John Cage with a performance of the seminal graphic-score Solo for Piano from Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1958).

Keith Eisenbrey presents his recent contemplative pitch stereoscope: Welcome to my planet. I come in peace. Two frameworks, joined at the source, phased (in specious increments), cogs and gears, mutually warped and warping, rounding space.

The Seattle Composers’ Salonfosters the development, performance and appreciation of new music by regional composers and performers. At bi-monthly, informal presentations, the Salon features finished works, previews, and works in progress. Composers, performers, and audience members gather in a casual setting that allows for experimentation and discussion. Everyone is welcome! Composers for this month: Brad Anderson, Phillip Arnautoff, Keith Eisenbrey, David M. Shere.

Valve trombonist Christian Pincock presents new compositions for two groups: a quartet with saxophonist Greg Sinibaldi, tubist Jon Hansen and drummer Max Wood; and a live composition ensemble of saxophonists Evan Smith, Ivan Arteaga, Adrian Noteboom and Levi Gillis, trombonist David Marriott and percussionists Chris Icasiano, Evan Woodle and Greg Campbell. The quartet features jazz compositions influenced by Latin American rhythms and free improvisation. The live composition ensemble explores the combination of gestures used to organize improvisation combined with pre-conceived structures and compositions.

For our first benefit concert,  Seattle Modern Orchestra welcomes pianist Stephen Drury for an exciting and virtuosic solo recital. Drury’s program features three works rarely heard in Seattle:

Serynade by German composer Helmut Lachenmann focuses on the inevitable natural law that the sound of the piano is always fading out, and explores how the piano sound can be kept alive, worked and shaped to stop its death and therefore, time.

John Cage’s Etudes Australes consists of 32 indeterminate pieces written using star charts, which results in an unbound independence of the performer’s hands.

Finally, Charles Ives’ Concord Sonata represents his “impression of the spirit of the transcendentalism” of Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, and Thoreau.

Presented by UW Department of Music. The Improvised Music Project‘s annual IMP Fest returns with three nights of out jazz, improvisation, and new music by UW students and master players. Tonight, King Tears Bat Trip + Japanese Guy + How Glass Is Made.

Presented by UW Department of Music. The Improvised Music Project‘s annual IMP Fest returns with three nights of out jazz, improvisation, and new music by UW students and master players. Tonight, Eric Revis with Ted Poor, Cuong Vu, Greg Sinibaldi and students. Also: Sequoia.

Presented by UW Department of Music. The Improvised Music Project‘s annual IMP Fest returns with three nights of out jazz, improvisation, and new music by UW students and master players. Tonight, the great guitarist Bill Frisell leads a student ensemble. Also: Insistent Caterpillars!

Presented by WA Composers Forum. Denise Fillion and Chris Graham are members of the Iktus Percussion collective. The New York-based percussion/piano duo perform works with electronics: John Luther Adams’ Red Arc / Blue Veil (2002); Adam Haws’ The Third Eye (2013 – world premiere); Bruce Hamilton’s Attractors (2013 – world premiere) and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Kontakte (version for tape, piano and percussion) (1960).