Gust Burns composes performances of music. Drawing on his experience as a pianist, contemporary art practices, and 20th century composition, Burns’ works blur differentiations between performance, score, recording, and text. Burns earned an MFA in music/sound from Bard College, and is a graduate student at the University of Washington, Seattle. New Media Gallery 2008-09 (with […]
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The Monktail Creative Music Concern is a collective of composers, musicians and artists based in Seattle, WA who thrive on the atypical and exigent; the real weirdo stuff. The collective recorded the Special O.P.S. EP Backdoor Draft as part of their Artist Support Program residency at Jack Straw in 2011. Artist Support Program 2011: Record […]
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Brian Lawlor is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, conductor, and teacher residing amidst the scenic street trash of Jersey City Heights. Artist Support Program 2001: Produce recordings of solo piano compositions and improvisations
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Canadian-born composer, musician and sonic arts researcher, Dana Reason is described by Downbeat Magazine as “having a voice as a composer and instrumentalist that is firmly her own.” Her album Angle of Vision was long-listed for Grammy Awards 2014 in 3 separate categories including: Best Jazz Instrumental Album; Best Instrumental Composition; Best Arrangement. Additionally, her […]
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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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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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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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Naima Lowe comes from a long line of Black people who make things. She has parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-great grandparents who are musicians, fashion designers, Sunday school teachers, waitresses, and field hands. Through them she inherited a lineage and aesthetic of Black cultural production that is as enigmatic as it is discernible. These people […]
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The Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra (SWOJO), co-founded by Barbara Hubers-Drake and Ellen Finn, was formed to nurture the musical, educational and artistic growth of individual musicians, to encourage women to become involved in jazz performance/composition as a career or avocation, and to foster community interest in and appreciation of jazz as an art form. Since […]
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