The Winds of Change Duo, consisting of Bobby Collins (horn) and Cassie Fry (piano), brings you into the music making through a fun and relaxed atmosphere and informative introductions. They perform all works by composers from underrepresented communities, delighting audiences around Washington State and introducing unique and rarely heard gems for horn and piano.

“Worlds Collide” was recently recorded and will be released as an album this Spring. It features pieces for horn and piano from BIPOC composers ranging from avant-garde to simply beautiful, and from solemn to playful. Our performance will also feature two arias, sung by Bobby.

Program: 

“La Fritanga (The Barbeque)” – Victor Agudelo
“Evening Reveries” – Usamah Mustafa
“Blobfish’s Dream” – Ming-Hsiu Yen
“Celdas” – Darwin Aquino

“Toreador Song” from Carmen – George Bizet
“I am the very model of a modern Major General” from Pirates of Penzance – Gilbert and Sullivan

“Golden Hour” – Cait Nishimura
“Boatman’s Work Song of the Li River” – Daixuan Ai (World Premiere)
“The Photo Wall” – Green Seo (World Premiere)
“Dos Canciones para Corno Francés” – Fulvio Villalobos

The Force of Listening #5 presents six sonic and visual works presented by artists from across the US and Mexico to create an evening of experimental ambience, music, and sound art coming on the heels of this year’s Campbient session, organized by REALMOREREAL. Artists include Lisa Ann Schonberg (Brookyln, NY), NINA NINA (Veracruz, Mexico), Mary Edwards  (Brooklyn, NY), Kafele Williams (Omaha, Nebraska), Theo Krantz Santa Fe, NM), Jenn Howd (Cincinnati, OH), Amber Cortes (Seattle, WA) and Julia Edith Rigby (Santa Ana, CA).

Rory Somers is a Seattle-based trumpeter, composer, and improviser working in jazz and improvised music. He is joined by drummer Ethan Horn, guitarist Cole McKittrick, and saxophonist Coen Rios for an evening of original compositions and collective improvisations. 

Coming through the UW Improvised music program together, the four have explored wide ranges of music-making, from acoustic chamber jazz to electronically affected improvisations. 

QUIET TIME is an immersive live experience by Kassa Overall and Corey King, inspired by the Chapel at Good Shepherd Center. The idea traces back to a familiar childhood moment: long car rides, restless energy in the back seat, and a parent finally calling, “OK… quiet time.” Following the unexpected power outage during Overall’s 2025 Earshot Jazz Festival set at Hidden Hall, which transformed the room into a raw, acoustic listening experience, QUIET TIME expands on that moment of stillness. The performance features acoustic instrumentation, minimal sound reinforcement, and reduced lighting to create an intimate and focused sonic environment. Complete silence is requested throughout the performance, aside from natural moments of response such as applause and crowd participation. Upon entry, guests will receive sealed pouches for their phones.

Kassa Overall is a Grammy-nominated jazz artist, drummer, emcee, singer and producer. He seamlessly blends jazz, hip-hop and avant-garde experimentation into a sound uniquely his own. His music is both innovative and accessible, pushing the boundaries of genre while remaining deeply engaging. 

A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Overall has been a driving force in the jazz world for over two decades. A child drum prodigy from Seattle, he taught himself to make beats on an MPC and an ASR 10 acquired by his father at a police auction. Mentored by Wallace Roney and Billy Hart, he has toured and recorded with renowned artists like Geri Allen, Jon Batiste, Steve Coleman, Vijay Iyer, Bilal, Yoko Ono, Terri Lyne Carrington, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Sullivan Fortner and Gary Bartz. His production work can be heard on albums by Theo Croker, Arto Lindsay, Lakecia Benjamin and Danny Brown. In 2020, he was called “one of modern jazz music’s most audacious futurists” by Pitchfork. He is a 2025 recipient of the Doris Duke Foundation Prize.

Overall has released six critically acclaimed mixtapes and albums, including I Think I’m Good and Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz. On CREAM, his most recent solo studio album, Kassa Overall pays homage to the twin passions of his youth — hip-hop and jazz drums in the tradition of Elvin Jones. With this collection of instrumentals, the visionary drummer and producer transforms beloved songs from the 90s and aughts into timeless standards that are rhythmically adventurous, witty, and often sublime.

