Fiddler Ruthie Dornfeld’s big tone, fierce rhythm and fluid style, along with a wildly eclectic repertoire, have won her popularity among dancers and concert audiences alike. Fluent in a wide range of traditional styles (Irish, American old-time, Scandinavian and Eastern European, for starters), she has performed and taught for over forty years throughout the USA […]
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Born in outer Mongolia, Urtaa Gantulga began studying morin khuur at the age of eleven. The son of a traditional Mongolian wrestler, Urtaa began racing horses at 5 years old and was the two time champion of the famous Naddam Horseracing Festival. However, at the urging of his grandfather, who loved folk singing, he decided […]
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Marcos and Rubina Carmona are flamenco artists who have dedicated themselves to the Sevilla, or modern traditionalist form of flamenco. Though originally from San Francisco, they both now reside in Seattle, Washington. At the age of twenty, Marcos began to study flamenco guitar while his wife Rubina developed her skills as a flamenco singer and […]
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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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The Bushwick Book Club Seattle is a group of musicians who write and perform original music inspired by literature. They produced a piece of music called “Out Under Diamonds” inspired by The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,through their Jack Straw artist residency.
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Nicholas Chase’s music has been hailed by Strad Magazine as ‘brilliant,’ the Los Angeles Times as ‘flamboyant, avant-garde’ and ‘brawling…the Rite of Spring meets Metallica,’ by the Albuquerque Journal as ‘crackling, witty,’ by the Whittier Press as ‘seamless, powerful… spectacular’ and, dubbing him ‘Eye/Ear Explorer,’ the LA Weekly writes of his short opera 22, ‘the […]
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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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Hailed by Gramophone as “an artist of commanding and poetic personality” and by The Strad as “staggeringly virtuosic,” violist/composer Melia Watras has distinguished herself as one of her instrument’s leading voices. She has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and Alice Tully Hall, while achieving acclaim as an established recording artist. […]
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