Nonsequitur presents two fine pianists: Larry Karush (Los Angeles) is a composer/improviser with roots in jazz, 20th century classical, African-based percussion, and the music of North India. Dawn Clement (Seattle) has toured with the Sabella Consort, the Rubin/Clement Piano Dialogues, and Jane Ira Bloom. Her recent CD, Break, is on Origin.

Soprano Natalie Lerch, violinist Adrianna Hulscher, cellist Paige Stockley Lerner, and pianist Oana Rusu Tomai play Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s piano trio and vocal music by Amy Beach, Libby Larsen and Emma Lou Diemer.

DoubleSharp & Nonsequitur present the distinguished Russian piano duo of Olga Skorbyashchenskaya and Konstantin Uchitel perform a program dedicated to the centenary of the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music: music of Grieg, Leonid Desyatnikov, Mikhail Milner, Konstantin Uchitel, Brahms, Ravel, Yurii Krasavin, Schubert, Yulii Engel, Goldfaden-Milner, and Mikhail Gnesin.

Subtext Reading Series. Janet Sarbanes is the author of the short story collection Army of One (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions 2008), and is currently completing a novel entitled This Land: The Adventures of the President’s Daughter. She teaches narrative writing and theory in the CalArts MFA Writing Program, and cultural studies in the School of Critical Studies. She has recently published in Popular Music and Society, Utopian Studies, Black Clock, Afterall, and the anthologies Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography and the Noulipan Analects. Doug Nufer writes prose and poetry as a rule, some of which he performs alone or with musicians or dancers, some of which has appeared in Bird Dog, Golden Handcuffs Review, and Monkey Puzzle. His novels include Never Again (Black Square), Negativeland (Autonomedia), On the Roast (Chiasmus), and The Mudflat Man/ The River Boys (soultheft). His recent book is a collection of Oulipian poetry, We Were Werewolves (Make Now).

Composer Wayne Horvitz presents a workshop performance of The Heartsong of Charging Elk, a new oratorio for 4 voices and 10 chamber instruments based on the historical novel by James Welch in collaboration with Sherman Alexie, with libretto by Rinde Eckert and additional text by Robin Holcomb.

8:00 PM; $5-$15 suggested donation at the door.

The Seattle Composers’ Salon is a bi-monthly, informal presentation of new music by Seattle composers. May Composers: Richard Johnson, Steve Luksan and winners of the Seattle Music Teachers’ Simon Fiset Composition Contest: Bryan Zhap, Conner Jensen, Robert Yamann, Benjamin Davis, Kevin Ke, Ernest So.

Washington Composers Forum presents Montreal-based Quasar Saxophone Quartet, in Seattle for the first time to present works by Quebecois composers: Procession by Jean-François Laporte, for blown organ pipes; Claude Vivier’s Pulau Dewata, influenced by the composer’s stay in Bali; Miroir des vents by Luc Marcel; and Michel Frigon’s Geyser Ghetto. The concert also features the premiere of EMMAUS by Northwest composer Donald Stewart. The Interval series presents video by filmmaker Lisa Young-Kutsukake accompanying music by composer Robert Fleisher.

Fresh off the road from their brief residency in the thriving metropolis of Twisp, WA, this all-star dectet reunites to pay tribute to the inspirational iconoclast Sun Ra by playing many of his compositions from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Expect sparkly robes, processions, group vocals, and planetary alignment. The cast of characters includes Stuart Dempster: trombone, Bill Smith: clarinet, Tom Baker: guitar, Greg Sinibaldi: saxophone, Michael Monhart: saxophone, Jim Knodle: trumpet, Lynette Westendorf: piano, Greg Campbell: percussion, horn, Dan O’Brien: bass, Bill Moyer: percussion

Inspired by the Greek myth, Psyche follows the quest of the wrathful Aphrodite to ruin Psyche, a mortal rumored to be more beautiful than the goddess herself. This new chamber opera features music by Garrett Fisher, libretto by Thom Schramm, direction/dramaturgy by Ken Cerniglia, choreography/co-direction by Christy Fisher, and puppets/costumes by Tori Ellison. Like Fisher’s other works, Psyche explores the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western traditions by combining such diverse elements as haiku, an eclectic ensemble, melodies and rhythms that incorporate Indian classical traditions, stylized movement, and puppets inspired by various Asian traditions.

Nonsequitur presents sound artists Seth Nehil & Matt Marble (Portland), and Corey Fuller (Bellingham). All three explore a wide range of textures and formal strategies with an emphasis on the microscopic details of everyday sounds and objects. Residing somewhere between ambient drone and musique concrete, it’s a music of radical subtlety and intimacy. Nehil & Marble will collaborate on a duo set; Fuller plays solo.