Swampdweller was founded in 2003 by Seattle based saxophonist/instructor Marc Fendel. Fendel graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1995 and moved to Seattle to join Jazz group Bebop & Destruction. Artist Support Program 2005: Recorded their album My Favorite Monster. “My Favorite Monster” by Swampdweller
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Christian Asplund is a Canadian-American composer-performer based in Utah where he teaches at Brigham Young University. His interests have included the intersections of text/music, improvisation/composition, and modular textures/forms. He has received awards and grants from Genesis Foundation, Barlow Endowment, Artistrust, King County, ASCAP, Alpert Foundation and Jack Straw Foundation. Artist Support Program 1999: Recorded Liquid, […]
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Brian Cobb is an active composer, performer, and music educator who resides in Seattle, WA. Brian’s diverse composition catalogue includes music for voice, wind ensemble, orchestra, dance, film, electronic media, and numerous chamber settings (most recently a work for viola da gamba and harpsichord, …so simple a beginning… ). Brian’s most recent works include award […]
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Growing up poor and black on the South Side of Chicago, where he lived for 25 years, Riz Rollins sang in the Operation Breadbasket choir as a boy and regularly got to hear Reverend Jesse Jackson teach and preach. During this time Riz’s powers of observation, energy cultivation and discernment began to take form. Riz […]
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Coleman Pester is a choreographer and dancer based in in Seattle. Coleman has built a diverse palate of work; premiering dance works in Seattle, Australia, Israel, New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Coleman acted as the assistant to renowned Choreographer Anouk van Dijk, Artistic Director of Chunky Move in Australia in 2012. Coleman earned […]
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