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A special Composer Spotlight presentation at
Soundbridge at Benaroya Hall
Jack Straw Productions, Washington Composers Forum, and Seattle Composers Salon present
MARTIN BRESNICK
With a performance by pianist Cristina Valdes and violinist Michael Lim
Wednesday, July 11, 7:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Seattle Symphony
Soundbridge at Benaroya Hall, 2nd Ave & University, Downtown Seattle
$5-15 suggested donation
Martin Bresnick's compositions, from chamber and symphonic music to film scores and computer music, are performed throughout the world. He delights in reconciling the seemingly irreconcilable, bringing together repetitive gestures derived from minimalism with a harmonic palette that encompasses both highly chromatic sounds and more open, consonant harmonies and a raw power reminiscent of rock.
Besides having received many prizes and commissions, the first Charles Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Rome Prize, The Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Koussevitzky Commission, among many others, Martin Bresnick is also recognized as an influential teacher of composition. Presently he is Professor of Composition and Coordinator of the Composition Department at the Yale School of Music. For more about Martin Bresnick, visit his website at http://martinbresnick.com.
Photo by Mark Ostow
The Composer Spoltight series is presented by Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum (WCF). This series of talks and performances of new music highlights an innovative composer or performer every second Wednesday of each month at Jack Straw Productions. If you are a composer and would like to present at a Composer Spotlight event, please conatct arts manager Van Diep.
ABOUT WASHINGTON COMPOSERS FORUM
WCF is a non-profit arts organization that nurtures the creation, performance, and dissemination of new music by composers living in Washington State. Since its founding in 1984, WCF has produced concerts, readings, and lectures in the U.S. and Canada, representing many composers in the region.
2007
| Sarah Bassingthwaighte |
| Ryan Hare |
| Brad Sherman |
| Wally Shoup |
| Steve Cavit |
| Paul Rucker |
2006
| Douglas Kahn |
| Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) |
| Alan Lechusza |
| Patrick Stoyanovich |
| Gabriela Frank |
| Wayne Horvitz |
| Arun Chandra |
| Donald Stewart |
| Kotoka Susuki feat. Eric Rynes |
| Evan Flory Barnes |
| Joe Colley |
| Bonnie Miksch and Christopher Penrose |
2005
| Joe Diebes |
| Karen Thomas |
| Doublends Verts: Tom Swafford, Adam Diller, Annie Lewandowski |
| S. Lyn Goeringer |
| John Mackey |
| Dempster, Domingues, Weikel |
| Arun Chandra |
| Joshua Parmenter |
| Eric Mandat |
| Richard Karpen |
| Christopher DeLaurenti |
| Joel-Francois Durand |
2004
| Ken Benshoof |
| Gerhard Samuel |
| Wrick Wolff |
| Steve Layton |
| Robert HP Platz |
| Degenerate Art Ensemble |
| Laura Kaminsky |
| Keith Eisenbray |
| Adam Diller |
| Wayne Horvitz |
| Linda Waterfall |
| Lesli Dalaba |
2003
| Ela Lamblin & Leah Mann |
| Trimpin |
| David Mahler |
| Christi Denton & Celeste Hutchins |
| Steve Roden |
| Tom Baker |
| Nate Brown with Gary Fukushima |
| Ray Holman |
| Peter Seibert |
| Robin Holcomb |
| Curtis Taylor |
| Amy Rubin |
2002
| Seattle Chamber Players and Elena Dubinets |
| Dan Blunck |
| Rik Wright |
| Quake |
| Brian Lawlor |
| Byron Au Yong |
| Jack Straw |
| Stuart Wolferman & Britta Johnson |
| Philip Munger |
| Mark Polishook and Lisa Hutton |
| Undermind Arts Collective & Pleione |
| Lena Nietfeld & Jonathan Greene |
| Bret Battey |
2001
| Present Sounds Recordings |
| Janice Giteck and Judith Roche |
| Cindy McTee |
| Mina Miller |
| Benjamin Boretz |
| Bob Barraza and KT Niehoff |
| Jin Hi Kim |
| Munir Nurettin Beken |
| Sean Osbourn |
| Marcos Carmona |
| Koo Nimo |
| Jay Clayton |
| Carolyn Graye |
2000
| Jovino Santos Neto |
| Kevin Goldsmith |
| Michael Shannon |
| Jim Knodle |
| Janice Giteck |
| Mark Polishook |
| Chen Yi and Robert Sirota |
| Yu Ping Chen |
| Lynette Westendorf |
| David Paul Mesler |
| Musicians Accord |
| Elizabeth Falconer |
1999
| Suzie Kozawa |
| Samuel Jones |
| Gerhard Samuel |
| Christopher DeLaurenti |
| Christopher Shainin |
| Mathew Sperry |
| Gavin Borchert |
| Keith Eisenbrey |
| Open House |
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