EarthtoneSkytone is a multidimensional electro-acoustic songwriting duo from Seattle. Carlos Snaider and Kelsey Mines’ layered polyrhythms, angular jazz harmonies and expansive quiet create mysterious sound worlds where immersive listening can happen. A product of Seattle’s creative music scene, Mines and Snaider bring their varied influences from world creative music traditions, dance music, pop culture and […]
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Chester was born in Detroit, one of the great centers of American music, and, at a particularly exciting time, raised on a steady diet of Motown soul, early 60’s folk, neighborhood garage bands, jazz, and the rock explosion of the counterculture 60’s. However, within this wide range of styles he was beginning to learn how […]
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Building upon Seattle’s history of bringing gritty, underground rock music to the surface, local female duo Kitty Junk is leaving their mark with the unique brand they call “junk rock.” Kitty Junk throws glam on top of grunge and brings a feminist perspective to hard rock. They are both educators and musicians in the local […]
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Julian Priester is a legendary jazz trombonist who has played with a wide range of renowned jazz artists since the 1950s, such as Sun Ra, Max Roach, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Duke Ellington, and Herbie Hancock. He moved to Seattle in 1979 to join the faculty of Cornish College of the arts, and has been […]
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Cellist Rose Bellini is an avid performer of a wide variety of music, especially contemporary and experimental music. Currently based in Seattle, Washington, she regularly performs with classical music ensembles, modern dance companies, bands, and chamber and orchestral groups from New York City to San Francisco. A founding member of mixed-chamber ensemble Redshift, she also […]
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Russell Duke is an academic and experimental sound composer who recently completed his doctorate at the University of Greenwich. He has a BA in Politics and Sociology and a MA in Media, Art Philosophy and Practice. His PhD thesis entitled, Noise Practice in the Digital Age, explores the use of noise in sound composition and […]
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Amy Denio is a composer, improviser, singer, and multi-instrumentalist whose main instruments are voice, alto saxophone, clarinet, accordion, electric guitar, and bass. She was inducted into the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame in March 2015. She also is a record producer. Since 1988 she has performed throughout East & West Europe and North America. She […]
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Dr. Sharad Gadre was an engineer, scientist, and Hindustani musician. He was selected for the 2010 Artist Support Program to record original compositions of Indian classical music, but he passed away before he was able to complete his project. See this obituary in the Seattle Times for more information on Dr. Gadre’s life.
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Originally from New York, Gerald “Jerry” Diamond became a Metallurgical Engineer at the University of Cincinnati in 1953. Since that time, he practiced as a research metallurgist in the development of new aircraft alloys, as Professor of Metallurgy in the U.S. and in Colombia, as Technical Editor of a research journal, as a specialist in […]
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Lee Redfield enjoys creating a personal and meaningful artistic statement that expresses beauty and humanity through sound. His unique approach to jazz saxophone has its roots in rock and the blues but his arrangements and compositions are a fusion that reflect all he has absorbed in his musical studies and travels through Asia and South […]
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