Presented by Subtext Reading Series.

Fred Wah is the author of about twenty books, including the award-winning bio-fiction Diamond Grill, which was re-released in the fall of 2006 with NeWest Press. His book of poetry Waiting For Saskatchewan won a Governor General’s Award in 1985. His book Faking It: Poetics and Hybridity, Critical Writing 1984-1999 won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Writing in Canadian literature. A new book, Sentenced to Light, is forthcoming from Talonbooks. Wah was one of the founding editors of the poetry journal TISH. He currently lives in Vancouver, BC.

A native of Southern California, Lou Rowan began his writing career in New York City, and now lives and writes in Seattle. His current projects include a novel about the losing of the West, a sequel to My Last Days (Chiasmus), stories, and his editorial duties at Golden Handcuffs Review. He’s also the author of Sweet Potatoes (Ahadada).

Elizabeth and John Falconer, aka Duo En, will perform music for koto, bass koto, and shakuhachi, featuring works from their newly-released CDs of compositions by the great Japanese composer Sawai Tadao, as well as their own original works. The concert will also include guest artist Marcia Takamura on shamisen, and a premier of a multi-media work for shakuhachi created by photographer Douglas Ethridge.

Casserole: Another musical with a tale – a new work by Seattle composer Jay Hamilton, with guitarist Maurice Colasurdo and saxophonist Darryl Estes. A couple of guys sitting on a porch playing some music, telling a story about a man who is down and out. Someone Jay met while sitting in the Portland train station waiting to come home. It’s a love story, and a gentle tragedy, told mostly in song.

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. The salon features finished works, previews and works-in-progress, and brings together composers, performers and audience members in a casual setting that allows for discussion and experimentation. This month’s composers: Keith Eisenbrey, Robert Blatt, Carson Farley, Peter Freeman.

Presented by Washington Composers Forum and Jack Straw Productions. Violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim and pianist Cristina Valdés perform Bird as Prophet by Martin Bresnick, Sonata for Violin and Piano by John Corigliano, Music in Fifths by Philip Glass, Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano by George Antheil, and Three Epigrams by Bruce Bennett.

The Seattle EXperimental Opera presents the world premiere of HUNGER: The Journey of Tamsen Donner, a new chamber opera by Seattle composer Tom Baker, on a text by poet Ruth Whitman. With Maria Mannisto, soprano; Jesse Canterbury, clarinet; Greg Campbell, percussion and horn; Brian Cobb, bass; Tom Baker, guitar; Production Design by Alissa Rupp; Choreography by Beth Graczyk; Lighting Design by Reed Nakayam. HUNGER tells the tragic tale of the Donner Party through the eyes of Tamsen Donner, the matriarch of that ill-fated group of pioneers who experienced unimaginable suffering on their westward journey.

Local trumpeter-about-town Jim Knodle and the The New Brass Trio (Los Angeles trombonist Michael Vlatkovich and Seattle French hornist/percussionist Greg Campbell) present their second Seattle concert, featuring music expressly written to take advantage of the wonderful resonance of the Chapel. Brass ensembles are known for rich “organ-style” triadic harmony. This will be somewhat different; possibly astringent sounds and formats ranging from scalar matrices to an arrangement of Monk’s Mood.

Nonsequitur presents pianist, composer, and photographer Amy Rubin & Friends in Motion, featuring Matthew Weiss, violin; Jacques Willis, vibes and percussion; and Alex Sprout Guy, viola. VJ Hugo Solis joins the ensemble in the premiere of Rubin’s new work The Hidden Life of Flowers, in which he uses a computer to manipulate and transform Amy’s photographs in real time. The rest of the evening is devoted to music by the late, great Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla, who almost single-handedly reinvented the tango with his bold mixture of jazz and classical elements.

Presented by Washington Composers Forum as part of the Transport series. The Slide Show Secret was established in 2004 by German accordionist Eva Zollner and Icelandic double bassist Kristjan Orri Sigurleifsson and is now situated in Copenhagen, Denmark. Both have a special interest and experience in contemporary music and are attracted by the many unexplored sound possibilities of this unique combination of instruments. For this concert they will play recent works and music chosen from a call for scores. The program includes new music by Icelandic and Danish composers: Ingi Gardar Erlendsson (b. 1980) Molar (2005); Úlfar Ingi Haraldsson (b. 1966) Secret Psalms; Haukur Tómasson (b. 1960) Reaction (2007) (US-premier); Bent Sørensen (b. 1958) Looking on Darkness (2000); Ivo Nilsson (b. 1966) Doppelzimmer (US-premier); Steingrímur Rohloff (b. 1971) Archetyp (2005). The Interval series presents video by filmmaker Jessica Aceti accompanying music by Greg Pliska.

Presented by Subtext Reading Series. Steve McCaffery is a poet, performance/intermedia artist and critic. A founding member of Toronto Research Group and sound-text ensemble the Four Horsemen, his most recent poetry collections are The Basho Variations and Paradigm of the Tinctures. A substantial collection, Slightly Left of Thinking, is forthcoming. He is David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters, University at Buffalo. Interrupture, a game for two or more poets, is a composition-game structure by Bryant Mason, a founding member of Seattle’s Subtext Collective.