Avant Music News

THU. 3/4, 8 PM – WA Composers Forum presents phenomenal violinist Mari Kimura, performing works with electronics by herself, Frances White, Conlon Nancarrow, Salvatore Sciarrino, Jean-Claude Risset, Takayuki Rai,

FRI. 3/5, 8 PM – Seattle Composers’ Salon, recent work by Marcus Oldham, Clifford Dunn, Brad Sherman, Tom Baker, Jonathan Haek

SAT. 3/6, 8 PM – Affinity Chamber Players, music by Emily Doolittle, Tom Baker, Elizabeth Alexander, Brad Sherman

FRI. 3/12 – Wyndel Hunt + Christopher DeLaurenti, electro-acoustic, field recordings, etc.

SAT. 3/13 – Nonsequitur presents Crepuscule Trio (Los Angeles) and Jesse Canterbury’s Vertigo (Seattle)

THU. 3/18 – Splash! Soprano Janna Wachter and pianist Roger Nelson perform art songs by contemporary composers

FRI. 3/19 – Nonsequitur presents Karen Bentley-Pollock premiering new works for violin and electronics

SAT. 3/20 – Splash! Soprano Janna Wachter and pianist Roger Nelson perform art songs by contemporary composers

THU. 3/25 – Danny Holt, original solo music for piano & percussion (simultaneously!)

FRI. 3/26 – Benefit for Seattle Occultural Music Festival, 10 minute sets by 10 guitarists – artists TBA

SAT. 3/27 – flutist Clifford Dunn and his new ensemble Racketology

James Tenney Three Pieces for Drum Quartet
Alvin Lucier Still Lives
Frank Denyer The Hanged Fiddler U.S. premiere
Frank Denyer Woman, Viola and Crow U.S. premiere
Frank Denyer Out of the Shattered Shadows 2 U.S. premiere

Los Angeles Percussion Quartet
Joseph Kubera, piano
Elisabeth Smalt, viola
Amy Knoles, percussion
Movses Pogossian, violin
Daniel Rosenboom, cornetto
Marc Lowenstein, voice
Fahad Siadat, voice
Bobby Halvorson, voice
Paul Berkolds, voice
Antares Boyle, flute
Sarah Wass, flute

The astonishing English composer Frank Denyer writes music that is like no other. His compositions inhabit a world of fragility, fragmentation and decay, where a piece may magically combine footsteps, the rattling of mango seeds, a crow call, and fleeting melodies. In this first United States concert showcasing Denyer’s music, we also hear compositions from the American experimental tradition: Alvin Lucier’s transfixing Still Lives and James Tenney’s Three Pieces for Drum Quartet.