Corey D. King is an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, producer, and composer whose extraordinary talent has resonated globally. With a Grammy win in 2021 for co-producing and writing on Esperanza Spalding’s groundbreaking album, “Songwrights Apothecary Lab,” King has firmly established himself as a creative force in the industry. Having shared the stage and studio with iconic figures such as Milton Nascimento, Gil Scott-Heron, Bonobo, Dr. Lonnie Smith, DJ Premier, Glen Hansard, Mos Def, Bilal, and Takuya Kuroda, King boasts an impressive musical portfolio. Currently touring with the legendary Iggy Pop, his versatile skills have left an indelible mark on the world of music.

Based in the vibrant musical scenes of Berlin and Seattle, King’s solo ventures include the critically acclaimed albums Lashes and A Loveless Sunken Sun, which garnered widespread recognition from influential publications like Hypebeast, Afro-Punk, Earmilk, Complex UK, and Bonafide. These albums showcase the depth of King’s artistry, blending songwriting, captivating vocals, and masterful instrumental performances.

Curated by Cuong Vu for Nonsequitur‘s NonSeq series.

Presented by Continuum Culture & Arts

Jason Kao Hwang – violin, viola, compositions
Ken Filiano – bass
Andrew Drury – drum set

With origins reaching back to the Asian Arts Movement and New York Loft scenes of the 1970s, and work in ensuing decades in Jazz, opera, film, and with artists such as Henry Threadgill, Anthony Braxton, Butch Morris, Wadada Leo Smith, Pauline Oliveros, Reggie Workman, Tomeka Reid, and many more, Jason Kao Hwang manifests a uniquely multi-faceted legacy in American music in this rare trip to Seattle. Playing together in various formations for over 20 years, Jason Kao Hwang’s Human Rites Trio moves through both freely improvised and intricately composed sonic landscapes with expansive imagination and ESP-like communication.

Bassist Ken Filiano performs around the world, fusing the rich traditions of the double bass with his own seemingly limitless imagination. A “creative virtuoso” (JazzValley), Ken has performed and recorded with a veritable who’s who in multiple genres—Anthony Braxton, Bobby Bradford, Connie Crothers, Bill Dixon, Vinny Golia, Joseph Jarman, Joelle Leandre, Warne Marsh, Hafez Modirzadeh, Roswell Rudd, ROVA, Pablo Ziegler, and many more.

Drummer Andrew Drury—a fifth generation Seattleite and mentee of Ed Blackwell for nearly a decade—has presented The Forest and his duo with DoYeon Kim at the Wayward Music Series. A pioneer of extended wind techniques for drums he has played and recorded with Myra Melford, Wadada Leo Smith, Robert Dick, JD Parran, Michael Doneda, Warren Smith, Mark Dresser, Elliott Sharp, Tomeka Reid, Kris Davis, and many more. Drury founded the innovative non-profit organization Continuum Culture & Arts in 2015.

Continuum Culture & Arts (CCA) is a multi-prong organization started by Andrew Drury that presents performances, publishes recordings and books, supports and incubates other artists’ work in a variety of media in many ways, facilitates international cultural exchange, highlights the legacies of elders, and brings world-class artists into vulnerable and historically marginalized communities. 2026 marks the fifth consecutive year in which CCA is presenting activity in partnership with Seattle’s Low Income Housing Institute. CCA is presenting Jason Kao Hwang’s Human Rites Trio at two LIHI facilities during this tour.

  “…this is heavy, profound music.” – Philip Freeman, Downbeat Magazine

Doors open 7 PM.

The Northwest Experimental Guitar Orchestra is an ensemble of musicians from diverse performative backgrounds, with members in Seattle, Bremerton, Portland, and surrounding regions. They perform new works that explore alternative methods of scoring, conducting, and technology integration, favoring methods that avoid traditional Western music notation, making participation accessible to everyone, regardless of background, training, or education. They will present three new works by Blake DeGraw, including a composition for prepared guitars and a piece conducted by a side-scrolling video score, projected onto the wall. Visuals will be provided by Maisy Gibbons.

