The Bushwick Book Club Seattle is a group of musicians who write and perform original music inspired by literature. They produced a piece of music called “Out Under Diamonds” inspired by The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,through their Jack Straw artist residency.
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Nicholas Chase’s music has been hailed by Strad Magazine as ‘brilliant,’ the Los Angeles Times as ‘flamboyant, avant-garde’ and ‘brawling…the Rite of Spring meets Metallica,’ by the Albuquerque Journal as ‘crackling, witty,’ by the Whittier Press as ‘seamless, powerful… spectacular’ and, dubbing him ‘Eye/Ear Explorer,’ the LA Weekly writes of his short opera 22, ‘the […]
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Tom Varner is internationally known as one of the top living pioneers of jazz/improvised/new music on the French horn and as an inventive, witty, and passionate composer for his different ensembles, which have featured, over the years, such players as Steve Wilson, Tony Malaby, Lee Konitz, Mark Feldman, Kenny Barron, Cameron Brown, Billy Hart, Tom […]
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S(teve) Eric Scribner studied composition with Lockrem Johnson. He has lived in Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Japan, with premiers of many of his pieces in each of those places. Many of his recent compositions have been part of an extended series for guided improvisation over prerecorded sound (often processed from environmental recordings […]
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Hailed by Gramophone as “an artist of commanding and poetic personality” and by The Strad as “staggeringly virtuosic,” violist/composer Melia Watras has distinguished herself as one of her instrument’s leading voices. She has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and Alice Tully Hall, while achieving acclaim as an established recording artist. […]
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Saxophonist, composer and educator Bryan Smith has been an active member of the jazz and improvised music scene in the Northwest. Having been a musician in both Seattle and Portland, Smith has been able to develop a unique and individualistic voice that is synonymous with West Coast jazz. Influenced by West Coast bebop with players […]
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Mark Roberts plays traditional music on the flute, tin whistle, 5-string banjo and bouzouki and have had a long and varied career in music. he has toured and recorded with the seminal band Touchstone, played the banjo with the Red Clay Ramblers on Broadway in the show “Fool Moon”, and his flute and pennywhistle can […]
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Composer/clarinetist/vocalist Beth Fleenor harbors a strong love for variety & all sonic manipulation, moving freely through genres such as rock, jazz, classical, contemporary chamber, Slavic & American folk, metal, musique concrete, ambient & pop. Her work has been heard internationally from 100,000 seat rock festivals, maximum-security prisons, and performance art in rural bars, to art […]
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Elizabeth Falconer is one of the few American masters of the koto, a traditional zither from Japan. She began playing the koto in 1979. She earned a junshihan (associate degree) from the Seiha Koto School, studying under Nagane Utayumi. This school focused on classical works. She later moved to Tokyo and studied under the esteemed […]
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Choroloco is a Seattle based acoustic trio specializing in choro, a highly melodic and rhythmic instrumental form of Brazilian popular music. They play traditional, modern, and original choro in a classic trio formation (7-string guitar, bandolim or cavaquinho, and pandeiro), sometimes augmented with vibraphone. They strive to stay as close to the music’s roots as […]
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