The Composer Spotlight Series

Composer Spotlight History:

April 1999: Susie Kozawa
May 1999: Samuel Jones – Composing for a Community
June 1999: Gerhard Samuel – His Life and His Music
July 1999: Christopher DeLaurenti – Making your Compact Disc and the Music Business
August 1999: Christopher Shainin – Writing for Trans-ethnic Instrumentation
September 1999: Mathew Sperry – Film Music
October 1999: Gavin Borchert – Talk about his Music
November 1999: Keith Eisenbrey – Slow Blues
December 1999: Open House – Open House
January 2000: Jovino Santos Neto – Commission for Musicians Accord
February 2000: Kevin Goldsmith – Intonarumori Project, Collaborations with other Sound Artists
March 2000: Michael Shannon – Overtone Vocalist Project
April 2000: Jim Knodle – Music for Quintet and Sextet
May 2000: Janice Giteck – New Residencies Seattle
June 2000: Mark Polishook – Video Opera “Seed of Sarah”
July 2000: Chen Yi and Robert Sirota – Musical Languages
August 2000: Yu Ping Chen – Bamboo Hammers
September 2000: Lynette Westendorf – Twelve-tone Composition in Jazz and Improvisation Structures
October 2000: David Paul Mesler – Current Projects
November 2000: Musicians Accord – The Composer and Chamber Music
December 2000: Elizabeth Falconer – Koto Music
January 2001: Present Sounds Recordings – Recording New Music
February 2001: Janice Giteck and Judith Roche – Navigating the Light
March 2001: Cindy McTee – Gender and Music Composition: A Personal Perspective
April 2001: Mina Miller – Music of Remembrance
May 2001: Benjamin Boretz – A Talk
June 2001: Bob Barraza and KT Niehoff – Composer/Choreographer
June 2001: Jin Hi Kim – Living Tones
July 2001: Munir Nurettin Beken – Re-confessions of a “New” Music Composer
August 2001: Sean Osborn – Mp3 Production on the Web
September 2001: Marcos Carmona – Flamenco Composition
October 2001: Koo Nimo – “Palmwine” Guitar Music
November 2001: Jay Clayton – Jay Clayton In and Out
December 2001: Carolyn Graye – Poems by Denise Levertov
January 2002: Seattle Chamber Players and Elena Dubinets – Icebreaker
February 2002: Dan Blunck – Jazz in the Present Tense
March 2002: Rik Wright – Isomorphism: Composing Improvisation
April 2002: Quake – New Ensemble
May 2002: Brian Lawlor – Altering the Moment
May 2002: Byron Au Yong – History as Imagination: remembering the Nippon Kan Through Performance
June 2002: Jack Straw Turns 40!!
July 2002: Stuart Wolferman & Britta Johnson – Composing in Abstract
August 2002: Philip Munger – KRAB and My Compositions
September 2002: Mark Polishook and Lisa Hutton – Revisiting September 11, 19[72]
October 2002: Undermind Arts Collective & Pleione – Music from Ode to Icarus
November 2002: Lena Nietfeld & Jonathan Greene – Clarinet Duo
December 2002: Bret Bettey – Computer Modeling of Ornaments in Hindustani Classical Music
January 2003: Ela Lamblin & Leah Mann – Rhythm of the Landscape
February 2003: Trimpin – Klavier Nonette
March 2003: David Mahler – On the Vocal Line
April 2003: Christi Denton & Celeste Hutchins – Ensemble & Tape Works
May 2003: Steve Roden – Sound Exhibition
June 2003: Tom Baker – Concerto for Piano(s) and Orchestra
July 2003: Nate Brown with Gary Fukushima – Jazz Composition
August 2003: Ray Holman – Steel Drum Virtuoso
September 2003: Peter Seibert – Works Since 2001
October 2003: Robin Holcomb – Looking Both Ways
November 2003: Curtis Taylor – Theatre Media Sound
December 2003: Amy Rubin – How Narrative, Form, and Rhythm Come Together
January 2004: Ken Benshoof – Composing – Why I Became Addicted
February 2004: Gerhard Samuel – Contemporary Opera
March 2004: Wrick Wolff – New Audio Works
April 2004: Steve Layton – Real and Unreal:”Virtual’ Sounds, Times and Places
July 2004: Laura Kaminsky – Recent Works and the Challenges They Posed
August 2004: Keith Eisenbrey – Sowing Dischord
September 2004: Adam Diller – Small Ensemble Compositions
October 2004: Wayne Horvitz – New Theater Work
November 2004: Linda Waterfall – Songs From the Tao Te Ching
December 2004: Lesli Dalaba – Paleontology, Geology, Music . . .
