Michael Owcharuk is a Seattle based composer, pianist, and accordionist. His great love for all music compels him to work in many genres: jazz, new music, rock, Slavic folk, modern chamber/orchestral, and music for theater, dance, and film. Michael co-directs the Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble, leads The Michael Owcharuk Trio, is a member of Crystal […]
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A synesthete with colored-hearing, Memmi Ochi shares her unique internal experiences through marimba performance, conducting, and multi-media presentations. As a marimbist, she has presented concerts and recitals in the United States, Japan, Europe, and South America. Her appearance in Lima, Perú, at the international vibraphone and marimba festival, Vibraciones, has resulted in a return invitation […]
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Yogi McCaw brings a unique and very diverse perspective to composing and performing. In addition to the Yoginis Indian Jazz project, he leads the Yoginis World Jazz Band, which performs American Jazz alongside Brazilian-, Latin-, and African-influenced originalsongs and well-known favorites from these styles. He has also worked with the two-time Juno award winning African […]
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As a pianist, Rachel Matthews has performed across the U.S and in Canada and Europe. Increasingly active in recent years as a composer, Rachel is winner of the 2010 International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition, as well as the first biennial Maurice Gardner Composition Competition. Her works have been heard in concert and on […]
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David Hahn is a composer and performer and the Music Director of Concert Imaginaire, an ensemble based in Seattle. He believes that, in our distracted, overly monetized world, Music has power. Artist Support Program 2014 (with Concert Imaginaire): Produce an album of eight original pieces.
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Born and raised in Olympia, WA, drummer and composer Brad Gibson is known as a sensitive, supportive and dynamic musician, who enjoys performing as a sideman as much as leading his own groups. Brad works with a diverse array of artists, both live and in the studio. Current projects include his original composition vehicle Poontet, […]
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Randal Bays is an American born, Irish style fiddler and guitarist who brings power and passion to the old tradition. He’s well known on both sides of the Atlantic for his fiery fiddling and his devotion to the traditional style of playing. He has a special love for the fiddle traditions of Counties Clare and […]
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Juliana Svetlitchnaia is a Russian folk singer and an ethnomusicologist. She was born and grew up in Moscow, Russia, where she graduated from Ippolitov-Ivanov Musical Academy. Before moving to Seattle in 2005, Juliana lived in Denmark where she graduated from Carl Nielsen Academy of Music. For the last 20 years, Juliana has organized numerous ethnographic […]
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Nate Omdal studied music at Cornish College of the Arts, studying the acoustic bass with Chuck Deardorf and Ron Simon, as well as concentrated studies with Denney Goodhew, Julian Priester and Randy Halberstadt. While at Cornish, Nate was elected Student Representative to the Department Chair, received the Hadley Caliman Merit Scholarship, and was nominated for […]
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Sumiko Sato is a Composer/Pianist and Japanese native who finished her doctorate at the University of Washington in Composition. She studied composition with Ken Benshoof and Richard Karpen, and piano with Patricia Michaelian. She has also worked with many of her contemporary Seattle musicians in the ’90s. Her music is often inspired by sound in […]
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