Laura Kaminsky is an award-winning American composer, producer of musical and multidisciplinary cultural events, and educator. From 1999 to 2004, she served as chair of the music department at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. She has received national recognition for her innovative cultural programming and has held posts at several prestigious institutions, […]
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David Wright is a pianist and Sacred Harp singer who currently resides in Seattle. His work is influenced by traditional folk singing styles and poetic genres, and he is a collector of field and traditional recordings. He graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2000, where he studied composition with Brenda Hutchinson and Randolph […]
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Of mixed Navajo (Diné) and Euro-American heritage, John Feodorov grew up in the suburbs of Southern California in the city of Whittier, just east of Los Angeles. He and his family made annual visits to his grandparent’s homestead in New Mexico as a child. The time he spent there continues to influence his creative practice. […]
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Andrew Schloss studied at Bennington College, the University of Washington, and Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1985 working at CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics). He has taught at Brown University, the University of California at San Diego, The Banff Centre for the Arts, and currently at the University […]
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Mykol Colton graduated from Cornish College of the Arts in 2000, where he studied Composition. In 1998, the work Groncious was selected for a reading by the Pacific Rims Percussion Quartet. The reading was sponsored by the Washington Composers Forum, Jack Straw Productions, and the King County Arts Commission. His piece, Collage ADSR, was selected […]
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Mark Polishook directed the music composition and theory programs at Central Washington University. He’s been a professor of jazz piano at the University of Maine at Augusta and a Senior Fulbright Lecturer at the Crakow Academy of Music in Poland. Dr. Polishook has been a resident artist in the Aarhus Computer Science Department, at STEIM […]
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Bill Moyer co-founded the Backbone Campaign in 2003 with friends from an artist affinity group. He has dual and intersecting paths as both an activist and artist. His involvement with social change work stretches back to the ’80s, when as a student he was deeply involved in the anti-nuclear movement and the anti-interventionist movement. After […]
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Nacha Mendez grew up in the tiny border town of La Union, in southern New Mexico. She is Chiricahua Apache and Mexican. She began singing and playing the guitar at an early age. She learned traditional Ranchera canción from her grandmother and performed in border towns near El Paso with her cousins, the Black Brothers, […]
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Mario Layne Fabrizio is a composer, drummer, percussionist,visual artist, filmmaker and writer. Around the world, his work has been presented at places like the The Whitney Museum (NYC), Salzburg Jazz Festival (Austria), Jazz at Lincoln Center (NYC & Shanghai, China), Panama Jazz Festival, Birdland (NYC), Kunming’s International Drum Festival (China) and The Kennedy Center (DC). […]
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Grammy® nominated vocalist, composer, orchestrator and multi-instrumentalist, Johnaye Kendrick received a Master of Music from Loyola University and an Artist Diploma from the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute. Johnaye performs original compositions as well as fresh interpretations of beloved jazz and contemporary works. A dedicated educator, Johnaye serves as Professor of Music at Cornish College of […]
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