January 2005: Joe Diebes – Quartet Installation
February 2005: Karen P. Thomas – Composer / Conductor
March 2005: Doublends Vert – Developing a Common Musical Language
April 2005: S. Lyn Goeringer – Listening to Spaces
May 2005: John Mackey – Composer-in-Residence
June 2005: Abel Domingues, Stuart Dempster, Tamara Weikel – Ambient Soundings
July 2005: Arun Chandra – Music and Human Desires
August 2005: Joshua Parmenter – Musical Reflections
September 2005: Eric Mandat – Composing for Clarinet
October 2005: Richard Karpen – Solo / Tutti
November 2005: Christopher DeLaurenti – Symphonies of Protest
December 2005: Joël 20François Durand – Reflections on Recent Music: Re-Envisioning History
January 2006: Douglas Kahn – Radio Was Discovered Before It Was Invented
February 2006: Daniel Bernard Roumain – DBR & The Mission
March 2006: Alan Lechusza – Music For Mad Trio
April 2006: Patrick Stoyanovich – Piano Westerns
May 2006: Gabriela Frank – Música Mestiza
June 2006: Wayne Horvitz – Quartet Improvisation
July 2006: Arun Chandra and Ensemble – Music of Kenneth Gaburo
August 2006: Donald J. Stewart – Music is Made as Life Itself
September 2006: Kotoka Suzuki – Sift
October 2006: Evan Flory Barnes
November 2006: Joe Colley
December 2006: Bonnie Miksch & Christopher Penrose – Harmonic and Timbral Embodiment; Three Compositions sparked by dreams, shapes, and songs
January 2007: Sarah Bassingthwaighte – Eleven Portraits – How to Composers Paint and Painters Compose?
February 2007: Ryan Hare – Fighting the Imaginary Fight: Impulse and Irrationality in Music
March 2007: Wally Shoup – Featuring a Live Performance with Bob Rees and Gust Burns
April 2007: Brad Sherman – A Composer’s Search for Ideas
May 2007: Stephen Cavit
June 2007: Paul Rucker
July 2007: Martin Bresnick – With a Live Performance by Cristina Valdés and Michael Lim
August 2007: Tim Root – Towards Theatre: I’m feeling incredibly “un” today
September 2007: Dean Moore
October 2007: Eric Lanzillotta
November 2007: Brandon Pettit – The Music and Sound Sculptures of Brandon Pettit
December 2007: Kevin Patton
January 2008: Gust Burns
February 2008: Hope Wechkin – Charisma
March 2008: Dennis Rea – ReciprocAsian
April 2008: Anna Homler – Pharmicia Poetica
May 2008: Bill Smith – Space in the Heart: A jazz opera
June 2008: Tom Baker – The Unadorned Composer and the Extravagant Art of Opera
July 2008: Tom Varner – Order Out of Chaos: Composing for an Improvising Tentet
August 2008: Bruce Hamilton – Many Voices, One Voice: Embracing Eclecticism
September 2008: Joshua Kohl & Jeff Huston – Creating the music for c(H)ord with inkBoat
October 2008: Michael Owcharuk – I’m with the Band
November 2008: Sean Osborn – Cyrille Rose & the Clarinet
December 2008: Richard Johnson – Composition and Experimental Instrument Demonstration
January 2009: Emily Doolittle – Animal Songs
February 2009: Randal Bays – Respecting the Envelope: Composing New Music in the Irish Tradition
March 2009: Christopher Roberts – Trios for Deep Voices
April 2009: Marcus Oldham & Chenoa Egawa w/Ethan Delavan – American Indian Composers Go Classical
May 2009: Michael Nicolella
June 2009: Donald Craig
July 2009: Srivani Jade – Composing Indian Music in the Pacific Northwest
August 2009: Christopher DeLaurenti – The New Phonographers
September 2009: Munir Beken & Gus Denhard – Oil and Vinegar: New Music and Non-Western traditions
October 2009: Susie Kozawa, Esther Sugai, & Serge Gregory – When Herons Dream
November 2009: Aono Jikken Ensemble – Sounds of Shadow and Light
December 2009: Lesley Sommer – Begged, Borrowed, or Stolen
January 2010: Garrett Fisher – Bridging Ancient and Modern Forms Through New Opera
February 2010: Curtis Taylor – Abstract Change Pleasure
March 2010: Samantha Boshnack & Reptet – How to Commit Agendacide
April 2010: Rachel Matthews – Where Did This Come From?