Daniel Reyes Llinás, a Colombian-born, Portland-based guitarist and composer, will perform Electric Counterpoint, one of the most celebrated works for electric guitar. Performing live alongside a pre‑recorded backing track of layered guitars, Llinás will honor the 90th anniversary of the iconic American composer. His interpretation highlights both the rhythmic vitality and the meditative clarity that have made Electric Counterpoint a landmark of contemporary music. In the words of Steve Reich:

I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music. Performing and listening to a gradual musical process resembles: pulling back a swing, releasing it, and observing it gradually come to rest; turning over an hour glass and watching the sand slowly run through the bottom; placing your feet in the sand by the ocean’s edge and watching, feeling, and listening to the waves gradually bury them.

Waxing Gibbous Quintet will present music for strings, woodwinds, and vibraphone. This sound is made with sustained harmonic frequencies and is inspired by the sonority of Otter Falls. John Teske (contrabass), Hanna Broback (violin), Justin Lazar (clarinet), Aaron Micheal Butler (vibraphone), Noel Kennon (viola, clarinet, composition).

The Trillium String Quartet strives to program works that reflect the breadth of the artistic communities we have had the privilege to be a part of and influenced by. Using an educator’s lens to demystify the act of musical performance, we curate accessible concert experiences where we share our personal connection to the music that we play. 

Crossing Paths is our program containing works written by composers who have crossed paths with us either in meeting or asynchronously. It demonstrates how music written for the living, by the living, can highlight our common ground and give us reasons to connect and understand each other. It features works for string quartet by Caroline Shaw and Jesse Montgomery, who both attended the Kinhaven School where we are now faculty, as well as works by composers with ties to Seattle like Aidan Gold and Gabriella Smith.

Coen Rios presents a set of original compositions and freely improvised music, as a final showcase for his graduate degree at the University of Washington.

Coen Rios is a saxophonist and composer, specializing in jazz and improvised music. Pacific Tribute is an intentional homage to the geography and people that Coen grew up around, going through original compositions, while blending in electronics and visuals to the performance. The group is composed of musicians that he has shared the last few years with musically.

Coen Rios – Saxophone
Rory Somers – Trumpet
Jai Kobi Kaleo’okalani Lasker – Guitar
Cole McKittrick – Guitar
Natalie Song – Piano
Riley Tobin – Bass
Ethan Horn – Drums

Doors open 7 PM.

This trio concert celebrates the return of free jazz saxophonist Booker T. Williams Jr., a legend of Seattle late-night jam sessions in the 1960s, who has come back to Seattle after forty years in NYC jamming with the giants of the jazz avant garde, including Archie Shepp, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, and Henry Threadgill. Booker joins Greg Campbell on drums and bassist Pete Leinonen, who frequently accompanied Booker T. in those late night sessions at The Llahngaelhyn and The Vault, and is proud to be reunited with Booker T.  Seattle music lovers may know Greg from his work in straight-ahead jazz and free improvisation, classical and jazz French horn playing, or traditional West African drumming. Anything can and probably will happen.

Partners is a new suite of music for septet composed by Michael Owcharuk (piano), featuring Kate Olson (saxophones), Alex Guy (violin), Heather Bentley (viola), Maria Scherer Wilson (violoncello), Abbey Blackwell (bass), and Kyle Doran (drums). The piece explores different aspects of partnership: a spouse, friend, parent, child, co-worker, fellow commuter, shopkeeper, all the great and small partnerships we form short- and long-term through our lives. The music is based on themes from Ukrainian folk, tango, Berber folk, and Americana, and are treated in combined classical and jazz forms to highlight individual musician’s expression on the topic through improvisation and orchestration.

Composition and performance of this project is funded largely by an award from the Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s City Artist Grant.

Michael Owcharuk is a composer, pianist, and dance accompanist working in jazz, classical, Ukrainian folk, rock/pop, and music for theater and dance. He has create pieces for many local and regional ensembles, theater companies, dance companies, and is an accompanist for the Pacific Northwest Ballet School and Mark Morris’ Dance for Parkinsons. He and his music have been featured by NPR and KEXP and he has been granted multiple awards from The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture, and Jack Straw Productions. Michael is proud to have written and to keep writing for the Lviv Virtuoso Orchestra in Ukraine, a stalwart and brave group of musicians defiantly presenting music for their people during the ongoing war.