Susie Kozawa, a sound artist, composer and performer, works mostly with sound collages and site-specific installations, in which the gathering of sounds is a primary activity. She explores different acoustic spaces using musical instruments she makes out of found objects, kelp, modified toys and human voice. She creates live sound design for dance and theater […]
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Robert Blatt was born in 1984 in Anaheim, California. His practice is rooted in explorations of expanded sonic situations through varying frames and gradations of environment, notation, object, performance, text and tone. His work has been presented throughout the United States and Europe, in the context of performances, exhibitions, and a variety of unconventional methods […]
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Dunava is a Seattle-based women’s vocal ensemble specializing in the acappella folk music of Eastern Europe. Founded in 2005, Dunava is made up of singers from diverse musical backgrounds who all share a passion for complex and beautiful harmonies, and for learning about and performing these musical traditions authentically. Dunava is affiliated with the Radost […]
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The Monktail Creative Music Concern is a collective of composers, musicians and artists based in Seattle, WA who thrive on the atypical and exigent; the real weirdo stuff. The collective recorded the Special O.P.S. EP Backdoor Draft as part of their Artist Support Program residency at Jack Straw in 2011. Artist Support Program 2011: Record […]
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Clarinettist Sean Osborn has performed on four continents since his recital debut at the age of seventeen at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Appointed over nearly 300 other applicants to a position with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in 1989, Osborn was the youngest clarinetist in the history of the Met. A student of […]
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Fiddler Ruthie Dornfeld’s big tone, fierce rhythm and fluid style, along with a wildly eclectic repertoire, have won her popularity among dancers and concert audiences alike. Fluent in a wide range of traditional styles (Irish, American old-time, Scandinavian and Eastern European, for starters), she has performed and taught for over forty years throughout the USA […]
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Born in outer Mongolia, Urtaa Gantulga began studying morin khuur at the age of eleven. The son of a traditional Mongolian wrestler, Urtaa began racing horses at 5 years old and was the two time champion of the famous Naddam Horseracing Festival. However, at the urging of his grandfather, who loved folk singing, he decided […]
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Marcos and Rubina Carmona are flamenco artists who have dedicated themselves to the Sevilla, or modern traditionalist form of flamenco. Though originally from San Francisco, they both now reside in Seattle, Washington. At the age of twenty, Marcos began to study flamenco guitar while his wife Rubina developed her skills as a flamenco singer and […]
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Brian Lawlor is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, conductor, and teacher residing amidst the scenic street trash of Jersey City Heights. Artist Support Program 2001: Produce recordings of solo piano compositions and improvisations
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Canadian-born composer, musician and sonic arts researcher, Dana Reason is described by Downbeat Magazine as “having a voice as a composer and instrumentalist that is firmly her own.” Her album Angle of Vision was long-listed for Grammy Awards 2014 in 3 separate categories including: Best Jazz Instrumental Album; Best Instrumental Composition; Best Arrangement. Additionally, her […]
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