May 2010: Tiffany Lin, Tom Baker, Colin Ernst, Hugo Solis, and Joel Kikuchi – This Old Piano
June 2010: Cynthia Dillard – “Behind the Scenes” with The Golden Tree Story
August 2010: Huck Hodge – Metaphor as Structure
September 2010: Phillip Arnautoff – Concerning My Variations for Cello (2005-2010)
October 2010: Urtaa Gantulga – The Mongolian Horsehead Fiddle
November 2010: Ryan Hare – Quasi improvisando
December 2010: Jesse Canterbury – Vertigo
January 2011: Malic Amalya and Jac Nelson – Drifting
February 2011: Steve Scribner – The Nature (of) Sound in the ‘StormSound’ Cycle
April 2011: Brian Cobb – Campfire Songs: . . . Progress . . . Rest . . . Continue . . .
May 2011: Aleksander Sternfeld 20Dunn – Finding Your Voice in the 21st Century
June 2011: Young Sub Lee –
July 2011: Erin Lau – The Graciela Project
August 2011: Tom Baker – The Unadorned Composer and the Extravagant Art of Opera (Part 2)
September 2011: John Seman – Monktail Creative Music Concern
October 2011: Nadia Tarnawsky and Brandon Vance – Alchymeia
November 2011: Jarosław Kapuściński – Composing Juicy Intermedia. Where is Chopin?
December 2011: Beth Fleenor – The Focusing Power of Form
January 2012: Stephen Parris – Indeterminacy and Performer Interpretation in Contemporary Composition
February 2012: Wayne Horvitz – A Lumberjack’s Prayer
March 2012: Dawn Clement – Cabin Fever: A Suite for Seattle
April 2012: Steve Peters – Finding Form
May 2012: Jarrad Powell – Nourishment
June 2012: Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble –
July 2012: Daniel Barry – Not Afraid of Triads
September 2012: NF Chase – What Do I Know About Cats and Flowers?
October 2012: John Teske – Fundamentals of My Authentic Musical Language
November 2012: Bill Anschell – This Is NOT Jazz!
December 2012: Neal Meyer – GRADUS: for Fux, Tesla, and Milo the Wrestler – The Story so Far
February 2013: Victor Noriega and Gust Burns – 2 Trios
March 2013: Rinus Van Alebeek – I Have Been Awake Long Enough, It Is Time to Dream
April 2013: Nolan Stolz – An Improvisatory Approach to Composition
May 2013: Peter Vukmirovic Stevens – August Ruins for Solo Cello
June 2013: Gregory Yasinitsky – Jazz Meets Classical Music: Third Stream in the 21st Century
August 2013: Amy Denio – Immersion Composition Society
September 2013: Thomas Makucevich – Auditorialization – A Computer Music Journey
October 2013: Beth Fleenor – Workshop Ensemble
November 2013: Derek M Johnson – Making Sounds that Mean Something
December 2013: Jason Staczek and Ela Lamblin – Compositions for Heavy Metal DëVices
January 2014: Harold Taw and Chris Jeffries – Do They Really Just Start Singing? Creating Authentic Musical Voices